03-19-2018, 02:31 PM
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Originally posted by PaulW
"A valid hunting license or watershed permit is required to enter the area."
So much for that, or does nobody check?
I last went to a rifle range a long time ago and I wasn't impressed, accidents just waiting to happen.
Hopefully it's different here.
There are good gun ranges, where a rangemaster is there to be sure anyone not following the firearm safety rules, and rules of that range, either obey the rules, or get booted out. Then there are ranges where the rangemaster is an idiot, and let's a young teen age girl fire a fully automatic weapon, and gets himself killed through no fault of the girl. It's common sense that you don't put fully automatic weapons, or, say, 12 gauge shot guns, or magnum level handguns in the hands of a newby. Recoil, in the hands of some one with no experience, can be brutal.
A gun store worker in the Seattle/Tacoma area told me, he's seen a number of new customers buy a .44 magnum handgun and a box of ammo, only to return the gun with a box of ammo with one round fired.
If I went to a shooting range where the rangemaster was letting unsafe practices occur, I'd get the hell out and never go back.
This gun range near mile marker 16 will have nobody there, but the shooters. I've never been there, so don't know if it's common to be there by yourself or not.I would have liked to have a rangemaster there, the tougher the better, but maybe there won't be that many shooters there?
Jon in Keaau/HP
Sorry for my writing with so many mistakes. It's the darn meds I'm on for prostate cancer. The meds are helping me, but making me even more scatterbrained than I was before. I still play a pretty good game of chess though! Come play myself, and the other chess geezers (and one geezet, if that's a word), every Wednesday 9:00 am till 1:00 at the Ainaloa Long House.
Jon in Keaau/HPP