CFB Dundurn SK ranges
 

Does anyone have any experience of visiting this range and does anyone know of any hard targets that may have or currently existed and any gate guardian vehicles, if pictures exist that would be good to post.

Never been there myself, Robin, but Peter Ford visited there several times in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when a Sound Man with the CBC.

He had a film clip of a Staghound being blown up for some Big Wig Demo on the ranges around that time.

Would not surprise me if a lot of hard target items were placed out there over the years, but I would also not be surprised if pressure to tidy the place up has happened as well.

David

When I was a young mechanic in the early 80s I recall a pair of ferrets being brought out there to blow up for the CBC. As an older mechaic po0sted out of MooseJaw in the mid 90s, I recall seeing much of the rnage scrap having been collected and laying at Wheat City metals in Regina. Seems to me there was a centurian and the pair of ferrets.

Have not been to the ranges there since around 2000.

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Rob would you have any clue as to what the CBC footage was shot for? I might try to look for it somehow

I'll have to sleep on that question. The answer lays in the grey matter somewhere, and is on the tip of my tongue.

They shot Carl G at the first one, and it was not overly impressive. Second ferret they filled with containers of gasoline to get the hollywood effect.

It may have been 1983, I really can't recall. It was a fairly big CBC production though. I recall the mechanics had two ferrets running up and down the main drag of the camp, and then pulling the powerplant for a certain officer's boat.

In the mid 90s when I was at the recruiting centre in Regina, I answered the phone. The caller asked if I knew how much an APC weighed. 'Ah .... about 10 tons - I think. Why do you ask?'

The caller could bid on some scrap BATUS FV432s and wanted an idea whether there was any money in it for him. I asked him to leave his number, and the next day I read him the AFV Profiles specifications page on that vehicle, down to the steel manganese carbon formula. I have not idea what he did next.

All this to say, the hard targets at Dundurn were probably so decrepit by 1995 that the CF took whatever armour was opportunistically available.