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thanks for the welcome.

I was sighting in the iron sights - I'm on the paper at 50 yards... so no real worries at this point in time. I will check out the places you mentioned, would be nice to find a place i can shoot 7.62 FMJ's.

Been doing lots of reading here the past 2 hours, i love this forum! :)

I've heard the stories on quail creek range and never had a problem until today. I've been a semi regular there for the past 2 years, i got my CHL there (which was a joke by the way). I'm a younger guy - 26 years old, relative to the old guys that work there.

I've witness the range officers being jerks before, but today they just lost ALL future business from myself and anyone else I convince not to go there. I go there with my .50AE Desert Eagle and my relatively new SLR-107FR AK. I specifically wanted to sight in both the front and rear since I finally got the tools. It was a tuesday afternoon so they are VERY VERY slow which you'd think would be nice.

Before I bash on this range officer that kicked me out today (i didn't get his name but he was LARGE, had glasses and a beard) there is only ONE cool range officer there, and everytime he was running the show I had a great time there, he never came over and berated people for their style of shooting, we even talked a little shop because he also had a Magnum Research firearm, he' gave friendly pointers to myself and others there as well.

I shot 50 rounds thru my .50AE without incident - I was the only one on the pistol range at the time. I wanted to start on the 25 yeard rifle range, but since they redid the place they don't have shell catchers in place and I didn't want to throw shells all over the people to the right. So I moved over to the 50 yard so i could begin the sighting process (I asked him if it was okay before I went). I finally get setup, and squeeze off a few rounds and I hear the officer behind me going thru my things behind me. he found a magazine of FMJ 7.62 ammo and freaked out and told me I had to leave. What teed me off was the fact that he just decided to go rifle thru my personal things. AND what made me fuming mad was after I had packed up everything, I was waiting for a cease fire so I could go get my sight target just to see where i stand initially. So I wait and I wait... and wait some more (keep in mind im the only one on the pistol range at this point) to where I know this guy was just power tripping and making "the kid" wait.

-FINALLY- I go get my target and come back to the bench where everything is already unloaded, packed up and locked away in my gun case, I go to pick it up and leave and this guy yells at me to stop and says I can't move my gun when they are under a cease fire. -WHAT-?? A gun that is unloaded, put away in a case and locked up? I can understand that I can't run around with a gun in my hand waiting to shoot under cease fire but this is me trying to LEAVE after being kicked off. You can imagine how mad I was that I just paid 15 dollars and was only there for about 20 minutes before I'm told to leave, I try to leave and suddenly I can't touch my own darn gun case?

I'm venting yes - and I will be writing a strongly worded email to them later this week. I doubt they will check it, read it, or anything useful. They have lost my business forever because of this. Which is a shame because I'm in Keller only about 15 minutes from this range. I even got my CHL there in August 08(which im still waiting for and here its' near Feb 09. I don't know how you guys' classes were but this one was a joke, there were women in there that didn't know how to load a magazine for the field test. There were people in the class that obviously just wanted a gun to go and hurt someone with the questions they were asking. There were people going off the paper targets at 5 yards - and somehow they all passed. Much like this country - the priorities of this place are way off base.

Quail creek - I will never drop another dime there again. Now I need to find some place to sight in my AK on a 25/50/100 yard range.