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re: How much do other people at the range unnerve you?
Posted on 8/29/20 at 3:29 pm to bbvdd
Posted on 8/29/20 at 3:29 pm to bbvdd
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I belong to a private gun club that you have to qualify to belong. Rare to have issues with anyone.
More likely to have people and ask about your equipment than anything else.
On the 600yd range you actually have to lock the gate so no one comes in while you’re down range setting up targets.
Man, I wish we had something like this closer to Baton Rouge. There's Palo Alto out by Donaldsonville, but that's easily an hour's drive one way. If that was a fifteen minute or a half hour, I'd be a member in a heartbeat.
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Posted on 8/29/20 at 4:38 pm to Gaston
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:05 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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There's Palo Alto out by Donaldsonville, but that's easily an hour's drive one way. If that was a fifteen minute or a half hour, I'd be a member in a heartbeat.
It’s a half hour drive for me!
Posted on 8/29/20 at 5:19 pm to rebelrouser
Muzzle control makes it ok.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:36 pm to Gaston
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Best one ever.
That guy not only should be banned form the range, but should never have the right to own a gun-----period.
That was the #1 rule that was pounded into my head when I was first learning about how to handle a gun as a kid. NEVER point it at someone even if you know it's unloaded.
Of course as you get older and join the military, Uncle Sam's guys teach you how to make kill shots.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 6:48 pm to cdaniel76
Imagine being at a range w/o any RSO's.
I shoot at two different ranges in my area -- hard to find any places less safe (influx of inexperienced new gun owners coupled with lackadaisical employees). Keeping your head "on a swivel" takes on a whole new meaning.
I shoot at two different ranges in my area -- hard to find any places less safe (influx of inexperienced new gun owners coupled with lackadaisical employees). Keeping your head "on a swivel" takes on a whole new meaning.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 9:04 pm to civiltiger07
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It’s a half hour drive for me!
I guess I should be glad it isn't closer because then I'd be building a REALLY expensive bolt action rig for the 600 yard range.
Posted on 8/29/20 at 10:09 pm to jlovel7
My poor drill sergeants in basic training dealing with kids that never shot a firearm before...... I snickered the whole time.
Posted on 8/30/20 at 9:21 am to A_bear
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The only reason I go to the range to shoot my rifles is because I dont want to shoot them in a cane field where the bullets could end up anywhere.
Thanks, cause I live in the middle of cane fields and rifle fire makes me nervous AF. Shotguns and pistols, not so much if they aren’t close.
Posted on 8/30/20 at 10:49 am to tigerinthebueche
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out. I prefer to have target practice in private places like cane fields where no one else is going to come close to shooting me. I can’t deal with people that don’t have the same gun control as me.
Awesome! So when you shoot one of us who make our livings in those fields- you’re going to explain your awesome gun control to our families and the court?
This is easily the most irresponsible comment I have ever read on here.
Posted on 8/30/20 at 12:39 pm to subMOA
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So when you shoot one of us who make our livings in those fields- you’re going to explain your awesome gun control to our families and the court?
Why would you be working in his fields?
Posted on 8/30/20 at 1:03 pm to bbvdd
I guarantee you- with a comment like that- he is neither a cane farmer or landowner.
ETA:
For those who think sugarcane fields are quasi public access lands:
Here’s what happens in them on a daily basis:
October-January: Grinding. Daily movement of harvesters and related tractors. Tillage of bust out lands that will be replanted in the summer.
February-May: Offbar, Layby and related fertilizing activities to make the crop.
May-July: Land grade and draw rows to plant in August-September
August-September: Plant
In addition to the normal activities of farming, you could have a farmer or worker in the “back” where “no one is supposed to be” working on or stetting up a pump, cleaning a ditch, etc.
In addition to the farmer- each and every field at any given moment can have an ag. consultant riding on a 4 wheeler checking the crop to make spray recommendations. The scary part about that is they might park their truck 15 miles away in the am and work their way all around solely on a bike that is hard to see.
Then, to top it all off- a farmer can call a mechanic from anywhere to work on a tractor, harvester, excavator, dozer, etc. Sometimes those guys can be “in the back” where no one is “supposed to be” and they can easily be there after hours so the farmer didn’t have to stop during the day.
Y’all have no idea how much it sucks to be driving in a field where you are supposed to be and you pull out on a cross road in a 150,000 lb scraper tractor rig only to be met with 4 kids on a 4 wheeler riding because their mom and dad told them go there or meet some old man riding around to dump trash.
ETA:
For those who think sugarcane fields are quasi public access lands:
Here’s what happens in them on a daily basis:
October-January: Grinding. Daily movement of harvesters and related tractors. Tillage of bust out lands that will be replanted in the summer.
February-May: Offbar, Layby and related fertilizing activities to make the crop.
May-July: Land grade and draw rows to plant in August-September
August-September: Plant
In addition to the normal activities of farming, you could have a farmer or worker in the “back” where “no one is supposed to be” working on or stetting up a pump, cleaning a ditch, etc.
In addition to the farmer- each and every field at any given moment can have an ag. consultant riding on a 4 wheeler checking the crop to make spray recommendations. The scary part about that is they might park their truck 15 miles away in the am and work their way all around solely on a bike that is hard to see.
Then, to top it all off- a farmer can call a mechanic from anywhere to work on a tractor, harvester, excavator, dozer, etc. Sometimes those guys can be “in the back” where no one is “supposed to be” and they can easily be there after hours so the farmer didn’t have to stop during the day.
Y’all have no idea how much it sucks to be driving in a field where you are supposed to be and you pull out on a cross road in a 150,000 lb scraper tractor rig only to be met with 4 kids on a 4 wheeler riding because their mom and dad told them go there or meet some old man riding around to dump trash.
This post was edited on 8/30/20 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 8/30/20 at 1:40 pm to subMOA
A teenager was killed a few years ago in my hometown doing one of the things you are describing. He was riding an atv in the field when the cane was tall so he couldn’t see anything besides straight in front or behind. He got to an interaction at the exact same time as a tractor. T-boned the tractor and he never had a chance.
This post was edited on 8/30/20 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 8/30/20 at 5:20 pm to WMTigerFAN
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I go weekly, sometimes twice weekly, to the OPSO range in West Monroe
I haven't been this year., but really have the itch to go shoot, Has it been crowded with all of the new gun owners out there?
There's an indoor range called "In Range", at a store called TNT Trucks and Triggers on the Hwy 33 North. I need to see how it compares to TP Outdoors. It looks nice on this video on their Facebook page
Posted on 8/30/20 at 11:20 pm to jlovel7
I know why all range officers are arse holes, guns down open unloaded now! Very simple that’s his world he makes the rules I don’t mind them. Many people in this day an age think they can argue and negotiate things like they are speaking to their parents Parents are a joke to the modern day teen or young adult. Many ranges don’t have range masters that’s unnerving. What do you do? I want to build my own range.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 6:01 pm to Cracker
The shite you see at public ranges is truly frightening. Once upon a time I was a member at Palo Alto, I did a lot of work out there to help get it started. Even out there during the week I saw some scary stuff.
That's why I have my own range now.
That's why I have my own range now.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 9:25 pm to Cracker
I volunteered as a RSO at a range when I lived in Michigan in exchange for free range time and an employee discount. I had never had an issue or seen anything unsafe when I was there shooting myself so I thought it would be an easy gig. Hang out with a bunch of fellow vets and gun enthusiasts all Saturday, what could go wrong?
The amount of stupid shite you see people do is absolutely mind-boggling. You absolutely become an a-hole because it doesn’t take long to become convinced it’s only a matter of time before someone hurts themselves or another shooter.
I firmly believe most of these issues would be resolved if we had more hunters. Most of the people we had issues with were suburban soccer dads taking their kids out to shoot the cool new AR he’d bought. The kids often knew more about the gun than their parent from whatever video games they’ve been playing. None of them had any concept of what those guns could do to a person besides put a neat little hole in a piece of paper.
The amount of stupid shite you see people do is absolutely mind-boggling. You absolutely become an a-hole because it doesn’t take long to become convinced it’s only a matter of time before someone hurts themselves or another shooter.
I firmly believe most of these issues would be resolved if we had more hunters. Most of the people we had issues with were suburban soccer dads taking their kids out to shoot the cool new AR he’d bought. The kids often knew more about the gun than their parent from whatever video games they’ve been playing. None of them had any concept of what those guns could do to a person besides put a neat little hole in a piece of paper.
Posted on 8/31/20 at 9:53 pm to jlovel7
I’m going Friday to the range
two Fridays ago the Range officer that was near us was very good. We talked and he was very friendly with my friends young son. There wasn't any I'm better than you and you're doing it wrong attitude. Very friendly guy.
I have been out there in the past where I could not take their attitudes. But that was long ago
two Fridays ago the Range officer that was near us was very good. We talked and he was very friendly with my friends young son. There wasn't any I'm better than you and you're doing it wrong attitude. Very friendly guy.
I have been out there in the past where I could not take their attitudes. But that was long ago
This post was edited on 9/1/20 at 8:26 am
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