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NEW SHOOTING RANGE PROSPECT FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS

Started by Castle Mountain, January 20, 2011, 07:42:19 PM

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Talked with my friends at Midwest and will be talking them again during the East Peoria Gun Show
about the possibility of them hosting Appleseed shoots on their range. They can accommodate
about twenty shooters which is fine. If we could get two or three shooting  opportunities per year
with them it will nicely augment what Chillicothe does for us.

I think we also have a chance with the McLean County Police range.
Friends in the solicitor Generals office are checking into it  and the sheriffs office for me so we can have a meeting.

Will keep y'all posted.

Now I seem to recall that Dave OutofAmmo said there are four (4) families offering land
for DAR's and we are being held up by insurance policy stuff or something. Can we get
this resolved? I reminded Fred about this early last December, Is it :sos: still in the doldrums?

CM
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam- will find a way or I will make one".
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."  one who has not qualified himself with the M-16 may not be considered to be a responsible citizen."

—Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

"Terrorism is the best political weapon, for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator
 

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in