[Vegas veterans] Which shooting range?

SiD the Turtle

SiD the Turtle

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Hi all,

The time has come and I'm off to Vegas on Saturday. Being a Brit and a gun virgin I'm looking to have a go on a range. Obviously I want to go to a good quality one and I know a couple of alternatives have come up in threads before.

Which ones would people recommend though?
 
I read this as vegans and vegetarians - I thought maybe you were trying to find somewhere to shoot vegans!
 
Dolmio Chips said:
This is the one I went to.

Fired an M16 with Holographic sights and a random 9mm pistol.

I highly recommend going.
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Nooby question, but as someone who's never shot a proper gun...is the recoil anything at all like in PC games (MW2 specifically)? I'm thinking no. :cool:
 
Forde said:
Nooby question, but as someone who's never shot a proper gun...is the recoil anything at all like in PC games (MW2 specifically)? I'm thinking no. :cool:
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Not really but it obviously depends on what you're shooting, until I started shooting I always though the recoil would be much bigger than it actually is.

The one thing I can comment on shooting in America is yes they have lots of cool guns but from the videos and comments I've seen on youtube the rules seem really strict and make them sound so anal about safety. The ranges over here have bars and when I first time I went no word of a lie the only advice that the guy told me was hold with 2 hands, be smooth and he showed me how to load more rounds into the magazine, no safety drills at all :D
 
Col_M said:
no safety drills at all :D
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That is how people get dead, combining alcohol with firearms is never a good idea and giving guns to people with no instruction is a recipe for disaster. I know this sounds like the nanny state talking but it's not, I'm not against firearms and have shot them myself on a few occasions I just think you need to treat them with respect. Having said all that you only really need one rule with guns 'Never point it at anything you don't want to kill, especially when you think it isn't loaded or that you put the saftey on'

We didn't shoot guns in the US when we were over last summer, we did however on our trip to Vietnam and Cambodia this summer and the Health and saftey was pretty limited.
 
a1ex2001 said:
That is how people get dead, combining alcohol with firearms is never a good idea and giving guns to people with no instruction is a recipe for disaster.
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It's been like this for ages here yet I've never heard of any accidents or deaths on ranges here, just a different culture really.
 
a1ex2001 said:
That is how people get dead, combining alcohol with firearms is never a good idea and giving guns to people with no instruction is a recipe for disaster. I know this sounds like the nanny state talking but it's not, I'm not against firearms and have shot them myself on a few occasions I just think you need to treat them with respect. Having said all that you only really need one rule with guns 'Never point it at anything you don't want to kill, especially when you think it isn't loaded or that you put the saftey on'

We didn't shoot guns in the US when we were over last summer, we did however on our trip to Vietnam and Cambodia this summer and the Health and saftey was pretty limited.
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I always remember a line from an edition of Jane's Guide to Firearms, after listing lots of precautions it read: "Do not be over-awed by 'experts' who ignore these rules - you will outlive them."
 
Forde said:
Nooby question, but as someone who's never shot a proper gun...is the recoil anything at all like in PC games (MW2 specifically)? I'm thinking no. :cool:
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how much the recoil effects you is down to experience / skill / strength

Theres a video on youtube somewhere of a girl firing a .50 cal pistol. The recoil means that when she fies it she steps back a couple of feet and the gun ends up 90 degrees in the air !!

But if you saw somebody trained with firing a .50 cal the recoil looks much much less because he handles it better.
 
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