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Well since I started this thread and it was meant to give you guys some love I will try to make it out there in the next week or so and give a report. I have been shooting there off and on since I moved to Texas in the summer of 2010. I have shot there maybe a dozen times or so. I have always had a great time and never been the subject of, nor witnessed, any issues. I have burned through all my FMJ and am starting to load SP's for all my Milsurp rifles now so I'll be back when I get a moment off from work.

Does anyone know if I can shoot black powder there? I'd love to shoot my 50cal Hawken at 100yds.

The Annoyed Man wrote:The deal is, I don't have a problem at all with a gentle reminder if I forget my manners and do something like absentmindedly step forward toward a table during a cease fire. It could happen to anybody. What I won't do is let anyone deal with me the way those boys did before, particularly when I had done nothing particularly wrong, grabbing stuff out of my hands, yelling in my face, and generally treating me like a drunken oaf treats a red-headed step child at a family gathering. On more than one occasion. I'm glad you guys are having a good experience there. I will never go back. Ever.

I only go shooting at times when most other people are at work due to my particular career. I refuse to go to any range on a weekend or outside any usual 9-5 business hours. Usually this means I'm at the range with retiree's. Because of my choice of range times I am rarely at a range during peak occupancy and probably get different RO's. There also isn't the "idiot crush" of the weekend hours which I'm sure tries any RO's sanity.

Flat out, Quail Creek offers a better range experience when shooting my WWII milsurp rifles. I can shoot 100yds with irons so long as I use HP or SP rounds. I usually have the 100yd line to myself or maybe 1 or 2 other shooters. The outdoor "dirt" enviornment is much better on the ears and it feels a little "rustic" as well, which I like.

TAM, I still find it a bit ironic that the BEST range that I have ever shot at is Angeles Crest in...wait for it...Kalifornia!!!!
For those not in the know you could shoot pistol (they have an incredible silhouette gallery), rifle from 100-700 yds with steel at 200-700 permanently there, and 4 trap stands...all for $4 on Thursdays so long as the LA county SWAT team didn't use their standing 1pm range time (they never did for the 2 years I shot there regularly). It was heaven and I miss it...

I know Quail Creek has been bashed soundly on this board but I thought I would give them a shout out after a great afternoon there.

I had stopped shooting there, not because of a bad experience, but because I couldn't shoot FMJ's there and that was what I was loading all my WWII rifles with. So I switched to Elm Fork so I could burn through my FMJ's on their 50yd line. After a not shooting there for a year and reading all the bad press I was a little leery although I had never personally had a bad time there. Elm Fork won't let me shoot my WWII irons on their 100yd line so back to Quail Creek I went. Range was fairly quiet, in fact deserted when I got there around 1:30pm. A couple people showed up and joined me on the 100yd line and just about everyone else who showed up were on the pistol line.

RO's were great!!! Polite, friendly and quite helpful with one of the other shooters who was kinda new (but old, go figure). I shot my Enfield No4MKI to my hearts content. I've switched to a 150gr Speer Spitzer which performed great. Remember, its an old battle axe so its going to be minute of man. I shot about 75 rounds and managed an actual group more or less. Its certainly no tack driver but a really heavy hitting plinker that is accurate enough to be fun. It will definately put the shot where you point it but I only have the crude flip battle sight on it so its a little difficult to "point" correctly. Need to install the correct micrometer peep on it someday and see how it does.

Anyway...good day at Quail Creek. Thought they should get some credit.