Typical Range Day

[cluznar]

Here is a typical range day for me:

Get up, take a shower, get dressed (including my carry gun). Go to kitchen and make some pancakes with maple syrup and a large portion of crisp bacon also OJ and decaf coffee. Head out on the deck to eat and enjoy a nice morning as birds eat from my feeders and sometimes squirrels romp around. After I finish breakfast I sometimes read a newspaper or listen to the radio, still on the deck out back.

Then around 1:00 I pack my stuff in my range bag and head to the range. When I get to the indoor range I say hi to Charlie who works there (owners son) we exchange a few brief greetings and talk. Get my range assignment, put my ear protection and glasses on and head inside the range.

Usually there is someone I know there, we wave to each other. Then I get my gun and sending a target out to 21 feet and start to shoot. First target I shoot very slowly, taking my time and getting a good sight picture. Then I shoot a few targets at a faster pace, then another target of slow shooting and keep alternating like this.

At the end of the session after I pay for my range stall I usually set down at the table outside the range room and have a cold drink from the machine and maybe a bag of chips. Sometimes a friend or two will sit with me and we discuss how are shooting went. We'll say which gun we shot and how well we shot it. After maybe a half hour to an hour we usually leave.

On the way home I pick up a big bucket of KFC chicken. Getting home the wife and I enjoy KFC (and I always get rolls and coleslaw with the chicken). She'll ask how I shot and say "I'm going shooting tomorrow. When we finish our KFC she brings a nice peach pie from the fridge and french vanilla ice cream from the freezer and we have pie-ala-mode.

All in all I like range days. Does your range day have any simialrities to mine?

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[Domineaux]

I wish, that sounds like a damn fine day.

 

[justxboxin]

If that us true that's an amazing day ... Wife says how did you shoot ? I'm going again Tom , ok hubby hears a beer ... Now let me rub your ... Wait I meant back lol

 

[wolf_fire]

Do all of your range days involve so much food? LOL

 

[cluznar]

Not sure what you mean by so much food? A decent breakfast, some soda and chips, and a good
supper. To me that is the way to eat. Would you rather not eat?

leasantry:

 

[Shoobee]

If I am shooting rifle, then I try to get to the range early in the morning before the winds pickup.

If I am shooting handgun only, then there is no rush. So on those days I usually go after lunch, when most people are leaving the range to go get something to eat.

Either way, I prep and lay out everything the evening before.

When I head to the range, which is a long drive south of town, or else west of town, two different ranges, I normally stop and get a breakfast muffin at McDonalds to go so I can eat it on the way. You need food in your stomach to do anything right. Not a lot of food, just some.

I avoid coca-cola and coffee and any other caffeine drinks because the caffeine raises your blood pressure and throws off your aim for offhand rifle and handgun.

I usually bring only one weapon, either the scoped rifle, or the hunting revolver, or the defense pistol, so I can concentrate on that particular weapon for the half day.

I like to find a spot at the range at one or the other ends of the range away from other people, not in the middle. It is more quiet there.

My first 3 to 5 rounds are normally fired benched. This tells me where the weapon is firing to.

For offhand shooting, I will spend a lot of time finding my natural sight picture, closing my eyes, and then seeing where I am aiming. Then I will chalk my feet to save time doing this over again later.

Shooting offhand tells me where I am shooting to. It should be the same as benched.

When offhand and benched agree, then if I need to adjust the scope or sights, I then do it, and not before.

Then I go back to benched, then offhand again, repeating the process until the bullet impact is dead center and close to touching.

Then on the way home, I will normally grab food to go again, or else eat at a restaurant, depending on what I am hungry for.

When I get home, I spend the whole evening cleaning the gun while watching the news on tv.

About a week later, I will clean the gun again.

Those are my range rituals.

No Kentucky Fried Chicken though. When I get hungry for chicken I buy boneless thighs and I bread and fry it myself. KFC can't touch my chicken!

 

[Shoobee]

Not sure what you mean by so much food? A decent breakfast, some soda and chips, and a good
supper. To me that is the way to eat. Would you rather not eat?

leasantry:

Not eating is a trick that makes your aim more accurate for archery, somehow, but it does not seem to work for firearms. For firearms you seem to need something in your stomach.

 

[eagleeyes]

all my days are different. i've gone in the spur of a moment and i've also planned to go to the range days in advance. but i agree it's good to go on a full stomach ..i went once not eating before i went, and my stomach got queasy i sat out a bit and finished another mag full and we left. not sure why my stomach got suddenly queasy like it did ,but we went out to a really good seafood place afterward and that hit the spot.......my sons treat .....

 

[wolf_fire]

Not sure what you mean by so much food? A decent breakfast, some soda and chips, and a good
supper. To me that is the way to eat. Would you rather not eat?

leasantry:

:biggrin: I've just not heard someone talk so well about their range day and include every meal in the description. No offense meant. I'm glad you had a wonderful day.

 

[rdm6680]

Damn, what is your cholesterol level? If ur going to do that you might as well have leaded coffee instead of that decaf Crap. Turn in your gun.

 

[cluznar]

Don't worry about my chloresterol, I'm fine. And I shot well that day also. TURN IN MY GUN! :stop:

Not hardly!

 

[Rocketgeezer]

We, my wife and I, don't really plan a range day, if we get a new gun, or if we are just out for the day we will stop and shoot a couple of box's we alway's have our carry guns with us along with ammo, and usualy a extra gun in the car or bike, but depending on the time of day, we usualy eat afterwards, theres a Dennys near one of the ranges we go to and I can use my old fart card (AARP) for a discount, LOL

 

[superprincess]

cluznar, you accomplished one thing, you made me hungry. Sounds like a nice day at the range.