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Just a general question , looking for opinions....
The layout of my gun club is a 300 yard , big rifle range, one 100 yard "multi use" range with a few shooting benches and 7 "pistol pits" for handguns, shotguns, "pistol caliber carbines" and muzzleloading weapons.
Today there is no one at my range so I go to the "multi use" range to shoot my 1795 Springfield. I'm shooting, blowing billows of smoke, a haze of smoke is hanging over the range.
A couple rolls in , pulls up and gets out, walks right up to the bench next to me. I'm like "hi how are you are you gonna shoot here?let me make some room but I'm shooting a muzzleloader, I mean, I'm just trying to figure out how we can work this , or maybe I'll just head deeper in to a pistol pit, what are you shooting ?" And guy has a .22 pistol , telling me he's gonna teach his wife how to shoot it.
I'm like, ok, let me get this round out and I'll move, there's no way you're gonna teach her to shoot a pistol while I'm blowing smoke, sparks, burning paper and slinging huge lead balls down range.......
I'm trying to be nice, even though I would think any sane person would go to the pistol pits where you can be by yourself rather than shoot 5 feet from a guy with a huge flintlock but whatever. I'm willing to move to be nice , I only need 50 yards to shoot a smoothbore , really.
I guess they finally realized they might do better to walk 20 feet down the path to an actual pistol pit.
My question is , what is the accepted "courtesy" at a gun club or public range, if you're shooting a blackpowder weapon?
To most "lay people" you're kind of an alien entity , since there's tons of smoke involved and it obscures targets , and hangs in the air.....do most of you try to stay "out of the way" on the rifle range, and how do you handle these kinds of scenarios where people might not be cognizant of the fact that they might want to go somewhere else?
The layout of my gun club is a 300 yard , big rifle range, one 100 yard "multi use" range with a few shooting benches and 7 "pistol pits" for handguns, shotguns, "pistol caliber carbines" and muzzleloading weapons.
Today there is no one at my range so I go to the "multi use" range to shoot my 1795 Springfield. I'm shooting, blowing billows of smoke, a haze of smoke is hanging over the range.
A couple rolls in , pulls up and gets out, walks right up to the bench next to me. I'm like "hi how are you are you gonna shoot here?let me make some room but I'm shooting a muzzleloader, I mean, I'm just trying to figure out how we can work this , or maybe I'll just head deeper in to a pistol pit, what are you shooting ?" And guy has a .22 pistol , telling me he's gonna teach his wife how to shoot it.
I'm like, ok, let me get this round out and I'll move, there's no way you're gonna teach her to shoot a pistol while I'm blowing smoke, sparks, burning paper and slinging huge lead balls down range.......
I'm trying to be nice, even though I would think any sane person would go to the pistol pits where you can be by yourself rather than shoot 5 feet from a guy with a huge flintlock but whatever. I'm willing to move to be nice , I only need 50 yards to shoot a smoothbore , really.
I guess they finally realized they might do better to walk 20 feet down the path to an actual pistol pit.
My question is , what is the accepted "courtesy" at a gun club or public range, if you're shooting a blackpowder weapon?
To most "lay people" you're kind of an alien entity , since there's tons of smoke involved and it obscures targets , and hangs in the air.....do most of you try to stay "out of the way" on the rifle range, and how do you handle these kinds of scenarios where people might not be cognizant of the fact that they might want to go somewhere else?