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encroached on your site line had been cut down to facilitate the shooting or the direction of fire. There was also an 1 <br />earthen berm had been built up on the opposite side into the Bingham Mobile Home Park property. 2 <br /> 3 <br />T.C. Morphis: That appeared to be a man-made berm? 4 <br /> 5 <br />Adrian Carter: It was a man-made berm. I am a building contractor I would know what a man-made berm looks like. 6 <br /> 7 <br />T.C. Morphis: Were there any other physical facilities on the site, sir? 8 <br /> 9 <br />Adrian Carter: There were some structures, catwalks across the creek so you could access the targets, I assume in 10 <br />a number of places they had some bridges and stuff made. 11 <br /> 12 <br />T.C. Morphis: Did you see any shells on the ground? 13 <br /> 14 <br />Adrian Carter: There were thousands of shells on the ground. 15 <br /> 16 <br />T.C. Morphis: Not five or ten? 17 <br /> 18 <br />Adrian Carter: No. 19 <br /> 20 <br />T.C. Morphis: There were thousands? 21 <br /> 22 <br />Adrian Carter: Easily. There were clay target remnants, shotgun shells, pistol cartridges, rifle cartridges of various 23 <br />calibers. 24 <br /> 25 <br />T.C. Morphis: I want you to go back to Exhibit 4. Maybe easier to use Exhibit 3 which is the top of the exact same 26 <br />area. I want you to verbally explain to the board where this range is located. Kind of walk them through what you 27 <br />saw and I want you to explain to them how you know where you saw it. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Adrian Carter: The kind of creek bottom determines the center point of the shooting range since they are up at a 30 <br />firing station on one side and shoot across the creek, perpendicular to the creek and the elevated targets are on the 31 <br />other side, so the only place these conditions exist are into the triangular of the mobile home park property which is 32 <br />just to the southwest of Ford Road in that little triangle that traverses Ford Road. The direction of fire with a very 33 <br />small margin of error from this shooting station across that creek fires on a reasonable direct line to my property 34 <br />which is, you’ll see from this topography, you will see my house located near the crown of the hill, that is … 35 <br /> 36 <br />T.C. Morphis: Let me interrupt you, you are looking at Exhibit 2? 37 <br /> 38 <br />Adrian Carter: I am on Exhibit 2 which is the clearest one. 39 <br /> 40 <br />T.C. Morphis: Approximately in the northwest direction? 41 <br /> 42 <br />Adrian Carter: Approximately west northwest direction. You will see the elevation adjacent to my house is 530 feet 43 <br />above sea level. The elevation around my neighbor, Michael Joerling’s house is 555 and the elevation at the creek 44 <br />bottom is 480 so my house is 50 feet higher than the shooting station which is critical if a line of site misses the top of 45 <br />this man-made berm and it wouldn’t take a lot of elevation height from the shooter for its projectile to traverse berm 46 <br />and hit my house or my neighbor’s house. 47 <br /> 48 <br />T.C. Morphis: To avoid repetition, you generally agree Mr. Gallagher about frequency and in terms duration and 49 <br />number of times per week. 50 <br />36