Range Report: it’s been closed for 72 days

[Sir Henry]

The range I go to has been closed for 72 days with no opening date in sight. LEO rents the range for training and the privately owned range board said if members couldn’t use it then neither could LEO.

The range has the LEO support in this and they are pressing the governor to open outdoor ranges if they could meet social distancing requirements of any other business.

In the meantime I’m plinking in the backyard with my B.B. gun.

[Ernie]

Hoping our range gets to open the end of this month. I too am shooting my pellet rifle weather permitting.

[fortyshooter]

If ya'll were 3000 miles closer I'd say come on over. But I say it anyway...come on over!
I'm not shooting today but in the shop making parts for my target setup. Also letting it dry out down there from all the rain this past week.

[BigAl52]

My keyboard locked up when I tried to tell you what I think about that

[Ernie]

Seems our Governor decided to extend another 2 weeks.

[Hatchdog]

Gene, I don’t know if this will help but this is the action taken by the Spokane Rifle Club to reopen. SRC was able to do this even before Spokane County got to Phase II status. Good luck.


https://spokanerifle.com/17103-2/

[RanchRoper]

Hope they get you guys back on track soon. Alberta is relaxing most of the "rules" now for everything.

[bandit1250]

Our club range never closed up but travel from home to the range was non-essential travel. We are back to shooting there now and it is a good thing to be able to go shoot again. My shooting friend and I shot there Thursday and Friday for 5+ hours and were the only shooters there. I took 5 rifles Thursday and 4 different ones Friday. Some were rifles I had made scope swaps on during the stay home days. The biggest change was going to the fixed 12X Leupold Silhouette on one of my CZ Grand Finales. Other changes were from fixed 4X Leupolds to 2-7 Leuplds and 3-9 Leupolds that were center fire scopes and I changed the parallax to 55 yds to cover the yardage most shot with our rim fires. Still nice and clear out to over 120 yds. The 12X Leupold is a great target scope for me with my good eye sight but my friend likes 24-30 power on his target shooting rifles. I can't use the high powered rifle scopes as they are not clear as my lower powered scopes especially my fixed power over the variable models. I bettered my own personal record on the 1/4" spinner that was 15 straight hits when it was set up with the Burris HBR fixed 6X scope. Thursday I had 24 consecutive hits on the 1/4" and missed the 25th but then hit the next 5 to finish the 30 rounds that was in that box of SK+ ammo when we started to shoot the 1/4". Shooting was done at 50 Yds. The Grand Finale was strutting it's stuff Thursday. My friend went 17 straight hits with his custom Falcon action, custom barreled target rifle. My friend said it will probably be a while before we beat the 24 in a row. I seriously doubt I will ever beat it. He will beat it with one of his custom 15+ lb target rifles that ride the bags far better than sporter barrel rifles. I feel one day this year he will go into the 40's on consecutive hits with his Falcon or the Remington custom built 40X.. We had perfect wind free days two days in a row to shoot. That is rare for here. The really light drizzle rain days with cloud cover seems the best days to shoot and usually are light on winds or none at all and free of other shooters. I hope all members soon have their ranges back open to shooting so they can shoot and post on how things went with their shooting. I like reading about members at the range doing what we like to do best.

[RanchRoper]

I agree, our range is deserted if there's even a slight chance of drizzle. Plus the wind here keeps lots away. I shoot often on those days.

[Sir Henry]

Seems our Governor decided to extend another 2 weeks.

He is not my governor.

[BigAl52]

Hey Ernie how do you like the pellet rifle. Didnt you get one from Airguns of AZ

[Ernie]

I got a Weihrauch HW95 Luxus in .177 and I do like it, it shoots very well with the iron sights. Bought a Tasco Air 2-7 X32 scope cheap and mounted it. Maybe I will try to sight it in this evening.
Are you still waiting for yours?

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[BigAl52]

Yup still waiting. I called a couple weeks ago and they said anytime they should be there but anytime has been 2 more weeks. Gonna call them Tuesday again and see if they know anything more.

[Ernie]

Here is the gun with the scope mounted

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and the target. Took about 8 shots to get it close then put up a new target. Don't like these targets as they make it difficult to see the crosshairs but I want to use them up. This target has 20 shots on it, the 2 lower shots were the first set and then I made my last adjustment. I was a bit shakey tonight but it is not too bad at 25 yards sitting.

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[BigAl52]

Looks good to me Ernie nice shooting for sure. My neighbor is ordering one to. I have a 30 yard range ready to go. Ive got a rat on a stick some small sillywets and a spinner target to shoot at. Should be fun.

[RanchRoper]

Nicely done.

[Conax]

Our biggest and best shooting grounds in this state has been closed for more than two years. They were going to improve it and renovate. Last year they said the rains delayed the work but it would be open in the fall. At the last minute they refused to reopen it. They say they'll have to find a way to make it impossible for any rounds to fly beyond the boundaries of the range property. An impossible requirement. The range officers always prevented such antics and I never heard of any locals complaining about stray rounds. Now I guess they would have to enclose the entire property or build backstops hundreds of feet high. It's absurd.
Millions of tax dollars spent on the most popular public range in this state, and it can't reopen ever, as things stand now.

[GunnyGene]

Our biggest and best shooting grounds in this state has been closed for more than two years. They were going to improve it and renovate. Last year they said the rains delayed the work but it would be open in the fall. At the last minute they refused to reopen it. They say they'll have to find a way to make it impossible for any rounds to fly beyond the boundaries of the range property. An impossible requirement. The range officers always prevented such antics and I never heard of any locals complaining about stray rounds. Now I guess they would have to enclose the entire property or build backstops hundreds of feet high. It's absurd.
Millions of tax dollars spent on the most popular public range in this state, and it can't reopen ever, as things stand now.

Over reaction due to CYA syndrome. One of the symptoms is constant & uncontrollable mumbling of "abundance of caution".

[Conax]

Our biggest and best shooting grounds in this state has been closed for more than two years. They were going to improve it and renovate. Last year they said the rains delayed the work but it would be open in the fall. At the last minute they refused to reopen it. They say they'll have to find a way to make it impossible for any rounds to fly beyond the boundaries of the range property. An impossible requirement. The range officers always prevented such antics and I never heard of any locals complaining about stray rounds. Now I guess they would have to enclose the entire property or build backstops hundreds of feet high. It's absurd.
Millions of tax dollars spent on the most popular public range in this state, and it can't reopen ever, as things stand now.

Over reaction due to CYA syndrome. One of the symptoms is constant & uncontrollable mumbling of "abundance of caution".

There are three lesser ranges (all over a hundred miles from here) that were left open, probably because they're small and crappy and few people go there.

[MyretireChlo&Miss]

Here in northern Wisconsin our ranges finally opened. Scored some lead for bullet molding and threw some lead down range...a good time was had by all.