Does your Gun Range allow double taps?

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The most convenient firing range to my location does not allow rapid fire of any kind. You must allow at least 2 seconds between all shots. :confused:

Now, as far as safety concerns for people that may go crazy rapid fire and lose control of their firearm endangering everyone there, I obviously agree that should be a concern. :scrutiny:

But, what if I'd like to practice double taps or carefully controlled pairs? :eek:

Guess I'll just have to find some public land where nobody minds me making a lot of noise and scaring all the game away.

Oh, -wait! That doesn't exist anymore. :uhoh:
 
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We have a combat pistol range so cumbersome restrictions are nonexistent. Though we do yield right of way to BP when they are doing quals.
 
Sure. At one indoor range, they allow "as fast as you can hit the paper. No misses!". On a couple outdoor ranges I'm not aware of any such restrictions whatsoever.
 
I belong the local Isaac Walton League which owns 130 acres with do it yourself gun ranges. When I go there, I'm usually the only person shooting, and I can do just about anything I want. One of the many advantages of living in the middle of the corn fields.
 
You bet. Double taps, triple taps, drawing from a holster.... Full auto is frowned upon but I couldn't afford that anyway. Frequently I'm the only one there and can set up my chronograph or practice drills without disrupting other shooters. All that is asked is that you don't shoot the place up and clean up your brass/shell husks.

I feel very fortunate to have the range we have.
 
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You bet. Double taps, triple taps, drawing from a holster.... Full auto is frowned upon but I couldn't afford that anyway. Frequently I'm the only one there and can set up my chronograph or practice drills without disrupting other shooters. All that is asked is that you don't shoot the place up and clean up your brass/shell husks.

I feel very fortunate to have the range we have.
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I'm guessing you go to the public range north of Grand Junction? I go there a couple times a week and love not having a range officer and silly rules.

OP, is there really no public lands where you live? Move out west where we've got plenty of it. Take a look at a map of Grand Junction, CO where I live and the town is absolutely surrounded by mile after mile of public lands.
 
You ARE very fortunate, Mokin. Have yet to see a range in my area that allows holster-draw, much less concealed holster-draw. With my passion for firearms, I believe I was born about a century too late. Even in the south where firearms are such a historic element, restrictions abound. It's a shame.

Yeti, the closest I've come to locating a combat pistol range would be Front Sight or one of those very expensive training courses. Yet, even if I could afford that, where would I practice what I had learned?
 
At my range, only "sighted fire" is allowed. No hip or point shooting unless you are using a laser, then it considered sighted fire. Controlled pairs are ok. Even very fast controlled pairs. Wild doubles or more will get an invitation elsewhere.
 
Yah I remember my dad and I being able to go out to the woods by a local river and shoot all we want. Its out in the country and no one lives close to it but im sure if i try that they will find me, arrest me, and take all my stuff. That freedom has gone away as you mentioned. As for local ranges I dont waste my time or money at any of the stuck up ranges in my area. I can drive 45 min to one that is cheap and allows anything. There is one that is 10 min from my house but will not go back there. Very bad attitudes and the gunsmith is an a55. I laughed at him cause the first time I went there he asked to see my gun. I brought an AR15 that had about 50 rnds without cleaning. The first thing he did was to break it appart, pull the bolt, and stick his pinky in the chamber. Of cource there was fouling. As he shook his head at me and put my rifle back together, I just thought to myself, Man I didn't know I had to report to my staff sargent to shoot here. I only went to that range a few times and the experiences just got worse. Now my dad owns 40 acres and I try to shoot there as much as I can. Also have a friend that is in a farm co-op and can shoot, hunt, and fish out there.
 
TPA, your post cracked me up. I would've certainly laughed as well if I encountered any employee of a gun range that chose to critique my firearms -and then I'd ask where the cameras were. Sounds like a low budget hollywood flick with the one Bill Murray crazy Gun-god employee shakin' everybody down about how they treat their beloved guns. People are a trip.

LS240 it's actually crazy you mention just THAT. My family has visited Co. many times over the years, bought land, sold the land and kept visiting. On many visits we just pulled off the highway and walked up the side of a mountain way away from the road and found a good level clearing and did some plinkin'. Still have solid plan to move there for the final homestead (may not be much time left, but that's another thread) and have never stopped dreamin' of getting up there for good.

Grand Junction is one of the main places I've researched. As wonderful as it seems, I think I'm actually looking for more remote areas for exactly the topic at hand. Firearms for serious huntin' and serious playin'. Though I'm sure there are places like that not far from you.
 
The range I go to most often does allow rapid fire (many in my area do not), and if they didn't then I'd find another range where I can actually train for combat shooting. You can empty a whole mag or cylinder as fast as you'd like as long as you're hitting paper, although I'm sure the RSO will intervene if you're all over the place and other people start running away in terror. ;)
 
The 3 state ranges that I have been to..........
2: no rapid fire----one cartridge in rifle at a time--fee to get in.........
1: no rapid fire----5/6 cartridges at a time--------no fee.........
 
Yes. And I've never actually attended a range that didn't, in over twenty years of shooting, nor would I particularly want to.

I can see restrictions on shooting wildly, but mandating slow-slowfire across the board to me strikes me as an outcome of the "gunz is only for huntin' and benchrest" mindset, which isn't so common anymore. Our range not only allows double taps, triple taps, whatever, but we also have USPSA matches every other weekend.
 
At my range its shooting as fast as you can pull the trigger in my shooting carrer ive never heard of such regulations
 
The indoor range I go to allows double taps. Otherwise, you're supposed to allow 1 second per shot, but I go there enough they don't seem to mind if I push that on occasion.
 
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