FMJ ammo ban on your range?

[Rmart30]

The local range here (the only one in the county) doesn't have a FMJ ban, but they did recently enact a ban against any ammo not purchased from them. Been real quiet in there since.

Sounds like someone needs to find a few acres somewhere and open another one

 

[O C]

All ranges have different sisuations to deal with. We had to re-position owr range because a neighbor (over 1 mile away) came by and asked someone to come with him. When we got to his house we found a bullet lodged in the siding of his detached garage. It was a FMJ 7.62. He wasn't real mad, but wanted us to be aware. His kids play ground set was nearby. Our range was here first, but encroachment has us running scared. We can't afford to let a bullet get away, because if an anti gets hit, it would be the end of the range.

 

[yesit'sloaded]

We have a steel core and tracer ban. Mostly because some dumbA set the range on fire with a tracer a year or so back and retards were tearing up the gongs with steel core.

 

[KI.W.]

No bans. Can also use tracers.

 

[Kharn]

My indoor range requires JHP, TMJ or any other closed-base bullet design for handguns to reduce airborne lead, frangible for rifle.

Kharn

 

[Professor Gun]

I had an error in my original post-the berms are not 20 feet high but substantially less than that. The berm at the 100 yard target frame was reported to be 4 1/2 feet high and the ground surface between the 100 and 200 yard targets slopes upward slightly. After hearing this report last night, I would be concerned about ricochets beyond the range, but it seems to me that any bullet type has the potential to ricochet; if the bullet strikes ground surfaces at a shallow angle I think the physics of this dictate that it very well may ricochet, even hollow points as the strike is on the side of the bullet and not at the deformable hollow point. After hearing this report last night, I think that perhaps the rifle range needs to be closed until the situation is corrected. It doesn't make any sense to me to ban FMJ ammo, allow shooting of all other types of bullets and think that the ricochet issue is solved.

Am I missing something here? I would like to hear opinions from those of you with experience in ballistics or experiences with ricochet problems at outdoor ranges.

 

[38 Super Auto]

My range will not let you use lead because it's an indoor range and they have somewhat poor ventilation. FMJ is actually encouraged.

What about the lead styphnate in the primer compound? This is the primary source of lead vapor?

Unless you are using a different technology for priming compound, there is lead vapor being produced, regardless if you are using cast, FMJ, or TMJs.

 

[RP88]

I shoot at a 30-yd indoor range. Rules are that anything from a rifle bigger than .223/5.56 must be SP or HP. Shotgun shells also cannot be plated or steel shot, and no slugs.

 

[glockman19]

It is a rule at one of my outdoor ranges. They only enforce it on steel targets. If you're shooting paper it's ok.

 

[gtmerkley]

My range is my back yard.