2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 RSO and it’s my duty to make sure they sign in with the range control and they have the right credentials. If I need to leave, then I would sign the range packet over to somebody else on the range. They would become the RSO, so it would be a self-running, self-policing range. We did it in Virginia – a lot of people had – some reservations on safety out there being a self-run range, it’s been in operation for five years now with no incidents out there whatsoever. We’ve been running range, the same kind of range in Alaska at Fort Richardson and that has been going twenty-five years with no incidents. TL: Gun clubs have been running for decades on their own. STC: Right. TL: Are you trying to get an archery range going in a month? STC: I’m hoping. I’m not putting any promises. TL: No, but that’s your target... STC: I mean being that there’s not lead – not a worry or lead abatement. You pretty much can put the archery range any where out there that I want as long as I have the permission to use the land and I’ve got everything out there to set-up a field range that would go from 10 out to 80 yards, as well as, a two-hundred yard 3-D target – at last, I don’t have the targets yet, and we’re working and trying to purchase through an RMWR. I’ve got everything for the field range to go in – ends up we’re using this kind of a will add to our new story is our recycle – we have a very in depth recycling program up there where we – fifty to sixty percent of our refuse gets diverted out of the land – from the landfill. STC: So we have big cardboard bails that are the perfect size for field and archery ranges and we’re gonna use those as our ranges till they get weathered and shot and then we’ll recycle that cardboard. TL: Did I hear you correctly that you’re working on trying to get approval for the rifle-pistol range within a month as well? STC: I can’t get – I can’t put a date on that one because nothing moves fast in the army, unfortunately. I won’t say I’m back at square one but I’m towing the line, so I’ve got to go back – it goes back to the educating the need and selling the need to build a recreational range at PT, so, I really can’t put a finger on the rifle-pistol. TL: OK. Does anybody here have any questions for the Sgt. Major? I’m encourage, you’re actually looking to participate with the community. I 17