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Here in Orlando, several ranges allow double or triple taps while several others either don't allow rapid fire or, will allow it if permission is given ahead of time. 
Does your Gun Range allow double taps?
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My rifle club has one rule: all shots must be aimed and impact the berm (zero tolerance, infractions can cost you your membership).
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Does your Gun Range allow double taps?
Yep. In fact, in a recent outing I spent a crapload of time working on them. But on other matters...
What the written range rules say they allow, and what the range master actually allows, are two different things. Though the range has no rules against double taps or rapid fire (with handguns), there are specific prohibitions against drawing from holsters or firing from other than line of sight. Heck, there's even a rule about checking with the Range Officer in the event of a mechanical malfunction. Nonetheless...
I spoke to the range master and explained what I wanted to do and why, and he said he had no problem with it. Thus I always work from the holster, with a cover garment, practice basic movement, practice double taps, rapid fire, reloads, malfunction drills. The latter is, curiously enough, addressed in the range rules with this language:
Much like the prohibitions against drawing from holsters, and firing only from line of sight, I suspect this one exists because too many folks who don't know what they're doing would try to figure it out with live ammo. (Which may explain the bullet holes in the ceiling.)
The much newer and closer range, though, the one that just opened up in town early this year, seems much more uptight about such things. I spoke with the range officer there about their rules and the language making exceptions for those under range officer supervision. He kinda hemmed and hawed around the issue of working from the holster, but seemed pliable to the idea of making exceptions to the rules for individual shooters when no one else was on the range (or maybe when he was not within earshot of his boss?).
This was very important to me, too -- well, drawing from a concealed holster, as opposed to firing from one -- which is why I asked about it at my favored range, in fact, the very range where I'd acquired my concealed carry license. I was happy to hear I was good to go on that score.
The fellows running that range seem to keep a close eye out for unsafe action. If the shooters are safe, they don't' get too hyped up about the rules. I suspect the rules, then, give them a legal out in the event of problems.
The new range, well, time will tell. But unless or until they loosen up, I'm inclined to drive half an hour to the more distant and less restrictive one than the closer one that's only five minutes away.
Yep. In fact, in a recent outing I spent a crapload of time working on them. But on other matters...
What the written range rules say they allow, and what the range master actually allows, are two different things. Though the range has no rules against double taps or rapid fire (with handguns), there are specific prohibitions against drawing from holsters or firing from other than line of sight. Heck, there's even a rule about checking with the Range Officer in the event of a mechanical malfunction. Nonetheless...
I spoke to the range master and explained what I wanted to do and why, and he said he had no problem with it. Thus I always work from the holster, with a cover garment, practice basic movement, practice double taps, rapid fire, reloads, malfunction drills. The latter is, curiously enough, addressed in the range rules with this language:
Much like the prohibitions against drawing from holsters, and firing only from line of sight, I suspect this one exists because too many folks who don't know what they're doing would try to figure it out with live ammo. (Which may explain the bullet holes in the ceiling.)
The much newer and closer range, though, the one that just opened up in town early this year, seems much more uptight about such things. I spoke with the range officer there about their rules and the language making exceptions for those under range officer supervision. He kinda hemmed and hawed around the issue of working from the holster, but seemed pliable to the idea of making exceptions to the rules for individual shooters when no one else was on the range (or maybe when he was not within earshot of his boss?).
This was very important to me, too -- well, drawing from a concealed holster, as opposed to firing from one
-- which is why I asked about it at my favored range, in fact, the very range where I'd acquired my concealed carry license. I was happy to hear I was good to go on that score.The fellows running that range seem to keep a close eye out for unsafe action. If the shooters are safe, they don't' get too hyped up about the rules. I suspect the rules, then, give them a legal out in the event of problems.
The new range, well, time will tell. But unless or until they loosen up, I'm inclined to drive half an hour to the more distant and less restrictive one than the closer one that's only five minutes away.
RETG
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They require it
Ingsoc75
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Missouri Department of Conservation public manned ranges - strict
Missouri Department of Conservation public unmanned ranges - fun
Missouri Department of Conservation public unmanned ranges - fun
carbuncle
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No problems with double taps at the indoor range I frequent, I think sketchy rapid fire would probably get some heat though.
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