They've even closed the public lands and forests in Washington state. Torques me off but good, when I'm out shooting in the woods I have more than enough "social distance".
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They've even closed the public lands and forests in Washington state. Torques me off but good, when I'm out shooting in the woods I have more than enough "social distance".
In Pennsylvania they ****ed off a bunch of fishermen because they started the season early. I'm thinking, gee, you're complaining about that. They've been encouraging people to fish and hunt in the state, Trout opened a week early and Turkey season is starting now. All the state ranges are closed and I suspect most if not all the private ranges are closed also. Been closed for over a month.
Same here and no news on when it will begin to shoot again as we shoot on a Commonwealth range the Govt will definately not let us on early to which I agree as a good smattering of our members are close to their 70-80's middle road about my age of about 600 years!:madsmile::rofl:
My range is still open with a couple of restriction in place. I'm always alone anyway. I go regularly, maybe twice a week because it could close before this ends and because of possible impending changes to firearms here. I have thousands of round and better shoot a few up I recon...use some of this stuff.
Jim,
You lucky bugger. Ours is closed and you can't go on your own anyway. One of you has to be RO trained.
Its a bit like fishing, you are aaprt anyway at each bay, otherwise you get no peace to concentrate, and I am sure even when the restrictions are lifted we will all have to stop the French kissing and cuddling before we throw lead down the range at man sized figure 11's :ugh:
THIS IS WHY I LOVE YUMA.
Not only do we have a very large range complex about 15 miles outside of town , but we also have the old WW2 Patton range as well . It's not much to look at any more , which is part of it's charm and lack of use . It was a 500 yd. range with a berm every 100 yards and a target pit berm as well . The target equipment is long gone and a dirt road cuts across at about the 300 yard line . We shoot mostly at the 200 yd. line into the target berm . Behind that is a hill that's 500 - 550 yds. about half way up . The mountains behind that has canyons running back 1500 to 2000 yds. Beyond the mountains is a rough , ugly stretch of the range no one goes into that goes for about 5-6 miles , just in case of a stray round , but no one tries to clear the first mountain line .
It has no facilities or construction on it . We can line up on the range proper or to either side for a mile or so . Temperatures can reach 120F in the shade during summer , but luckily there is no shade unless you bring your own . We shoot .22s to .50BMG nowadays to mini-guns , 20MM modern , and a 3-inch black powder cannon in days now past . Great place to go before and still now during these times ( though warm weather is starting to come - topped a hundred this weekend ) .
I hope this brings some smiles out there today .
Take care and stay safe , Chris
All our ranges are closed and hunting has been halted (although it opens up for private land tomorrow). The reasoning is not 'social distancing' but the risk of having to call out emergency services in the event of accident in the mountains while this Covid-19 threat persists.
The worst example of RO stupidity I have encountered was when the RO insisted a plastic chamber flag was put into a smoking hot AR15, even though the mag was out and the bolt locked open. I got the job of removing the resulting mess! I have encountered a few 'little Hitlers' in my shooting career, all classic cases of little men with big egos!
I hear ya Woodsy. When I moved from Ohio to Tenn. I let my range membership lapse and they emailed asking why. The main reason was the move of course but I told her that I probably wouldn't have renewed anyways because of their head RO. The man had no social skills and had no business being around people with loaded firearms.:banghead::madsmile:
All ranges are opening again!!!
YEAH!!!
I'll have to wait two more weeks before picking up my new Bernardelli and Colt, but at least I can get back to shooting.
I almost reloaded the neighbour's cat last week...