SOUND ADVICE
Picture the rolling hills of the Trannon Valley in the heart of mid-Wales. This is a soft, rural landscape where little troubles the sheep and dairy herds that thrive here. A patchwork of ancient pasture, ribboned by woodland and criss-crossed by a latticework of streams, it really is slap-bang in the middle of nowhere. Or more accurately, slap in the middle of nowhere now that the bangs have been silenced.
Earlier this year, the Mid Wales Shooting Centre, one of the country’s best-known grounds, shut up shop for good after noise complaints, and the ensuing restrictions made business untenable. If a ground in such a remote location can come under fire, what hope is there for shooting complexes in more populated neighbourhoods?
Mid Wales Shooting Centre was a thriving ground that shouldn’t have succumbed to potential operating difficulties. A popular employer in the area, every year the ground hosted the Krieghoff Classic, as well
