New Indoor Range Opening in Westfield

[Cj52racers]

Just because you know how to do it safely doesn't mean everyone else will be. You want to act like its an outdoor range, go to an outdoor range and draw from your holster. Shooting the concrete at your feet is way different than shooting the dirt at your feet...


No one said you had to do it at home. The rules say off the property, Although they gave some guy a tupperware container to go out to his car and remove it there when I went.

I am sorry, but how does this make it any better? You talk about safety, but is a firearm sitting loose in a tupperwear container safer than one in a holster? I doubt it. Also, why should individuals who carry have to stop off property and fiddle with their firearm when it would be safer to just remove it from its holster at the range?

 

[Glock19]

clear tupperware container with a locked back slide and not loaded, cant pull it out til its set on the counter at the range pointed downrange... OR.... Some new guy with a loaded gun in his holster grabs his gun and pulls the trigger inside the building with one in the chamber? Please answer your own question...

 

[Cj52racers]

clear tupperware container with a locked back slide and not loaded, cant pull it out til its set on the counter at the range pointed downrange... OR.... Some new guy with a loaded gun in his holster grabs his gun and pulls the trigger inside the building with one in the chamber? Please answer your own question...

Yes, but how do you think it gets into the tupperware container? It has to be removed from the holster somewhere. Either in the parking lot or in the store, and neither one of those seems safer than a holster removal in a shooting bay.

 

[stevee]

The tupperware container is kind of like the tie I was given to hang around my neck at a private club in Tennessee where they were required. Next time I made sure to wear my own tie.

 

[wtburnette]

I agree with you about this whole issue, but if anyone knows of an indoor range where the proprietors allow folks to practice their draw stroke/presentation, I'd like to hear where it is; I've never seen an indoor range where that was allowed; not here nor anywhere else I've been. Just offhand, I can't say what the differences between doing so at an indoor range - or even an outdoor range like the Atterbury complex - and doing so at an unsupervised range may be in terms of personal and business liability, but I'm certain there are some significant legal issues which business owners must address when considering this question.

I could be wrong, but I thought BGF allowed this? I don't know but I thought someone told me they did. I'm going to post in their subforum to find out for sure.

 

[indyartisan]

I would still like to know why they require jacketed and ban bare lead.

To keep airborne lead levels as low as possible?

 

[nakinate]

I could be wrong, but I thought BGF allowed this? I don't know but I thought someone told me they did. I'm going to post in their subforum to find out for sure.

They do allow this at BGF. Which is why even though I will go Tim's for plinking, I will still make trips to BGF to train. You can rapid fire at BGF too.

 

[wtburnette]

They do allow this at BGF. Which is why even though I will go Tim's for plinking, I will still make trips to BGF to train. You can rapid fire at BGF too.

Yep, Greg answered my thread in the BGF subforum and clarified that they do allow drawing from a holster. There are some caveats, but I think that is only to be expected. More reasons I go to BGF every week

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/beech-grove-firearms/331223-drawing-holster.html

 

[hornadylnl]

From ****mydadsays.

"The dog is an outside dog. You want an inside dog, you go get your own inside."

 

[ol' poke]

From ****mydadsays.

"The dog is an outside dog. You want an inside dog, you go get your own inside."

+1. Tim's house, Tim's rules. Don't like to play by his rules, don't go to play at his house.

 

[hornadylnl]

+1. Tim's house, Tim's rules. Don't like to play by his rules, don't go to play at his house.

And in the quote I posted, I think the speaker was putting extra emphasis on the get your own inside part.

 

[suzgsxr1300]

For anyone interested, this is the video that's shown during orientation at Tim's. Pretty basic for an experienced shooter, but not everyone at the range has lots of experience, myself included. I, for one, want to know that the person in the stall next to me is thinking safety. They ask that you watch the video on your first visit, at which time you are issued a "certification" card. I think this is a good practice.

Video: Introduction to Range Safety and Etiquette | NSSF

 

[wtburnette]

Very nice video for beginners, that's for sure. I think that should go a long way to ease the apprehension for new shooters.

 

[cfrank30]

Way overpriced for a bunch of used guns that are not even cleaned and some of the employees are not very knowledgable about what they are selling

 

[bigus_D]

I, for one, appreciate the rules because there are too many dumb arses around. While I'd prefer to have the range all to myself, I appreciate not having to worry about the idiot next to me. Yes, at the range everybody next to me is an idiot. Having had too many guns pointed at me on the range, the safety level at this facility is much appreciated.

Also, nobody has said anything about my double taps. I've heard them tell others to slow down though. Could have something to do with my tight groups and that other guy missing the paper.

 

[kludge]

I literally live a mile away.

Too bad about the no lead rule. Doubt I will shoot there much because of that.

FMJ with exposed base (like 95% of FMJ that isn't hollow point) puts lead in the air too. Perhaps there is some other reason?

 

[hornadylnl]

I literally live a mile away.

Too bad about the no lead rule. Doubt I will shoot there much because of that.

FMJ with exposed base (like 95% of FMJ that isn't hollow point) puts lead in the air too. Perhaps there is some other reason?

I believe the Lafayette indoor range years ago said that the lead bullets stick to the traps and have to be scraped or chiseled off.

 

[kludge]

I also wonder if the no lead rule applies to .22 rimfire ammo.

 

[Cj52racers]

I also wonder if the no lead rule applies to .22 rimfire ammo.

It can't really, can it? I have been shooting bare lead from .22's here. Other than electroplated copper wash, there are no true FMJ's in a .22 correct?

 

[Steeltoe546]

Ya got one more here..just behind St vincents