Are the people at your range nice or mean?

[Gyrene]

I am biased, but the Couny range I work at has a good bunch of personnel. We are County employees, or Volunteers.

There are range rules that everyone must obey, or it is "EXIT TIME"! Firearms are not to be handled when people are downrange posting, patching or pulling targets. We have, and will always ask people to leave when they are putting others at risk, or flatly violating the rules when they have been told not to violate those rules.

I and all of the other Rangemasters have sent people off the range, at one time or another. I see that as a partial failure on our part, failure to get the point across to the violators, that they are not to violate our rules. Still we have an occcasional person who needs to leave (maybe one a month or maybe 3 or 4 in a year). Our rules are for the safety and security of everybody who comes to our range, including we who work there. I try not to yell, because I do not want to upset somebody who just happens to have a loaded firearm in his/her hand. I have raised my voice (I called a CEASE FIRE) and was heard more than 100 yards away on another range (and they ceased firing too), so I can yell.

Children are welcome, as long as they are paying attention, and not running around playing tag or whatever.

We do get large family groups sometimes and they return again and again.

ARE WE MEAN?, Naw, though we usually get respect. ICEMAN66 can verify how we operate, as he uses our range OCCASIONALLY!

Iceman66 where are you?

Gyrene OFC

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