Indoor Range Questions.

[Curmudgeon]

As I said before, I usually shoot outdoors in the Francis Marion Forest but my last outing was quite distasteful. There were three guys at the outdoor range, and all three of them were alley (brass) pickers.

The one guy that usually hangs out there picking up unwanted brass for his own benefit and quite respectful, was joined by two clowns that were attempting to start a business crawling under foot during my shoot, and one guy even crossed the firing line while I was shooting because he saw a 'nice one' I was really ticked off. I won't lose sleep if they get shot in the butt, I just don't want to be involved in it.

I gave them a piece of my mind and reiterated the posted rules of the range, and the primary purpose of the range and left.

My indoor shoot later that day was only $6.xx and change but quite different. No windage and the noise booms when they put a little rim-fire plinker next to some of the cannons in other lanes, and the target bounces forever after railing it out.

I've figured out the 'doubling up' with hearing protectors (Foamies and Muffs) helps some but the bouncing targets are still a problem.

Can I clip lead weights on the bottom of my targets to dampen the bounce and where is the most (un)bang for the buck in hearing protection on the firing line?

[bearandoldman]

Can I clip lead weights on the bottom of my targets to dampen the bounce and where is the most (un)bang for the buck in hearing protection on the firing line?

As far as hearing protection, when I was using and indoor range for a couple of years, it closed due to financial problems a year ago, their carriers used a large corrugated cardboard to staple your target to and the did not oscillate much when they stopped. In fact they had programs in the carrier computer that would edge the target to you and sen it out ot a set distance and then would open for 3 second, edge out and move and open again as long as the program was set for. A set of good Peltor 10's I think have 30db reduction, but when the guys were shooting the big boomer especially centerfire rifles I wore foam plug under the muff to be comfortable. I used to wear the Peltor 6s electronic muffs but found myself blinking my eyes when I was shooting my 45's so bought the other regular muffs.