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CC Italian wrote:Well not that I have a problem with it.

I'm surprised to hear you got hit with the extra hour charges when you were on the line for over an hour and the place wasn't full. I may just be a jerk, but I would definitely have a problem with that. Currently, I'm a member and I habitually go during low-traffic times (I'm retired) so maybe they cut me extra slack. However, I never got hit for the extra hour even before I was a member and went over time.

If you'd like, I can ask the Range Manager how close they're cutting it these days. Maybe things have changed for the worse. They've certainly increased their transfer fees and made their procedures sufficiently irritating that it's become clear they just don't want to be bothered. Maybe they're cracking down on other stuff, too. Want me to make a discrete inquiry and post back here?

CC Italian wrote:Spring G&A charges by the hour and I usually need close to 2 hours to finish shooting. 18X2 is a lot of money imo for two hours at the range.

I've never seen SGA enforce the one-hour rule as long as they don't have a waiting list. On Friday or Saturday nights, yes, you pay per hour. If, like me, you go in the mornings on weekdays when the lanes are never full, I doubt you'll ever see them hit up a customer for a second-hour charge. Since they opened the additional dozen or so lanes in a second building, I haven't seen a waiting list at all, even when I've dropped by on a Saturday evening. I assume it happens; there's too many cars in the parking lot for *everyone* to be on the line at once. But I see the hourly charge as an almost non-existent problem. If you didn't have to put your name on a waiting list to get a lane, don't expect the hourly charge to be enforced. When they have enforced it (I've seen it happen once), they step out and give you a heads-up so that if you don't want to buy another hour, you get a few minutes to pack up.

BTW, I shot at Athena on Friday. They have the same policy. You pay for an hour but if there's no one waiting, they don't enforce it.

Gander Mountain, however, is completely different. It doesn't matter if you're the only person on the range. The RO will give you a five-minute warning and when your time is up, they're standing right behind you to escort you out. I don't like that, to put it mildly.