Quote from: J Arcane;399465Hee hee.  I was reading IMFDB the other day, and there was a caption under a picture of Simon and Kaylee in the Firefly article that cracked me up: "Sean Maher and Jewel Staite both do an excellent job of portraying people with no weapons training at all."

I've been to shooting ranges like that before!

...and I've been to the opposite, where everyone at the range was a combat-veteran accustomed to firearms used in very "non-safe" conditions.

In both circumstances, however, I'd rather be with the combat veterans.

(I was standing 20 meters in front of a guy who blew through a 30 round mag with his AK-47--I was well within the 30 degree cone and felt the overpressure and "whiz" of the bullets going past me.  It's a fascinating experience that I would *not* recommend unless you have *absolute trust* in the guy behind you!)

I just avoid public ranges entirely.

BLM land FTW.

Quote from: J Arcane;399470I just avoid public ranges entirely.

BLM land FTW.

I will only shoot at untended ranges.  There is a local range that's really nice--but they have this "1 round every 3 second" rule that is completely pointless if I'm trying to train interdiction techniques (where you put two in the chest, one in the head, within one second).

I have no idea what "BLM land" means....

Thankfully, my state is open-carry.  Although I have my CCW, I like others at the range to *see* that I've got a pistol on my belt when I have thousands of dollars in hardware on the bench, in case they get any "silly ideas"...

BLM  is likely the acronym for "Bureau of Land Management "


- Ed C.

Quote from: Koltar;399487BLM  is likely the acronym for "Bureau of Land Management "

Ahhh... thanks!  

I am working on getting my own land.  I hate relying on the government for anything.  Any government big enough to give you all that you want is strong enough to take away all that you have.

Quote from: Vellorian;399476I will only shoot at untended ranges.  There is a local range that's really nice--but they have this "1 round every 3 second" rule that is completely pointless if I'm trying to train interdiction techniques (where you put two in the chest, one in the head, within one second).

I have no idea what "BLM land" means....

Thankfully, my state is open-carry.  Although I have my CCW, I like others at the range to *see* that I've got a pistol on my belt when I have thousands of dollars in hardware on the bench, in case they get any "silly ideas"...

Yeah, there's a range in the next town that has a range officer, and silly rules like that are why I'm leery of it.  On the one hand, it theoretically means there's someone there to make sure no one shoots me in the head.  On the other hand, it's more likely he'll just be there to call the cops after they do it, and in the meantime run about powertripping and trying to "help" me shoot.  

I bought an AK-101 for a reason goddamnit, and it wasn't to shoot like it's a goddamn sniper rifle.  

BLM = Bureau of Land Management, aka, public land.  Shooting on it's plenty legal, and there's lots of it in my area, so basically any random stretch of public land with some trees to set up targets on becomes a shooting range all to my own.  

So long as some jackass farmer isn't grazing illegally on it, anyway.

We have a state park nearby that has an untended range.  I like going there--but anytime around deer season, it's pointless...

Thankfully, a buddy of mine just purchased 30 acres and we're setting up a private range there.  

I'd still rather have my own, though...  *sigh*

Quote from: Vellorian;399440Again, where do you see this impacting the rolling of the dice or the playing of the game?

This clip/magazine trivia is EXACTLY the kind of useless tidbit that the OCD guy in our group LOVES to bring up during game... bringing everything to a screeching halt as we pretend to be interested because we're all too polite to tell him we don't give a crap.

Threads like this make me very happy that I live in the country I do.

Quote from: Fiasco;399551Threads like this make me very happy that I live in the country I do.

Commie!

Did the "rpg" in rpgsite turn into "rocket-propelled grenade"?!
Thank god this thread wasn't about a story-game or Pundit would have moved it to the appropriate sub-board.  *rollseyes*

This is a particularly sweet peice of paranoia

QuoteThankfully, my state is open-carry. Although I have my CCW, I like others at the range to *see* that I've got a pistol on my belt when I have thousands of dollars in hardware on the bench, in case they get any "silly ideas"...

I never cease to be amazed at how smug the Commonwealth can be about having so utterly squelched a right they invented.

I'm more impressed that they've managed to completely wipe out death. Good job, fellers!

Also, some BLM news for you.

Yay, Feds!