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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Im a member at 2 clubs and neither one of those allows booze while or before shooting. They don't mind if you have a couple beers after you shoot. Another club I frequent (I'm not a member) every Sunday for a trap league has a very nice bar. When people ask me how the club is, my respeonse is:
"It's a drinking club with a shooting problem".
 
Reading these replies makes me wonder how many of you have been out hunting and drinking at the same time. For that matter, when a new person or people are introduced to the hunt(i.e. you have no clue how they handle booze), do you insist that they not drink while your regular buddies down a few?

I know there is a difference between total strangers drinking at a range/club, but the principle is still the same.
 
The Racquetball/gym I belong to serves alcohol and the gun club I belong to allows alcohol on the premises although only serves it after big events.

Going shooting is no different than going to the gym. You don't drink before you go, just afterwards if you want. We are all adults right?
 
My club does not allow alcohol on the firing lines. You cannot drink before or while shooting. After is your own choice or away from the firing lines.
 
I own my club and there is no drinking and shooting. You come and shoot by invite only. All the guys and their wives know tHe rules. One time one of the guys brought a friend with him after he ask permission. When the guy got here he got out of his truck with a beer. Every one put there guns up they knew the shooting was over.. The guy that invited him ask him to leave i did't have to say anything . have a nice day.
 
I have never heard or even thought of a gun club allowing alcohol on the premises. Even with a bar or lounge area separated from the firing range, it would be a liability nightmare.
 
The club I belong to has a bar and offers a very limited menu on certain nights, but if your planning on using any of the ranges than no drinking period. I joined for the ranges/shooting but about 1/2 of the club membership is just there to drink.
 
No alcohol allowed on the range at any time, with one exception. The monthly meetings have a BBQ and beer/wine but range closes to all before meeting starts. It's the way it should be.

All three of my kids are of drinking age. When we first started going out to shoot on BLM land I indicated no alcohol, not to even bring it along for after we were done. We would have a beer at home after everything is put away. My kids didn't have to be told that, but mentioning it in the manner that I did, made sure we were all on the same wavelength.

Dan
 
My club allows alcohol in the clubhouse, after you are done shooting for the day. We consider our members to be adults.

Mixing up the aforementioned order of operations will make your somewhat expensive membership go bye-bye.
 
I no longer drink, but when I did it was a) an adventure and b) something I did when I did not have anything else to do.

I could not imagine needing/wanting to drink while at the range. But, our club does not allow it and no one goes and "hangs out" at the club unless it is a meeting, we go there to shoot, archery or fish....
 
Our range has no clubhouse, no rules, (other than no explosives), and no RSO or any other type of monitoring personnel. I haven't yet seen anyone drinking on the range, but I know it happens, according to the cleanup guys who take out the trash every morning.
I cannot imagine going out to shoot after I've had a few, any more than I would drive after having a few. I made this poster up a few years ago, and though some hate it, I still post it.

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Now, to address the OTHER side of the story, if you can firmly control on your range that anyone drinking or has been drinking is verboten, then have a club like a golf course, individuals are on the hook for what they do when they leave. Just poor practice to allow it on the line, ever.
 
Only after the shooting is done and the guns are stowed.

I had enough of the booze+guns equation when I was a teenager... and consider myself lucky that all I have to show for it (positive or negative) are a few "boy were we lucky" stories.
 
I don't belong to a club.

I have a range set up in the back 8 at a friends farm.

The only time I recall mixing shooting and booze was when a friend brought a case of skunked Keystone light he left in his trunk for a while, we had 24 reactive targets we shot with all different kinds of rounds.

Fun.
 
I'm a member of 8 different clubs. 7 of the 8 ban alcohol from even being on the property. The 8th doesn't allow it when the range is open, but does imbibe in the clubhouse during the "off hours". I don't like being aroound the drunks, so I don't go for the social times... I would drop my membership entirely, but they have a great pheasant and trout stocking program that keeps me coming back.
 
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