Aamdskeetshooter
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What day? What field? Wondering if I was working and missed that...
I doubt it. The incident with the two shooters was at Salisbury a long tome ago.
What day? What field? Wondering if I was working and missed that...
I'd like to bring my 22" FN SLP, as some 3-gun stages require hitting clays and I can not reliably hit a moving clay with said shotgun. Bull Run has a 23" minimum barrel length, so I haven't been able to try with the FN or the 590a1. I really don't want to have to cross the river to use the FN, looks like I'll have to. I'm sure I'll get the side eye with the +4 extended tube on it
Not promising anything, but if you shoot with me you should be alright. I've had my sisters and a couple other young shooters shoot there with a Beretta 391 20 gauge youth model with a 21" barrel and nobody has said a thing about it.
Only shotgun that one of my brothers owns is a Benelli SBE that he put a mag extension and pistol grip on it. One rule at PGCT&S is no pistol grip stocks, but nobody has said a thing to him either while he is shooting with me. He also tends to break a good amount of clays with that setup too.
Like laws, the rules at the range are there so they can kick morons off of the range. They tend to use some discretion.
I used to shoot there a lot. In fact, worked there as an instructor until there new lead instructor wanted all the hours for himself. I was shooting with my wife who, while a very good rifle and pistol shot, was new to shotgun sports. My wife made a mistake on one of the Skeet ranges. I explained what she did wrong and corrected the error. Misunderstanding of what was the "station" stepped between pads with a round in chamber. The trapper was perfectly happy with my handling of the situation. Then the lead instructor stormed onto the field and totally lost his mind. Neither of us has been back. Totally unnecessary behavior that completely turned off an experienced shooter that was new to shotguns. She shoots rifles and pistols well, but won't have anything to do with shotgun shooters and, while I know it was a one off, I can't say I blame her.The only time I have had a problem with an employee was while doing sporting clays. We were at the line when he walks up and starts yelling at the novice shooter to unload. First round pops out but the second round doesn't chamber right, so the fore-end won't pump. Worker is in hysterics and the new shooter is doing his best to troubleshoot the issue and eject the second round. Eventually he gets the right combo of the release and pumping, shows that the action is open and the firearm is unloaded.
All the urgency was to tell us that the next station was broken, which we would have realized when we got to the next station to see the sign conveying as much.
As long as you are left alone the place has been fine. Just like every type of employee, some of the range officers are very helpful, some are useless at best.
As a heads up, I was told I can't shoot there with my 870 in this setup(pictured with my wife shooting it) because they dont allow pistol grip shotguns. I calmly talked to a variety of workers/bosses and explained that I put a collapsible stock on there so that my wife and I could share the same gun, and because I just preferred the ergonomics of that type of stock.
I was told in no uncertain terms that "those guns" aren't welcome there. It's a friggin 28" vent ribbed 870, but just with a collapsible archangel stock. Being that it is a stupid policy, and I didn't like the manners of the boss fielding my questions, I haven't been back.
I used to shoot there a lot. In fact, worked there as an instructor until there new lead instructor wanted all the hours for himself. I was shooting with my wife who, while a very good rifle and pistol shot, was new to shotgun sports. My wife made a mistake on one of the Skeet ranges. I explained what she did wrong and corrected the error. Misunderstanding of what was the "station" stepped between pads with a round in chamber. The trapper was perfectly happy with my handling of the situation. Then the lead instructor stormed onto the field and totally lost his mind. Neither of us has been back. Totally unnecessary behavior that completely turned off an experienced shooter that was new to shotguns. She shoots rifles and pistols well, but won't have anything to do with shotgun shooters and, while I know it was a one off, I can't say I blame her.
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There was a time when I was going every weekend to shoot wobble trap. Been a while now but I keep meaning to get back out there. Always enjoyed it there though it was a bit sad when Donny stopped showing up.
That sucks that Donny is not there anymore. Think the last time I saw him there was several years ago when I was shooting there with my brother, Mr. H, JoeRinMD, and one other board member. My brother was shooting the same Benelli SBE he shoots today and Donny was pulling 5 stand for us. Not a problem whatsoever with the Benelli SBE and the pistol grip. However, that was Donny.
Any particular reason why Donny is not showing up anymore?
Pretty strange they'd break your balls over something silly like that, not only do you have a stock but your barrel length is standard. Why does it matter how your trigger hand is orientated? LOL
"Pistol grip shotgun" to me sounds like Pistol grip only/no stock.
Were you out in the sporting clays when the extremely major world ending violation of range rules took place with your shotgun? I've only been there once and the only employee type person I remember seeing out in the course was the guy checking the car batteries with a multimeter at each station.
I'm up at the MD/PA line, I mainly shoot at clubs in PA where the only "rules" are to be careful for the most part.
Thinking of trying this place out, new to clay shooting so how does it work? Do you throw your own targets? If it was just 2 of us would we be grouped with others for skeet or be by ourselves?
resurrecting this thread.
What O/U rentals do they have there?