School Shooting Range?

[Kanewpadle]

Did your high school have an indoor shooting range?

Guess I was lucky because mine did.

I imagine they are not politically correct in some areas.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

Mine didn't.
All of our shootin' was done in the parking lots & surrounding neighborhoods.

I'm serious........

The one & only time I've been robbed at gunpoint was behind
my Jr.High School, out by the Football Field.

School days........

 

[chud333]

No we did'nt have any shooting ranges on school grounds but more than once i brought a favorite or new rifle to show a high school teacher. Try that nowadays and you probably get Swat, Homeland
Security, FBI, and every major News organization coming down on
you.


chuck

 

[Straightshooter2]

Mine didn't but my grandfather was the nightwatchman at Robert E. Lee High School in Thomaston, GA. When I was around 6 or 7 (mid 1950s), I would sometimes go to work with him in the evening and walk with him when he made his rounds. One of the places he had to punch his clock was the upstairs rifle range in the ROTC building. They used .22s back then and had a beautiful indoor range. They were also perennial State Champions back in those days; so much so that the city limits sign mentioned the team. It's now Upson-Lee High School and they are on their second different high school location since then and they still have a rifle team although they switched to air rifles in 1992. But at least they still have boys and girls shooting.

CW

 

[Alk8944]

There was a time when most, if not all, high schools that had a Jr. ROTC program had a shooting range in the school, as colleges and universities that had a ROTC program. It was common to take the bus to another school, while carrying a cased rifle, if you had a match at that school. No one even blinked.

Of course this was in the days of "Common Sense" (LORD, how I miss them!!!) instead of brainless "zero tolerance" that absolves school administrators of any responsibility to think.

 

[BUFF]

I got my original hunter safety card and gun safety training in a high school indoor range. The school was built about 1955 (my late dad helped build it), and I took my class about 1965. I think it was the last high school built in Utah with a range.

At some point, the school district converted the range to a garage for the drivers ed. cars.

 

[youseemym&p]

Nope. not here. not ever haha only time i brought guns into school is after i graduated and the school cop asked me to bring some of my handguns in to help him do a presentation on firearm safety.

and no noone shot themselves in the foot during this

 

[Kanewpadle]

Gosh I guess I was lucky.

I grew up in Alaska and went to two different high schools. Each had an indoor range. Fifty feet in I remember right.

We had some high dollar 22lr target rifles with peep sights that were tremendously accurate.

It was there that I got my first NRA Hunters Safety card. But I had already been hunting for a few years.

Needless to say I took the course more than once. But the best shot by far was a girl!

 

[youseemym&p]

Gosh I guess I was lucky.

I grew up in Alaska and went to two different high schools. Each had an indoor range. Fifty feet in I remember right.

We had some high dollar 22lr target rifles with peep sights that were tremendously accurate.

It was there that I got my first NRA Hunters Safety card. But I had already been hunting for a few years.

Needless to say I took the course more than once. But the best shot by far was a girl!

haha don't be surprised. i used to volunteer at a local gun range as an assistant to a NRA tactical instructor. my best student who could clear a 5 room building in under 1:15 was a 16 year old 90lb soaking wet girl. She used a Bushmaster M-4 and Colt Delta Elite to do so. haha

 

[Martimus]

At my High School? No!

The closest example I can come up with was during my first year in college. I was there on an Air Force scholarship... but was marching with an Army Precision Drill Team (the AF didn't have a team at that school). For drill practice, I used to ride my bicycle to a city park with a Springfield '03 slung around my chest. Best part was that I had to ride past a local police station. Good thing Open carry was legal back then in AZ...

Gosh I guess I was lucky.

I grew up in Alaska and went to two different high schools. Each had an indoor range. Fifty feet in I remember right.

We had some high dollar 22lr target rifles with peep sights that were tremendously accurate.

It was there that I got my first NRA Hunters Safety card. But I had already been hunting for a few years.

Needless to say I took the course more than once. But the best shot by far was a girl!

Sounds like the Anchorage borough school district! In the four years my family lived in Anchorage, I think I attended three different elementary schools (they were doing a lot of building in Spenard back in those days).

 

[steveno]

Hastings High School had an indoor range in the basement. the target rifles were heavy barrel Remington's. I don't remember the model number. the ammo was Winchester target.

 

[5-Shot]

When I was a kid, a long time ago in Kentucky, the schools had an organization called the Junior Conservation Club. In my school it was run by the local game warden. We had a little outdoor rifle range next door to the school. It was permissible to bring your 22 rifle to school on the school bus as long as you gave the bolt to the bus driver.

Ed

 

[C Broad Arrow]

Many of our high schools had 22 ranges in the basement and were an integrated part of the cadet and militia programs in Canada. By the mid-60's after the socialists came to power funding for many of these programs were ended and further capital improvements were made contingent on "better utilization" of exisiting spaces. Many of the ranges were turned into records storage and the like in order to qualify for continued funding.

 

[Texas Star]

My high school had a Jr. ROTC range in the basement for .22's. I think they were Remington 513's.

We didn't fire the M-1 Garand unless we went to summer camp. (I did.)

 

[brucev]

I attended H.S. in the early 70's. I am not aware of any of the H.S.'s in our area that had ranges. This was in a medium sized city in Ga.

 

[wbraswell]

Oh, I am so jealous now. All we had was sex, drugs, and rock n roll.

 

[Moonman]

A local H.S. was just completely rebuilt INCLUDING THE ROTC range in the school.

 

[Tam 3]

Decatur High had a 50' range beneath a basketball court in the north building. Rifles were 1922 Springfields plus 5 Winchester 52Cs. To get a WInchester you had to outshoot someone who had one. Took me a couple of months to get mine. Kept it until graduation.

Regards,

Tam 3

 

[H Richard]

Yes, the range was built by non-school money in a space under the auditorium and is STILL IN USE TODAY. Our pistol club meets there every Tues. and has a bullseye league there all winter. The High School has a rifle club, and a rifle team with varsity letters issued and have been state champion's the last two years in addition to many past championships since 1934. The club/rifle team receives no money from the school district, and relies strictly on donations and fund raisers. We have a fairly active Friends of NRA committee and a pretty fair amount of grants have been secured via the FNRA.

The range consists of 20 firing points with trolly type return target carriers and a NRA spec air handling system. Our pistol club buys all the targets needed for the Rifle club/Team. They shoot Anschutz in both .22 and .177 air rifle in competition, and a variety of anschutz, remington, winchester rifles by club members.

 

[mg357]

My school did not have a shooting range its to bad if they did i might have enjoyed going to school more.