ERock
03-27-2011, 07:03 AM
After visiting the 100 yard range at Williams yesterday, makes me appreciate just how great my normal rifle range is at Bald Mountain....
The stations are awful. Boards in the stations are way to low to shoot comfortably with how they're stations are setup (for me at least, taller guy).
The target posts are terrible. They give you targets at the door when you pay, but the targets they give you are too short to fit in-between the boards at the 100 range. Had to use my taller targets. When I did that, the range operator told me to not shoot his boards since my target was covering both boards. (FYI, I was on the side closest to the building). Fix your boards for normal target sheets and I wouldn't have to cover your boards with taller targets.
Range operator giving me a lecture for taking my ear plugs out to repack them for maybe 5-10 seconds. Threatened to kick me and reminded me the rules are posted on the door before I came in...oh and that they could be sued for me taking out my ear protection for a few seconds. FYI, there was one other person shooting down at the other far end of the range.
Give me a break. After that encounter, I packed up my stuff and moved to the 30.
30 yard was actually better. The range guy at the 30 was a lot nicer. Talked to us about what we were shooting, etc... I didn't have to look like Quasimodo in order to shoot and the target boards were actually spaced correctly to hang normal targets.
All in all, I probably won't be back to Williams rifle range.
The store itself is fine and I never had a problem with anything inside the store or been to the clay shooting area. But they need to clean up that 100 yard range. I normally go to bald mountain, so maybe I'm spoiled a bit.
Just posting my experience at the 100. 30 yard area was actually enjoyable.
The stations are awful. Boards in the stations are way to low to shoot comfortably with how they're stations are setup (for me at least, taller guy).
The target posts are terrible. They give you targets at the door when you pay, but the targets they give you are too short to fit in-between the boards at the 100 range. Had to use my taller targets. When I did that, the range operator told me to not shoot his boards since my target was covering both boards. (FYI, I was on the side closest to the building). Fix your boards for normal target sheets and I wouldn't have to cover your boards with taller targets.
Range operator giving me a lecture for taking my ear plugs out to repack them for maybe 5-10 seconds. Threatened to kick me and reminded me the rules are posted on the door before I came in...oh and that they could be sued for me taking out my ear protection for a few seconds. FYI, there was one other person shooting down at the other far end of the range.
Give me a break. After that encounter, I packed up my stuff and moved to the 30.
30 yard was actually better. The range guy at the 30 was a lot nicer. Talked to us about what we were shooting, etc... I didn't have to look like Quasimodo in order to shoot and the target boards were actually spaced correctly to hang normal targets.
All in all, I probably won't be back to Williams rifle range.
The store itself is fine and I never had a problem with anything inside the store or been to the clay shooting area. But they need to clean up that 100 yard range. I normally go to bald mountain, so maybe I'm spoiled a bit.
Just posting my experience at the 100. 30 yard area was actually enjoyable.