max # of shooters per lane?

[JTHunter]

Having two people per lane doesn't seem to be a problem to me as long as only one is actually shooting.
After all, how else can a parent or friend teach a new shooter?

 

[Sheepdog1968]

One to two feet is not acceptable. Ask them nicely to back up, if they don't see the rangemaster, if that doesn't work pack up and go.

My thoughts as well. Where possible, I also try to get the lane all the way at the end. That seems to minimize these kinds of things.

 

[Evil-Twin]

At my gun club, you own the lane until you decide to leave... at each range ( we have ten ranges.. all specific to a certain discipline. there is a yellow line painted on the floor ( the safety line ) only the shooter is allowed forward of the yellow line... and when the range is in safe mode, no one is allowed forward of the yellow line until the RO calls the lane hot, turns off the red flashing light and raises the red flag.

here is one of our ranges, Note the yellow safety line... there are red flashing lights when the line is safe and people are down range... there is also a red flag which is dropped to eye level when the range is safe, and then hoisted to ceiling when the range is hot.. Our club has been in existence since 1939, and have never had a serious injury, we have 5,000 active members.

 

[climbnjump]

If I feel crowded I get out the S&W 460 magnum and touch off a few rounds.

The indoor range I frequent doesn't allow 460s in the pistol bay, only the rifle bay. However, although significantly smaller than a 460, I do have a .41 Mag with a ported 5" barrel that does also seem to have a similar effect.

Back on topic, that range does allow up to 3 shooters per lane, but there is enough space to accommodate that w/o crowding - works well.

 

[DHJenkins]

Every range with lanes I've been to is one person per lane. Every person pays, everyone who pays gets a lane & if you're not shooting, you aren't on the firing line.

 

[SSN Vet]

We have very wide lanes at the rod and gun club I belong to .... approx. 8 ft.

We also have ~12' behind the firing line to the wall.

Once a party has set up in a lane, no one else should try and squeeze in to the same lane....

within the party occupying the lane, only one should shoot at a time.

I've had as many as three in my party in a lane.... but never more than one shooting and one coaching... the third would sit or stand behind at the wall.

There's enough room that people can walk behind you, even while you're shooting, without bothering you... but it would be rude for them to just stand there behind you.

It's a great club and folks are very polite.

No designated RO.... we self monitor.

On only a few occasions have I ever had to say anything to anyone about rules or safety violations, and they have always been very apologetic.

 

[old lady new shooter]

2, of whom only 1 can be shooting at a time.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

At the club I attend, the main range has one bench per position and a single-person seat on each side of the bench making 2 people per bench (which I have seen with no objection from the RSOs)--although it is still just one target per bench.

Mike

 

[Old Checkered Wool]

Most clubs around where I am have a maximum of 2 people per lane and only allow 1 shooter at a time in each lane. Usually the person waiting to shoot stands in a designated area about 7-8 ft away, sometimes more.


I have been to a range once that had 6 people at one lane. I didn't know who to feel more sorry for, the shooter or the 5 spectators because they all looked clueless. It looked like a football huddle formation. I am surprised nobody got their whiskers burnt from the muzzle blast, that's how close it was.

 

[CountGlockula]

2 per lane and that one person needs to be an experienced shooter. Can't have unsafe handling in the lane. So if you brought kids or multiple guest, then they have to go in one by one with the experienced shooter to the lane.

This, of course, is for indoor shooting ranges with small booths.

 

[Bobson]

I've only ever been to one public range, but went there fairly regularly for a couple years. It was an outdoor range, and they wouldn't allow more than two shooters per lane, and that was ofc provided they were an actual "party," not just two random people. Even if you came with more than one person, only two allowed at the firing line at a time (and only one shooting, ofc). Anyone crowding your lane uninvited at a shooting range ought to be addressed swiftly and without room for confusion, IMO.

If insufficient shooter space (narrow lanes) is the reason, that range has serious design flaws and I'd find somewhere else to shoot.