EddieZoom
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Got an email from my club, ranges are open and use common sense. Nothing like some good ole common sense!!!
Which club ?
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Got an email from my club, ranges are open and use common sense. Nothing like some good ole common sense!!!
Which club ?
Fitchburg Sportsmen's Club
I don't see that happening anytime soon . . . keep in mind that the PD is at the bottom of the driveway. They hear one shot and it'll be nothing but trouble.I wish Mansfield F&G would get it's act together.
I don't see that happening anytime soon . . . keep in mind that the PD is at the bottom of the driveway. They hear one shot and it'll be nothing but trouble.
I've chosen to let my membership at my Sportsman's Club expire after 23 years of membership. I will now use 'pay-as-you-go' public ranges, (I've got 2 or 3 good ones near me).
The way I see it, if my Club would not stand up against unjust closure when outdoor ranges are safer than Walmarts and Market Baskets, I might as well spend less at a location that gives the same Zero Fvcks about American Rights.
Maybe shutting down crowded indoor public ranges was warranted (maybe…) but, outdoor ranges that already have tables and benches 20 feet apart? No way.
This will happen again. Maybe not a 'heath scare' but something will shut down ranges again for capricious reasons. I'd bet a leg on it...
~Enbloc
The problem with this is there aren't really much in the way of pay-to-use outdoor ranges. The only one I'm remotely aware of was the one at Waynes if you wanted to call
it that. (I dunno if he even charged for it, I know he let customers use it). This limits rifle/shotgun work significantly.
I also think we have to be careful- while there are certainly clubs that cucked themselves out and went all corona karen, there are many others that literally stayed open right up until the
point that the boot of the authorities was on their throat, like HSC, HSA, and likely several others. Let's not crap on the clubs in these cases when its pretty clear that in a lot of cases a lot of this bullshit was the outcome of poor state and local government forces working against gun owners.
-Mike
I've chosen to let my membership at my Sportsman's Club expire after 23 years of membership. I will now use 'pay-as-you-go' public ranges, (I've got 2 or 3 good ones near me).
The way I see it, if my Club would not stand up against unjust closure when outdoor ranges are safer than Walmarts and Market Baskets, I might as well spend less at a location that gives the same Zero Fvcks about My American Rights.
Maybe shutting down crowded indoor public ranges was warranted (maybe, I doubt it…) but, outdoor ranges that already have tables and benches 20 feet apart? No way.
This will happen again. Maybe not a 'heath scare' but something will shut down ranges again for capricious reasons. I'd bet a leg on it...
~Enbloc
Gun clubs no longer fit my needs...As Mike stated, you can't blame your club if the JBT were ready to issue Cease & Desist orders to close clubs if they didn't comply.
Gun clubs no longer fit my needs...
A big problem that I see coming when they reopen , will be restrictions, not the masks and distance stuff, but the no guests and no new memberships.. I'm waiting for my renewal to come back and from what i've been reading here it doesn't seem like there's going to be any / many places to use it.... Paul
Just heard that Hopkinton is back open. That is awesome news and I'll be heading down there this week to work out some pent up pew pew need!
To add to Mike's point . . .Depends on the club and whether or not they dodged the Waffen SS the first time around. A lot of them probably want to get back to normal.
-Mike
f*** that. The cops use our club for free twice a year. It would not go over well if the cops tried to shut us down.Just checked my Club's website and it has been updated (Update as posted, only change they made is in bold)
NOTICE:
DUE TO CONCERNS WITH COVID-19 THE OUTDOOR RANGES ARE CLOSED, EXCEPT FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
ATTENTION: The RIFLE RANGE is CLOSED until May 18th! So unless Gov. Baker extends the lock down date or is pressured to open up ranges sooner, we'll see you at the range on May 19th.
And just so we're clear this lock down is being enforced by the local Health Department.
RANGE UPDATE:
After polling the Board of Directors via email over the weekend, the majority of the Board was in favor of re-opening the range.
Out of courtesy, we reached out to the Leominster Police Department to inform them of our intent. The request was forwarded to the Leominster Health Department, who is charged with enforcing the Governor's emergency health-related mandates.
The health department called us back directly and (apologetically) stated that if we re-opened the range prior to May 19th, they would enforce the Governor's mandate and take action to shut it down.
We have informed GOAL of this situation, but at this time, we are going to remain closed until May 19th.
Granite State wasn't doing new membership for a while and no MA residents. This is from their emailI have On-Target over in Dracut and Granite State up in Hudson, NH. (They are actually closer to me than the Club.)
Both make my club's indoor range look like a joke and offer a wider range of platforms to shoot.
Sure, no long-distance rifle work, but I am now training for "Front Door to End-of-driveway" targets...
"Different times require different training and a different mindset"...
The 'Good Old Days" are over...
~Enbloc
Just checked my Club's website and it has been updated (Update as posted, only change they made is in bold)
NOTICE:
DUE TO CONCERNS WITH COVID-19 THE OUTDOOR RANGES ARE CLOSED, EXCEPT FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.