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Originally Posted by lane912
the range i go to is a private club that has electronic key to accsess the range. people bring very nice spoons generaly and it seems there is at least one off duty police officer there hanging out. i guess it is worth the anual fee
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Me too. Video surveilance and everything. It's a couple hundred bucks per year, but well worth it. There are very strict rules on admittance, gun handling, firing cadance (no rapid fire on the pistol range, only load one round at a time on the rifle range, even in semi-autos) and even marksmanship. If you can't stay on the paper, you can't stay on the range - more of a problem on the handgun range, where the closest target is 25 yards (the indoor range "combat" crowd seems to have a particularly hard time with this one - the guys that think a fist-sized "group" at 7 yards is awesome).
I do shoot in an uncontroled gravel pit as well. Range rules are not condusive to informal plinking and the like. In the gravel pit I'm on high alert - no telling who will show up and what "gun safety" habits they bring. Both environments have their plusses and minusses...