AR-15s

diymirage said

They redid my local range a few years ago

Back in the day, it was a big bowl, with 4 concrete shooting benches each about 20 degrees off of the next one

You could shoot whatever, ad long as you picked up after yourself

Which of course no one did

Well, now it has 5 rifle benches and 2 pistol benches
All side by side and facing the same way

I think the lanes are 200 yards, 100 yards and 30 for the pistol lanes

Now they have posts to hang targets from, you got to sign in, there's there's ranks officer, no provisions for chucking pigeons

I'm sure it still serves its purpose when you want to sight it, but they sure squeezed all the fun out of it

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That sucks. Dumb people kill good ranges, sadly. Back when I was in Tucson we had to drive quite a ways to find the 'good' range. The desert always worked, but a good range has things like reactive steel and other stuff that no one can afford when they're 20.
Anyway, some cowboy shooting asshat wannabe was out twirling his pistols and shot himself in the face. After that, every section of the range had to have an RSO present any time anyone was shooting - otherwise the insurance companies would revoke their coverage. Fees went up, fun went down, and eventually it was the same deal. Just a place to sight in twice a year which can be done out in the desert, so why bother?