I have heard you guys at the Oakdale Cub shooting many times while I am working on projects at the Lake Elmo Park Reserve. I always wondered how many problems you have encountered as the urban sprawl overtakes you.
I am a member of a club on the western edge of the cities. I know they have had problems with a few neighbors there but so far have been able to control them with restraining orders and such. Maybe one advantage we have is that many small community police departments come to practice there. I,m sure as the sprawl comes our way there will be many more battles.
We've actually had the park people tell us that they *like* having us there, because it gives them a good excuse for keeping the area south of Lake Elmo completely undeveloped and not putting in any more horse, biking, or hiking trails.
Nah, our problems are with the new development west of Cty 19 and east of Cty 17, and with a certain clot of metrocrats and new residents who want to transform Lake Elmo into North Woodbury. The current town council likes us because we're helping them resist that and helping fund their lawsuit against the Met Council, but all it will take is one adverse court decision, or a few more years of yuppie in-migration and a few changed seats on the town council, and then goodbye, rural/agricultural zoning, hello, an unbroken string of strip-malls all the way to the Wisconsin border.
As for the blessings of letting the local police departments practice on our ranges; oh, don't get me started on that...
I've just done a badly needed update to the OGC web site. Check it out!
oakdalegunclub.org.
I'm particularly proud of the new & improved Range Schedule. If you know of anyone who might be interested in the various high-power rifle events that are now open to non-members, or the Silhouette or Practical Pistol matches, please forward these links accordingly.
Thanks,
~BRB