Well, I didn't make it out last weekend but was there for a couple of hours tonight...it was my first visit to the outdoor range. I was very happy with the setup. But I did notice that all the barrels were full with trash, and there was quite a good amount of debris down near all the berms. Is this how it usually is?? I mean, I understand the debris near the berms, it's all there for the same reason-to be shot at, lol. It just seemed like some of the trash and debris had been there a while. I understand there are work parties to address these things and would love to help out at one of them myself. I was thinking it could be the leftovers from winter if there hasn't been a major cleanup yet. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed myself...but from what I had heard, I was expecting it to be better kept. Also, I thought I remembered Eric saying to always clean up your targets and trash, but that obviously has not been happening. There was a little of everything out there from plastic, PVC, wood, metal, paper, buckets and empty shell casings. So I'm just trying to make sure I understand how this all works. There were no brooms or dust pans to clean up shells from the firing stand floor either.
But anyway, I was shooting well!! First time test fire for my new saiga AK conversion, and sighting in my EOTech & back up sights on my AR @50yds. I ended up grabbing bright yellow empty shotgun shells off the ground and setting them up on the beam that's already there. I was nailing those things at 50yds. I used 12rds to hit 10 shells with my AR. I didn't intend to sight in my Saiga, but cycled 3 30rds mags through it smoothly after fixing a small problem I had immediately with the hammer spring blocking the trigger from resetting. But I feild stripped it, tweaked the spring so it would seat properly, then shot the remaining 82 rds with only 1 FTE. All in all, I had a great time and look forward to my next visit!!