I Love Shooting, But I HATE Range Trips (Range Report at end)
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Ha , try working at a range as an RO ; the level of retardation is epic .
How the f half the clowns I see at my local found their way there is beyond
me . I should step off now , I feel a rant coming on ....
How the f half the clowns I see at my local found their way there is beyond
me . I should step off now , I feel a rant coming on ....
I shot at an indoor range about two months ago. I saw it on the way to somewhere in Atlanta and decided to check it out on the way back through. Concrete wall separated me from the other couple folks that were there. Decent lunch break. That's the first time I've been to a gun range in probably two or three years.
It it can be entertaining to go see the once a year assholes sighting in (hits paper - good to go) about the first week of October.
It it can be entertaining to go see the once a year assholes sighting in (hits paper - good to go) about the first week of October.
We're stopped on the turnpike to let the dog relieve herself ...
I was at the shop yesterday grabbing AR15 rail "ladders," among other things, with another customer who was finishing up paperwork on a Beretta .22LR. The asshole pulled out a NAA mini revolver from his pocket, finger on the trigger and barrel rotating upward in a direct line with my gut, to show me what he was upgrading from, and he very nearly got shot for his stupidity. I was about three-quarters of the way into a draw and screaming at him, "HOLSTER THAT WEAPON!" The two clerks were completely zoned out and totally missed the start of it. So, of course, non-gun person buying Beretta thinks that I'm just a jerk for insisting on decorum and safety, not to mention abiding by the rules that are plastered all over the shop on obvious signs.
So no, it isn't just the range, to which we haven't gotten yet, at 1238. It's idiots in general.
Edited: SWMBO doesn't like the Porta-Potties at the range, so now it's her turn. Grrr ...
I was at the shop yesterday grabbing AR15 rail "ladders," among other things, with another customer who was finishing up paperwork on a Beretta .22LR. The asshole pulled out a NAA mini revolver from his pocket, finger on the trigger and barrel rotating upward in a direct line with my gut, to show me what he was upgrading from, and he very nearly got shot for his stupidity. I was about three-quarters of the way into a draw and screaming at him, "HOLSTER THAT WEAPON!" The two clerks were completely zoned out and totally missed the start of it. So, of course, non-gun person buying Beretta thinks that I'm just a jerk for insisting on decorum and safety, not to mention abiding by the rules that are plastered all over the shop on obvious signs.
So no, it isn't just the range, to which we haven't gotten yet, at 1238. It's idiots in general.
Edited: SWMBO doesn't like the Porta-Potties at the range, so now it's her turn. Grrr ...
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Yeah the things we do for love . Veer range report please . I'm off to indoor range to practice for steel challenge.
I'm sitting in my LGS one day and I guy and his GF are busy fondling some pistol with a mounted laser on it. She picks up the gun and is waving it around watching the pretty dot. She flashed me, not once but twice in the course of about 30 seconds. The second time I told her, in a rather harsh voice, to not point that damn gun at me. She responded with don't worry, its not loaded. I retorted, this time at very high volume, "Mine is, and if you point that thing at me again I WILL shoot your dumb ass."
The store owner, a good friend, said, with a big grin on his face, "he means it!" and reached over the counter and removed the gun from her hand.
Now, I know the gun was unloaded, I took it and about 50 others out of the safe in the morning, and the owner and myself, always clear a gun before handing it to a customer. The owner knew this as well. We take gun handling and safety very seriously in that shop. There is always the urge to show your buddy your latest acquisition. That is OK, but the gun must be handed to the owner for clearing before doing so. In fact, the practice is discouraged. As it should be.
The store owner, a good friend, said, with a big grin on his face, "he means it!" and reached over the counter and removed the gun from her hand.
Now, I know the gun was unloaded, I took it and about 50 others out of the safe in the morning, and the owner and myself, always clear a gun before handing it to a customer. The owner knew this as well. We take gun handling and safety very seriously in that shop. There is always the urge to show your buddy your latest acquisition. That is OK, but the gun must be handed to the owner for clearing before doing so. In fact, the practice is discouraged. As it should be.
LOL, you must have worked at the same range I did. The level of stupidity, ineptitude & ignorance was of biblical scale to say nothing of having a muzzle cross me 3-4 times a day and God help you if you were signing someone in that told you he just bought a gun for his girlfriend and "I'm going to teach her how to shoot today".......OMG. I finally had to pack it in.....
It's universal. Running an IDPA match when a lady stopped in the middle of a course of fire, turned towards me pointing her handgun and my midsection and said, "I have a question." The match director later told me she was upset I stripped the gun from her hand. He also told me she was a deputy sheriff.
Veer, all that even before you get there. Once there you personally get the added benefit of being judged for your head gear.
I hope you had a successful outing.
I hope you had a successful outing.
I'm not sure that I'd call it entirely successful, but it was good to get out and go do what admittedly used to be so much easier, for many reasons. And yes, I still love to shoot, as the thread title states.
The head gear judgment thing that you mention has its own initialism: PITA, or Personnel, Indigenous: Threat Assessment. And yes, it happens every time I've gone in the past 10.5 years. Saturday's officiants were a pair of twenty-somethings from a few villages over, time-sharing a scoped AR at the right-most position on the 100-yard line. I got rushed and simultaneously flanked as soon as I got out of the truck and started hauling gear to the shooting line, but I think my native English, metallic Life Member range ID around my neck, and cocked-and-locked 1911 short-dicked them just a bit, down from DEFCON 1 to "Hey, you got a Hemi in that?" lip-licking, burger-flipping curiosity. I gotta remember that the kids these days have been raised with propaganda since they could crawl, so allowances for indoctrination are made.
Anyway, yes, the Veer_G caravan rolled in at about 1330, with a load of "kit," as (A)1J04 put it, and my female canine and white female human credentials aboard. Daddy's little Cane Corso girl may never make another trip back to the range, at least not with ear protection, since Mommy didn't stake her out, as planned, and her patience with the Mutt Muffs was up about 120 minutes after we got there, which put her into psycho-bitch, alligator with fur mode.
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Range conditions were less than optimal. It was partly cloudy, with damp ground from morning rain (thus no dust clouds off the berm), and a maddening, quartering wind that kept on shifting through about 270°, anywhere from 10-25 mph, with brief lulls. The range is located at the base of Blue Mountain, a geophysical feature in PA that runs from the Delaware River Water Gap all the way across the state line into North-Central MD. It's the abrupt beginning of the Appalachians in PA, and it literally creates a division in weather systems on its opposite sides, where the difference in temperature can be 5-10° cooler to the north. Weather generally swings across the state SW-NE, and when significant winds hit Blue Mountain, it bounces around like water around dams and spillways. Unfortunately,we were running in front of high, strung-out cirrus and rain squalls to the south on Saturday, and anybody shooting less-than-substantial, wind-cutting calibers was in a fairly foul mood. As a result, I managed nothing presentable with the AR, and need to re-boresight it, run it back out under better conditions, and start at 50 yards. I shot twenty rounds of 200 gr. Prvi Partizan Match 8mm Mauser, but gave up on the idea of zeroing, given the shitty conditions.
Rounds16-20 on the bolt, just sub-MOA, minus the flyer:
Anyway, it was good to get out, despite having to stand native inspection, losing my mind with the dog issues (she's severely epileptic and doesn't get left home for very long on her own), and pissing into the wind from hell with 60 gr. projectiles. I'll be back a few Saturdays hence, and maybe I'll even get to shoot some pistol, as well.
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Saw this on Imgur the other day. Free targets sponsored by a Ford dealership in Hershey.
I'd buy a car from any place that does this.
I'd buy a car from any place that does this.
Rural PA is pretty much like that, outside the idiot zones in and around Erie, Pittsburgh, Altoona, State College, Harrisburg/Hershey/Lebanon/York/Lancaster, Philly, Allentown, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and the Poconos NY/NJ/CT Expatriate Zone. Those areas are wastelands made toxic to liberty by mindless traditional Democrat clients willing to trade my freedom and rights for their mistaken ideals. We're a Purple State, as a result, and only Red when a real effort is made to overcome the toxicity of the Free Shit Army encampments.
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The rifle was set up for Hornady 60gr V-Max 5.45x39, which is about as close as you come. A kit is available from http://www.russianreloads.com to do Berdan to Boxer conversions, and .224 can be swaged down to fit. My intention with the 5.45 build is to grind as much as I can out of the Hornady offering and still have a useful base for 5.56, etc.
7.92x57 isn't quite as complex, given the readily available Boxer options, and decent FMJ BT .323 198-200gr options are pretty easy to find. Yugo M75 is also floating about here and there, even though it's corrosive, as an option.
A little later this year I'm sending parts in on a swanky 7.5x55 build. Hold on to your hat, Creeky!
Nope. PTG built me a custom R700 bolt with an M16 extractor. 7.5x55 is about .307 or so, so a "tight" .308 barrel blank and the world is your plate of Swiss Steak, if not Oysters.
Oh, I agree, but I got bitten by the K31 bug early and as a result have multiple cases of RUAG GP11 to play with.
I find the supposition to the opposite funny as hell. I'm just somewhat closed-mouth about my activities, present and especially the past. I need to go up earlier in the day without so much fuss and folderol, and no more than 3-5 mph wind from a consistent direction. Is that so much to ask?
I find the supposition to the opposite funny as hell. I'm just somewhat closed-mouth about my activities, present and especially the past. I need to go up earlier in the day without so much fuss and folderol, and no more than 3-5 mph wind from a consistent direction. Is that so much to ask?
I Supposition not.
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