Austin Rifle and Skeet range, anyone?
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Austin Rifle and Skeet range, anyone?
I'm planning to shoot there this weekend and wonder if anyone would like to join/meet up. The range has 7 yard and 15 yard pistol lines. Runs hot, draws allowed, movement allowed when safe, excellent range... not to mention the friendly staff and free targets.
http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... php?t=3406
No 15 yd pistol range,my mistake. I meant to say 25 yd.
No 15 yd pistol range,my mistake. I meant to say 25 yd.
I went again
Last time I went to this place I was disappointed, it seemed unsafe and run down. After reading some posts about how much they liked it, I decided to try it out again.
This range for the most part, attracts the low-end, untrained gun owner, apparently because there are no rules. The only rules are you must pay $7 for each gun you shoot and you have to obliterate your target before going to the next one. Nothing else is enforced.
I was shooting rifle at the 50 yard range and next to me was a guy shooting a .380. I couldn't tell if he was shooting it at the 50yd or 25yd, but he was getting a series of misfires. After a misfire, he'd pull the gun in, finger still on the trigger, and examine it while pointing it at the line of shooters to his left. Once as he was pulling it back, it discharged, fortunately, not at anyone but at a slight upward angle. He quickly straightened out his arm as if he could direct the bullet to the target.
When he was done or fed up with the misfires, he swings around, pistol in hand and tosses it down without dropping the mag or racking the slide.
He was also shooting an AR and a mosin-nagant.
I mentioned my concerns to the lady RO and she just said "yea, I think I saw that, too."
The 3yd and 15 yd sites were full.
I packed up and left.
If this range were taken over by a responsible person, I'd be upset that they are closing. As it is, I'd probably never go back again, anyway.
This range for the most part, attracts the low-end, untrained gun owner, apparently because there are no rules. The only rules are you must pay $7 for each gun you shoot and you have to obliterate your target before going to the next one. Nothing else is enforced.
I was shooting rifle at the 50 yard range and next to me was a guy shooting a .380. I couldn't tell if he was shooting it at the 50yd or 25yd, but he was getting a series of misfires. After a misfire, he'd pull the gun in, finger still on the trigger, and examine it while pointing it at the line of shooters to his left. Once as he was pulling it back, it discharged, fortunately, not at anyone but at a slight upward angle. He quickly straightened out his arm as if he could direct the bullet to the target.
When he was done or fed up with the misfires, he swings around, pistol in hand and tosses it down without dropping the mag or racking the slide.
He was also shooting an AR and a mosin-nagant.
I mentioned my concerns to the lady RO and she just said "yea, I think I saw that, too."
The 3yd and 15 yd sites were full.
I packed up and left.
If this range were taken over by a responsible person, I'd be upset that they are closing. As it is, I'd probably never go back again, anyway.
O6nop,
Sorry to hear your bad experience. If you are free during the weekday and around 12PM-3PM, this range is pretty much empty. If you want to try again, feel free to PM me, we can run some timed drills.
I've never seen the RO enforcing that you have to "obliterate" a target before moving to the next one. In fact, there is no RO. There is an old man and a teenager who calls cease fires and replaces the target when the range is crowded. But they don't generally stand around to RO anything.
I completely agree that this range isn't very safe during the weekends when it gets crowded becuase like you noticed, it attracts some people who lack safety skills. I generally go and talk to them when I see this, and they all have been very receptive to my suggestions.
This is the only range within a reasonable distance from Austin that lets you draw from a holster, move, and engage in multiple across-lane tagets. This practice is great for action pistol.
I'm still sad that this range is closing. I hope I'm wrong, but I got the info from its owner. I'll have to definitely go visit it more often. If you don't see me post, it'll mean I'm shot :) just kidding. This range isn't that unsafe.
Sorry to hear your bad experience. If you are free during the weekday and around 12PM-3PM, this range is pretty much empty. If you want to try again, feel free to PM me, we can run some timed drills.
I've never seen the RO enforcing that you have to "obliterate" a target before moving to the next one. In fact, there is no RO. There is an old man and a teenager who calls cease fires and replaces the target when the range is crowded. But they don't generally stand around to RO anything.
I completely agree that this range isn't very safe during the weekends when it gets crowded becuase like you noticed, it attracts some people who lack safety skills. I generally go and talk to them when I see this, and they all have been very receptive to my suggestions.
This is the only range within a reasonable distance from Austin that lets you draw from a holster, move, and engage in multiple across-lane tagets. This practice is great for action pistol.
I'm still sad that this range is closing. I hope I'm wrong, but I got the info from its owner. I'll have to definitely go visit it more often. If you don't see me post, it'll mean I'm shot :) just kidding. This range isn't that unsafe.
My CHL instructors always used this range through my original course and two recertifications, which spoke well for its convenience, at least. But I don't believe they'd have chosen it if it was institutionally unsafe. Certainly it wasn't so wild and woolly as the operator's former range on RR 2222--the plinking range there was quite something.
At any rate, I resurrected this old thread to report all is moot now because this range has, in fact, closed. The word I got is that the owner of the land wanted it for something more profitable.
Sorry it's gone.
At any rate, I resurrected this old thread to report all is moot now because this range has, in fact, closed. The word I got is that the owner of the land wanted it for something more profitable.
Sorry it's gone.