MISFIRE: Shooting club wants to impress international guests with a first-class facility, but with the number of shooting stands capped they will have to wait their turn.

MISFIRE: Shooting club wants to impress international guests with a first-class facility, but with the number of shooting stands capped they will have to wait their turn. Max Fleet BUN040215BRC2

ASIAN tourists will have to wait their turn for a shot into the Warwick wilderness after Southern Downs Regional Council rejected an application to increase the number of shooting stands at Cherrabah Resort.

The application to install three more shooting stands in the new Long Rifle Range and Handgun Range is the latest development in a controversial project that aspires to provide international tourists with an outback experience.

The man behind the development application, Chris Yin said visitors from countries like China, Korea and Japan enjoyed getting out of the city.

"The reason we are trying to have more facilities in the resort is to run a business which is a benefit to the local tourism industry,” he said.

More stands would mean shorter waiting times and bigger capacity for both Southern Downs residents and international visitors to the facility.

But the council said the Noise Impact Assessment provided by application All Weapons Shooting Incorporated was insufficient to support the application to increase the number of stands to five.

In January the council approved an application to develop a new Long Rifle Range and Handgun Range range with two shooting stands.

Residents on neighbouring properties have pricked their ears to the council's most recent decision.

Local resident Stuart Bell said the current noise affected residents, and more shooting would be a "disaster”.

"The (noise impact) report said that if you were five kilometres away, then human ears wouldn't pick up the gun shot,” Mr Bell said.

"But we are seven kilometres away and the noise is so intense that we have had campers pack up and leave because of the shoots.”