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ztirffritz

ztirffritz

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i went to an indoorrange tonight. It was really cool. Almost like a gentleman's club. No cigars, but they have conference rooms and full auto rifle rentals. Pretty cool place. There were also a lot of very attractive women there shooting tiny little handguns. Also some very large hairy bikers shooting enormous canons. 

Anyway, I was able to use my new air tank and I burned through about 250 rounds. I had to re-zero the scope because a friend was playing with it and I think it was bumped. 
 
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Click the link I embedded. It was odd, yes. Here I am, quietly grouping 8 shots at 25 yards in a 1" circle. Next to me is a guy who can barely lift the canon he carries with him everywhere shooting at a full life-size human target from 10ft away and having trouble hitting the torso. The downside is that you have to wear hearing protection because everything is so freakin loud. The range master took a turn on my Marauder and was impressed. When I left the range the guy at the counter was watching American Airgunner videos on YouTube. So I think I opened some eyes for sure.
 
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That makes another wapooponian here! I am in Seattle. And Port Ludlow. New to the PCP side of airguns, but I jumped in with both feet. I will have 3 by the time my first tank arrives and I get to even shoot one. I will be giving one to my wife's brother for his bday with a tank though, so really only 2. 

I didn't even think about an indoor range actually. I was just going to shoot when I was in Ludlow. I'll have to look into some ranges here. 
 
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@ztirffritz I had to shoot at my local indoor gun range as well. It was a really nice place and sure enough, I was usually the only one there shooting an air rifle. I was at the range at least 5-6 days a week and the staff all got to know me as the guy with the quiet gun. I became buds with most of the range masters and let them all try shooting it on more than one occasion and every single one of them was astounded by it's accuracy and lack of recoil. One of the range masters was a bit like R Lee Ermy and would jokingly yell "Keep it down over there!!" every time he walked by me.

There were lots of times when folks came up to me out of curiosity asking me what I was shooting. I would always offer them a chance to shoot it and many were so impressed they asked me where they could buy one. It's a great way to promote the sport shooting at an indoor range.

The drawbacks were noise and having to wear ear cans which was a pain since they always got in my way when putting my cheek up to the stock. Every once in a while, there would be someone shooting a pistol and the empty cases would eject over the top of the barrier right down the back of my shirt. Not fun. That was rare though.

Scott

 
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On Tue-Thur the price is $10/lane. $6 for an additional shooter. Otherwise, it's $20/lane. They have all manner of rental guns, including full auto rifles. If you rent their gun you have to buy their ammo though. The gun rentals are between $5-$10/hour. But if you're shooting full auto every trigger pull is about $10-$15 in ammo. YIKES!

I plan to spend more time there as it was pleasant, but I may need to come up with a bench. They have little shelves to set hand guns on but they're really no equipt for rifles. 
 
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Where are you at? I'm pretty much in the center of the state, but that is only convenient if everyone else is evenly distributed throughout the state. Everyone else is probably on the west side of the state. This is why I thought a member map would be nice.

Can you see this: https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=1575620#

If you can, click on 'Additions' then 'Add Marker, Simple' and put yourself on the map.

I don't know if you can get to this link without joining this forum, but it has a full list of Washington Shooting locations: http://waguns.org/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=782
 
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