Does your gun club allow booze?

Does your gun club allow booze?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 73 20.4%
  • No.

    Votes: 197 55.2%
  • I don't know.

    Votes: 9 2.5%
  • Not a member of a gun club/range.

    Votes: 62 17.4%
  • (burp) Huh?

    Votes: 16 4.5%

  • Total voters
    357
  • Poll closed .
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Our club allows adult beverages, but only at the clubhouse, and only AFTER shooting! It is explicitly stated in the range rules, and in the initial orientation that if you drink a drop, you are done shooting for the day.

So, technically, yes the club allows booze, but only as a part of the non-shooting social aspects of the club.
 
I have been to one sporting clays club which did allow it when you were through with your rounds for the day. First time I went, I did not know this. Second time My buddy and I took a couple with us for when were done. Lucky for us it was a beautiful Montana summer day, and with the Mission Mountains in the distance, the Shotguns LOCKED IN THE TRUCK, yes, we did have a beer. We earned it.

My local club, however, does not. I don't think I would shoot with or shoot around booze.
 
We have a bar in the clubhouse, stocked with all sorts of ales, ciders and beers. Members shoot first, drink after. The danger isn't drinking and shooting, if anything it is drinking and then driving home from the range!
 
My gun club has really only one rule - be safe. There are no rules against headshots or rapid fire. No ammo restrictions except no tracers, and that's only because of the risk of igniting the dense woods surrounding the range.
Alcohol is forbidden on the firing line, but one or twice in the three years I've been going there, I've only seen someone take a little nip of something was on a bitterly cold day after the guns were all put away.
With so few rules and a relaxed attitude about drinking you'd think there would be a patchwork of ancient spatters of dried blood, but the place has been free of gunshot injuries since it opened around the time of the Great Depression.
And this is a range that's all of about 20-30 mins from NYC! :)
 
My at my large-ish local club range, its not forbidden. If you're not shooting, of course. Membership is also required to shoot, its gated, off the beaten trail, ....

I've yet to see anyone drink there, though. Not much reason to. Perhaps if you're RV camping overnight for a match, you'd have a beer...
 
As long as you are done shooting and your gun is put up - if you want to have a beer after and sit around solving all the world's problems, no biggie - just not before or during shooting
 
My club dose allow it, but I have never seen any one drinking on the club grounds. Are bylaws state that if any alchohal is being consumed all ranges are closed!
 
My rifle range has no RSO and no rules concerning alcohol but safety is paramount and I've never seen or heard of anyone drinking there.
However, if a guy had a beer after putting away his guns on a hot summer evening, I don't think it would be a big deal.

The assumption is that members know how to act responsibly on their own, and they appear to do that.

Tinpig
 
Sergei Mosin said:
I like beer. I like guns. But not in combination.

Exactly. I love gin & tonic (with a twist) but never with guns. Ever.
 
I am drinking a beer right now. I consider a perfect saturday going to shoot with buds and then heading to the pub to watch some football and bs about our targets. IN THAT ORDER!
 
Some common sense goes a long way.

Both clubs I'm in have big meets where the booze shows up around mid afternoon and through the evening. It's well known and well announced that ONE SIP and you're done for the day.

Fourtunetly everyone understands this. And those that don't will soon have the riot act read to them if they try shooting after even one swallow of beer, wine or mixed hard drink.
 
The posts all say we don't allow alcohol. But the poll says we do. Someone is lying. Actually, more than one is lying. Or, many vote but then run away. Hmmmmm.
 
I dont belong to a club, but when I'm shooting with my buddies, the guns get cleaned and put away before the beer starts flowing.
 
The local trap club serves wine and beer. The only rule they have is no booze out on the fields. It's a public range/private club near a large city. As far as I know there have not been any problems. The culture has changed over the years, I never thought twice about having a hamburger and a beer then shooting a round of skeet. There is a difference between having a beer and having a six pack. Oh, by the way the drafts were about 10 ounces, just right with some food.
 
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