Russell13
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If all the ranges I’ve been to I’ve never had a problem with any range officers. But I hear stories and read tons of complaints about them??
Nearly all of the RSOs at our range are excellent and leave us alone unless there's someone flagrantly being unsafe or breaking the rules. And even then the RSO gently corrects the error and all is well. But there was this one Nosy Nellie that told me that the NRA suggested that I not have my bottled water at the firing line because of possible lead contamination. Give me a fracking break dude. I guess I should hold my breath the entire time I'm on the firing line too. He obviously suffers from ID-10-T syndrome.
God help the poor guy who only tried to inform you of something that might be beneficial to you, LOL.
No smoothbore muskets either I guessI once went to a range to break in my barrel of a rifle. I was putting a round through it, cleaning it, you know the process. I did not have a scope on it yet, the rso comes over and tells me I can’t shoot the rifle because it didn’t have sights on it. I had a paper target maybe ten feet in front of me and I was putting the rifle to my shoulder, being safe and shooting it like you normally would. Seemed like a very strange rule to me
I guess we're fortunate as the RO's at our gun club, who are all volunteers, are great. <snip>
It may help that our gun club is a private club. Prior to joining there's an interview process to weed out the knuckleheads as much as possible and safety training where we need to show them that we can safely handle our guns.