There’s an interesting article in the December 2023 edition of Australian Shooter, the Sporting Shooters’ Association magazine. I’ve tried to post a digital copy but I’m not able to make one so here's a few highlights. The story is about a private range in western New South Wales. It is owned and run by Ray Dennis, a dentist, and the founder of Lightforce and Nightforce, who needed a place to shoot his Barrett .50 BMG.
The range is used by Australian defence companies needing somewhere to test and develop their products as access to defence ranges with associated bureaucracy and red tape was insurmountable. What started out as a single range today consists of five ranges with different characteristics and is licenced for up to the Abrams 120mm cannon. One of the ranges has a danger template out to 36km and another is configured to allow firing up to .338 Lapua Magnum in a full 360 degrees out to 4km and up to .50 BMG in 284 degrees out to 7km.
Ray says that as well as being the boss of the range he is also the feral pest controller of the one million acres which he does with his 25.06 Remington. “Someone has to do pest control and I’m the poor unfortunate.”
Cheers
The range is used by Australian defence companies needing somewhere to test and develop their products as access to defence ranges with associated bureaucracy and red tape was insurmountable. What started out as a single range today consists of five ranges with different characteristics and is licenced for up to the Abrams 120mm cannon. One of the ranges has a danger template out to 36km and another is configured to allow firing up to .338 Lapua Magnum in a full 360 degrees out to 4km and up to .50 BMG in 284 degrees out to 7km.
Ray says that as well as being the boss of the range he is also the feral pest controller of the one million acres which he does with his 25.06 Remington. “Someone has to do pest control and I’m the poor unfortunate.”
Cheers
. What pest species would there be in the locality?
