Range Trip Ruined

[Old_Me]

My club is private. Never seen an idiot there.

that's part of the the benefits we enjoy at the clubs...at mine, when we join, we have to pay a $100 fee for an 8 hours long safety class..including in the class, is the cleaning up after yourself lesson.

the place has cameras all over, inside and outside. (security cameras outside, no outdoor range)

any complaints of a dirty range, all the board has to do is watch the recordings, and you get an email AND a phone call.

not too many warnings are sent, till one gets suspended, then put on probation when they come back. then still no cooperation..?? GONE...

many "donate" things like paper towels, soaps, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, etc......the club DOES NOT ask for that, but appreciates the "donations".

good thing too, it is still low priced, and i'd say about 99.999% of the time, i am there by myself.

the club has been in existence since 1903, when they used to shoot into the hillside.......then...the houses, and the neighborhood came.......dammit.!!

 

[SimonRL]

Funny enough, as big as Texas is public land you can shoot on is far and few between. Fortunately, the ranges I shoot at are very well regulated and the ROs keep a good eye on things. You do see some dumb moves from time to time, but they get quickly addressed.

 

[Bassbob]

Funny enough, as big as Texas is public land you can shoot on is far and few between. Fortunately, the ranges I shoot at are very well regulated and the ROs keep a good eye on things. You do see some dumb moves from time to time, but they get quickly addressed.

Is that endemic to Dallas or Texas in general.

 

[SimonRL]

Is that endemic to Dallas or Texas in general.

As far as ranges go I can only talk to the DFW area, but if you search the Bureau of Land Management, as best as I can see, there are no public lands to shoot on.

 

[Shibadog]

Same thing happens at an outdoor rifle range run by the county here. You’re supposed to have a hunting license in order to use it but it gets swamped on the weekends by out of staters as well as yahoos that don’t know the first thing about gun safety (or really care). I do not go there.

Saw it at a local indoor range several years ago. A group of 4 foreign kids (college town) were there having rented a Smith 29, a 92 Beretta and a couple of smaller handguns I couldn’t recognize at a distance. Anyway after watching them fire the Smith and then turn around (sweeping all of them AND me I bailed. Told the RO he’d better get back there before someone got killed. I’ve never been back

 

[javbike]

I went to the range the other day there was a father and son shooting to my left new to the sport I would guess I had my eye out for them . They seem ok just could hit the side of a barn. Better be safe than sorry

 

[belladonna]

The range I go to has been pretty good at calling out stupid and dangerous. The RO watches a monitor with several feeds. I have only seen one stupid/dangerous, and that was a guy who was (well, I don't know what he was trying to do), doing rapid fire (which they don't allow in the first place) with a green dot, and he was literally shooting all over the place - downrange, but all over the place. Then he stops and sticks the firearm in his back pocket. That didn't go over very well. He got booted.

 

[Bassbob]

I don't do public ranges.

 

[bc22wm]

Stories like these always remind me of how good life is to me. My range is the back porch and the only rule is don't shoot the Mrs. clothes pins.
I wish everyone had it so good.

 

[Old_Me]

Stories like these always remind me of how good life is to me. My range is the back porch and the only rule is don't shoot the Mrs. clothes pins.
I wish everyone had it so good.

my last visit to my club, (tuesday of last week), i took my S&W "E" 1911, and 100 rounds of ammo...50 reloads, 50 new...

we have "snapping" clothes pins that hold up the targets.

i was having a bad day, with a 1911, i usually nail the target to oblivion....

that day...??

i shot in total, 3 clothes pins.......into oblivion.........

the walk of shame to the box of new clothes pins had to be done, thankfully, i was the ONLY one there that morning.....

and for "safe keeping"...??

the last walk there..??

i grabbed like 8 new ones...."just in case".......

i often "donate" paper towels, hand soap, toilet paper, air freshener spray for the bathroom, and now it seems a package of clothes pins too.........

they DO HAVE cameras recording on a continuous loop however....

 

[3L120]

In my case shooting at a Range in Lyons, Il. it was very busy and off to my right after a few shots I heard someone speaking Spanish and then a few more rounds being fired and then someone speaking Spanish, after a few more rounds I backed out of my stall and seen a line of Mexicans.
The first would fire a few rounds, hand the weapon to the person behind him and show him how to use it and it continued.
I quickly packed up and never returned.

Back 30 plus years ago, I used to shoot in Lytle Creek, out by Riverside, CA. Dirt road ran about 20 meters from the stream bed, and firing lanes were cut through the brush between the two. Not a range, or even close to one, just the dirt road and the cutback brush. Then shooters started dying, being shot in the back while in the shooting lanes. Firearms stolen, etc. story I heard was that Mexican gangs were just driving up the road, stopping behind a shooter, killing him and taking what they wanted. The Forest Service put in a range later, but by that time I had found better places to shoot.