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couldn't agree with you more...I'd rather drive half a day to go to BLGC or Pawnee then shoot there...firing line is in the same boat...Originally Posted by soldier-of-the-apocalypse
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CO state senator: 2nd Amendment doesn't protect duck hunting, therefore:
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I've had mixed experiences at both CC and FL. Just depends on the mood of the RSO I guess. I don't need someone hovering over me, or yelling because I double tapped. I almost got kicked out of CC for that a few weeks after I moved here and I had my AK. At FL I got treated like a 12 year old and laughed at when I told them I know how to handle a pistol given my 7 years of military experience and that I took the battalion armorer's course. I still go there to see what they have in stock and if sneakerd posts a deal on something I need. But I haven't shot there since that, and I go to CC still sometimes since I'm less than 2 miles away.
Cool video, but I couldn't tolerate that environment. Never even been there, found out I had to pay twice before I could even shoot, then have to deal with crowds and Range Nazis? Fuck that.
There's a lot more of us ugly mf'ers out here than there are of you pretty people!
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It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.....
I have had the opposite experience at Cherry Creek. The RO's leave me alone for the most part, aside from uncasing and performing their required little safety speech. As one of those who tend to be a touch anti-social and just come out, do my thing, and leave, I appreciate that they really tend to ignore me.
I have had them:
Offer to help me save my brass once they realize or asked that I reload, and I mean they sweep it right over to my station, which is nice because I get to shoot more and chase brass less.
Notify me when a pistol lane became open while I was on the rifle side.
Leave me in peace to shoot.
In return I have:
Been respectful of their job, they get to deal with a lot of chuckleheads.
Made sure that I leave my rifle/shotgun/pistol locked back and safed during target change.
Gave them plenty of advanced notice when I wanted to switch over from rifle to pistol
Kept my station clean and swept out other folks spent steel or crap casings.
There are things that are a tick frustrating like the one second delay between shots, and I am typically next to some chucklehead who is completely new to shooting and concerns me.
The one incident I had was when I was showing Kwando my liteweight AR and we were corrected for not handling it in the window muzzle downrange. Totally our bad.
Oh, and yeah it can be loud there, it is after all a public place and can get crowded. Thank God we arent doing something loud and distracting like shooting firearms...
Not to beat a dead horse, but I ask folks to keep in mind that we have had almost a total employee turn-over in the last year, think I could safely bet that Dave's experience was "long?" ago. We try really hard NOT to be range nazi's. As a matter of fact, no one at FL actually stands on/in the range monitoring. We leave people alone for the most part, only stepping in when we happen to hear rapid firing or see stupid stuff going on out there. Then the "correction" is almost always very light-hearted and not overbearing, unless the shooter is kind of a dick.
I'll take ear plugs for a $1000 Alex, actually it was relatively quiet there compared to some of their busy season days. If I was the social type I would have interrupted a conversation or two to interject my opinion on a wide array of subjects.
I live within a block of the Silver Bullet in Wheat Ridge, I have only shot there twice in the last 8 years.
Last edited by USMC88-93; 04-08-2013 at 08:52.
this is what I dislike the most...It's loud, and not real friendly to big calibers...for either pistol or rifle...at FL, you about knock yourself out with a 44mag, only took me once to learn my lesson there...
But support local business if you have no where else to shoot...
Last edited by buckshotbarlow; 04-08-2013 at 08:50.
NRA BP+PPITH Instructor
CO state senator: 2nd Amendment doesn't protect duck hunting, therefore:
2 non web feet bad,
2 web feet good...
Vas-tly Different Now...and prefers corn to peas
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