And still there is talk about why some clubs just don't seem to prosper, for reasons totally over the heads of the committees of those clubs. We have one club member who is a H&S Executive examiner/assessor - he occasionally goes around the locale measuring the sounds that come from our club, bearing in mind that the outside ranges are about half a mile from the adjacent village. His sound level plot was used to design the sound buffering of the construction of both our new range facilities. We even stop shooting when horses go horsing past, and have had no complaints from anybody, let alone club members.
It is in the nature of guns to go bang - some bangier than others - that, to my mind, is part of the appeal.
tac