outdoor ranges and rimfire

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Hello,

Two weekends ago I was at a outdoor club, and I noticed 'no rimfire' rules all over their 100 / 200 yrd. range. Why do outdoor shooting clubs limit rimfire rifles to particular ranges? I asked the range officer last weekend and I did not follow his terse reply.
I should have asked at the check-out, but I forgot.

Thanks in advance,
 
Possibly because people leave 100-500 casings on the ground, or there is a limited number of shooting stations and they think large guns are more important. Could also be distracting to sight in or bench rest a gun with tatatatatatatatatattatatatatat coming from beside you.

My two ranges here in BC are pretty decent, I even try my 8" .357 magnum at the long range once in a while as ong as I know I'm not wrecking anything..
 
3006novice said:
Hello,

Two weekends ago I was at a outdoor club, and I noticed 'no rimfire' rules all over their 100 / 200 yrd. range. Why do outdoor shooting clubs limit rimfire rifles to particular ranges? I asked the range officer last weekend and I did not follow his terse reply.
I should have asked at the check-out, but I forgot.

Thanks in advance,
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If it's the one I'm thinking of :yingyang: , it may be due to the gong there....;)
 
It takes 2 minutes to do a couple of quick pass with a broom when you are done shooting... must be damn lazy to not do it. If it's dirt, spend 2-3 minutes picking up empties. Even if you dont pick them all, you dont look like you dont give a damn at least.
 
.22 200 yd. ricochet

The cfo outlawed our 100 / 200 yd range for ALL rimfire because of a bunkered gong at 200 yds.

Perhaps the reasoning was that the bullet drop would cause shooters to aim over the berm to try to hit the gong and launch a pellet over the berm.

The idiot inspector believes this - so all 200 yd. ranges are in peril of a rimfire ban, because you need holdover with a .22 at 200 yds. since no one sights in a .22 at 200.

But then again he may have banned the rimfire because of the danger of a ricochet off the gong coming back another 200 yds. and hitting the shooter.:eek:

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Word has it that rimfires "apparently" have more of a tendency to ricochet... *cough,cough* BULL#%&*!!! But ya... Either way ... Thousands and thousands of rounds later at distances ranging from 5ft. to 200yds. with 22lr and 22wmr and still NO ricochets!!! BS rule for many clubs with longer ranges but there are guys out there that like to see how far they can float a tiny .22 accurately ...
Personally I am more afraid of the high-velocity centrefires bouncing back ... But my 0.02 only seems to gather attention here ...
 
Shalpin said:
Word has it that rimfires "apparently" have more of a tendency to ricochet... *cough,cough* BULL#%&*!!! But ya... Either way ... Thousands and thousands of rounds later at distances ranging from 5ft. to 200yds. with 22lr and 22wmr and still NO ricochets!!! BS rule for many clubs with longer ranges but there are guys out there that like to see how far they can float a tiny .22 accurately ...
Personally I am more afraid of the high-velocity centrefires bouncing back ... But my 0.02 only seems to gather attention here ...
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The short, round nosed .22LR bullet will richochet more easily than a spire point bullet. At my range the concern is that people shoot at a low placed target at 50 or 100yds and the bullet will richochet off the ground and skip up over the berm at 200yds, leaving the range. The solution is to require target stands that place the target at 36" minimum height. No banning rimfire or any other BS. Good thing, too, because I shoot my rimfires at 100yds all the time for field position practice while waiting for centerfire barrels to cool off during load testing.

Mark
 
100yds happens to be my current limit for the range i belong to here ... Although it's nice to go see family stateside and shoot over there... And if anyone is shooting beyond 100yds with rimfires I doubt they are plinking away without regard!!

It would be nice to see cfo change their decision here but it doesnt look like it'll happen anytime soon!
 
dwarfs

Thanks for the answer. I did spend a bit of time on the drive back from the club wondering what that dwarf-size mine shaft entrance was. Now I've learnt what a bunkerd gong is.
 
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