Mission and District Rod and Gun Club

Only been to Mission about a dozen times but so far never seen an RO, never loaded just one round into my rifle, no issues with other range users - some even let me try their semi auto rifles with multiple rounds in the mag... (twice was the only person there the whole time)

Perhaps the rule allows ROs to recommend restraint/control when a shooter is in need of that and if no rule then a little more difficult to do so. However, if a shooter is responsible then not notice anything.

My membership at PoCo lapsed, membership at Mission in good standing...
 
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lineofsight said:
Only been to Mission about six times but so far never seen an RO, never loaded just one round into my rifle, no issues with other range users - some even let me try their semi auto rifles with multiple rounds in the mag... (twice was the only person there the whole time)

Perhaps the rule allows ROs to recommend restraint/control when a shooter is in need of that and if no rule then a little more difficult to do so. However, if a shooter is responsible then not notice anything.

My membership at PoCo lapsed, membership at Mission in good standing...
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There are signs everywhere that you can only load one at a time.

Just over the back berms is the town of Steelhead. New shooters have a habit of their muzzle raising after the first shot and their second and subsequent shots not impacting berms. If one round went high enough....

I support the one shot rule.
 
humptyjumped said:
There are signs everywhere that you can only load one at a time.

Just over the back berms is the town of Steelhead. New shooters have a habit of their muzzle raising after the first shot and their second and subsequent shots not impacting berms. If one round went high enough....

I support the one shot rule.
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Apparently that actually did happen a few years ago, hence the rule which was recommended and endorsed by the Provincial CFO's office.
 
Again another law that makes no sense. If there is a town located behind the berm, just build up the berm higher so that there will be even less of a chance. Also mission range is not approved for auto fire so how the hell is it possible for a person to have that much muzzle rise? If the donkey is "fanning the trigger" then any member there should be fanning his face while showing him the way to the exit. We are talking about 5 rounds here. At my range we used the common sense rule;
Every shot must be aimed down range.
Instituting this rule instead of the 1 shot rule works a lot better and makes for happier members. Also as a side note. North Burnaby gun range tried this and now it's a mountain bike park because of lack of membership and wacko's allowed on the range.
 
The Burnaby ranges were closed for other reasons than a 1 shot rule, even the police didn't want them closed since they were the closest ranges. Government and land developers were responsible for the shut down, even one of the ranges had a salmon hatchery that was closed.
 
I invite everyone to show up at the club meetings. It is a club afterall, and as a member you can voice your opinion. Voicing them here is useless, as it wont get anything changed.
 
Again....the single shot rule is there to enforce the retards who don't repect other shooters or the range. If you show proper marksmanship and regard for other shooters there is no problem shooting with more than one round in the mag. This is getting to be like the proverbial dead horse....stop beating it please....sheesh :rolleyes:

If you don't like it there are other ranges...thats the choice you have.
 
Brian46 Burnaby's range was closed due to a wacko walking in of the street and picking up some one's firearm & blowing his brains out.
Oldsmobiler is right when he states that if a person is there truely wanting to shoot and is respectfull of the other member's then you have no problem. It's only when you act like a jacka$$ do the crack down on you, as so they should. Again this range is there for us to have a safe and & fun shooting experiance. If you just want to go blasting, well me personally it's alot funner blasting in the woods.
 
humptyjumped said:
I invite everyone to show up at the club meetings. It is a club afterall, and as a member you can voice your opinion. Voicing them here is useless, as it wont get anything changed.
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You may recall, that last year the Club invited sumissions on this topic.

The rule was left in place, though I do not recall the sub-committe actually reporting on the results of the submissions from the membership. I emailed one of the directors on the sub-committee several times, and was never given an answer.

If the submissions from the membership had came out in favor of the rule, no doubt they would have announced as such, and the whole thing smells of whitewash.

Oldsmobiler said:
Again....the single shot rule is there to enforce the retards who don't repect other shooters or the range. If you show proper marksmanship and regard for other shooters there is no problem shooting with more than one round in the mag. This is getting to be like the proverbial dead horse....stop beating it please....sheesh :rolleyes:

If you don't like it there are other ranges...thats the choice you have.
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That is fine in theory, if you are an RSO, or if there is an RSO on duty.

Where you run into problems, is when there is no RSO present to 'authorize' such dangerous and reckless activity, and you get Fudds giving you the hairy eyeball and telling you that you should immediatley cease and desist from shooting your hunting rifle offhand and out of the magazine.

It is a stupid and arbitrary rule. No different than Ottawa deciding that a 105mm barreled handgun is more dangerous than a 106mm barrelled handgun, or that the requirement of a LT-ATT is safer than letting people with R-PALs transport their restricteds without one.
 
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Obviously you've never been on the receiving end of a "brass shower" when you are concentrating on shooting a decent group....and if you were exactly how would you deal with it ???
I don't consider myself a Fudd...I own and use more semi-auto rifles than most guys, and enjoy turning them loose also.
As a member of three different clubs...Mission, Ridgedale, and Chilliwack, the Mission club is the only one where I haven't had the pleasure of brass in the face. In almost every instance when asked, the shooter in question has told me to "F OFF" because he doesn't see me as nothing more than a 63 yr old man complaining.

As much as I'd like to turn my AR or my M 14 loose out there, I support the Mission rule.
 
Kevan said:
It is a stupid and arbitrary rule. QUOTE]

Obviously you've never been on the receiving end of a "brass shower" when you are concentrating on shooting a decent group....and if you were exactly how would you deal with it ???
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ummmmmm. So if he shot one-at-a-time, the brass wouldn't hit you?

This is a typical new-age attempt to legislate basic consideration and conduct between fellow men.

It is also divisive to the shooting groups.

I've been shooting at Mission since 1994, and I have asked a few semi-auto shooters to not set up on my left, and have yet to have one tell me to F-off, and if they were there first, I won;t set up on their right. Basic consideration, no rules required.
 
It seems to me that no one has put up a good argument against semi autos. All the complaints here are about new shooters, or douchebags. If someone doesn't know what they're doing, or is doing it wrong on purpose, I doubt this rule is going to have any effect.
I seem to recall a statement: 'only law-abiding people obey laws' or something to that effect...
If getting hit with brass is the concern (and as pointed out above, you'll still get hit with it, just slower), why not have all the people who want to shoot semi autos build mesh screens that can be hung from the roof?
Getting swept, telling someone to F Off who's getting hit with your brass, says to me the problem isn't semi autos... and I've had tons of old men sweep me with their single shot rifles -yes, even the supposedly infallible F-Class/TR guys. No one's told me to F Off yet, but that's only because I'm so intimidating LOL :D
But even if there's likely to be no issue with a responsible semi auto shooter there, who wants to risk driving over an hour to maybe-maybe not be allowed to shoot at the end of it?
I've met you several times Oldsmobiler (not at mission), you're a good guy, but you are totally not indicative of the 'staff' people I've met there in my experience.
 
lineofsight said:
Only been to Mission about six times but so far never seen an RO, never loaded just one round into my rifle, no issues with other range users - some even let me try their semi auto rifles with multiple rounds in the mag... (twice was the only person there the whole time)

Perhaps the rule allows ROs to recommend restraint/control when a shooter is in need of that and if no rule then a little more difficult to do so. However, if a shooter is responsible then not notice anything.

My membership at PoCo lapsed, membership at Mission in good standing...
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humptyjumped said:
There are signs everywhere that you can only load one at a time.

Just over the back berms is the town of Steelhead. New shooters have a habit of their muzzle raising after the first shot and their second and subsequent shots not impacting berms. If one round went high enough....

I support the one shot rule.
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I put it in bold for you this time... Whether first, second, third shot... basic rule that shots should land in the berm regardless no? (so if one rule not work lets make more rules...?) Oh, mine is a bolt action so second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth shot... thus again... When I go the range I use this thing called a "target" and when I shoot I try for the bullet to hit the "target" (even manage to get it within a couple feet so it still impacts the berm), I also use a "scope" on the rifle and a "spotting scope" to see where I hit the target - even when I put more than one bullet in the mag.

Oldsmobiler said:
Again....the single shot rule is there to enforce the retards who don't repect other shooters or the range. If you show proper marksmanship and regard for other shooters there is no problem shooting with more than one round in the mag. This is getting to be like the proverbial dead horse....stop beating it please....sheesh :rolleyes:

If you don't like it there are other ranges...thats the choice you have.
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There you go, that makes sense.

BC_Guy said:
It seems to me that no one has put up a good argument against semi autos. All the complaints here are about new shooters, or douchebags. .
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:agree:, rule is misdirected

geologist said:
But it is an impressive shooting facility.
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:agree: great facility, great people (though likely have not met humptyjumped as not been told to put only one round in the mag :D )
 
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