I went to the range this morning and while setting up shop an elderly range officer looked at my rig, picked up a round and stated, <span style="font-style: italic">"we need to stop allowing this round out here...it's too powerful for this range"</span>
He then went on to say that someone on the 200 yard line had punched a hole in a steel I-beam and of course he surmised that it was a .338 Lapua round that did it based on the size of the hole. And of course I'm the only one he knows of with a .338 Lapua Mag.
As much as I wanted to crawl down this guys throat I refrained and attempted to explain what happens to a hollow point match round from a .308 or .300WM when it impacts steel. Hell there are numerous rounds that can punch steel.
Now I'm not going to let this incident pass without contacting the ownership of this facility but there is another point to be made here...
I'm an annual member at this range and I'm there once or twice a week. Not only am I there often but I'm there with giant signs all over my truck advertising my business, and as such I have to be cautious about my public behaviour. There isn't a line on this range that isn't full of holes in one place or another and not all of them are accidental. That said, if you're of the type that likes to see if you can take down one of the target posts for kicks you need to think about the repercussions of your actions...someone or something else might get blamed.
In this case a range employee is likely running off at the mouth at anyone that will listen about the evil .338 round and how it should be banned from the range. Once a range goes down this road you have to ask...what's next? 7mm mag? .300WM? .308? How about just banning all black rifles?
Please think about what you're doing at public ranges. There are very few of them left and if the anti-gunners had their way there would be NONE. Lets not be our own worst enemy.
He then went on to say that someone on the 200 yard line had punched a hole in a steel I-beam and of course he surmised that it was a .338 Lapua round that did it based on the size of the hole. And of course I'm the only one he knows of with a .338 Lapua Mag.
As much as I wanted to crawl down this guys throat I refrained and attempted to explain what happens to a hollow point match round from a .308 or .300WM when it impacts steel. Hell there are numerous rounds that can punch steel.
Now I'm not going to let this incident pass without contacting the ownership of this facility but there is another point to be made here...
I'm an annual member at this range and I'm there once or twice a week. Not only am I there often but I'm there with giant signs all over my truck advertising my business, and as such I have to be cautious about my public behaviour. There isn't a line on this range that isn't full of holes in one place or another and not all of them are accidental. That said, if you're of the type that likes to see if you can take down one of the target posts for kicks you need to think about the repercussions of your actions...someone or something else might get blamed.
In this case a range employee is likely running off at the mouth at anyone that will listen about the evil .338 round and how it should be banned from the range. Once a range goes down this road you have to ask...what's next? 7mm mag? .300WM? .308? How about just banning all black rifles?
Please think about what you're doing at public ranges. There are very few of them left and if the anti-gunners had their way there would be NONE. Lets not be our own worst enemy.
