New twist on ammo at my lgs/range

[ordy]

The lgs/range I frequent has been able to keep up with demand in the more popular calibers but that supply seems to be petering out. Their new policy is that you can't buy ammo from them unless you use their range. You can't walk in off the street, buy ammo and walk out. In the past, there was no problem picking up your brass, or anyone else's, and taking it home. New policy is that you are no longer allowed to keep your own brass. I guess they have a gremlin chained to a Dillon press in the back room cranking out reloads because they are now selling 'once fired' ammo. I asked the owner and he said it's what they have to do to stay in business.

 

[thewiz828]

Smart man. Take care of your customers and they will take cre of you.

 

[duppie]

That has largely been the policy of most of the LGS/ranges in NJ for several months now,but unlike PA we suffer from few ranges and no ammo or firearms in Wally worlds so our pool of ammo suppliers are even smaller than you folks next door.

 

[fdw]

One range here does the same thing, can't buy it unless you shoot it there. And they have plenty of everything. The guy's been in business a long time and has developed some very good relationships with suppliers...

Now the other newer range in town is alway low or out, particularly 9s, man are they losing business... I'm a member there but shoot at the other place since I can't find 9s anywhere

edit: you can keep your own brass in both places...

 

[HAWKEYE10]

I wouldn't shoot at a place that I couldn't pick up my own brass. It wouldn't be long and I would be out of ammo. Don

 

[smith17]

They would lose me as a customer if the new policy prohibits a shooter from keeping their own brass. What are you suppose to do, take the brass out of your revolver and donate it to them? We had an outdoor range that tried that about 10 years ago. They went out of business about 9 1/2 years ago.
Ed

 

[blujax01]

Like the others I'm okay with buy here - shoot here. But you are not keeping my brass.

 

[desi2358]

I have no problem with "buy it here and shoot it here". However I would not shoot at a range that said I couldn't keep my own brass. That is not acceptable! On an indoor range I could see them putting brass that went forward of the firing line off limits for safety reasons but if it's on my bench or on the floor at my feet it's still my brass!

 

[Arik]

Some here have that, some dont. One range has a one box limit regardless of cal. Do if you need 9 and 45 you pick one and only one

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[fdw]

One range here does the same thing, can't buy it unless you shoot it there. And they have plenty of everything. The guy's been in business a long time and has developed some very good relationships with suppliers...

Now the other newer range in town is alway low or out, particularly 9s, man are they losing business... I'm a member there but shoot at the other place since I can't find 9s anywhere

edit: you can keep your own brass in both places...

I'll also mention that the range that has the ammo will only let you take one box (per cal) into the lanes, when you shoot up that box you can come out and buy another one.

 

[ordy]

I don't have a problem with 'buy it here shoot it here'...I guess. The brass collection is a whole different deal. I bought and paid for it. It's mine and I should be able to do whatever I want with it. If they offered to pay me for it or knock a little off the price of a box of ammo, I might feel a little better about it. Kinda like the adult version of selling back empty soda bottles.

 

[Kinman]

I asked the owner of a local indoor range about their policy regarding spent brass retrieval. I was told that it basically came down to safety. You can tell people all day long that under no conditions are people to be allowed out onto the firing line but there are people that believe they have every right to retrieve what they consider theirs and that they have had occaisons where knuckleheads had actually crawled out under and into the range to retrieve their spent brass. Believe it or not there have been arguments over whose brass is whos and people irritated by folks getting into their space retrieving spent brass. At the range I currently belong they have brass catchers on the rifle range and as long as their is a cease fire called you can go out onto the range to retrieve any brass you want, as long as you don't hold up the line too long. In the short range it is well partitioned but still you brass will most often fall behind you and most guys will retrieve their own brass after firing a magazine full, otherwise it risks getting stepped on my others. Again when a cease fire is called you can go out in front of your lane and retrieve any that has fallen out that way, courtesy to others is appreciated regarding taking an inordinate amount of time to pick through everything.

 

[load748]

I'll buy their ammo , they'll have to buy my brass ....

 

[houdini26]

that is not good, if you shoot what you brought in can not take it home.

 

[Retired LTC USAR]

My concern would be liability issues. What happens if they "double charge" a round. A gun blows up, people are injured, in a rare case someone is killed. Are they going to be responsible since they are the ones that reloaded and sold the ammo?

BTW, thought you had to have a license to sell reloaded ammo?

 

[Cdog]

I believe in enough rules to keep everyone safe. Anything beyond safety rules will turn me around.

Sounds like you're just renting their loaded brass instead of purchasing ammo?

If I can't shoot my ammo, it ain't for me.

 

[tops]

I have shot at trap and skeet clubs where if the shell hits the ground it belongs to the club and they sell them. I have wondered why pistol clubs don't do the same thing. The clubs have a lock on the public. As for not shooting at those places I think if people had another place to shoot they wouldn't be there to start with. Larry

 

[Cdog]

I have shot at trap and skeet clubs where if the shell hits the ground it belongs to the club and they sell them. I have wondered why pistol clubs don't do the same thing. The clubs have a lock on the public. As for not shooting at those places I think if people had another place to shoot they wouldn't be there to start with. Larry

It may be true for many, but I used to shoot at an indoor range 25 years ago.

I had lots of other places to shoot, but I enjoyed the competitions and liked the other shooters.

The management makes all the difference.

 

[mjr]

A couple of decades ago a range opened in High Point NC and initially had the "you can't pick up any brass, not even your own" rule. As I recall, that rule was rescinded in less than a month. No serious shooter would stand for it.

 

[TheHobbyist]

Buy land. If you can't now, save to do so. They ain't making more of it.