Which do you hate more?

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I can’t say I am a fan of either.

I have pretty much everything in my range bags but that's stuff I haul to matches more than casual shooting at farm, where I have grown tired of loading and unloading everything except the kitchen sink.

I wanted a bare minimum of stuff we always use, or have to go back to the cabin and get when we forget, to stay with the bench. So I slightly modified a mailbox my Mother in law lost the key to 10 or 15 years ago and bolted it to the underside of the bench.

Now there are targets, staples, eye/ear protection, brass catcher, ziploc bags, pasters, pen, pencil, sharpie, bug spray, paint for the steel, a bottle of water, roll of TP and a minimal first aid kit.

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Bat Rastard said:
1. Taking every damn thing you own to the range.


2. Getting to the range without something you need.


There's no winning.
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Only the day before yesterday I broke down and finally drew up a “Range” checklist on my phone.

I had just gotten back from the range and realized I was up to three orange range-buckets. That’s 15 gallons of guns and accessories, for those who don’t know how orange range buckets work.

Now, 10 gallons of guns ought to last anyone through a 45-minute range session. So how was I needing as much as 15 gallons of guns?

This new “range” checklist should improve my efficiency. I may even get into using 3-gallon orange range buckets, if they ever invent such a thing.
 
Bat Rastard said:
1. Taking every damn thing you own to the range.


2. Getting to the range without something you need.


There's no winning.
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When you pull into the range parking lot, get out of your vehicle, yell one cuss word, then get right back in your vehicle and drive off,

...does the whole range stop what they’re doing and laugh at you as you pull out of the lot ?

Because I feel like that’s what they’re doing.
 
I cannot count the number of times I’ve forgotten a magazine for a gun…I finally got my head out of my arse and put a magazine for every gun I normally shot in the bag, that way I at least have a magazine. For the guns I don’t shoot that often, that triggers a mental bell in my head (for some reason) to get the magazines for it…hasn’t failed me yet. I also have at least one box of ammo for every caliber in the truck as well.
 
It’s rare that I forget things when I go shooting. But it has happened. The drive is only about 15 minutes. But 80% is down a rough country road that you have to go slow on. When I got to the range I realized I’d left my ammo fat home. Went back to get it. Now we’re 30 minutes on the road. Got back to the house, grabbed the ammo and headed back. That makes 45 minutes. Got to the “range” and realized I’d grabbed ammo for my 444 instead of my 45-70. Rather than spend another 30 minutes on the road, I just gave up. I figured Mr. Murphy was trying to tell me something. Best to listen before he decided to get really ugly.
 
pairof44sp said:
When you pull into the range parking lot, get out of your vehicle, yell one cuss word, then get right back in your vehicle and drive off,

...does the whole range stop what they’re doing and laugh at you as you pull out of the lot ?

Because I feel like that’s what they’re doing.
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Worse yet, getting assigned a lane at the indoor range and realizing you forgot the key to your gun case when you get in there.
 
My old Toyota Tundra is stocked with a bunch of range stuff, rests, Portable Maintenance Center, Cleaning rod and supplies, targets, spray paint for gongs, extra ear muffs, chronograph, spotting scopes and tripods. Those things stay in the back seat of the pickup. Then I have a large range bag for staple gun, staples, ammo, recoil pad, bipod, club badge, and magazines for the firearms of the day. Also have a smaller Cabelas bag for rim-fires, ammo, magazines, ear plugs, extra lightweight stapler, staples for it. Sometimes both bags go, most often one or the other. Then the cased rifles and or handguns go in their respective bags. Even with the Tundra “pre-loaded”, it sometimes takes 5 trips from the armory downstairs to the driveway to get everything loaded for the 15 mile drive to the club range. Of course, then there follows the unloading to the benches and re-packing it back to the pickup and the multiple trips once back home. It gets harder and harder to have fun, the older I get....
 
I dislike both, don't get to the range often so have to pack everything the day/night before, leaving early to get there before the range opens, it could get to be elbows to a******* at the range and crowds are not fun either. Forgot my spotting scope once and learned the hard way, didn't want to leave and go get it, I had to beg and bribe($10) the range officer to use theirs.
 
I think I'm reasonably organized. I leave a few things in my vehicle, such as my tarp, tripod and targets that I don't think would be attractive to thieves. The rest of the stuff I take to the range is in two tool boxes, one for muzzeloader and one for modern firearms. I also have ammo cans, one for each caliber gun that I own. All I have to do is grab one or both toolboxes, the appropriate ammo cans and guns I intend to shoot. I keep the spotting scope on top of the .223 ammo can since that's the only gun I need it for. I do have the chronograph in a different location as I don't use it often, but when I intend to do some chrono work I'm not likely to forget it.
 
Getting to the range without something I need is a huge disappointment.

I once went with 3 pistols but only mags for 1. Probably my most embarrassing moment. The RO says it happens all the time.

-Jeff
 
I had a theory that I would load everything I had thought I needed into my huge range bag that way I won’t be without it. Kind of like having a backpack and starting a hike, I realized I didn’t need everything! LOL

I would clean out my bag once a month, and putting stuff I never used in three or four months in another bag to be in my car. After a year, I ended up with a very small bag with only a small cleaning kit with mat, dedicated tools like screwdrivers and such, tourniquet and boo boo kit, and targets. Of course the duffle in my car is huge cause you never know! LOL

Lefty
 
Jim Watson said:
I was halfway to the range with a visitor when I realized the gate key was on my other key ring at home. Oh, well, it only cost us about 25 minutes to go back for it.
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Got to the range, 25 miles away, thru traffic. Then I realized I left all the keys to the trigger safety locks home. AFTER I paid, to get in. Grrrr.
I'd say the most annoying aspect, of public ranges, (before I got a place with a shooting berm) was the minimum 50 mile round trip, thru traffic.
 
Dibbs said:
Got to the range, 25 miles away, thru traffic. Then I realized I left all the keys to the trigger safety locks home. AFTER I paid, to get in. Grrrr.
I'd say the most annoying aspect, of public ranges, (before I got a place with a shooting berm) was the minimum 50 mile round trip, thru traffic.
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been there, done that.
 
Bat Rastard said:
1. Taking every damn thing you own to the range.


2. Getting to the range without something you need.


1. Taking everything to the range is fine, It's cleaning it afterwards it really upsets me.

2. I've gotten so used to it It doesn't even bother me anymore lol
There's no winning.
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I have stopped taking a large amount of guns to the range so I don't have a chance to forget something.
I had just gotten a gun together before & wanted to run a few rounds through it, only to find at the range I had the gun & the ammo but the mags I had totally forgotten. I had to try to sight in a gun by hand loading each round one at a time, It didn't work. I had to do it all over again the next time at the range because I found the accuracy is affected a great deal by if it is fed from a mag or one round at a time by hand.
 
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