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Today I had the pleasure to visit some good customers in the aera around Thun.
Right away leads a road into the valley of Zweisimmen and further to Lenk/Adelboden. This are very famous and beautyfull regions for vacation, wandering, skiing, hiking, climbing, etc. When you enter this valley you drive by a modern shootingrange with a strange attitude. Look here why....

I stopped today my traveling and made some pics for the S&W-Forum-Members.

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It's all true.

Swissman
 
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Wonderful, absolutely wonderful! Thank you for showing me this great range.

Can you imagine applying for a permit in the US "Well yes, the highway runs through the middle of the range, shut down traffic? Why no, we hadn't thought of shutting down traffic, why would we shut-down traffic?".
 
Wow, thanks for sharing those photos. I cannot think of a single range I've ever seen that comes close to that!
 
Well, I heard that Swiss sergeants are very good at instilling good gun discipline....

I'm impressed that the channels for the electronic targets aren't hiding down below the concrete curb. Just that fact, and the fact that they aren't all shot up, is pretty incredible at a 300 meter range.

I think it would be different in the U.S. If that electronics is safe, then probably the tourists in their cars are safe also.

I also hear that Swiss standard ammunition is pretty much what we would consider match ammunition in the U.S. So no light loads that would give a bad trajectory.

Pretty impressive.

And good propaganda for foreign tourists - "Those Swiss are gun crazy, better not invade Switzerland."
 
It also looks like the empty cases fall down those ramps in front and are collected in troughs. Is there another ramp inside so that the cases end up in that container just by gravity, or is there some other system necessary?
 
Originally posted by glypnir:
It also looks like the empty cases fall down those ramps in front and are collected in troughs. Is there another ramp inside so that the cases end up in that container just by gravity, or is there some other system necessary?
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Yep, beside every rifle we place a special cardboard-tray or a small container with a net, where the rifle "throws" the extracted case directly in it. At the end of the shootingsession the shooters empty the trays in a small collectorwagon. Then you empty the wagon in this canal. There should be no case outside of the room or in the grass.

Swissman
 
Originally posted by Swissman:
Originally posted by glypnir:
It also looks like the empty cases fall down those ramps in front and are collected in troughs. Is there another ramp inside so that the cases end up in that container just by gravity, or is there some other system necessary?
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Yep, beside every rifle we place a special cardboard-tray or a small container with a net, where the rifle "throws" the extracted case directly in it. At the end of the shootingsession the shooters empty the trays in a small collectorwagon. Then you empty the wagon in this canal. There should be no case outside of the room or in the grass.

Swissman
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So are you allowed to keep your brass to reload, or do you have to dispose of it in this manner?
 
Swissarmy-brass is not allowed to reload. No reloadings are allowed in armyrifle-competition. We (they) take this serious.

With hunting- or sportrifles is it allowed. But it's not legal to take empty army-cases away from the range. You had to use commercial cases. (And then came the real life between the shooters and the law
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Swissman
 
I believe there was an article in Gun Digest about Swiss firearms laws and that range was pictured in the article. Don't they stop shooting when a car passes by?

FWIW, there's a golf course in northern Michigan where a local road crosses a fairway. I'm not sure which is more risky!
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Originally posted by s&wchad:
...... Don't they stop shooting when a car passes by?
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s&wchad,

No way! Stopping the fire? Why should they stop?? They have the guns, not the car-drivers.
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If you're in the middle of a fast-shooting-programm, you can't stop the whole competition.

Swissman
 
The skeet/trap range at Andrews AFB (yeah, the home of Air Force One) faces the runway at the approach end. They stop shooting when a plane is landing just out of courtesy.
 
Really beautiful!

The backstop is wood logs? Do they burn them to collect the lead?
 
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