Neighbors Upset With Sale Creek Shooting Range

[Walker, Texas Ranger]

A shooting range owned by former Red Bank Police Chief Ronnie Dodd is once again in the news, as a group of neighbors spoke before the Hamilton County Commission this morning, urging the group to investigate what they feel was misrepresentation on the part of Dodd as well as concerns about their own safety.

Carl Lindkvist told commissioners that he has not only found bullet fragments and shrapnel is his yard, but had been personally warned by range employees to stay off his own property for safety reasons.

Two other neighbors said they had been given the same warnings, and are angry over what they claim was a lack of information about what the property was going to be used for.

Several commissioners say they plan to visit the range soon to see for themselves if there is a public safety issue. County attorney Rheubin Taylor told the neighbors that their best course of action would be in consulting a private attorney over what their own options are through the courts.

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[Warkitty]

How dare those neighbors tell him he can't have a shooting range in his own back yard? If they don't like it they should just move...

(kinda like if you don't like people speeding through your neighborhood you should move instead of calling the cops on them as one poster suggested a while back, or the way people should be allowed to develop their properties as they see fit as another poster keeps saying)

[Justin Thyme]

I thought this was going to be about noise problems. If bullets are leaving the range the range needs to be shut down.

Sale Creek is where I was once rained on by shotgun pellets. It's the only place that has ever happened to me.

[creekcat62]

I have to admit, that when I found where this was located, I couldn't understand why it was allowed to open. Montlake Shooting range on the other hand, has been open for years and the area sort of grew up near it.

[BlackFox]

There is one 2 ridges over from me, and I grew up with the sound. Now me and my neighbor have our own(pistol) firing back.

[el Gusano]

May 29, 2009 9:10:55 GMT -5 Justin Thyme said:

Sale Creek is where I was once rained on by shotgun pellets. It's the only place that has ever happened to me.

It happened to me when I used to live downtown. Seriously.

Up in Eagle River, there was a woman who moved in from Outside, bought some land near a rifle ranged that had been there for years, built a big fancy house, then demanded they close down the range because it bothered her. (I assumed it was the noise, but my wife read one interview in which the woman said she just doesn't like guns.)

[Felix]

Justin reminisced:

I was once rained on by shotgun pellets.

[/i]So was I; have you ever heard shotgun pellets clattering down on a tin roof? My one and only attendance at a dove shoot one September long ago, shooters coming in from the field saw dove flying over the farmhouse and let fly at them from almost a vertical angle. The shot came back down like hail. It was noisy. I did not poke my head out until all the guns were inside.

Should I add that this was more a dove shoot party than a hunting event? And that even out on the stands there was liquid refreshment? And I don't mean Dr. Pepper.

[Longshot! [ Saint ]]

Sale Creek is where I was once rained on by shotgun pellets. It's the only place that has ever happened to me.
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Ah, memories. My first time was at Central & Rossville Blvd.

What a small world! Anyone else?

[creekcat62]

Halloween night, some years ago, also Sale Creek.

[dvc]

Alright time for me to play Devil's advocate.I know Dodd personally having shot with him locally and around the South East in IPSC and IDPA matches.When he bought the property to conduct training classes he sought and recieved a "low impact" clearance to do so.Well then he had the idea to get an IDPA affiliation and start having matches once a month on a Sat. morning.He then started having Steel Challenge matches as well.Combine those two matches along with the regular classes he is having and I can see his neighbors POV.That is a lot of noise to put up with and yes there is some bullet slash back from the steel targets landing off his property.the club Personally I think he should have chosen a different area.

[LimitedRecourse]

East Lake Courts....around 1 am as my partner and I were walking foot patrol.

[BlackFox]

When I was a kid, we used to shoot shotguns almost straight up and watch the pellets as they rained down into my papaw's pond.

[julia]

Fall 2002 Ringgold, Ga.

[Walker, Texas Ranger]

I prefer Montlake for shooting. Roomier. And with pull in the Legislature, obviously.

[Kordax]

Carl Lindkvist told commissioners that he has not only found bullet fragments and shrapnel is his yard, but had been personally warned by range employees to stay off his own property for safety reasons.

Two other neighbors said they had been given the same warnings, and are angry over what they claim was a lack of information about what the property was going to be used for.

I like Chief Dodd but that's irrelevant in a situation like this as reported in the newspaper. And the reaction from a member of the the County Commission -- "We approved it without knowing what we were doing and now there's nothing we can legally do to remedy our mistake" makes the entire local governing body look like a bunch of incompetent idiots ....

[goomba]

I find it intersting that this comes into the news right after the TN legislation passes the law that allows montlake to continue to operate.

I would like to know the details of the layout, what direction are the students shooting? how far from the closest point was the shrapnel found? and how far does shrapnel travel? are there trees that would interupt the path of the shrapnel?

Lots of questions that need answering.....and not by the county commision.