What are you current goals at the range

[Coonan357]

Long as you perfectly feed my belt for my browning 1919

Metal or cloth belt?!?

 

[Nosferatu]

My goal is to never go to a shooting range again.

 

[Tlock]

I hate the range, my current goal is to never have to go to another "range"

My goal is to never go to a shooting range again.

This^^^

 

[nammac]

Put holes in the target, not in me.

Practice with carry guns from concealment.

Practice point shooting, over and over and over.

Collect brass and target, go home, clean guns, clean brass, reload brass.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[arakboss]

I am heading out today with a suppressed Ruger American in 300aac. I have made 240 grain cartridges that have performed amazing at 300yds. Bumping it up to 400 today, I hope.

Next

Colt Match Target with my 75 grains bullets. Trying to tighten up my 500 yds group then go to 600.

I'm curious to find out just how far I can get them to go, accurately.

My range goal, is simply to make it there.

 

[gmerkt]

My shooting practice these days is simply to be able to hit a six inch circle target. At 100 yards with a rifle or 15 yards with a pistol. Open sights. I have rifles with scopes, those I expect better results with. I don't have any handguns with lasers or red dots. The six inch circle is my defensive practice target. At age 75, I practice in order that my skill, such as it is, be repeatable.

Getting mine to open up again

Yes, this is a thing. The range where I'm a member is being hassled by the Wash. Dept. of Ecology, backed up by letters from the state AG's office. So far, we are still open. Up to this point, it seems like a ropa-dopa situation. There have been inspections. It has cost us money for an engineering study that has only just begun. We have started certain policies resulting from things that the DOE has commented about. It also involves the county due to land use issues. There is some confusion resulting from bureaucratic crossover. There is some confusion over water quality standards.

I'm not crazy about shooting at a range. I prefer a trip out into the hills for recreational shooting. Which for me is a bit of a drive. Unfortunately, there are many knot-heat shooters who go out onto public land and abuse it. Vandalism and littering bring about land closures to shooting. Eventually, all shooting activity on public lands will be disallowed. When that day comes, if the range(s) aren't hassled out of existence, they will be rare venues for shooting.

The range where I'm a member is not far. It's a good place for me to test loads and firearms. It's also a good place for me to zero rifles. Sometimes I go out and shoot just for the sheer pleasure of it. I pick days when there are apt to be fewer shooters present. I've been a member for 21 years. Nearly all of the people who were active when I joined have died or moved away. I've done my time in the barrel in club management but no current members remember my service.

 

[Alexx1401]

My shooting practice these days is simply to be able to hit a six inch circle target. At 100 yards with a rifle or 15 yards with a pistol. Open sights. I have rifles with scopes, those I expect better results with. I don't have any handguns with lasers or red dots. The six inch circle is my defensive practice target. At age 75, I practice in order that my skill, such as it is, be repeatable.


Yes, this is a thing. The range where I'm a member is being hassled by the Wash. Dept. of Ecology, backed up by letters from the state AG's office. So far, we are still open. Up to this point, it seems like a ropa-dopa situation. There have been inspections. It has cost us money for an engineering study that has only just begun. We have started certain policies resulting from things that the DOE has commented about. It also involves the county due to land use issues. There is some confusion resulting from bureaucratic crossover. There is some confusion over water quality standards.

I'm not crazy about shooting at a range. I prefer a trip out into the hills for recreational shooting. Which for me is a bit of a drive. Unfortunately, there are many knot-heat shooters who go out onto public land and abuse it. Vandalism and littering bring about land closures to shooting. Eventually, all shooting activity on public lands will be disallowed. When that day comes, if the range(s) aren't hassled out of existence, they will be rare venues for shooting.

The range where I'm a member is not far. It's a good place for me to test loads and firearms. It's also a good place for me to zero rifles. Sometimes I go out and shoot just for the sheer pleasure of it. I pick days when there are apt to be fewer shooters present. I've been a member for 21 years. Nearly all of the people who were active when I joined have died or moved away. I've done my time in the barrel in club management but no current members remember my service.

I have long praised the people here who on their own dime go out and clean up the places people shoot. MORONS who make that mess are the loudest screamers when they get some area shut down.
Where we live here its pretty much a day trip to shoot in the forest. Old pits up on the mountain are great but quite the drive up and back. I have LONG said if I hit the lotto we would buy a place where I could shoot in my own back yard again. I VERY much miss those days.

 

[Mikej]

MORONS who make that mess are the loudest screamers when they get some area shut down.

This is a pretty common comment. I feel like it's not correct though. I think it's very possible those losers-slobs don't really care about these places. After their trash and mess gets places closed they simply go on to the next one. It affects us so much more because we do care, and picking-up after ourselves shows that. We need more law enforcement cruising around in our forests to send a message to those trashing it.

 

[nwslopoke]

I am heading out today with a suppressed Ruger American in 300aac. I have made 240 grain cartridges that have performed amazing at 300yds. Bumping it up to 400 today, I hope.

Next

Colt Match Target with my 75 grains bullets. Trying to tighten up my 500 yds group then go to 600.

I'm curious to find out just how far I can get them to go, accurately.

Where are you finding 400+ yards?

 

[ilikegunspdx]

It's funny looking at the responses it looks like a lot of people use the term "range" to mean only public ranges. Not saying they are wrong.

I use the term "range" to mean where you shoot. Whether on your own property, private or public property, or a public range.

 

[Coonan357]

Where are you finding 400+ yards?

Tillamook state land. I find old yarder platforms on Google Maps. Then check for other factors such as, access to the other side of the valley. My biggest issue is being able to pick up a splash. Fortunately, I have metal sitting in front of a small rock face at 500 yards. Amazingly, there is a large rock wall exactly a thousand yards from a skidder platform. Picking up a splash is absolutely no problem.

 

[Alexx1401]

This is a pretty common comment. I feel like it's not correct though. I think it's very possible those losers-slobs don't really care about these places. After their trash and mess gets places closed they simply go on to the next one. It affects us so much more because we do care, and picking-up after ourselves shows that. We need more law enforcement cruising around in our forests to send a message to those trashing it.

Maybe I'm just lucky. I have over the years worked with a LOT of these morons. When when some place gets posted or gated they SCREAM and RANT. These were the same people who would have no problem talking about the junk they were hauling out there to shoot. When I would mention to them the reason this happens they of course would get VERY angry with me for saying that. Up here where I live places to drive to and shoot are getting few and far between. No longer have easy places to drive and shoot as people keep moving out further and further.

 

[gmerkt]

Where we live here its pretty much a day trip to shoot in the forest. Old pits up on the mountain are great but quite the drive up and back. I have LONG said if I hit the lotto we would buy a place where I could shoot in my own back yard again. I VERY much miss those days.

At one time years ago, I had dreams of buying a second, get-away property. In the back of my mind, a private shooting venue would be part of it. But dreams and plans over the years change. Now that I have the money to do it, I'm old. I don't have the same drive and ambition that I used to. Taking care of two properties doesn't appeal to me. Security issues for second properties would always bother me. So it's still "a drive to the hills." For as long as that lasts.

Up here where I live places to drive to and shoot are getting few and far between. No longer have easy places to drive and shoot as people keep moving out further and further.

The vandalism I see at a pit site that I go to on state land drives me nuts. Specifically, idiots who fire at living trees repeatedly to the point where the trunk is eaten halfway through. Lately, they've taken old vehicles out to this site, burned them and left them as targets. But this stuff is what will sure as God made little green apples get the site shut down. The state puts up a little sign saying a land use permit ("Discover Pass") is required, it gets riddled with bullet holes. There is no respect and no thought given to the future.

 

[Sockmonster]

My goal like some of you is to just make it to a range. Health issues, work and sadly lack of motivation have had a lasting effect. But life changes for the better have set me on a path to be able to get out there this month. Looking forward to picking up brass again!

 

[Steel Head]

First round hits.

1225 yards with 338 edge

285 badlands bullets.

rumble.com

 

[Mikej]

Maybe I'm just lucky. I have over the years worked with a LOT of these morons. When when some place gets posted or gated they SCREAM and RANT. These were the same people who would have no problem talking about the junk they were hauling out there to shoot. When I would mention to them the reason this happens they of course would get VERY angry with me for saying that. Up here where I live places to drive to and shoot are getting few and far between. No longer have easy places to drive and shoot as people keep moving out further and further.

Good question. I suppose I may, still have, a wee bit of faith in some of man kind? I wouldn't have thought so. At least not living, driving/looking around in potland.

 

[Coonan357]

First round hits.

1225 yards with 338 edge

285 badlands bullets.

rumble.com

Hell yeah impressive!! Which 338 are you running and what size is your steel, appears to be a standard silhouette ? I love the sound delay. Occasionally I press the trigger then remove me hearing pro, to hear that ting.

 

[Coonan357]

Where are you finding 400+ yards?

Steel Head's video shows a very similar set up to mine. Minus the first round strike... Im getting there..

 

[fstdraw]

Beating my buddy at 100 and 200 yards open sight and winning lunch.

 

[Sxsnuf]

My range goal, is simply to make it there

^^^^^^^^^^^^
This!