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Thread: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
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June 28th, 2008, 05:30 PM #21
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June 28th, 2008, 05:41 PM #22
Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
i used to go there years ago but anymore its a waist of money. just hide your ammo and buy one box of their crap i bought a box of 44mags from them for my desert eagle, after ten rounds i took it back to get a refund. only about three shells cycled my gun, the guy told me they were reloads. that place is a rip off...
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June 28th, 2008, 10:35 PM #23Super Member
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June 28th, 2008, 10:43 PM #24Super Member
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Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
I thought you could use your own ammo at targetmaster? It used to be that way, but then again I haven't shot pistol there in about 3 years. I just don't like shooting indoors. I have been there within the last year just checking their consignment guns. Once in a while they get an old gun in there that looks promising. They had an old JC higgins type 12 gauge bolt action a while ago that was for sale for $29.00, yes I said twenty nine dollars. Like a dummy I didn't buy the thing. By the time a week later I had decided to go get it, someone had snapped it up. I had no need for the gun and it needed a little TLC but for less than $30.00 for a 12 gauge? Thats unheard of these days. I did ask the guy what was wrong with it when I first looked at it, because I thought it had to have some kind of defect to be selling so cheap. After I looked it over, there was nothing wrong with the gun. The guy said they were simply trying to get rid of it and the guy who took it in said to get whatever they want for it. It would have made a decent backup deer gun using buckshot or non-sabot(foster type) slugs. Oh well live and learn.
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June 29th, 2008, 12:35 AM #25
Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
Well, you can bring your own ammo, but:
If if it is .223 it has to be frangible, as their backstop is meant for pistol rounds only.
same goes for x39
and for some reason they have an idiotic ban on wwb, supposedly because of bad initial quality of the ammo.
You just happened to bring what they don't allow.
(not a fan of theirs, just fair)
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June 29th, 2008, 02:15 AM #26Super Member
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Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
The WWB from wally world is for one simple reason. Politics. They don't allow it because wally world sells the WWB (100 round packs) for less than they pay for it. So they can't compete with the price. Thats the real reason they don't allow it. Sure its not bad ammo but its one more reason why china mart is evil entity as it hurts other business owners. That was from one of the guys there. And honestly I can understand why.
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June 29th, 2008, 05:56 AM #27Banned
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Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
Ridiculous. Evil entity? Hurts other business owners? pah-leeeeze. It's called capitalism. If you want to give the extra 25% to mom/pop gun shops for their ammo, that's your right. Before I started reloading, I would get my ammo wherever it was cheapest, happened to be Wal-Mart.
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June 29th, 2008, 10:31 AM #28
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June 30th, 2008, 10:42 AM #29Super Member
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Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
To clarify... they make you buy THEIR .223 ammo that is frangible.
Targetmaster isn't a bad range... I just stay away on the weekend afternoons because of too many folks with no experience going and shooting and being unsafe (nearly muzzling the range, shooting across lanes, playing with shotguns, etc).
the WWB restriction seems to be based on WalMart being able to undercut them on price. If I go to Dicks Sporting Goods and buy a case of Remington, it dosn't cost much more than WalMart's WWB... and it beats Targetmaster by $1-2 a box. I just have to buy ammo in bulk. Of course, this means I'll be ready when the zombies come .
As for SGL 43... I've been up there a few times... I've never been there when it was bad. The only unsafe thing I've seen was someone reloading mags and fiddling with their equipment at their bench when folks were downrange checking targets. One of my friends explained WHY what they were doing wasn't safe and concerned him, and they stepped away and apologized.
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Re: SGL 43 RANGE CLOSED
I was downrange hanging targets there once and a kid picked up a .22 and fired it at the 25 yard range. Man you should've seen the tempers flare that day. But of course Ophidian will think this is just another bull$hit story, but anyway, thought I'd relate it to the thread. Oh, and also the time I was there when a man stopped his car, two underage shooters got out with a 20 gauge and a box of shells, and proceeded to sit down and shoot shotshells on the rifle range. The dad backed out and left them there. The kid swung his muzzle past several of us and that was it, the kids were warned ot stop shooting immediately which they did.
Last edited by Poonie; July 1st, 2008 at 07:21 AM.
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