2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 JO: Yes, you better cross that one, so, physically, if it had been, because the shooting levels were fine – there was a 75-yard pistol range on the lower section and then there was a raised part of the hill where the rifle line was and the target back-stop was at the same altitude 200 yards away... So it turned out – it was manageable – it was fifty acres that that property encompassed – probably five of them in use for the range and the rest of it was forced – it back-stopped, if you will, beyond the, the dirt and rock berms – we had forty or so acres of trees to catch anything that might escape or most of it – there were some hazards, there were some roads that ran along the eastern boundary of the property straight uphill so we had to be careful to, ah, watch and listen for traffic that may come down the road, which was typically one of our members who couldn’t make it up the bad lower road, so, not ideal but it was useful... JO: Yes safety – like I said, all it takes is one incident and you no longer have a range... TL: Right... JO: So, it wasn’t ideal. TL: So that the topography of that area – in your opinion – something like that would be a satisfactory barring the running water part? JO: If you can get two-hundred yards and be shooting on a level in, the scale of what the needs are I would say that the most used range that we could develop right now would be a 25-yard pistol range because you have, you know, a number of instructors I suspect we have more than a few NRA pistol instructors that’s most common training discipline the DNRA teaches and that’s the one that’s required for any new purchaser of a hand gun in the State of Hawaii has to have gone through a NRA certified safety course and that being the most likely one – that’s what most people are trained for, so, a 25-yard pistol would be very good to have – the police could use that for a lot of their qualifications – next would be a longer combination pistol-rifle range – a hundred yards – that would be for small bore for pistol – maybe large enough to accommodate, you know, some action events and these are things that can be developed one after the other – not necessarily all at once and then third would be a longer range rifle range – two hundred or three hundred yards – six hundred would be wonderful – a thousand is when they can break out the big guns and go for distance, so, but, in the hierarchy of things pistol is certainly the most used with rifle close behind that, so... I’m not leaving shotgun sports, but, you know, we have, we do have the trap and skeet range and if we can do something with the sporting clays, ah, that would be wonderful. 23