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Originally Posted by Air&Road
First of all, I'm curious about how someone goes to military school without being a shooter.  |
It's been a long time Larry, (late '60s) I handled and marched with an M1 weekly in Sunday parade, or Wednesday afternoon drill, picking one up from the armory, breaking it down to clean it and reassembling it in my room, but I have no recollection of spending any time at the indoor gun range. So, I can't answer your question, but there is an active indoors rifle gun range in existence there at this time, in fact a classmate of mine from my era donated almost $4K in the past few months to remodel the gun range at the school. I'm thinking it was totally optional to go shoot at the time I attended.
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Secondly, I realize you did not take those pictures, so I'm being critical of someone elses photography rather than yours. They are fuzzy at best to start with and they would not enlarge enough for me to see hardly anything. From what I could tell, I could not see any safety hazards of any sort in the pictures.
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I've never been on a outdoors gun range, so I'm no help for you. But in one picture, there's at least two barrels in view - the person shooting I take it, and another barrel beyond, with the barrel at 45 degrees down. Spectators behind are rather close in each sidewalk behind each shooter, with plastic tubs in front of the shooter's positions, across the width of a 90 degree sidewalk.
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On a skeet or trap range the rules and procedures are quite simple and quite safe. Basically no gun can be loaded until a person is at a station preparing to fire. Their shotgun is pointed down and downrange while loading. While NOT at the station in a firing position, the action must be open for everyone to see.
This is one of the many reasons that most sport shooters shoot a double. They can easily carry it with the action broken for all to see that it is empty and incapable of firing.
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That's nice information to know.
Gun Range pics from W.M.A:
02-18-2013, 07:37 AM
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