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Grumpy Viking
8 years ago
*Stomps into his room, kicks off his boots, drops rifle cases, and flops into bed. Proceeds to talk to himself as if he had an audience.*
Okay, so, my local gun range has been experiencing some construction recently, which is great! It's needed a fresh coat of paint for a while now. It's a public, unmonitored range and doesn't really have any staff to take care of it, so it's used hard, often, and then put away wet. It's been closed for a month now, but it was supposed to be open on September 15th.
Now it's scheduled for the 20th of October. Another month.
Fuck.
I understand construction work is difficult and demanding, but God damn, NOTHING is ever completed on time in this city! We've had a bridge that's been under construction for over 3 years, and I've been told it's more like 5 or 6. Five or six years for a 100 foot bridge. It's ridiculous.
TL/DR:
The gun range is closed and I'm mad.
End rant.
Okay, so, my local gun range has been experiencing some construction recently, which is great! It's needed a fresh coat of paint for a while now. It's a public, unmonitored range and doesn't really have any staff to take care of it, so it's used hard, often, and then put away wet. It's been closed for a month now, but it was supposed to be open on September 15th.
Now it's scheduled for the 20th of October. Another month.
Fuck.
I understand construction work is difficult and demanding, but God damn, NOTHING is ever completed on time in this city! We've had a bridge that's been under construction for over 3 years, and I've been told it's more like 5 or 6. Five or six years for a 100 foot bridge. It's ridiculous.
TL/DR:
The gun range is closed and I'm mad.
End rant.
I live in the Peoples' Republik of Konnektikut, and while the leftist legislature et al. still haven't outlawed every device from which a shot may be discharged (they were talking about it), the public ranges are long a thing of the past. In my neck of the woods, there is one range operated by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), but you need to sign up a minimum of one week ahead of time, and there are zero facilities. Bring your own target stands, last I knew.
We have a number of private facilities, but they are pay for play or club-owned. I have a standing application at my local club and the one in next town over. These are closed clubs with set membership lists. In the shortest list, I'm waiting for five people to die; at the other club it's eight.
Count your blessings.