Observations from local Sighting InDays

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
The PA State Game commission runs the range I use: Actually they do a very good job! My Range has Shotgun, Pistol 10 and 25yd Rifle 50, 100 & 200yd Covered with nice benches.......
Granted you can't shoot at anything on the pistol or rifle except paper & Shotgun only clay birds!
But they keep it clean and mowed and tidy!
We stop target shooting between Mid October to mid December because that is when the one shot a year hunting crowd it prevalent!
At that time rules and Range manors go out the window! It is just not worth it for discipled range shooter to deal with them!
I pretty much cast an load for the cold season ahead ....then only the die hards show up!
 

Mike W1

Active Member
About the only time I feel lucky. Not fancy but the only bonehead there would normally be ME. Casting shed and bench towards the right and can shoot in the bitter cold from inside if I want to. What I always wonder if how much shooting the guys with all the molds do. A short walk from the house to the range for me and I don't do it often enough. Old and lazy not a good combo!
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david s

Well-Known Member
JWFlipis, Your observation about rules and manners is it in a nut shell. The range that I use is frankly to big at 25 or so public bench's (and half or more bench's with two or more shooters) to be self regulating . Come the week before general season and you get to many shooters with there own agendas. Twenty four bench's will want to take a break and check there targets but the twenty fifth just has to get that last 100 sight in shots off so every one else can pound sand. The suggestion of hiring a range officer for a month or six weeks has been kiboshed, and the idea of volunteer range officers ended when they bought the maintenance man sound cancelling hearing protection and a bull horn. He's still expected to do all the regular duty's though. I hide on the member side.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
It's always struck me as odd, that the cities with rundown homes/ blocks, come up with programs to get houses back on the tax roles. As soon as a new homeowner cleans the place up, they double or quadruple the taxes. Doesn't seem like a good long range plan to me. Occupants of crack houses don't pay any taxes.


We just had something like that happen in our counties only city. Guy buys a property that needed a lot of work and did a nice job. Soona s he's done his taxes get raised 10X IIRC. He also buys the cities only movie theater with intentions of bringing that back and the taxes pop up there too. Long story made short, he's is so mad he and a couple of his friends run for Mayor/city council and they win by somewhere around 90% WITH WRITE IN VOTES!!!! Nothing like that has ever been seen here before. I'd sure call that a mandate!