Houston Crew Range Day July 27th Shooters Station

[Greg_TX]

Noobs allowed? I'd make the drive.

Gotta take the plunge sooner or later and get that noob off of ya...

 

[Glockster69]

I hope no one is bothered by me posting this info in this thread. Talk of Saturday's shoot had waned and turned to 'where/when are we going next'.

I stopped by to see one of the guys in charge today but he wasn't at work. I will try again tomorrow schedule permitting.

The website states if there are no scheduled events, members can use the range at will. Nothing is shown on the calendar through the end of September BUT, to be fair, nothing has been listed since February either. I need to find what, if anything, that means.

Just so I don't have to back track I count 6-Yes and 2-Maybe:
Clarke
Greg
Ben
Sugar britches
Brains
subseashooter?
AKmike?

Hellz yea Brains, we need someone to givez the poo poo to

 

[Sugar Land]

Noobs allowed? I'd make the drive.

Hell yea. We always need a noob to load mags..lol

 

[Jakashh]

I imagine this range does allow steel core steel cased 7.62x54r through a mosin nagant? Haven't shot my mosin in forever and I'd be down to shoot anything so long as it makes loud noises and has recoil.

 

[Sugar Land]

Why don't you buy some real ammo? You know nobody lets you use that shit.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Where and when?

I WANT to go...but then again, I also have a trip to SC I have to save for.

 

[Glockster69]

I imagine this range does allow steel core steel cased 7.62x54r through a mosin nagant? Haven't shot my mosin in forever and I'd be down to shoot anything so long as it makes loud noises and has recoil.

Not gonna lie, don't know anything about that round. Why is it not allowed at most places?

 

[Glockster69]

Where and when?

TBD. If it works out there will undoubtedly be a separate planning/scheduling thread started.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Count me in for now, and i'll back out if the date doesn't work.

 

[Jakashh]

Why don't you buy some real ammo? You know nobody lets you use that shit.

ASC does lol. Will buy more brass non steel core eventually

 

[Jakashh]

Not gonna lie, don't know anything about that round. Why is it not allowed at most places?

People don't like steel case ammo or steel core cuz they think its armor piercing when its not.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

I went to a range in Dallas that required hollow point .223 to shoot into their dirt berm. Of course they were the only place that carries hollow points and I wound up paying 1.10 per round. If I wasn't there helping someone shoot for their first time, I woulda just loaded my rifle back in the blazer.

 

[benenglish]

I went to a range in Dallas that required hollow point .223 to shoot into their dirt berm. Of course they were the only place that carries hollow points and I wound up paying 1.10 per round.

Rip-off artists like that are one of the few uses of social media that I consider worthwhile. Post to facebook. Tweet. Hit every review site. People like that need to feel the pain of lost business.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

I wasn't sure if it was normal outside of hicksville. If y'all are saying that's not normal, then hell yea I'll leave bad reviews all over the place. Yahoo, Google, Facebook, yellow pages, throne site that people use strictly for rating businesses....i have patience lol

 

[benenglish]

I wasn't sure if it was normal outside of hicksville.

I have read repeatedly on this site that a number of outdoor ranges prohibit FMJ ammo. It seems they're mostly around Dallas. None (that I know of) in or around Houston have such prohibitions.

So I ask the question here - Does anyone know of a valid reason for an outdoor range to limit their users to HP ammo? I can't think of one and I'd be hitting the review sites. However, I'm certainly willing to be educated about special circumstances that I've never encountered.

What say y'all?

BTW - This is the definition of thread drift. My apologies to any who object; if a mod wants to delete this, you won't get a squawk out of me.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Does FMJ have a larger possibility of ricochet than HP?

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Only if you have a lot of big rocks in the berm. Most ranges pull them out.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I was grasping at straws to figure out a reason to make FMJ not wanted is all.

 

[Sugar Land]

I was grasping at straws to figure out a reason to make FMJ not wanted is all.

I don't think FMJ will be bothered by straws....

 

[Glockster69]

Cam's loaded and uses only Mil-spec straws