Interesting range trip in France...

[JohnL2]

Mon Dieu. That is quite a setup with the baffles. Obviously you are out in the countryside, but whereabouts?

 

[Tommygunn]

So many people forget how bitterly France fought Germany during WWI.

Don't discount WW2. The Vichy went Nazi, and while the government collapsed in a month, fifth columners provided a lot of assistance to Allied forces and risked their lives, fought and died for freedom as well. Their service was very importand on June 6, 1944.

 

[Afy]

John
south east of Paris in Champaigne.

 

[Buck Snort]

"Anyone else amazed at how clean the baffles are? All the baffles I see in the US are shot to hell."

That's because there's no French word for "Bubba"!!

 

[Afy]

Buck
There are a few holes in the last couple of bafflles... but we do try to shoot the targets rather than the baffles.

 

[DRYHUMOR]

I helped to build a couple of ranges while in the Navy, one- an international rifle range at Annapolis MD and the other a pistol range in Key West FL.

We used the baffle system as well, however they where 1/2 inch steel plates in the front and back of standing timbers.

It is a very effective design, as it covers the possible angles a mis guided round could take, and keeps it from leaving the range area.

 

[Afy]

Dryhumor we have largely a bunch of rural folk... the steel plates would be expensive.

As it is all of pay an average of about US$180 a year for the privelage to own guns.

 

[DRYHUMOR]

Afy, the taxpayer bought the steel plates

We just did the building of it.


You have a very nice range to use though, some of the ones near me, are about 20 to 25 miles away. I have not been to them. Fortunately, I have a bit of land I can shoot on.

I just wish I could afford the cost of building a berm/backstop for myself.

 

[alemonkey]

The club I belong to has baffles just like that set up on our handgun range. It always amazes me how many of them have bullet marks.