How safe is you shooting range?

[Majorlk]

I know - but it was still annoying.

Agreed, but a fact of life at any range that does not have isolation partitions on both side of the port.

If you shoot on my range you'd have it in spades as there are only partitions every other port - and a typical Saturday will have shooters sending something over 12,000 rounds down range; 16 ports open for eight hours. All it takes is every shooter shooting 100 rounds an hour. That's a lot of brass flying around.

 

[CA2NC]

I was at an outdoor range Saturday and the woman to the left of me was shooting a 22 auto and every shell casing the gun ejected was hitting me.

This was at a concealed carry training class.

I get hit wish shell casings frequently, and know I hit others (I have a nice burn on my neck from one last week) That's a lot different then a ricocheted bullet

 

[jsimmons]

The reason for this post is I went to the indoor range that I go to when its too cold or windy well its the closest to me @ 40 minutes away needless to say I wont be going there no more I was punching holes in targets as I always do send my target down range start to reload and thats when I had the scaryest moments of my life I felt like someone punched me in the nose I looked down there was blood I realized I was hit with a riccochet it didnt penetrate but it did break the skin, Now whats more frightening is I found out five other people last week had the same thing happen there were children in the range when this happend to me and as a responsible parent this worrys me. They have a Certified Saftey Instructor according to him it happens ever so often call me crazy I dont feel this is acceptable Im curious to hear everybodys take on this?

Ain't no thang...

Guy hit in head with .50 caliber ricochet - YouTube

 

[jsimmons]

But seriously, we have a local range that has a CHL training area situated behind and to the right of shooters on the 50-yard rifle line - with no barriers between them. The also don't have an always-there range master to make sure people don't do stupid stuff. I don't shoot there.

 

[TheBigC1234]

My old range back in CT had bullet holes in the area behind the shooters and one or two through the partitions which separate shooters. The people sometimes are scarier than ricochets.

 

[Zombies]

Here is a link to a story about the range I was at yesterday and go to occasionally. Article also says that they have had at least 2 suicides in the last 10 years. When I was there yesterday, rangemaster was screaming at someone two stalls down from me for pointing his firearm in the wrong direction.

Surviving Twin Upgraded To Serious Condition - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

 

[tacticaledge]

Thats one heck of a move! I can only imagine how much nicer it is up there!

cold weather stinks but the outdoor shooting range i go to makes it worth it 195 acre of bullet heaven...

 

[RolandW]

Outdoors, are steel plates always a no-no with a rifle, even a .22? Will a .22 make much of a dent in soft hot-rolled steel? Enough to cause dangerous cratering?

 

[locapitano]

Outdoors, are steel plates always a no-no with a rifle, even a .22? Will a .22 make much of a dent in soft hot-rolled steel? Enough to cause dangerous cratering?

.22LR wont do much to a steel plate. This weekend we were shooting at a distance of about 20 feet and it was the larger calibers of hand guns that were sending rounds back at us.

Steel shooting - YouTube

 

[MassLiberty]

Yes... and almost No

How many of you have signed release forms to shoot at your range?

I took my daughter to shoot at an indoor range in Massachusetts and they required me to read, initial and sign a 4 page release that was as large as a broadsheet newspaper... then a week later we went to NH and they had me sign a small one pager with type only on half of one side... I showed them the Mass version and they were shocked.

 

[Majorlk]

Never signed anything like that in 40+ years of shooting. Must be something because of the incident of the young lad and a full-auto firearm a couple of years ago.

 

[Iggy]

Been no problems at my range.

The range officer is a handsome, intelligent, pleasant and mostly a humble feller. We git along just fine.

 

[tacticaledge]

thanks for all the feed back

 

[myesio]

tacticaledge....if you don't mind, PM me with the range you were at, that this happened. I want to avoid the place also.

Thanks

 

[63GMC]

cold weather stinks but the outdoor shooting range i go to makes it worth it 195 acre of bullet heaven...

Where would that be? My friends and I are looking for somewhere to shoot.

 

[Smith357]

Been no problems at my range.

The range officer is a handsome, intelligent, pleasant and mostly a humble feller. We git along just fine.

No backstop, it looks pretty unsafe to me.