2021-02-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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a picture that it's great but Mike points out we already have hunting and we took that a long way — we first met with Tom Lodge and others from the hunting community and made that available to hunters to come on to PTA and actually use bow for our mammals and then shotguns for the upland game birds. Now we have not gone to any high powered or long rifles — so as a person who own firearms and I actually lived next to Camp Perry and grew up there — and attended all the national rifle association championships — worked there — taught hunter safety back in the '70s, yeah, I'm very much into wanting to have a rod gun club or some place to shoot skeet or trap or something like and I'm very supportive but it's a hard push to get access on the PTA although we may have a space —there is a lot that has to be done to make that happen — so I don't want to paint a rosy picture but a more accurate one for you all. So thanks, Mike. AA: Richard's got a question for you, real quick... RH: It's not a question — I just wanted to jump in with my own personal involvement. I've dealt with a couple of commanders at PTA over the years — Shwedo and Martinez come to mind — there may have been somebody else and the last time was when Senator — we were directed by one of our legislators to really try to work with PTA as a facility instead of building where we proposed. And I spent a day — maybe two days with Sgt. Major Campbell and we toured PTA —Tom Campbell? MD: Yes, Tom Campbell... Yup, yup. RH: We toured PTA and we looked at perhaps that facility you talked about that was in the middle —it was an area that shooting had occurred in for military purposes and he was at least suggesting something like that might be available but the problem with going through the gate and getting into PTA with firearms is —there's' 2 issues: 1) you have to get every firearm you bring on PTA pre -registered in order to get it there which makes it very difficult for somebody that decides on a Monday morning they want to go shoot; 2) you're at the mercy of the military use of the facility which is the reason that it's there but you can't do any effective long term planning to schedule activities such as competitive shooting and trust me — I've been the president and part of — I've been in competitive shooting my entire life 16