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CQB45ACP said:
This is why in my post about public v. private ranges I mentioned that each category had different types within the category.

I only shoot at public ranges because that’s all I have access to. But, I would never shoot at THAT TYPE of public range unless I was the only member of the public shooting. “My” public ranges are in fact privately owned businesses open to the qualifying public at a price. We call those public around here. Some may call them private.

Nor would I shoot at a friend’s private range unless a range officer was also present or I was alone.
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It could be just how we call things. You say "friend's private range" I think of my home range. A roughly 100 yard field with a berm built up into the side of a pond. The "range" and "backstop" are (I think) quite nice. I have made range distance signs on my 3D printer, I have RR ties for backing, dirt in front, and it is roughly 10-12' tall and in the shape of a U with you shooting into the open end of the U. The people that come here are by my invite only. No one will be there unless I know about it, and if they are I will know as the gunfire is close, I can tell the difference between shooting at my area and others area around me. I don't think any of the people I have had come out have felt unsafe with just the two or however many of us there. There are times when I do play RO, I have corrected bad gun handling before, and if there is more then just two people aside from me I generally shoot very little, as I keep my eye on people, new gun people get watched very close, you can correct without being "mean". For some reason women love to come out, my wife says I am a great teacher to everyone but her. Women eh.

There are a few "thing" I do when I am back there shooting alone. If a bolt gun I will pull the bolt if I go down range. If an automatic I will lock up the ammo, but that is about it.
 
Remington1911 said:
It could be just how we call things. You say "friend's private range" I think of my home range. A roughly 100 yard field with a berm built up into the side of a pond. The "range" and "backstop" are (I think) quite nice. I have made range distance signs on my 3D printer, I have RR ties for backing, dirt in front, and it is roughly 10-12' tall and in the shape of a U with you shooting into the open end of the U. The people that come here are by my invite only. No one will be there unless I know about it, and if they are I will know as the gunfire is close, I can tell the difference between shooting at my area and others area around me. I don't think any of the people I have had come out have felt unsafe with just the two or however many of us there. There are times when I do play RO, I have corrected bad gun handling before, and if there is more then just two people aside from me I generally shoot very little, as I keep my eye on people, new gun people get watched very close, you can correct without being "mean". For some reason women love to come out, my wife says I am a great teacher to everyone but her. Women eh.

There are a few "thing" I do when I am back there shooting alone. If a bolt gun I will pull the bolt if I go down range. If an automatic I will lock up the ammo, but that is about it.
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Home range has a nice ring to it:)

My neighbors 300 ft behind me would take a dim view however—as would the authorities
 
An urban dweller, I am limited to club and commercial ranges. A retiree, I can shoot in off hours and not get frightened very often.

A friend has some acreage and has set up an indoor-outdoor range. That is, you can shoot from inside his multi-purpose metal building at targets in and across the pasture. Very nice for rifle practice, he has mounds and gongs at the metallic silhouette ranges, 200-500 meters, and a 600 yard plate. We gave up on chasing the cattle away, depending on trajectory to clear the herd sometimes. So far, so good, no hamburger.
 
Jim Watson said:
An urban dweller, I am limited to club and commercial ranges. A retiree, I can shoot in off hours and not get frightened very often.

A friend has some acreage and has set up an indoor-outdoor range. That is, you can shoot from inside his multi-purpose metal building at targets in and across the pasture. Very nice for rifle practice, he has mounds and gongs at the metallic silhouette ranges, 200-500 meters, and a 600 yard plate. We gave up on chasing the cattle away, depending on trajectory to clear the herd sometimes. So far, so good, no hamburger.
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I just have the wrong friends. I do like a good burger, but not that much.
 
CQB45ACP said:
I only shoot at ranges which are supervised by a qualified...

...As I wrote this it occurred to me I’m only comfortable at ranges with ballistic materials between lanes and with a range officer on duty.
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Meanwhile, on the ceiling at a public range that actually has RSOs in 'Murica...
 
My buddy's range is on 8 acres bordering 90 acres of state game lands.

We took 2 years building a "running and shooting" course.

If you put only 1 round on each target it was 39 rounds.

We had spring loaded targets that would "pop up" to reveal another silllouette target that one of us would randomly mark on our way back out of the course for the next guy as "shoot or no shoot" with previously agreed up colors of tape.

We made a target that would release and roll down a cable only when you shot a target that tripped a release.

The whole course was 100- 150 yards long of running with the furthest target about 30 yards.

It really opened my mind to "running"/moving and shooting as opposed to just standing in front of a static target stand.

Never been in a defensive shooting but I highly doubt the bad guy is just going to stand there and never move or present a situation where you never have to move.
 
Y-T71 said:
My buddy's range is on 8 acres bordering 90 acres of state game lands.

We took 2 years building a "running and shooting" course.

If you put only 1 round on each target it was 39 rounds.

We had spring loaded targets that would "pop up" to reveal another silllouette target that one of us would randomly mark on our way back out of the course for the next guy as "shoot or no shoot" with previously agreed up colors of tape.

We made a target that would release and roll down a cable only when you shot a target that tripped a release.

The whole course was 100- 150 yards long of running with the furthest target about 30 yards.

It really opened my mind to "running"/moving and shooting as opposed to just standing in front of a static target stand.

Never been in a defensive shooting but I highly doubt the bad guy is just going to stand there and never move or present a situation where you never have to move.
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Nor are bad guys made of paper.

That’s quite a drill. I shot the old Hogan’s Alley and it wasn’t any more sophisticated.
 
I have lost count of the cartridges I received from someone else as reloads, and pulled the bullets from and dumped the powder, cause I was unfamiliar with that person or his reloads.
Only person I would ever have accepted reloads from other than myself was my deceased brother who was 2 years younger than me, but had been reloading sense he was 13. A lot more years
than me. I started reloading in he mid seventies, he started in the early sixties. And like me never had an accident or mixing cartridges, and he told me long ago not to accept reloads from someonyou did not know. He and my other brother who was 6 years younger than me, started reloading with the old Lee Loader no press and had good luck and learnt alot
 
I am like you I will walk someone thru reloading, but not sell my reloads. But I will give them a list and walk them thru the process, I have an old RCBS rock chucker single stage press, a Lee turret press, and a new
Hornady lock n load progressive press.
I also have two Lee PRO 1000 S I no longer use, and one want them?
 
Many years ago I destroyed a Ruger SS DA 357 with a 4" barrel. I had loaded probably 1,200 125 gr JHPs I believe over WW630 powder. I really don't remember the powder for sure but I do think it was 630. I had shot that load for a number of years and never had any problems. I weighed every charge back then so I really don't think it was a double charge. The temperature was at -5*F and I had been outside for at least 2 hours. The cylinder split on the chamber of the round that blew up and swung open. I suffered no physical injury, but it sure did ruin that pistol. Apparently, that powder had an issue with really cold temps as I read in an article several months later. Took forever to get the flinch corrected that I developed.
 
My father discouraged me from reloading because of a tragedy that happened to a friend of his in the 1930's. Of course, the friend was reloading after dark using a campfire for illumination.

I took up reloading anyway because it was the only way for a 17-year-old (who was not living at home) to obtain .30 Carbine ammunition.

Initially, I was pretty cavalier with my procedures, but once my father (who holds a doctorate in management) realized I was not going to give up, He invested the time to make me formalize my reloading procedures and record-keeping. In time he gained enough confidence in my product that he started using them exclusively, but He and, later, my wife and two sons (who learned reloading from me) are the only people to shoot my reloads.

When I was a teenager/early-twenties, I had a friend who reloaded with me and we both followed the same procedures and record-keeping. We have since lost touch, but if he was still following the same procedures and keeping the same records, I would shoot his reloads.

While I would never shoot reloads from an unknown seller, I think there can be room for using reloads from friends & family provided they follow good reloading procedures. Of course, if Uncle Bob is known to push the limits, I would give his work a pass.
 
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