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Called local range to book time, to sight in my SKS. The gentleman told me he does not allow SKS rifles on the range. He says that they are too inaccurate and it is a safety concern to him.

Has anyone ever run into this?

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kicker65 said:
Called local range to book time, to sight in my SKS. The gentleman told me he does not allow SKS rifles on the range. He says that they are too inaccurate and it is a safety concern to him.

Has anyone ever run into this?

Thanks

Kicker65
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If he only mentioned accuracy, I'd say drugs are bad.. If the backstop can't handle mild steel cored ammo, then he has a valid concern.
 
All he told me was that those damn things shoot all over the place, he does sell ammo for them though.
Looks like there is no place to go in the Gatineau Qc. area to sight this thing in.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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kicker65 said:
Called local range to book time, to sight in my SKS. The gentleman told me he does not allow SKS rifles on the range. He says that they are too inaccurate and it is a safety concern to him.

Has anyone ever run into this?

Thanks

Kicker65
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You hear about this in the states sometimes, except they never use "inaccuracy" as the reason because, well, that's stupid. I've never met an SKS that was so wildly inaccurate it would shoot outside of the range boundaries. Shooters, yes, but not SKS's. :D

The reason they're banned from some ranges in the states is because sometimes people don't clean the cosmoline out of their firing pin chambers, causing unwanted fully automatic slamfiring. This is indeed a legitimate safety issue. Them being too inaccurate is not.

I'd call back to ask him to explain his line of thinking further. If you can't convince him otherwise, I wouldn't shoot there.
 
It is usually because of the steel core ammo, the spent shells not being picked up, or as is often the real reason, idiot fudds that just don't like younger lower class crowd that can buy these and afford to shoot, and shoot alot.
 
I'd ask for a copy of the range-rules, and ask which section/page/paragraph this "RULE" is in...

I'd also demand a pro-rated refund for my membership. That's rediculous.

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kicker65 said:
Called local range to book time, to sight in my SKS. The gentleman told me he does not allow SKS rifles on the range. He says that they are too inaccurate and it is a safety concern to him.

Has anyone ever run into this?

Thanks

Kicker65
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Never run into anything that CRAZY sounding. Sounds like a good club to avoid as it sounds like it's being run by Fudds. I've never seen one of these inaccurate shooting SKS's that I keep hearing about and I own six of them. And there is enough new production ammo around that surplus steel core/jacket should not be an issue at the range anymore.
 
Sounds like you have been blessed with a dose of Fudd logic
many ranges do not allow milsurp ammo due to the metal core
being too much for the backstop
But you cant ban a model because you think it inaccurate
and if they do change clubs because they elmer fudd loco
 
I currently own and enjoy 3 SKS rifles and I'm no fudd. However, I have seen some problems with the way some shooters use their SKS rifles.

The rifle is not particularly inaccurate but some yahoo shooters get carried away and blast away with minimal to no effort going in to aiming. They can cause a lot of damage to target frames and other range equipment. A neighbouring range that I've shot at has overhead curtain beams so that bullets can't leave the range. When the local gun shop started selling cases of SKS rifles and Czech ammo suddenly the the beams were getting shot up with FMJ bullets blasting right thru them. Previously there wasn't a single bullet hole in them.

Another thing I notice is that some of the yahoo type shooters who shoot SKS rifles scatter copious amounts of spent cases around and leave with no attempt to clean up after themselves.

I enjoy mys SKS rifles and am not an advocate of a ban but I do understand how some range operators have gotten fed up with some yahoos shooting SKS rifles. IMHO if these guys want to play Rambo they should find an abandoned gravel pit or log landing to do it there.
 
google your local county most of them will print you a land ownership map for cheap very usefull tool we looking for place to shoot and hunt

edit: and a topographic map as well allways usefull!
 
private range can make any rule they want, but heck, i can think of plenty other innacurate guns out there, guess he dosnet want shooters out there being bothered by you going thru a crate of 762 in one sitting while they carefully shoot their 20 rounds they brought with them lol
 
I've heard of fellow SKS users across the country running into this. There's many reasons from everything 762shooter said to the plain old snobbery that are out there thinking they are better than you when you pull out your SKS. I have some very expensive equipment too, but I will never ever ever look down on another shooting/firearm enthusiast for what they shoot regardless if it's due to financial reasons or plain old preferences. What you ran into as the reason has to be the worst half assed, warped, dumbest, narrow minded excuse I've ever heard.
 
Andurp said:
You hear about this in the states sometimes, except they never use "inaccuracy" as the reason because, well, that's stupid. I've never met an SKS that was so wildly inaccurate it would shoot outside of the range boundaries. Shooters, yes, but not SKS's. :D
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Exactly, any SKS I've fired I've hit the target with. Maybe not, well... definitely not 1 MOA groups, but their not inaccurate to the point of being unsafe.

Sounds to me like someone personally dislikes "dem stoopid cheap kamunist guns"

By far the funniest one I've heard is they "fling their brass too far" .....yes, casing extraction is apparently a legitimate reason to ban a particular firearm, from a shooting range. :rolleyes:
 
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