Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
I was a member there in the early 90s when I lived in Allegheny County. It's a nice club.
Jules
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
I used to shoot the action shoot there the first sunday of the month until I switched gears to USPSA, which I still shoot there sometimes. Great club, and you can do anything you want there once you obtain the special permission to use the action bays any time you want.
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
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JoshIronshaft
I used to shoot the action shoot there the first sunday of the month until I switched gears to USPSA, which I still shoot there sometimes. Great club, and you can do anything you want there once you obtain the special permission to use the action bays any time you want.
How does one earn that special permission?
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
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DukeConnor
I just joined again. Let my membership lapse and got signed up again.
Some will call it a fudd club, no rapid fire, drawing from holster, mag limits etc.... unless your doing the action pistol rifle thing. Not a place to do mag dumps.
It's the closest club to my house. About 10 minutes.
The ranges look like a golf course and are well maintained. Nice trap, wobble trap, 5 stand and skeet ranges. Part of the mon valley trap league. We also have woods walk archery and black powder courses and a high power range with pitts and such. Dog training areas and a indoor archery range.
There is a bar/restaurant that has great food and full size wings and fish fries on Friday's Sunday brunches and a free pool table in the club house.
Being recently retired I will be spending alot of time there. Planning on getting back into trap leagues.
If anyone is from the south hills or Pittsburgh area it is really worth a look. Class act all around.
Mag limits and no drawing from a holster?
That's lame as hell. Might as well shoot at a state game land.
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
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KPShooting
Mag limits and no drawing from a holster?
That's lame as hell. Might as well shoot at a state game land.
Minus the Gangsta crowd...., and people who will start shooting on a cold range while you are downrange, but yeah.
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
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KPShooting
Mag limits and no drawing from a holster?
That's lame as hell. Might as well shoot at a state game land.
Then stay the f away
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
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KPShooting
Mag limits and no drawing from a holster?
That's lame as hell. Might as well shoot at a state game land.
Quite a few clubs have limits on what you can and cannot do.
Under the pretense of "safety", they impose mag limits ( 1 round in a rifle, Collier Sportsmans club) and refer to presentation from a holster as " holster play" (Mt Lebanon).
At a range officer meeting, I questioned the 1 round in a rifle limitation and was told it was for safety to prevent an " accidental discharge". I then asked how many rounds it would take to have a negligent discharge? I believe my answer was " one".
I'm not sure if it's over the top liability prevention or actual lack of any formal firearms training ( you know, the 8 or 10 safety rules they have as opposed to the 4 that cover safety quite well).
I shot at Clairton only once at a pre CMP shoot.
Looked like a nice club from the limited exposure I had.
I simply prefer to shoot by presenting from the holster, shoot on the move and controlled pairs which exceed the one shot per second limitation some clubs have.
Greater Pitt Gun Club and Pitcairin Monroeville are my current choices.
I like Washington Co Machine guns for pistol but like to set paper targets out to 300 for rifle and that was not an option a year or so ago ( they do have steel out to about 300 but you could not go downrange).
So, it's all in what you want and are comfortable with.
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
Range safety.....let's see:
---Muzzle pointed up\down or downrange when permitted to touch a fiream
---NO firearm can be touched or moved IN ANY FASHION when people are downrange. "NO TOUCHING"
---The ONLY way a firearm can be moved is said firearm is in a completely zipped range bag, or a holster that secures the firearm so that the hammer cannot be cocked or the trigger is exposed.
None of the above (and I may have missed a few) says anything about the amount of ammo in a magazine. Because if you DON'T TOUCH the firearm, the Booger finger doesn't hit the bang switch. It doesn't matter if your mag is holding one round, or 30 rounds.
Re: Clairton Sportsmans Club
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KPShooting
Mag limits and no drawing from a holster?
That's lame as hell. Might as well shoot at a state game land.
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DukeConnor
Then stay the f away
Are you a member there, Duke? At CSC?