The joys of having your own range
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WardenWolf
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He just needs a new rear sight leaf spring. Those are cheap enough, but you need a special tool to help install it. Google "AK rear sight tool". They'll also sort of / kind of work for an SKS; they're advertised to, but they don't really push the spring down far enough. You need a block and hammer to fully seat it.
TurtleGunners
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Well we are lucky enough to have a gunsmith friend doing the work on the AK, and a few other mods very soon.
May have him do a couple of mods on my new Glock 19 as well. Probably adding some new sights to it first.
May have him do a couple of mods on my new Glock 19 as well. Probably adding some new sights to it first.
quote(Not a rat a tat tat shooter, more of a precision rifle user though I own several AR's. I have a few acres with my own shooting facility on it. 700 yard range out of the reloading room. Can shoot from indoors or out, rain or shine, day or night with lighted 100 and 300 yard berms. Mostly LR rifle but do have a couple of automatic traps for clay target shooting, 15 and 30 yard steel swingers for handgun and rimfire. Shop set up for building my own rifles and working on them. I am truly blessed to have this and do bring youth groups/parents out to experience shooting of all kinds, from .22rf to a 50BMG and everything between.)
You sound like your in serious need of a new best friend.Good news I pulled some strings and I have an opening. Nice to meet ya new BFF.
You sound like your in serious need of a new best friend.Good news I pulled some strings and I have an opening. Nice to meet ya new BFF.
I thought so to, but when I replaced toiletry in the master bath we took the old one out to the shooting mound and guess who I had to give the first shot to. Wasn't anything left by the time I got my turn.
ares338
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My wife and I are building a home on 23 acres. I built my range first...the house is scond LOL.
CmdrSlander
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The guy on the far left has a Sig 556, banish the outsider! Kidding.Oh the joys of having your own range, no 2 seconds rules here
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Elkins45
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We don't have one where I shoot, but I'll bet more than a few gun barrels have been saved by mandating enough time between shots for the shooter's brain to register "hmmm...that last round seemed awfully quiet"
A self-imposed two second rule is probably a real boon for shooters just learning to use a progressive reloader.
TurtleGunners
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HaHa, priorities..!!
clamman
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How many rounds did it take to eliminate that target at what seems like 25 yards? Wow.
TurtleGunners
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Which video...?
As for distance, most of the videos are filmed closer than we would normally shoot, for the sake of being able to get the target in the footage.
We tried some 100 yard videos and recorded the shooters, but people wanted to see the targets, and we recorded the targets but people wanted to see the shooters.
So it's a toss up between doing a picture-in-picture video, or show the shooting then the targets being hit at the end of the video.
We're not experts in video production yet HaHa, so it's all a work in progress.
TurtleGunners
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So we got to play with the awesome KRISS Vector .45 on our range today.
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TurtleGunners
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I went to the local indoor range, shot my 9mm and my friend's 1943 Remington Rand 1911... Good times.
Indoor range is pretty nice. Rules as I have been told, wear hearing protection and eye protection, keep guns pointed down range. If you are doing rapid fire, make sure you are hitting the target. Shoot, have fun.
Not a bad place. But, being out in a field shooting is better.
Indoor range is pretty nice. Rules as I have been told, wear hearing protection and eye protection, keep guns pointed down range. If you are doing rapid fire, make sure you are hitting the target. Shoot, have fun.
Not a bad place. But, being out in a field shooting is better.
TurtleGunners
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Never been to a public range. As a kid and now I shoot nearly every day. Sometimes one shot, sometimes 100+. Today was a 100+ day.
I would not consider owning a house where I could not shoot.
I like your thinking
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jcwit
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Why not join the military and have some real fun.
TurtleGunners
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Some of us have served, and not all of us appear on camera.
jcwit
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Then a THANK YOU for your service to those that have serves.
Actually sounds as if you guys are a private club owning your own range.
Actually sounds as if you guys are a private club owning your own range.
TurtleGunners
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Just a bunch of regular Joe's, that put some funds together to get some local land, and build our own range.
We can make the range hot and break whenever we like, so not limited to being able to change targets every 30 minutes and wait for other shooters like most ranges.
Of course we have some run and gun areas also, and we plan on building sand bag bunkers and other barricades.
jcwit
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Ya, like I said, and you said, just a bunch of regular Joes forming their own private club and range to do as they wish. Nothing wrong with that. Sorta how most private ranges start.
BullfrogKen
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TurtleGunners said:
Doesn't sound any different than just about any of the half dozen private, not-for-profit membership clubs I've ever belonged to. Or the other hundreds of others here in Pennsylvania.
It just sounds like you guys did it a lot less . . . formally if you will.
I hope you drew up some decent agreement on who exactly owns your land, how the expenses are to be paid, how decisions are made by the group of owners, etc.
And . . . if you do nothing else . . . make sure you have the land held in sort of corporation or trust with a proper liability insurance policy. Those steps limit your exposure and risk in the event of an injury or property damage.
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