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AV8R wrote:The ability to work in the presence of distractions is a useful skill to acquire.

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KBCraig wrote:Were you leaving because of the rapid fire? Why? Were the shots on target?

The shots were not on target, a few hit my target. And the guys on the lane on the other side of him left too. Not sure if he left soon after that or not. I have been back to that range and not had any problems since. In fact it is where I go if it is just me going. I go to another range if I am going with a group.

I left the range once because of idiotic behaviour. Three guys came in and rented guns, then started acting like thugs, firing the pistols sideways, etc. They seemed high on something to me, so I decided to leave.

I notified the owners on my way out.

I've been back to that same range dozens of times since then, and haven't had another problem.

I just joined the Corpus Christi Pistol and Rifle Club a few days ago, and I look forward to a much more enjoyable shooting experience outdoors. I will keep my indoor range membership for bad weather days.

I tend to take a position to the far right, when possible, so that my rifle brass won't bonk folks on the head too much.

I guess I don't have much room to comment, since I've never been to a commercial range, and the only indoor range I've ever fired on was .22 rifles while in college ROTC.

I belong to a private gun club, and on rare occasions I shoot at a public range in a nearby county park. Rarely do I encounter another shooter on the range at the same time. So, I really don't comprehend what you city shooters have to put up with.

If I'm there first and another shooter shows up, I pay a bit of attention to notice when he's done setting up, and might be ready to shoot. That's when I ask if he's ready to go downrange and set up targets, which is when I'll also go down and change targets.

That's for the rifle range, of course, which is one range with six benches. Over on the pistol side, there are four separate bays spread over 200 yards with solid dirt berms in between; I've never seen all four in use at the same time, so pistol shooters simply don't compete for space. The only possible scenario is if one pistol shooter wants to move some reactive targets from a bay where they're not being used, to another bay; in that case, it's easier for the shooters to just swap bays.

I've been pinged with plenty of brass during annual qualification at work, because our range lanes are spaced at "dress right, dress!" distance. Wear a hat and button up, because brass is going to come your way. As noted above, training to fire with distractions is good exercise.

Of course at work, we're all firing the same course of fire, reacting to turning targets at the same time. That's not the same as folks face on indoor ranges.

Kevin

Jason73 wrote:If this happened to you how would you handle the situation?

Picture this: You are in a lane at your favorite shooting range, happily sending lead downrange. Someone comes in and gets on the lane to your right. This individual begins to complain about brass coming over the partition. You apologize and state that you have no control over this and you continue shooting. Your neighbor stops you and again complains about flying brass. You again apologize and state your lack of control over the ejected cases at which point the person tells you that you are a "mean dude" The whole time this person is shooting in an uncontrolled/unsafe manner, firing as rapidly as possible (against range rules), missing the target 90% of the time in the process, all the while yelling like a lunatic and acting like an ignorant fool that has no business being in posession of a firearm let alone discharging one.

Personally, with the situation as it is written and assuming you had no fault whatsoever, I'd tell him to 'bugger off'....in francais. As far as the unsafe shooting, you could have used that as your 'out' to not only alert the RO, but to take that opportunity to get another bay even though you shouldn't have been the one to have to do that.

AV8R wrote:The ability to work in the presence of distractions is a useful skill to acquire.

Very true. I shoot 98% indoor and love it when Mr. Macho comes in to shoot his .44 Magnum right next to me. Very good practice shooting under those conditions. (This of course after making sure Mr. Macho does know how to shoot safely!)