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I guess I don't have much room to comment, since I've never been to a commercial range, and the only indoor range I've ever fired on was .22 rifles while in college ROTC.

I belong to a private gun club, and on rare occasions I shoot at a public range in a nearby county park. Rarely do I encounter another shooter on the range at the same time. So, I really don't comprehend what you city shooters have to put up with.

If I'm there first and another shooter shows up, I pay a bit of attention to notice when he's done setting up, and might be ready to shoot. That's when I ask if he's ready to go downrange and set up targets, which is when I'll also go down and change targets.

That's for the rifle range, of course, which is one range with six benches. Over on the pistol side, there are four separate bays spread over 200 yards with solid dirt berms in between; I've never seen all four in use at the same time, so pistol shooters simply don't compete for space. The only possible scenario is if one pistol shooter wants to move some reactive targets from a bay where they're not being used, to another bay; in that case, it's easier for the shooters to just swap bays.

I've been pinged with plenty of brass during annual qualification at work, because our range lanes are spaced at "dress right, dress!" distance. Wear a hat and button up, because brass is going to come your way. As noted above, training to fire with distractions is good exercise.

Of course at work, we're all firing the same course of fire, reacting to turning targets at the same time. That's not the same as folks face on indoor ranges.

Kevin

chewy555 wrote:I have been at the range and had someone walk up to the lane to my left, frist mag was rapid fire in less the 2 sec. I packed up my stuff and left as the range officer was talking to the guy.

Were you leaving because of the rapid fire? Why? Were the shots on target?