Guns_and_Labs
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Still can't get past this one. Why can EMT's and FF's use silhouette targets, again?
Target restrictions at your range?
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Still can't get past this one. Why can EMT's and FF's use silhouette targets, again?
DMK
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What the.... ?
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My range only allows nurses and chiropractors to shoot silhouettes.
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Actually my Forestry Service range allows everyone to use only paper targets(of any sort) and metal silhouettes. Breakable targets are prohibited, skeet targets are prohibited. They don't care what the targets represent, as long as they are safe and don't make a mess.
Molon Labe
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The range I frequent has absolutely no restrictions on weapons or targets. Full auto, .50 BMG, silhouette targets, explosive targets... it's all allowed. I even once used a blue helmet for a target, and the range master just smiled.
Oh, forgot to mention that I'm the range master, and the range is located in our backyard...
Oh, forgot to mention that I'm the range master, and the range is located in our backyard...
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M2 Carbine
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My range gives out Hanoi Jane targets.
rustychev
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All they ask is that you not shoot the clubs steal with a 50 ( they dont last to long)
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iamkris
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Unfortunately, those of us who live in range-deprived areas (me = north of Chicago) have to abide by what the local ranges declare. My club has paper targets only, no silohettes for anyone. Only break from that I've ever seen is at our first annual (hopefully) rattle battle match.
It is a volunteer club, with low rates, low insurance rates and on the edge of encroaching suburbia. Single fire only (e.g., only one round in the firearm at a time for CF rifle, 5 rounds for pistol) I'm assuming they do this to slow the inevitable restrictions of "civilization" ... 
Unfortunately, beggars can't be choosers sometimes.
It is a volunteer club, with low rates, low insurance rates and on the edge of encroaching suburbia. Single fire only (e.g., only one round in the firearm at a time for CF rifle, 5 rounds for pistol) I'm assuming they do this to slow the inevitable restrictions of "civilization" ...
Unfortunately, beggars can't be choosers sometimes.
SnWnMe
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Ah, for once it's nice to be from the Inland Empire , CA
We are not allowed to drill the no-shoots
We are not allowed to drill the no-shoots
PowderBurn
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Even in PC Minnesota there seem to be few restrictions on targets (so far). I frequent 3 ranges in the Minneapolis area, and all of them sell and allow silhouttes, and full-size photo-image of bad guy targets.
GigaBuist
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I've got the same rule at a local range: no human shaped targets. Any other critter is fine, just not humans.
Oh, and one shot per second.
Oh, and one shot per second.
BigSlick
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BilboTN
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The local indoor range has a policy of no actual photos of people are to be used as targets.
Chipperman
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"The indoor range I shoot at allows silouettes. I think I remember reading, though, that Massachusetts has a state law forbidding anyone (or maybe anyone tother than LEOs) from shooting at any depiction of a person. I'm not from Massachusetts, though, and I don't remember where I read that."
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The MA law is often misunderstood, even by people who live here.
The law states that gun clubs that have their own FFL cannot allow shooting of silhouette targets at their club. The law actually affects very few clubs in MA, but a lot of people are under the mistaken impression that you cannot shoot silhouettes in MA at all. This is not true.
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The MA law is often misunderstood, even by people who live here.
The law states that gun clubs that have their own FFL cannot allow shooting of silhouette targets at their club. The law actually affects very few clubs in MA, but a lot of people are under the mistaken impression that you cannot shoot silhouettes in MA at all. This is not true.
Roadrunner
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The NRA Range won't let me use my b/w "people" targets similar to this:
M2 Carbine
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It's a shame that the gun community is so "whipped" and gutless that we are even afraid to shoot at a picture of a gun toting criminal, because the anti gun liberals might get upset. +
No wonder half the states in the US can freely walk over our 2nd Amendment rights.
+No wonder half the states in the US can freely walk over our 2nd Amendment rights.
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Your range sounds like it's run by a bunch of schmucks. I MIGHT be able to envision a range (in soccermomville) that only let LEOs shoot people-shaped targets (and dog-shaped targets
), but what boofus said above is right on the target.The range I just joined is "big boy rules." Anything goes, clean up after yourself. Therefore, no glass or other stuff that you can't clean up. Also, there are different sets of steel, so no shooting the cowboy steel with regular pistols, no shooting the pistol steel with rifles, no shooting the rifle steel with AP, etc. All common-sense courtesy stuff.
The Freeholder
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OK, I don't get it. So what if you can't shoot a silhouette? If you can hit what you're aiming at (my favorites are 8" steel at 25 yards for pistol and 8" Shoot-N-C or similar at 100 or 200 yards for rifle), aren't you going to be able whatever part of the silhouette you want anyway?
Guy B. Meredith
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I believe that all the clubs I belong to and at least one additional range require bullseye targets on the "public" ranges. Those ranges are classified as marksmanship ranges. One club stated that they want to maintain a sharp profile and not end up on the local SF Bay news as redneck "militia" training centers.
Additional facilities at each club are available for action pistol and such. These are more closely monitored or rented to action pistol clubs.
Additional facilities at each club are available for action pistol and such. These are more closely monitored or rented to action pistol clubs.
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My local indoor range lets us shoot anything on paper we want, as long as it fits on the hangers.
They don't allow rapid fire (unless not many people are there and then they let me get away with it) or any type of military caliber like .223 or 7.62x39.
They have a seperate rifle range for standard calibers.
I was told that the reason behind no rapid fire is because one time someone got out of control and it almost went south.
The reasoning behind the no .223 or 7.62x39 is one time someone used AP and it went through the backstop. There is a neighborhood literally feet from the rear of the range.
I don't much care for these rules but I deal with them because the next closest range is a long, long way away (for now anyway).
When I want to shoot anything I want at anything I want, I go to the local National Forest range. I have found everything imaginable shot up out there. It reminds me of the old days when people would just find some land and go shooting (back when there were more dirt roads than paved).
They don't allow rapid fire (unless not many people are there and then they let me get away with it) or any type of military caliber like .223 or 7.62x39.
They have a seperate rifle range for standard calibers.
I was told that the reason behind no rapid fire is because one time someone got out of control and it almost went south.
The reasoning behind the no .223 or 7.62x39 is one time someone used AP and it went through the backstop. There is a neighborhood literally feet from the rear of the range.
I don't much care for these rules but I deal with them because the next closest range is a long, long way away (for now anyway).
When I want to shoot anything I want at anything I want, I go to the local National Forest range. I have found everything imaginable shot up out there. It reminds me of the old days when people would just find some land and go shooting (back when there were more dirt roads than paved).
Bobarino
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the rifle range i go to most allows paper targets only, no human silhouettes. kind of a bummer because i like shooting clay pigeons.
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GigaBuist
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Uhm, how thin is that backstop? If .223 is going through it, then what makes them think surplus 7.62x51mm or 30-06 ammo with an accidental AP round won't?
Real reason: .223 and 7.62x39mm rifles come with 30 round mags and you can dump a lot of ammo quickly. That clutters up the air, so they prohibit them to make people reload and give the ventilation system time to catch up.
Just a hunch.
revolvergeek
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An absurd policy and if there were any other options I would not support a range with policies that decriminated between civillians and public servants. I don't object at all to LEO/Fire/EMT personnel shooting at reduced range fees, but the ranges up there are basically saying that they are the only ones 'justified' in shooting at human shaped targets, which seems to suggest they are adopting the idea of the British gun clubs that support shooting only as recreation and not as a defensive skill. If a range didn't support my right to self defense by allowing me to train in as realistic a manner as possible, then I would not support them staying in business.
The ranges down here allow any paper/cardboard targets; human, animal or bullseye. One of the indoor ranges has a bowling pin/steel plate lane, and when I worked there we used to let people bring in pretty much anything to shoot as long as it did not make a big mess.
The ranges down here allow any paper/cardboard targets; human, animal or bullseye. One of the indoor ranges has a bowling pin/steel plate lane, and when I worked there we used to let people bring in pretty much anything to shoot as long as it did not make a big mess.
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