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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1042025" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>just browsing</p><p> </p><p>I'm pretty lucky as far as ranges go. I live a 15 minute drive from one of the best. It has two 200 yard ranges with 15 benches and one 600 yard range used for F-class matches and such. That range has 20 firing positions with target machines in the pits and multiple firing lines at various distances out to the full 600 yards. The firing lines on most of these ranges are covered. There are 4 pistol ranges including 1 indoor range. There is an archery range, archery walk through range (in the woods) and a shotgun range. All this, except the indoor range, is on one big plot of land owned by King County. Local police and SWAT train there also including live fire from helicopters. Membership is capped at 1,000 and there is a waiting list.</p><p> </p><p>Even with 1,000 members I have many days when I am the only one on the range (I avoid weekends). When there are others there, very few are idiots. There is some pretty rigorous safety training required for every member and that training is repeated (for every member) if people start getting sloppy. Whoever is first on the range is RSO until they leave. You can shoot your own guns when acting in that capacity. Having members fill that role helps everyone stay focused on safety.</p><p> </p><p>I have some braked RUMs and such and when I'm using those I will warn people about the muzzle blast if they act like they are going to take the bench next to me. That usually causes them to move down a bit but sometimes they don't care. Bottom line, BIG rifles get little extra attention most of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1042025, member: 63138"] just browsing I'm pretty lucky as far as ranges go. I live a 15 minute drive from one of the best. It has two 200 yard ranges with 15 benches and one 600 yard range used for F-class matches and such. That range has 20 firing positions with target machines in the pits and multiple firing lines at various distances out to the full 600 yards. The firing lines on most of these ranges are covered. There are 4 pistol ranges including 1 indoor range. There is an archery range, archery walk through range (in the woods) and a shotgun range. All this, except the indoor range, is on one big plot of land owned by King County. Local police and SWAT train there also including live fire from helicopters. Membership is capped at 1,000 and there is a waiting list. Even with 1,000 members I have many days when I am the only one on the range (I avoid weekends). When there are others there, very few are idiots. There is some pretty rigorous safety training required for every member and that training is repeated (for every member) if people start getting sloppy. Whoever is first on the range is RSO until they leave. You can shoot your own guns when acting in that capacity. Having members fill that role helps everyone stay focused on safety. I have some braked RUMs and such and when I'm using those I will warn people about the muzzle blast if they act like they are going to take the bench next to me. That usually causes them to move down a bit but sometimes they don't care. Bottom line, BIG rifles get little extra attention most of the time. [/QUOTE]
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