Flintlock range ettiquette

[Flint62Smoothie]

Hammer Stall - Only $4 each from Avalon Forge: http://www.avalonforge.com/MainFieldGear.htm AF is also a great place to buy ice creepers for your mocs and period eyeglasses too!

Range Safety - Most ranges here in NE require any MZL'dr to be fired off before the range is called 'cold' ...

 

[OldSmoky1967]

Open frizzen, frizzen stall in place and whether we like it or not yellow flag in the bore sitting in the rack. Preferably no load in barrel.

Yeah. They don't go nuts if you put a yellow flag in the pan with the frizzen closed over it either. It makes them feel good and comfy.

 

[Marshhawk]

My nearest public range is in the National Forest (45-min. drive). It has very serious RSO's -- and that is a good thing in my view. Before the NRA, DNR and National Forest Service combined money and effort, the range was a decidedly dangerous place to shoot -- especially after 1 pm or so when the gangbangers and other folks who just want to make noise with their cool black guns showed up. I did not want to stick around when people were shooting empty propane tanks, TVs, computers and concrete blocks. (Yes, concrete blocks!) Sure, there were rules posted, and pretty much ignored. The place was a trash heap. The clean-up volunteers couldn't keep up with the slob shooters. So, yeah, I welcome the RSOs. And us BP folks stick to the right side of the range. RSOs always give a 5-min. warning to range going cold.