Does Your Range Allow Plinking?
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j-easy
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mine has a specific "plinking" range, where you can shoot just about anything but explosives or glass
rodensouth
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I visit the same range as j-easy I suspect. They let you rapid fire and even full auto at the plinking area.
rbernie
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I know of no public range in the DFW metroplex area that allows shooting at anything other than paper targets or their steel. There are a few private ranges that may allow shooting at improvised targets, but I can't think of any offhand.
Z-Michigan
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Paper targets only, except I believe clay pigeons are OK on the 100 yard range. No other "plinking" of any kind permitted.
hotshotshoting
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inside my range we only allow people to shoot paper targets!
however we do shoot lots of different stuff there when im not as worried about the general public in my range!
we are an indoor range though so the bullets have to hit a specific point at a specifit angle for things to work properly!
however we do shoot lots of different stuff there when im not as worried about the general public in my range!
we are an indoor range though so the bullets have to hit a specific point at a specifit angle for things to work properly!
John E.
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I shoot on fifty acres of leased land a mile from my house.
Yeah, I plink...
Yeah, I plink...
I'm sure most "official" type ranges won't. I'm a member of a club, and the rules are "NRA approved targets only". But there's 11 small ranges that are separate from each other, and you can usually have one all to yourself all day. If you use good sense and clean up your messes, I've never had a problem.
bluetopper
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The gun club I belong to has an outdoor unsupervised range. With a membership they give you the combination to the gate. Sparsely used and spacious. They only ask that you clean up after yourself. We have great pride in the facility and treat it like it was ours.
In cool weather my buddies and I like to shoot till dark then build a fire in a barrel and BS till.....?
In cool weather my buddies and I like to shoot till dark then build a fire in a barrel and BS till.....?
bigfatdave
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Same here. The official rules don't specify anything other than glass being forbidden. I always try to leave the range better than I found it ... not everyone does, I've found disposable propane cans and aerosol cans that look like they were exciting when shot, and I've found glass so often that I keep a pair of work-gloves in the range box.
But officially, the rules are to shoot only into the backstop straight-on, not shoot glass, and not shoot at the target stand.
chris in va
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My local range is Knob Creek, if that means anything.
m_kirk2001
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I would have to find a different place to shoot because I do a lot of "plinking" at the range.
Quoheleth
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The range allows clay pidgeons/chalk discs. Dirt clods are fun and require zero clean-up. I also use highly degradable bio-targets, like crackers, candy wafers, and thin cookies and no one has said anything about it yet. Yet, being an operative word.
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hereiamnia
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When I go out my backdoor, or front door for that matter, I can shoot, plink, or blow up anything I want.
MD_Willington
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go here: http://www.idaho-images.com/Palouse_Count.htm
Yes !
Okay I'm being a butt head - I'm fortunate enough to live on the Palouse, where several of my co workers own land among the rolling hills - so plenty of natural back stops!
Yes !
Okay I'm being a butt head - I'm fortunate enough to live on the Palouse, where several of my co workers own land among the rolling hills - so plenty of natural back stops!
Carl N. Brown
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We have a formal lower range with 25, 50, 75 and 100 yard berms, pneumatic raised metallic sillhouette targets at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters, etc. No bullet impact less than 25 yards of the shelter. No birdshot, no buckshot, no .50 BMG (buried pneumatic hoses). Rifle, pistol, shotgun slug only. No plinking.
We have a informal upper range, bring your own target, plinking allowed, any range from 7 to 300 yards, only restriction is no full-auto or simulated full auto. I call it the plinking range
We have a informal upper range, bring your own target, plinking allowed, any range from 7 to 300 yards, only restriction is no full-auto or simulated full auto. I call it the plinking range
mcdonl
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We can shoot anything we want, just clean up after yourself.
I saw a great homeade target at another sight. It was one of those nets you pitch a baseball into... it had small wire hooks on the mesh for holding clay pigeons. It was very cool and you could setup several targets.
I saw a great homeade target at another sight. It was one of those nets you pitch a baseball into... it had small wire hooks on the mesh for holding clay pigeons. It was very cool and you could setup several targets.
tangomike706
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The public (free) range I frequent. Is paper only.
christcorp
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Rules? The only rules we have is to not shoot each other. Other than that, you can shoot whatever you want. Including full-auto. We do have one bay that has club provided steel targets, but they're thin, so allocated only to 22LR. But on the other bays, shoot whatever you want. Including the occasional prairie dog that runs across your path. That's about the only rule I could even possibly imagine. But for the poor shooter that has to go to an indoor range in some urban area, I can imagine having rules about what you can shoot. They probably can't handle my 30-378 or other guns I have.
SSN Vet
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No... the club I belong to does not allow shooting at any targets other than paper targets mounted on the target boards...
been that way a long time...
We recently had a guy in the condo. complex next door go to the police with a lead bullet that penetrated the tonneau cover on his pick up and was found in the truck bed.
There's some suspicion about the matter, as the folks over there are always complaining about the noise from the range and would love to shut the place down. (just guess who was there first)... But the club's officers were allowed to examine the bullet and it does appear to be a ricochet.
So they immediately shut down the pistol and rifle ranges and requested an NRA tech. consultant to come out.
Like most clubs we get our insurance via. the NRA and would immediately have to shut our doors if we couldn't get it from them. Their consultants are very conservative, but they operate in a strictly advisory capacity. Yet our club most always acts upon their advice.
We've had this kind of consulting done b4 and the changes we've made have really improved our facility.
This time around we trucked in $10,000 in screened sand (donated by the owner of the gravel pit on the other side of our property) to increase the height of the berms on the rifle range. and to cover any exposed rock.
We also going to build a "dog house" out of 6x6 timbers around the gong on the 200 yd range and build headers over each rifle range bay out of 6x6 timbers, so you can't see daylight over top of the berm on the 50 yd. range (the one closest to the condo.) We already have these headers on the pistol range and yes... some of them have bullet strikes in them
The metal pipe target stands on the pistol range are being replace by wooden frames (which will certainly have to be replaced from time to time) and the movable target frames are being eliminated.
The pistol and rifle ranges have been shut down for over a month, but the club officers realize that we will live or die as an organization based upon the "court" of public opinion.
We're going to build a separate berm on the pistol range behind the 10 yd. targets, as the pass through bullets often don't make it to the 50 yd. line berm, and strike the ground... which makes for an unpredictable ricochet.... especially in the winter when things freeze up.
Fortunately the shotgun range has been keeping the noise level up, so the neighbors don't get to used to too much quite.
The local paper carried a story about the "incident" (that just happen to be written by a club member ) that painted the club as being a very responsible and conscientious neighbor.
This may sound like an anal response, but I would suggest it is the best way to ensure we can continue to enjoy our use of the property.
Rifle range should be opened back up next week
Still a ways to go on the pistol range.
All this is the result of sparwl... this area used to be in the middle of no where, inbetween two small towns.
been that way a long time...
We recently had a guy in the condo. complex next door go to the police with a lead bullet that penetrated the tonneau cover on his pick up and was found in the truck bed.
There's some suspicion about the matter, as the folks over there are always complaining about the noise from the range and would love to shut the place down. (just guess who was there first)... But the club's officers were allowed to examine the bullet and it does appear to be a ricochet.
So they immediately shut down the pistol and rifle ranges and requested an NRA tech. consultant to come out.
Like most clubs we get our insurance via. the NRA and would immediately have to shut our doors if we couldn't get it from them. Their consultants are very conservative, but they operate in a strictly advisory capacity. Yet our club most always acts upon their advice.
We've had this kind of consulting done b4 and the changes we've made have really improved our facility.
This time around we trucked in $10,000 in screened sand (donated by the owner of the gravel pit on the other side of our property) to increase the height of the berms on the rifle range. and to cover any exposed rock.
We also going to build a "dog house" out of 6x6 timbers around the gong on the 200 yd range and build headers over each rifle range bay out of 6x6 timbers, so you can't see daylight over top of the berm on the 50 yd. range (the one closest to the condo.) We already have these headers on the pistol range and yes... some of them have bullet strikes in them
The metal pipe target stands on the pistol range are being replace by wooden frames (which will certainly have to be replaced from time to time) and the movable target frames are being eliminated.
The pistol and rifle ranges have been shut down for over a month, but the club officers realize that we will live or die as an organization based upon the "court" of public opinion.
We're going to build a separate berm on the pistol range behind the 10 yd. targets, as the pass through bullets often don't make it to the 50 yd. line berm, and strike the ground... which makes for an unpredictable ricochet.... especially in the winter when things freeze up.
Fortunately the shotgun range has been keeping the noise level up, so the neighbors don't get to used to too much quite.
The local paper carried a story about the "incident" (that just happen to be written by a club member
) that painted the club as being a very responsible and conscientious neighbor.This may sound like an anal response, but I would suggest it is the best way to ensure we can continue to enjoy our use of the property.
Rifle range should be opened back up next week
Still a ways to go on the pistol range.
All this is the result of sparwl... this area used to be in the middle of no where, inbetween two small towns.
effengee
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the ranges I shoot at...
One, my backyard... I shoot at cans and plastic containers with the occasional paper for specific sighting jobs.
Two, the old sand pit down the road, carry in, carry out, no glass.
God, I love vermont!
One, my backyard... I shoot at cans and plastic containers with the occasional paper for specific sighting jobs.
Two, the old sand pit down the road, carry in, carry out, no glass.
God, I love vermont!
jackstinson
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SURE.....as long as you are plinking at paper targets.
They just got tired of everyone putting old TV's and appliances downrange to blast apart, then leaving all the pieces scattered about the range. Can't say I blame them at all for the "paper targets only" rule.
I have to admit, I miss going to the dump at the abandoned strip mine and blasting cans, rats, and assorted garbage there. But that was a "dump" to begin with.
These days, I head for an unused hunting area with a .22 to plink at fallen limbs, dirt clods, fallen apples, anything laying around.
They just got tired of everyone putting old TV's and appliances downrange to blast apart, then leaving all the pieces scattered about the range. Can't say I blame them at all for the "paper targets only" rule.
I have to admit, I miss going to the dump at the abandoned strip mine and blasting cans, rats, and assorted garbage there. But that was a "dump" to begin with.
These days, I head for an unused hunting area with a .22 to plink at fallen limbs, dirt clods, fallen apples, anything laying around.
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