You are more persistent and your HOA is much more enlightened than mine.
My neighbor HOA board member (and massive bully) decided to adopt rules and regulations preventing any kind of projectile shooting weapon and used his other HOA friends to adopt those.
Those rules were cause by me apparently making too much noise (according to him) doing archery and shooting air guns and slingshots.
Now that prick moved away and my new neighbors (for a few years) don't seem to mind.
That neighbor was what you might call the HOA alpha male.
I miss him, mostly because I can no longer do the little things that annoy him