KBCraig
NES Member
So, I joined a range. No questions, except for name, address, and $40 cash for a family membership. No sponsors or inquisition required.
No, I won't tell you the name or location, unless you move to NH. No, not that NH... the real NH, where going to Canada is closer and easier than going to Concord, and where Boston is a more foreign country except for the sports teams.![[wink]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/002.gif "Wink [wink]")
I checked it out today for the first time (I was the only one there on a Thursday afternoon), and I've attached a photo of the range rules. There are a couple more rules, such as no full auto fire, no tracers (it's in the woods, yanno), and the sporting clays range isn't open when the pistol range is in use (the shotgunners being downrange, and all...), but those are reasonable given the limits of the berms. The important thing is this: be safe, and expect others to do the same.
These are the only rules needed at a gun range: no hall monitors (err, "Range Safety Officers"), self-policed, and a cigar box in the shed where you can leave 50 cents for each target you use, all on the honor system.
I don't know how long this range has been established or exactly how governance works, other than that it's an LLC.
When you buy a membership you get the current combination to the locks, which are on the entrance gate, the supplies shed (targets, stands, cardboard backers, chamber flags), and another building whose purpose I don't know -- but there are BBQ grills there under the porch.
There are ambidextrous benchrests giving 8 firing positions for the 100 and 200 yard berms (gongs at 200), a pistol and rimfire rifle range with some swingers and falling plates (not pro level, but it's cheap!), a sporting clays range, some archery stations, and a fishing pond. A couple of flowing brooks.
One porta-potty, and one old-fashioned outhouse (I ain't skeered -- I lived with one in my youth!)
BYO targets and stands if you want, but stands, cardboard backers, and targets are all available in the supplies shed. BYO staple gun. Chamber flags $1 each on the honor system.
And now for the big list of rules:
No, I won't tell you the name or location, unless you move to NH. No, not that NH... the real NH, where going to Canada is closer and easier than going to Concord, and where Boston is a more foreign country except for the sports teams.
I checked it out today for the first time (I was the only one there on a Thursday afternoon), and I've attached a photo of the range rules. There are a couple more rules, such as no full auto fire, no tracers (it's in the woods, yanno), and the sporting clays range isn't open when the pistol range is in use (the shotgunners being downrange, and all...), but those are reasonable given the limits of the berms. The important thing is this: be safe, and expect others to do the same.
These are the only rules needed at a gun range: no hall monitors (err, "Range Safety Officers"), self-policed, and a cigar box in the shed where you can leave 50 cents for each target you use, all on the honor system.
I don't know how long this range has been established or exactly how governance works, other than that it's an LLC.
When you buy a membership you get the current combination to the locks, which are on the entrance gate, the supplies shed (targets, stands, cardboard backers, chamber flags), and another building whose purpose I don't know -- but there are BBQ grills there under the porch.
There are ambidextrous benchrests giving 8 firing positions for the 100 and 200 yard berms (gongs at 200), a pistol and rimfire rifle range with some swingers and falling plates (not pro level, but it's cheap!), a sporting clays range, some archery stations, and a fishing pond. A couple of flowing brooks.
One porta-potty, and one old-fashioned outhouse (I ain't skeered -- I lived with one in my youth!)
BYO targets and stands if you want, but stands, cardboard backers, and targets are all available in the supplies shed. BYO staple gun. Chamber flags $1 each on the honor system.
And now for the big list of rules:
![[rolleyes]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/042.gif "Roll Eyes [rolleyes]")
