DFW Group Shoot - 01.29.06

[Raguleader]

Wife say's, "Baby formula beats .357 mag ammo, so no! You can't go."

Hope we cross paths in the future.

Load your .357 rounds with Baby Formula.

Some punk pulls a gun on you, you can take him out with six rounds of creamed corn!

So, out of curiosity, does anybody ever do any get-togethers closer to College Station?

 

[orangeninja]

How's about a get together on a day OTHER than Sunday? Hmmm???

Talk about pagan.

Oh...and Techbrute...I broke down and bought a 1911. A Kimber. The shame of it all. Oh yeah, I'm getting an AR too....but don't worry, it's gonna be one you DON'T like....cause I'm cheap.

BTW...are shotguns allowed at your range or are MAN weapons feared?

 

[RRTX]

How's about a get together on a day OTHER than Sunday? Hmmm???

Talk about pagan.

Oh...and Techbrute...I broke down and bought a 1911. A Kimber. The shame of it all. Oh yeah, I'm getting an AR too....but don't worry, it's gonna be one you DON'T like....cause I'm cheap.

BTW...are shotguns allowed at your range or are MAN weapons feared?

Whoa a 1911 and an AR?? Are you feeling ok? lol

 

[aguyindallas]

Big talk for someone who won't be there, Mr "I have to work on Sundays."

Hey now......thats almost aimed at me too...

 

[orangeninja]

Whoa a 1911 and an AR?? Are you feeling ok? lol

Well heck...you bought a belt. I bought a 1911, things change.

 

[fisherman66]

Gibson's...well, all righty then!

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My one visit there was characterised by a fairly unpleasant older lady at the desk. Yes, I could see how you could maybe make some of the responses--I did not experience them but I'll take your word for it. As I say, one visit, and it's a ways down the road, so no great loss.

But...this other place is much farther. Any hope I have of meeting felow THR'ers diminishes proportional to the distance travelled. If you are riflemen, the maybe Elm Fork or Backwoods Traps? If you are pistoleros, how about Bass Pro in Grapevine or DFW Gun Range off Mockingbird?

BTW, anyone make it to the Denton Gun Show today? Not a bad place to spend a rainy Saturday morning, but probably more crowded than any Gun Show in recent memory...

I've found that same woman also highly unpleasant. After my year membership was up I never looked back. I am now going to the Garland Range. Unlike Gibson's they have a shotgun/clay throwing area. Also unlike Gibson's they have been very accomodating. Membership is lifetime too (as I understand it.)

So buy some .38spl and you can still afford the formula

It's really not all that much cheaper. I need to reload or buy a 9mm (or both). Plus; I really like the bigger boom of the mag. I have a 22lr and love it, but I like to mix things up with a little bigger sectional diameter.

Really, the baby is on the way and things are tight. No formula needed right now, but as a consultant I only get paid when I work. January is always slow. Next month's schedule looks better and I might have a new toy to bring along.

 

[TechBrute]

The reason we really like to congregate at TDSA, regardless of the distance is because:

1) No range nazis. Heck, most of the time there's not even range personnel on hand. You want to work hoster, work holster.
2) No stupid rules on hardware. Class 3, shotguns, and any other legal firearms are allowed. The range owner will qualify you on the rifle range and with class 3, but it's purely administrative.
3) No stupid rules just to be PC. Shooting at pictures of Osama is not only allowed, but possibly encouraged.
4) Low cost. At $150 a year with no visit fee, it's cheaper than most other ranges around. This allows more ammo purchases.
5) See number 1 and 2 again.

With other ranges, you have to cherry pick them based on what you want to shoot.

1) Gibsons has bad attitude and will hassle you about SBRs and BARs.
2) Elm Fork is anti everything except hunting rifles.
3) Indoor ranges aren't great for rifles.
4) There are nearly no ranges that allow you to just shoot shotgun.
5) Alpine sucks. I'll spare you another rant on them.

 

[HighVelocity]

I had fun today, despite the mud. It was good to meet some new faces as well as seeing the regs.
With better weather coming, we should do this more often.

 

[TexasRifleman]

A bit sloppy early on yes.

I did learn an interesting by product of mud. When your shoes are caked with it and you walk over your brass, the empties follows you home on your shoes......

Nice to meet the new folks, hope we can continue to have turnouts like this.

Very nice day.

Between my 10 year old and myself we went through close to 600 rounds of .22, '06, 7.5 Swiss, 10mm and 5.56.....

Time for him to learn to use the Dillon......

 

[orionengnr]

$150 a year? would be great

if I didn't have to drive 150 miles round trip.

And I'd have to do it twice per month to make it a break-even...
if gas were free, and my time were worth nothing.

Haven't actually shot at Elm Fork, but the one day we stopped by at lunch time, there was a USMC dude on leave from Iraq, firing an AR-15. No-one there had an attitude about that...as a matter of fact the RO was hanging out with him, and me (USN retired) and my bud (former US Army) went over and shot the breeze with both of them for a while. Just one day, one snapshot in time, but that was my experience.