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Quoted: And if you DO go there to shoot, DON'T talk to any of the other customers, or you too just might have your membership revoked by the immature clerks who work there, backed up by their owner who can't manage to keep knowledgeable and mature people in his employ. He won't see any more of my hard earned money.
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Your membership was revoked for talking to another customer? How does that happen?
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Yes, that is what happened. I walked in one Thursday evening in December and was asked for my membership card by the tall 20-something clerk. Unusual, as I had been a multi-year member and frequent shooter there (first when it was Eagle Eye and then after Hague took it over), but I took my card out of my wallet and handed it to him. He puts it on the table behind the counter and tells me that my membership has been revoked. Dumbfounded, I said "WHAT?" He repeated it to me. I asked why and was told that I had been talking to other customers and also bothering him and Craig (the other 20-something that works there, as manager since Dave Junior quit). This, after buying 2 new ARs and a new Beretta Storm there within 6 months. I don't buy their overpriced ammo and I recycle office copy and fax waste as target materials. I guess my $235 per year wasn't enough for those greedy bastards. Two days later, I went back there to talk to the owner Dave Senior who told me that he's not there a lot, but he has to back up his employess, regardless. Says I'm not welcome there anymore and I'd better leave peacefully. I stood my ground and he reluctantly agreed to refund the remaining 6 months on my current years membership as long as I did not get an attorney involved. He told me he pays his attorney anyway, so fighting me in a legal battle would be no big deal and I could forget about any refund. It took one reminder phone call 10 days later when my refund had not yet arrived by mail to get his attention. Two days later a check arrived in the mail for $120, representing the unexpired part of my membership. Nothing else in the envelope, just the check. Written and signed by his wife Roseanne, who happens to be a nice lady.
The place used to be a nice place to go, it was a convenient range that happened to sell some weapons. They even had a coffee machine and a water fountain! Now it's a (wannabe mega) gun store (with literally hundreds of overpriced police trade-in semi handguns) that happens to have an indoor range attached. I guess at $25 per hour for public range time, it brings in a lot more money renting lanes to the boys from the 'hood for him than having members who have priority unlimited range time for their one annual membership fee. And the only reloads you can shoot there are the Hornady .223 that *he* sells. Everything else must be factory brand-new. Ultramax factory remanufactured are forbidden. And his ammo prices are not cheap either.
So my advice is:
DON'T SHOOT AT HAGUES
DON'T SHOP AT HAGUESBrian