The only thing I can think of that would be nice to see is to allow customers to hang their own steel at the 100 yard range. When shooting with irons, I'd love to be able to ring steel instead of poking holes in paper that my older eyes have trouble seeing.
Ever since I got my AR, I've been going to Atterbury a lot more often. And after ECPR closed for winter, I shot at Atterbury almost every Saturday, like yesterday(12/31). I've never seen the ROs picking on someone for picking up the brass (they actually ask us to pick up the brass, "also shooters are responsible for picking up your brass. We appreciate it". They say this every time range goes cold). The rules are strict, like when the range is cold, no one is allowed to come near the shooting bench ("Get off the bench!", you hear this quite often, as someone just can't follow the rules the first time they were told. I was, once)...
I actually can understand and appreciate they enforce the safety rules like that. I've been to Wilbur Wright range before. Talk about scary, that IS a scary place to shoot. There is usually one RO at Wilbur, but he doesn't do anything for safety. People handle their guns, point it down range, etc. when other guys are replacing target...
The only thing I'd like to see changing, is allowing fast shooting. Atterbuy want you to shoot one shot per second. You can't practice self defense kind of shooting like at ECPR. Another maybe allowing us to stick a swinging steel target in the ground. ECPR already allows this...
For $6 an hour (they allow lane sharing, so me and my wife together still cost the same. ECPR should adopt this policy), and with rifle lanes, Atterbury will be my shooting range for a long long time in future...
I will not be returning to the Atterbury Shooting Complex for any reason. The range officers leave a bad taste in your mouth and like to make a spectacle of anyone they can.
I just started reloading and while picking up my brass, an officer runs down and over the loud speaker (while standing right in front of me) yells at me that I am only allowed to pick up my own brass and no one else's. I thought I had only picked up what was mine because all my brass was still warm. Maybe I'm wrong and while he was on the other end of the complex, he saw something I didn't.
It's your right to run it the way you choose but my right to not return.
It has been several years since I have been to Atterbury. Where is the range located?
Like Phil said, people are always going to complain about something.
Some people just can't handle being told what to do by anyone. You really have to wonder if they were ever in the military and how long they lasted if they were.
Veer off to your right (northwest) just west of the "Camp Atterbury" rock which is located at the top of the hill. The range will be on your right. The winter hours are 12:00 - dark on Tuesday and Friday and 10:00 - dark on Saturday and Sunday.
It's off of Hospital Road.
You know, after umpteen years I finally realized that "Hospital Road" actually ends there at the top of the hill. The road which the range is located on is actually "Edinburgh Street", and it's also "Edinburgh Street" on out to US31. Before Camp Atterbury was built in 1942, the road all the way through (from Edinburgh to Nineveh) was SR252. When the post was built, 252 was re-routed north (with US31) and then west to Trafalgar (as it is today).