Took the wife to the indoor range today. They have a special on a Friday nights, 2 shooters on one lane for the cost of one. They call it date night, I like that.
They have two bays of 6 lanes each. The pistol bay was full so rather than wait we took a lane in the rifle bay. Each bay is 25 yards long.
Two guys on one side shooting a red dot sighted AR at 25 yards. A guy on the other side firing an AR10 in 308 at a whopping 7 yards. The concussion was horrendous. I need to start taking my Khornet 10" Contender to demonstrate what a fireball is to those yahoos.
308 guy finally left only to be replaced by a foursome with a combined IQ in the low triple digits. One guy was firing a selective fire AR in 223. I was really impressed with his 3 round bursts at 5 yards. Another one then broke out his full auto with integral suppressor. Ran the target back to 20 yards or so. Fired a burst of maybe 10 rounds. Never saw bits of ceiling tile come down like that.......
All of this while I watched a guy next to me with his quite new 1911. I saw more of it that I wanted. While his buddy fired a revolver he had the 1911 on a bench between a couple lanes. Slide was locked, looked like a cocked hammer too. I was not impressed and the fact the muzzle was swung toward my wife and I made it worse. At least the guy had on glasses, I'm sure the top of his head appreciated the protection.
Yep, it was moron night at the indoor range. We finished out shooting quickly and left.
This is why I like the club I belong to. I can have a 25 yards pistol bay to myself and know there is a 15' or so high berm between bays. Too bad it was 10° and dark.....
They have two bays of 6 lanes each. The pistol bay was full so rather than wait we took a lane in the rifle bay. Each bay is 25 yards long.
Two guys on one side shooting a red dot sighted AR at 25 yards. A guy on the other side firing an AR10 in 308 at a whopping 7 yards. The concussion was horrendous. I need to start taking my Khornet 10" Contender to demonstrate what a fireball is to those yahoos.
308 guy finally left only to be replaced by a foursome with a combined IQ in the low triple digits. One guy was firing a selective fire AR in 223. I was really impressed with his 3 round bursts at 5 yards. Another one then broke out his full auto with integral suppressor. Ran the target back to 20 yards or so. Fired a burst of maybe 10 rounds. Never saw bits of ceiling tile come down like that.......
All of this while I watched a guy next to me with his quite new 1911. I saw more of it that I wanted. While his buddy fired a revolver he had the 1911 on a bench between a couple lanes. Slide was locked, looked like a cocked hammer too. I was not impressed and the fact the muzzle was swung toward my wife and I made it worse. At least the guy had on glasses, I'm sure the top of his head appreciated the protection.
Yep, it was moron night at the indoor range. We finished out shooting quickly and left.
This is why I like the club I belong to. I can have a 25 yards pistol bay to myself and know there is a 15' or so high berm between bays. Too bad it was 10° and dark.....