Rules And Behavior To Observe When In A Shooting Range

Rules And Behavior To Observe When In A Shooting Range

Shooting ranges are fun, aren’t they? Well, they can be fun, but they are equally dangerous. This is due to the presence of guns. Since you will be coming into contact with guns, you risk your life by being in a shooting range. Due to the danger involved, there are rules that have been formulated. The rules are meant to ensure that the rangers and shooters are safe in the shooting ranges. The rules include:

Range offers are supreme—respect them

When in the shooting range, the most supreme person is the range officer. All range officers are highly trained individuals with years of experience. Due this, the officers are usually easy to identify a problem and take the necessary action. When in the range, you should always listen to what the range officer tells you. If the officer tells you to cease fire, you should do so immediately, put your gun on the bench and move away from it. Even after the range officer has solved any problems that might have been there, you should not resume shooting until the officer instructs you to do so.

Follow gun rules religiously

Guns are dangers to be with. This is the reason why they have rules which must be followed. Some of the rules that must be followed include: always keep your gun unloaded whenever you are not using it. Keeping your gun unloaded ensures that you don’t shoot at anything or anyone unintentionally. Another rule is that you should observe is to always ensure that your finger is not on the trigger—even if the gun is unloaded. According to the rules, you should place your finger on the trigger only when you are already pointing your gun at the target. You should always ensure that the muzzle of you gun is pointing at a safe direction—the safe direction should be away from people and things that you don’t intend to shoot.

Commonsense is paramount in a shooting range

You can be assured of your safety in a shooting range by simply exercising some commonsense. For example, you should not tap on the shoulders of shooters when they are about to shoot. This is because you can make the shooters injure themselves or injure you in the process. Another thing that you should not do is to move forward of the firing range when shooting is going on. Doing this will not only make you look crazy, but you can also die.

Clean shooting station once done

Once you are through with your shooting, you should remove ammunition packages, shell casings, old targets and any other trash that may have resulted after shooting. Most of the shooting ranges provide cans to put the trash once you are done.
These are just a few rules and safety instructions on behavior one should be very conscious of when you make use of a shooting range in Estonia. These rules are also applicable at any other professional shooting range anywhere in the world.

ASHOK LEYLAND “IN HIGH GEAR”

Ashok Leyland is a part of the multi-billion dollar Hinduja Group. The group is engaged in Investment Banking, International Trading and Global Investments. The company manufactures commercial vehicles and ranks 2nd in India; they also manufacture buses and are the 4th largest in the world. In manufacturing trucks they are the 16th largest in the world. They have footprints in over 50 countries and headquartered in Chennai. They have Joint Venture with Nissan Motor Company (Japan) for Light Commercial Vehicles, John Deere (USA) for Construction Equipment, Continental AG (Germany) for Automotive Infotronics and the Alteams Group for the manufacture of high-press die-casting extruded aluminum components for the automotive and telecommunications sectors. They have 8 plants across the globe.

PRODUCTS

Buses – Helping nearly 70 million people reach their destinations

Trucks – Variety of truck for all needs

Light Vehicles – “DOST” the company’s class –leading LCV with a payload of 1.5 ton.

Defense – Pioneers in design, development and manufacture of specialized Defense Vehicles for armed forces.

Power Solutions – LEYPOWER range of engines that power generator sets, marine applications, earth moving equipments, compressors, cranesamd harvesters.

RESULT ANALYSIS

Top line increased to 5955 crores from 4505 crores in Q4FY15 growth of 32%
Operating Profit stood at 635 crores as against 347 crores in Q4FY15 thereby growing 83%
PAT stood at 456 crores vs. 238 crores growing 66%, growing 92% (before exceptional items)

AL expects MHCV industry to grow at 15-20% YoY in FY17. The company hopes to improve market share in ICVs through new launches and positive on industry growth prospects, but are mindful of rising competition in higher tonnage segments with new launches by incumbents.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE QUARTER

Aiming to grow share in ICVs: AL’s domestic MHCV market rose by 440bps YoY to 32.7% in FY16 led by gains in higher tonnage segments and in North/East regions. AL plans to enhance market share in the ICV segment (7 to 16MT segments) with new launches including Sunshine and Guru in bus and truck segments respectively.
Impairments in subs/JVs: AL management decided to provide for impairment towards equity investments in Optare, Albonair and its LCV JVs with Nissan. AL reckons that bulk of the cleaning up of its non-core investments has been done.
Modest capex guidance: AL’s capex + investments in FY16 have been ~Rs 2bn. The company has guided for capex + investments of Rs 5bn in FY17. Part of this would be used for building facilities for fully built buses and cabins.
Near-term outlook: We expect b earnings growth momentum to continue in 1QFY17 with healthy volume growth and YoY margin expansion

We recommend a Buy on Ashok Leyland at its CMP of 105 with a target of 115 for a short term outlook.

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Something to Improve On for the Indiana Pacers

With more than month and around 20 games into the NBA season, there is enough of a sample size required to judge teams according to their strengths and weaknesses. While logic dictates to look at the bad teams to see where they can improve, I prefer to scrutinize the top performing teams to figure out their weakness. Let’s face it, it is more interesting to talk about winning teams.

This time around, we are talking about the Indiana Pacers. As of writing, the Pacers have the best record in the league with their 7 wins and only 2 losses. They are playing the best defense in the league right now. They are also dominating games as backed by them having the highest point differential per game. They are no doubt the best team right now.

So what can the current best team in the NBA improve on?

Ball Movement

Watching all their games this season and checking on the team stats, it is easy to see that the team still lacks ball movement. A data that supports this claim is their 19th rank in assists per game. It’s not that they are playing isolation or are selfish. Their offensive sets are pretty good in getting the ball to the one it was designed for. However, they lack the propensity to make the extra pass that could lead to an easier and better shot attempt.

They are too methodical for their own good that when opposing teams put the effort to deny their sets, they often end up with bad shot attempts. They lack the creativity to come up with quality shots from broken set plays.

This could be a problem when they face the best teams in the playoffs who are focused on disrupting their offense. As good as Paul George has been in hitting shots, the team can’t put the burden of the entire offense on him.