Re: Hello Alaska shooters
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KelsonAK</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There has been 'disagreement' over the past couple years about the use of the range. Sometimes it was 'cops only' and sometimes it was open to all - depended on who it was, who was 'in charge' that day, or who you knew.
The past NRA dinner got some funds raised to make it a real live 'open to the public' range, so they are busy digging it out a little deeper and making the berms a little higher. Not sure when it will be done though - winter is coming up quickly.
Bethel really isn't a bad place - although I found Dillingham 'prettier.' The hunting seems a bit better here in Bethel. I'm sure that a police viewpoint of the place is probably a little different than 'joe citizen' - since it is your job to see the stupid stuff every day. There have been a lot of changes in city government over the past couple of years that have improved things a bit. I like it a lot better than interior Alaska...
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I got sick of dealing with drunks and the reverse racism. Glad to see they are working on a a range for the public. The range we had for the PD sucked and you could only get 80 yards out of it and a lot of the year it was drifted in. I am sure Bethel would have been a better place without dealing with the idiots we had to deal with. But even without that its isolated, prices are super inflated. I had to have 2 roommates to survive on an income of 60K a year. Housing was super expensive, gas was super expensive, food was super expensive and there was not much to do other than work. I will say I did meet some good people out there. I hosted a few competition shoots before I left that I opened to the public, but it was mostly cops and firefighters.
Pat