A self-evident life and limb risky gun range.
As a point of fact, this is one of the most unsafe and potentially dangerous ranges I have ever experienced. To be clear, I have used this range at least once a week for well over ten years primarily for convenience. That has now changed for the area. There are too many other ranges built for safety in the area for me to use this one. For example, Range USA is 12 miles away, has 10 more lanes in a building four times as large and is ultra modern with four times more items for sale and a live, on-line range officer. This older, lower tech range is simply unsafe and potentially dangerous in my opinion. As a competitive pistol shooter I no longer feel safe due to inadequate ballistic barriers that would fail to stop fired rounds from potentially injuring or killing other shooters even four lanes away, inadequate lighting, inadequate prevention of expended hot cartridges striking other shooters, inadequate ventilation with the result that the heavy gun smoke (lead particulate) makes it difficult to breath and even obscures seeing targets, an older inadequate target railing system prone to failure, a staff that fails to replace lights or expeditiously make range repairs, etc. The range is so antiquated that when things break like the wire target rail through no fault of their own, shooters are often charged unfairly when it is the poor business practice of the range itself. As a former university business professor and dean, I can attest to the complete and utter customer disregard that signifies and a clear example of the business itself. Underscoring the potential life threatening danger of this range is that there is no range officer on the line to prevent unsafe actions. And, while cameras are present, they are not regularly monitored. They seem to be there simply for 'after the fact' issues to 'protect' the business rather than having a range officer to preserve the safety of those shooting and watching. I have seen countless acts of unsafe, dangerous horseplay of those shooting. At no time has a staff member ever come onto the range to protect those watching or other shooters. As a result, all on the range are in potential danger of life threatening harm. One only has to look at the tens of thousands of rounds that mark the walls, posts, ceiling and floor to wonder "Where is the staff safety oversight?" Personally, I will never use this range again. It is simply much too unsafe and is on its face, Dangerous with a capital "D"! 👍
By Wayne G.