{"id":3144,"date":"2026-06-30T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:14:29","slug":"senseless-damage-at-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/senseless-damage-at-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Senseless Damage at the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Generally we hesitate to air our dirty laundry on the website, but after consultation with Officers and Directors, we felt that we needed to say something about a recent happening at the range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been issues with people driving across the 100-yard firing points to get to the 200-yard target frames. In one incident someone drove across the front of the raised 100-yard firing points. It has been at least two summers and the ruts are still very evident &#8211; they about jar your teeth out when you mow the firing line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year we had someone decide to drive out to the 50-yard target frames &#8211; 50-yards!  This was the result.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"912\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is 50-yard-ruts-912x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3149\" style=\"width:518px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.jpeg 912w, https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-267x300.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-768x862.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>These ruts are directly in front of the gravel drive on the northside of the clubhouse!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, after this incident, we purchased several &#8220;No Vehicles Past This Point&#8221; signs and after consideration we put them on the west side of the creek to keep folks from driving across muddy\/wet ground to get to the 200-yard target frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was only about a week or two before we had this result:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"883\" src=\"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ruts-1024x883.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3150\" style=\"width:564px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ruts-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ruts-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ruts-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ruts-1536x1325.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ruts.jpg 1571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Oh. I&#8217;m sure that sign really doesn&#8217;t apply to me.\u00a0 I wonder why they put it there?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>I&#8217;m just going to drive over to the 200-yard target frames anyway &#8211; what can go wrong?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s a really deep set of ruts.  It will take a lot of work to level them out and to haul dirt from the 200-yard dirt pile to fill them in.  But, the worst part of this is that whoever did this has not manned up and admitted it to the Officers or Directors.  A simple; &#8220;Hey guys, I screwed up &#8211; I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; would have been appropriate.  We could have dealt with it and gone on from there.  But, they just did the damage &#8211; it is past damage; it is vandalism.  Maybe not deliberate, but vandalism none the less.  And, the perpetrator left it for someone else to repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come on guys &#8211; <strong>THINK!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally we hesitate to air our dirty laundry on the website, but after consultation with Officers and Directors, we felt that we needed to say something about a recent happening at the range. There have been issues with people driving across the 100-yard firing points to get to the 200-yard target frames. In one incident&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}