Posted: 11/22/2005 8:11:33 AM EDT
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What exactly is "The Pit"? Is this an old gravel pit where you guys go shooting? I will have my first AR in a few days and would like info! here |
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Love to hear the specifics on the pit as well. I do know people have been shooting there for a long time. I was there once, around 1995 or 1996..... As for Lansing, I grew up there. Is the Rose Lake Research area range still open? Used to have a great time there with AR's, AK's and pistols (even shotguns). But they closed for awhile, and re-furbed the place. I think they got strict on rules (one shot one load and other nonsensehat T Bone (Detroit). |
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Yep, old gravel/sand pit located on state land and open to the public under the state rules governing shooting on state land. It is NOT a state run "Shooting" range, mearly a game area open to shooting like any other. Technically you are required to have a valid hunting license of some sort to shoot there.....deer or small game both work. There are no facilities like shooting benches, target stands or garbage cans....just a bunch of big boulders to keep people from driving down range. It is about 90yards long give or take 10 yards. Nothing fancy but we like it and it is about the ONLY place areound you can go blast away in just about any way you please......common sense inserted here. |
Looks more like a dump than a shooting area. I'm suprised it hasn't been closed down. |
Shhh! Don't give 'em any ideas! Hehe... that was my reaction when I first saw it referenced here. I was only there the one time about 10 years ago, and thought for certain it'd be closed down (machine guns arrived and played while we were there even back then). And I'd never have found it again without the pit map (tacked thread). As to the garbage, I imagine that's why the crew here sponored the pit clean up a few weeks back (wish I'd have made it!). They do several a year from what I can gather. And Deej, this is the pit in Lapeer.... T Bone (Detroit). |
Thanks TBone, that's what I thought it was. |
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The Pit in Lapeer is cool to shoot. Naturally the people around there don't like the shooting. Too much "abuse" I guess. People blowing up stuff, actual machine guns!, etc etc. True freedom probably only still exists in Texas, or acres of personal property in Michigan. :) 
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Whats the total length of the underfolder when it's folded?.... |
Hi officer! 
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Not according to the DNR. If target or trap shooting only and not hunting your ok without it. link |
I'm not a JBT, I'm just thinking of getting an underfolder myself someday and was curiouse, because I really don't want to have to weld a panzy bar onto the reciever to make the Libs stop peeing there pants.... |
Ok. Check the laws, but from my understanding, you can either registar a folder as a pistol or fix the stock so it won't close. The barrel still has to be at least 16 inches. As for the pistol part, I haven't done it, so I don't know if you have to permentally close the stock or not. |
Any rifle between 26 and 30 inches is to be registered (safety inspected  ) as a pistol, nothing under 26 inches is allowed.
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Actually, only rifles between 26-30 with folding/collapsing stocks. I didn't have to "register" a 29" OAL rifle I have that has a fixed stock. |