You described how it was when it was new. The range master at the time got lax or burnt out on messing with it. I am going to start being one major PITA. You know a guy hates to be that way but I don't see any other solution. Mark my word..this range is going to be right. Once it is I will be attempting to have a few open range days a month. Open to everyone providing I can convince the risk assessment folks that it is the right thing to do for the community. That is my hopes.
Really hope you get it all sorted out. Sounded like a really nice place to begin with. Not really sure how it runs now, but it sounds like the rangemaster definitely was slacking a while ago. Open range is a good idea imo as long as you have some people around to kick out anyone that's being badly behaved.