Folks,
As the title says I need some help. I'm from the Mississauga area and I work with one of the local Air Cadet squadrons. Part of the program (part of our mandate) is to provide instruction and opportunity for them in safe handling, marksmanship etc. Back in my day (many moons ago) we used to train on the old Lee Enfield .22 conversion (usually a No 4 Mk1 relined etc for .22). Those days are pretty much gone - most units now have had to turn in their .22's. Today the program tries to promote the same sort of thing using Daisy air rifles. Advantage to that is it's supposed to be more portable - in theory a range could be "easily" set up provided there's enough space. Military provides the air rifles, supplies, backstops etc ...
Now to my problem. Pretty much all of the Mississauga based cadet units parade out of schools - no real home to call home. As recently as about 7 years ago we were able to set up and conduct range in the gymnasium of (some of) the schools. That's also now done - we're lucky that we can still use DP's for the honour guard / flag party. This is where I'm hoping for some help. We're looking for a space that we can use for air rifle range. We can't use a regular indoor range that's been active recently - DND prohibits cadets / cadet activities from using facilities like this because of higher levels of lead particles (no jokes please), dust etc in the air.
We have been able to pair up with smaller units out of town but the challenge is has been to get the cadets there (sometimes as much as an hour out of town) on a regular schedule. We're looking for a space - some space - in the Mississauga area where we could set up and conduct range training and practice. We need about 15 meters long (allowing for the firing lanes themselves, space for the cadets to shoot prone etc) and 1 meter wide for each cadet (so a 5 position range setup would be approx 5 meters wide, 15 long). We've considered warehouses, other businesses - tried some of the above with no luck. Our budget is limited but we can issue charitable receipts for value received. We have some really promising young people here just no place for them to train.
I'm looking for any suggestions / ideas / possibilities. I'm also posting this under the General Firearms Discussion forum ...
Any help would be appreciated.
As the title says I need some help. I'm from the Mississauga area and I work with one of the local Air Cadet squadrons. Part of the program (part of our mandate) is to provide instruction and opportunity for them in safe handling, marksmanship etc. Back in my day (many moons ago) we used to train on the old Lee Enfield .22 conversion (usually a No 4 Mk1 relined etc for .22). Those days are pretty much gone - most units now have had to turn in their .22's. Today the program tries to promote the same sort of thing using Daisy air rifles. Advantage to that is it's supposed to be more portable - in theory a range could be "easily" set up provided there's enough space. Military provides the air rifles, supplies, backstops etc ...
Now to my problem. Pretty much all of the Mississauga based cadet units parade out of schools - no real home to call home. As recently as about 7 years ago we were able to set up and conduct range in the gymnasium of (some of) the schools. That's also now done - we're lucky that we can still use DP's for the honour guard / flag party. This is where I'm hoping for some help. We're looking for a space that we can use for air rifle range. We can't use a regular indoor range that's been active recently - DND prohibits cadets / cadet activities from using facilities like this because of higher levels of lead particles (no jokes please), dust etc in the air.
We have been able to pair up with smaller units out of town but the challenge is has been to get the cadets there (sometimes as much as an hour out of town) on a regular schedule. We're looking for a space - some space - in the Mississauga area where we could set up and conduct range training and practice. We need about 15 meters long (allowing for the firing lanes themselves, space for the cadets to shoot prone etc) and 1 meter wide for each cadet (so a 5 position range setup would be approx 5 meters wide, 15 long). We've considered warehouses, other businesses - tried some of the above with no luck. Our budget is limited but we can issue charitable receipts for value received. We have some really promising young people here just no place for them to train.
I'm looking for any suggestions / ideas / possibilities. I'm also posting this under the General Firearms Discussion forum ...
Any help would be appreciated.
