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What has happened to the rifle ranges? All ARs now, no chronographs.

Yeah, that'll work! There's a 45 acre piece down the road from me. They only want $2.5 million for it! Hmmmm, let's do the math....
 
No nose in the air, here! I like to see more responsible shooters on the line. I just don't like hot brass bouncing off my head or going down my shirt!:eek:
Hot brass really don't bother me, learned to deal with it in the military. As a shooter you should be able to block the background blasting out, concentrating on what you yourself are doing.
 
Yeah, that'll work! There's a 45 acre piece down the road from me. They only want $2.5 million for it! Hmmmm, let's do the math....
There's 2000 acres down here for 2.2 mil.
Holds elk dear and turkeys, occasionally they get bear n cougar too.
But you'd have to move to southern oregon, hell you could even work the creek for gold.
 
That sounds nice! Actually, my wife and I are going to Wyoming to look for land we could put a little log cabin on. Something we've always dreamed about. Living in a tax free state!:D The scenery and trout rivers don't hurt, either.;)
 
denwhit1 - it isn't just the Albany Gun Range. It is like that at Tri County as well. In my five or six years shooting there, I've never seen anyone even set up simple wind flags at the 100 yard range. I can't recall more than a handful of custom action rifles on the 100 yard range or the 200/300 yard range. I don't mind the ARs provided they don't set up in my left ear and start unloading 30 round mags as fast as they can get away with.

There is a small band of 600 yard shooters at the same club that seem to be hard core and have some nice equipment. Problem is they have to shut down the 200/300 yard range to shoot 600 yards, so there are only about two days a month they even have an opportunity to shoot.

Best I can figure, you need to drive into Washington if you want to find a crowd of benchrest shooters. Once I retire, if the sport still holds my interest, that is what I plan to do. I would be interested to hear about Douglas Ridge or the range east of Bend...if they have a benchrest crowd.
 
That sounds nice! Actually, my wife and I are going to Wyoming to look for land we could put a little log cabin on. Something we've always dreamed about. Living in a tax free state!:D The scenery and trout rivers don't hurt, either.;)
Don't forget your kite
 
I recently joined a very safe range just south of Albany, Oregon. Very safe with rigid range rules. The rifle range only goes out to 200 yards which is a downer. I'm the only one there with a chronograph in my 10 range travels. I'm the only guy trying to develop loads for my bolt action that I can see. 90% of the shooters are firing off .223 and .308 ARs. Is this a good thing? I suppose anything and anyone to keep the range going and in action is good but I sure wish there were some bench rest shooters around. I'm a beginner and would be fun to watch the pros.
Id just like to see all that free once fired 223 brass flying my way or laying there for me to pick up. doesnt seem to happen here, But if there were a bunch of people with military style semi autos doing mag dumps constantly while i am there trying to shoot I would probably change my tune. I think at the private ranges with heftier membership fees this stuff is limited a little-- of coarse problem is they are becoming fewer and fewer i think
 
I recently joined a very safe range just south of Albany, Oregon. Very safe with rigid range rules. The rifle range only goes out to 200 yards which is a downer. I'm the only one there with a chronograph in my 10 range travels. I'm the only guy trying to develop loads for my bolt action that I can see. 90% of the shooters are firing off .223 and .308 ARs. Is this a good thing? I suppose anything and anyone to keep the range going and in action is good but I sure wish there were some bench rest shooters around. I'm a beginner and would be fun to watch the pros.
Take a look at Tri-County Gun Club up in Tualatin/Sherwood. We average 25-40 guys every Tuesday night for a 600 yard match. Very competitive yet fun and friendly group. We have several guys drive up from as far south as Albany/ Corvallis each week.
 
AR-15s are the canary in the coal mine, so to speak. Any harmful legislation is going to go after them first. With that in mind, I think it’s a wonderful thing that there’s so many people out shooting them. The more people who aren’t scared of them, the better off we all are.

I say, blast away, young-uns!

This is an insightful observation IMO

And to add to this and others who've voiced similar sentiments....... I'll take it a step further. NOTHING, No Rifle Ever IME, has gotten as many people into accuracy as the AR. I could name 20 names off the top of my head whom I've watched grow from SKS/Mosin Nagant up into the AR, learn all about "MOA Accuracy" (a phrase that didn't EXIST when I was coming up) and then move on into bolt-actions..... which is where they are to this day. While STILL shooting the AR's in many cases.

And many of them still trying to get the old battle rifles to shoot to boot.........

Except now they're RELOADING....... rifles/pistols/shottyguns......it's all good!

:)
 
This is an insightful observation IMO

And to add to this and others who've voiced similar sentiments....... I'll take it a step further. NOTHING, No Rifle Ever IME, has gotten as many people into accuracy as the AR. I could name 20 names off the top of my head whom I've watched grow from SKS/Mosin Nagant up into the AR, learn all about "MOA Accuracy" (a phrase that didn't EXIST when I was coming up) and then move on into bolt-actions..... which is where they are to this day. While STILL shooting the AR's in many cases.

And many of them still trying to get the old battle rifles to shoot to boot.........

Except now they're RELOADING....... rifles/pistols/shottyguns......it's all good!

:)
+1
That is how I see it too . Just a small example,but my Son has turned two fine gentleman from work on to the shooting sports. Both started out w/ ARs (Grendel and .223),with guidance from us they made good purchases and started w/ accurate rifles. They have now made it to bolt guns and are addicted to anything gun related,including reloading . These two are putting a lot of money into the sport,who cares if some of it is on ARs ? Also,because of my Son and these two there are many more folks where they work that want to try it. This is a software firm full of very intelligent folks that make good money,not a bunch of macho bench resters like you see living back in their "glory days". Seems refreshing,maybe there is hope?
 
Take a look at Tri-County Gun Club up in Tualatin/Sherwood. We average 25-40 guys every Tuesday night for a 600 yard match. Very competitive yet fun and friendly group. We have several guys drive up from as far south as Albany/ Corvallis each week.

I will be going up there soon. Thanks
 
I went to a public range the other day to verify my load and scope sight in before a match. Set up a 28" target profiled 6br on the bench. This guy beside me was blasting away with a 16" braked 308 semi auto trying to hit a man sized target at 100 without a ton of luck. He looked at my rifle and said something along the lines of let me know when your gonna shoot that monster so I don't get blasted. I shot my 5 round group into a .2 inch hole and when we went down to check it he couldn't believe it was five shots. Thought it was 2 haha
 
I made a couple posts like I don't them, or people owning, far from the truth. I'm glad people are buying and using them, I just want them to be proficient with them, as with all firearms.
I have a collection of them too, and we have AR days, fully grown men acting like idiots. We'll set a Texas star, dueling tree, plate racks, and headbanger targets to 300. We shoot fast and hit what we're aiming at for the most part. But if others show up, we tone our horseshit down and let people have their space.
We also set props for prs style shooting, and use a good share of space, making a shooter move and build 3 firing positions to get 10 shots off in 90 sec takes room and is a distraction for others. Once again, minimal impact.
 
I bought a Savage MSR15 late last year. I have taken it out once and ran 40 rounds thru it. I sighted it with the sights it comes with. I shot it on the bench with one of my mechanical rest than standing off hand. All bullets were kept in a 12".shoot n c.Wolf amm (junk).... I have an old sp1 a2 colt I bought back in the '70's. These are the only 2 I own and probably will not shoot them much. Plenty of gas guns being ran every time I go to that range. I pick and choose what brass I want for my bolt guns that's left laying.
 
Reading this thread makes me appreciate my home range even more. The only problems have been new residents that complain about gunfire. This one fellow even called the game warden to report us shooting because he could hear it from his deer lease and might disturb his deer. The game warden laughed at him and informed him it was perfectly legal to shoot on private property during deer season.
 
I'd hate to tell the guy how many times we've had to call "cease fire" at matches in Raton because deer, pronghorn, elk or bears wandered across the range DURING a match, completely oblivious to both the gunfire and the shooters.
Look forward to it every month! Love the Turkeys strolling in front of the targets.
 
I'd hate to tell the guy how many times we've had to call "cease fire" at matches in Raton because deer, pronghorn, elk or bears wandered across the range DURING a match, completely oblivious to both the gunfire and the shooters.
Telling competitors not to shoot the turkeys and deer has become a part of our safety brief.
 
You are right! Some of these guys burn more ammo trying to 'sight it in' than I ever thought possible.
I was really amazed when one of the .223 AR guys said he had to have a better muzzle break because the recoil was so bad. I was puzzled for sure.

Oh, yea to the above.

Our range furnishes very nice wooden framed target stands made of heavier than one may think boards. How the frames themselves get shot up at 50 yards by these Rambo's is beyond me.

I am on Long Island in New York. So is my range. The percentage of black and sand colored AR-15's has exponentially increased over the last few years (and that is with NY compliant guns). There are fewer and fewer bolt rifles to be seen.

That recoil is a real killer, possibly more than twice as bad as a Marlin 60. What would they say to firing a Garand?
 

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