Securing firearms at the range

Pale Ryder · Aug 11, 2021

Short story for illustration. Years ago, late 90’s a friend and I were on the AGC pistol range. Middle aged woman walks up to the podium next to my friend, pulls a revolver out of a bag, fires one full cylinder at someone else’s target. Returned the revolver to her bag and walked off. My friend went to get RSO attention, but she was gone like that. Guess she wanted to insure it worked.

Point is in that short a time she could have walked off with a firearm, if we were down range. I think this would be easier too on the pistol range. Rifle range seems to have more eyes moving around.

Saberwalk · Aug 11, 2021

GunBum said:
I leave the firearms on the bench at TMGN. Never had a problem. Seriously! Grab a cardboard backer when you get there, and all the target changing happens right in front of you. If you suck at basketball (I’m guilty) and need to throw a target in the trash can, it’s like 5 steps away. If I want to leave to piss or something, I tell the RSO, and they keep an eye on my stuff.

+1 for TMGN

Wangbadan · Aug 11, 2021

Saberwalk said:
+1 for TMGN

Yes agreed excellent attentive range officers who make sure everything goes smoothly. I will sometimes ask them to watch my firearms when I need to step away and take a long poop or have a snack

-big Wang

Seagrave1963 · Aug 11, 2021

I remove the bolt or BCG (and put a chamber flag in for good measure) of the firearm on the bench with the other(s) locked in the trunk until ready to use them. It's not unusual that the ranges at DSA are empty during mornings Tues-Thurs but I still do the same procedure when I change out targets in the event someone arrives while I'm down range.

Alan3413 · Aug 11, 2021

Uncle Duke said:
Yep!

And maybe I have a wild imagination. But the last place I want to be is 200 yards downrange, with my rifle and ammo readily available to be either stolen.....or even used. There's no shortage of whackadoodles.

I can't access a link at present to the AGC Range Rules to verify, but I'm pretty sure that those lockers on the 200 yard range are a requirement for use, in situations where firearms would otherwise be left unattended. Someone will probably be along to confirm or refute.

This. Was shooting alone on the 100 yd range when one guy showed up. He was sitting a few lanes away looking at his phone. He didn't have any gear with him.

Something about him made my Spidey senses tingle. Rather than going downrange, I started stripping my gun and cleaning it.

After about 5 mins of this, he upped and left.

Super suspicious.

Darkemp · Aug 11, 2021

Alan3413 said:
This. Was shooting alone on the 100 yd range when one guy showed up. He was sitting a few lanes away looking at his phone. He didn't have any gear with him.

Something about him made my Spidey senses tingle. Rather than going downrange, I started stripping my gun and cleaning it.

After about 5 mins of this, he upped and left.

Super suspicious.

I saw something similar once last year at the 100yd with someone just showing up to watch for a few minutes.

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