New indoor range, no handloads ?

[rwsmith]

Found an indoor range.

You can shoot handloads and pick up your brass. Expensive, but ok if you don't make a habit out of it.

One thing was weird though. here was an untouched area low on the target I was aiming at and the RO said not to do that because the bullets might hit the floor.

 

[rwsmith]

Found an indoor range.

You can shoot handloads and pick up your brass. Expensive, but ok if you don't make a habit out of it.

One thing was weird though. here was an untouched area low on the silhouette target I was aiming at and the RO said not to do that because the bullets might hit the floor.

 

[jejb]

Just curious, but why the prohibition against steel cased ammo? As I posted previously, I have never heard of that and am curious as to the reasoning behind it. Steel in the projectiles makes total sense, but why no steel cases?

I think they had a lot of customers with issue with shooting steel ammo. But I can't say I'm 100% sure. I have never owned or shot steel ammo, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to it when they banned it. I'll try to remember to read the notice a little closer when I head over there today.

 

[pawngal]

You can shoot handloads and pick up your brass. Expensive, but ok if you don't make a habit out of it.

One thing was weird though. here was an untouched area low on the silhouette target I was aiming at and the RO said not to do that because the bullets might hit the floor.

I was at a range recently that was the opposite, no head shots at silhouette targets. My thought WTH.

 

[Whitwabit]

All the indoor ranges in my area you have to shoot factory ammo bought there .. and no picking up empty cases that are over the clearly marked firing line ..
At the outdoor range you can shoot anything reloads or factory and you are encouraged to pick up spent brass ..

 

[sigp220.45]

I was at a range recently that was the opposite, no head shots at silhouette targets. My thought WTH.

At the range I use its not uncommon to see people shooting silhouettes at a whopping six feet from the muzzle. Head shots at that range put the rounds above the backstop and into the ceiling.

 

[jejb]

I'll try to remember to read the notice a little closer when I head over there today.

Here's the notice from my indoor range about steel. Apparently driven by an insurance thing.

 

[BC38]

Here's the notice from my indoor range about steel. Apparently driven by an insurance thing.

Somebody doesn't understand what they are talking about - or is doing a lot of hand waving in the hopes that others won't understand. The old "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull" approach. Not sure whether it is the author of the notice or the insurance company taking that approach. I'd hope the author of the sign, presumably the owner of the range, would know enough to know better.

Steel cased ammo does not mean that there is a steel core in the projectile. There may be in some cases, but steel core projectiles can just as likely be loaded in brass cased ammo, and very little steel cased ammo has steel in the projectiles.

I doubt that steel cased is that much harder on the extractor of the gun, but even if it is how is that a concern of the range? My gun my choice. Wearing out my extractor is no skin off their nose. Wear on my gun is not a safety issue or liability to them.

So neither of those supposed "reasons" makes any sense to me. IMO it sounds more like someone making up stuff to justify an unpopular decision.

 

[LVSteve]

Here's the notice from my indoor range about steel. Apparently driven by an insurance thing.

I don't know which is worse, the science or the English.

So the steel cases are harder on guns with insufficient extractors. That's for the owner to decide, I think.

Perhaps this will shed a little light on the subject.

https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/