Posted: 2/15/2007 5:20:49 PM EDT
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Looks like another trip north is going to get fugged up and I am dying to go shooting. So I am thinking about heading to the Pit on Saturday if I don't go north. How is it during these times (snow/cold)? Rob |
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I'm itching to get up to the pit myself but i'm sure its way too damn cold for my taste no matter how bad i wanna go shootin. I got my new beretta 92, my AR-180B and my mossberg that would love to have a day of fun. I just don't think its worth the hour + drive to stand around up there in near single digit weather. 
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Well got out there around 4pm with two buddies and about 3 layers of clothing. There was about 6 other shooters there. The pit was surpisingly clean, wasn't much in the way of monitor sized targets out there at all. Looked like 1 barrel was out there though. Snow obviously covered everything else. We unloaded our gear. I had my FA FNC, my friend had his brand new-unfired Bushy, and the other guy had a Blackthorne M4 kit. I wanted to put rounds through that to test it out as a possible purchase for my department. We want M4s in our cars. Quickly, on the way there I made my noob friends perfectly aware of "pit etiquette" if there's other shooters there and so forth. I informed them I would be babysitting them and if I had to check 'em on something to not get all whiny. Anyways, the other guys appeared to have a mix a stuff; some SKSs, AKs, shotguns & soforth. The range was (no pun intended) cold. No sooner had we just started getting ready when they told us the range was goin hot. I barely got out the 1st few words of "HOLD ON, LET US PUT OUR EARS ON!" when they started crackin away. That kinda pissed me off. Because that's a pet peeve of mine, I'm always extra courteous about that. I got over it. They were nice enough guys. We shared some of our toys & visa-versa. The cold really only effected our fingers from the exposure of loading mags. Which in turn made trying to load mags with cold/numb hands pretty comical. Other than that, we were out for a good hour before we gave the victory to the cold. Our toys performed excellent, no hickups. All & all It was a good day in America. |
Well, im sorry i missed it.  With any luck next saturday with a fresh paycheck in my pocket and some good weather ill get up there and enjoy a good day of shootin myself.  Ive never been to the bass pro range... is it any good?? what do they charge?? its only 5 minutes from my house, if its any good maybe ill hafta take my beretta up there and give it a try. 
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It's not too bad and @$10 per hour (for the rifle range) I couldn't pass it up.. |