2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

Home

Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 WC: Right... JO: And perhaps if we take another look with a more limited instruction, we might be able to see some place that could work in East Hawaii there’s cinder pits out in Puna. Bryson’s Cinder – one of the national sports writers used that one for years for testing firearms and writing his articles about them – so there are other possibilities, but, you know, again we haven’t looked specifically at that – but that would be a good charge to take on and see... TL: The average guy here wants to be able to go out, shoot, test their guns, take their kids out shooting with a 22. or whatever the need or the desire. The need isn’t necessarily for long range or whatever. We briefly touched on 100 yards to 200 yards. Whatever it might take to get started so that people have a place to go shooting- I think is the foundation of why we’re here. If we can do something better that would be great. Puuanahulu has all of the ingredients of what would be the ideal. It may not serve the police department well on this side. If there’s other areas that are here and for us to have to drive there some people here might drive all the way over there. JO: I’ve heard that many times. I’m in favor of all of the above – I don’t think that any one excludes the other and it may be when we met with Sgt. Major Campbell at PTA we looked – took a look at one of the areas he was proposing – pistol-rifle combination range – and we could get out to 600 yards or beyond... Someone made a comment and did not state his name. He mentioned, “one area was out to a 1,000…” JO: Yeah, one was a six-by – we could put steel beyond that – steel targets. They would be in the impact zone – we couldn’t go out there and hang paper but we could get out to 1,000 yards there so if we have long-range rifle and thousand yard rifle out there – that would relieve some of the needs we have and we could have more than one facility in the county. We’ve had good hopes that the state – the DLNR – would continue to push the Puuanahulu facility – they’ve shown – well it’s not high on their priorities, I guess, is what I would say because they have such a broad set of responsibilities – everything from the ocean, hunting – you name it – so we’re just a small part of that and they get some political pressure against it. It’s easier to go on to other things and perhaps we’ll see a change in that at some point. Maybe with the county’s support... TL: Aren’t county politics different than state politics? 28