Is it me or do others share my feelings

[scrat]

My shooting started off when i was 9. We used to shoot out at my Uncles house in the high desert. When shooting was legal. So the lesson started off early to clean up after yourself and respect the land your shooting on. Last thing my uncle wanted to see was a stockpile of spent shells in his back yard. So it just got habit forming then It go to fact that we just started shooting steel plates or at paper targets.

 

[SoCalShooter]

I gave a stern talking to on friday when I was range officer about someone servicing my target stands with their rifles.These were members to and I had to help them appreciate the fact that if they do not take care of teh target stands that the club will have to purchase more and that could cause the club memberships to go up.

 

[owlhoot]

I shoot at several club ranges, and at any one of them, if a shooter left garbage on the range, he would be asked for his range key. It is not required to pick up brass because the reloaders are glad to have it, but it is required to pick up shotgun hulls. I'm an old phart and have been shooting for many, many years, and I can't recall ever seeing a mess on a public or private range. Of course, way back when, folks could shoot at the garbage dumps, so it didn't matter about the mess. It was already there.

 

[S&Wfan]

I went to a public range recently out in the country, at a WMA. I'd quit going about 12 years ago and joined a private gun club due to idiots shooting up any and everything people would build to make the range a decent place to shoot. It was always nasty/dirty too.

It's just a 100 yd. range and I will NOT go to the line there if there are other shooters already there.

Why? They are mostly just yahoos lacking any training in gun etiquette and range safety. They also don't bring their own target stands . . . though once a couple of guys showed up as I was leaving and said, "Wow, you must be a professional," when they saw me removing my stand.

When I went recently, I was stunned to see that some yahoo had taken the CHAIRS that had been provided to shoot behind the benches and used them to prop their targets on! They'd shot the backs out!


THE ONLY POSITIVE POINT . . . those yahoos never pick up their brand new brass! I needed several hundred once-fired .45ACP brass . . . and I was not disappointed!

T.

 

[S&Wfan]

I went to a public range recently out in the country, at a WMA. I'd quit going about 12 years ago and joined a private gun club due to idiots shooting up any and everything people would build to make the range a decent place to shoot. It was always nasty/dirty too.

It's just a 100 yd. range and I will NOT go to the line there if there are other shooters already there.

Why? They are mostly just yahoos lacking any training in gun etiquette and range safety. They also don't bring their own target stands . . . though once a couple of guys showed up as I was leaving and said, "Wow, you must be a professional!" He looked QUITE impressed.

When I went recently, I was stunned to see that some yahoo had taken the CHAIRS that the WMA provided so people could sit and shoot from the benches . . . and used the chairs to prop their targets on! They'd shot the backs out!


THE ONLY POSITIVE POINT OF GOING RECENTLY . . . those yahoos never pick up their brand new brass! I needed several hundred once-fired .45ACP brass . . . and I was not disappointed!

T.

 

[Hardware]

S&W Fan,
The same folks must have relatives in Maryland. I occasionally will shoot at Elk Neck state park. The range rules state you have to bring your own target stand. I use one made of PVC, with unglued joints. Twist the tubes out of the connectors and you can break it all down to a collection of tubes which bungees together in a easy to carry bundle.

Anyhow, a collection of 5 yahoos two lanes over from me was shooting at a silhouette target hung from a string tacked to an overhead support. Their target was swinging and flipping in the breeze at about 25 yards while they were banging away with one AR. One shooting, 4 loading and playing graba$$.

I'm function checking my Garand after some work I'd done on it and my target stand is at the 100 yard mark. Prior to them showing we'd had a cold range call every few minutes to police up brass and swap targets. These folks ignored calls for a cold range and kept banging away. By the time we got the shooting stopped tempers were frayed. Anyhow, they failed to hit their target once. They did manage to hit my new target stand though. Packed up talking about how something was wrong with their weapon. Left a couple hundred empties behind. I consider it just compensation for a couple of dollars in wasted pipe and time.

 

[PavePusher]

theotherwaldo wrote:
"I'm about to take a stack of Harry Belafonte records to the range. When they're suitably perforated they'll go in the dumpster, of course."


If they're playable, they may be worth some money (hey, ammo don't grow on trees). Check before yu shoot 'em.

 

[ColinthePilot]

The range I shoot at is aesthetically crappy. There's shells, brass, and the occasional ammo box everywhere except the trash. I rarely pick up my brass because I've never been accustomed to it. I always pick up my target materials, or whats left of them. I like shooting apples, so no clean up required. I shoot ammo boxes then throw them out. I pick up what I can find after my Mosin is done with a shaken coke can, but there usually isn't much left. I always take down my targets and dispose of them. If you count the ammo boxes i pick up, shoot, then throw out, I leave the range better than I found it.
And I may be young, and I only got really into shooting in the last few years, but shooting stuff that isn't paper or steel is fun, I'll keep doing it and cleaning it up.

 

[Sunray]

"...A private range that doesn't clean up? What are your dues for?..." Your mama a member? Dues/membership fees aren't to pay for cleaning up your mess. They're for target holders, cutting the grass, clearing the snow(where there is snow), etc, etc.

 

[qajaq59]

I went to a public range recently out in the country, at a WMA. I'd quit going about 12 years ago and joined a private gun club due to idiots shooting up any and everything people would build to make the range a decent place to shoot. It was always nasty/dirty too.

Here the situation was just the opposite. When we moved here a neighbor took me to his private club but it was so unkempt that I didn't join. I figured it the grounds were that sloppy then it was likely the shooters were as well. I go to the county range where the is always ROs to keep it clean and safe. It costs me a bit more, but it's worth every dime.

 

[Kentak]

I think it would be a hoot, if it were legal, to be able to plink at a landfill where there would all kinds of junk, from bottles to old TV's, to shoot at. Being a landfill, no need to clean up.

When I was a kid we would plink (22LR rifle) at a rural trash dump in the woods where we vacationed. Unfortunately, the dump also drew bears, so we had to skedaddle when one showed up.

K