Went to the indoor range near the wife's parents house in the metro east today. For the past few years the agreement has been that she gets an extended visit and I get to burn powder and tranquility rules at the home stead.
I always take my own ammo (loaded with boolits of course) and my prefferred targets; paper plates with target spots on them. Cheap, visable, and room to write load data on them if you get a good one. In the past I bought one of the ranges cardboard squarish silhouette targets to staple my plates onto. I usually then gave the cardboard target to another shooter at the end of my session.
Today I arrived with my own 2'x2' square of cardboard to staple my plates to. I always bring my own stapel gun too. The clerk asked if I needed targets and I told him I was good. After two hours of the zen of Ruger single actions and a nice visit with a fellow handloader it was time to go. ($18 per hour but what the heck).
When I went to settle up I was told that I could not hang cardboard from the target hangers in the future and that my paper plates were gasp NOT APPROVED TARGETS gasp. I pointed out that I was not competing in any match so it shouldn't matter what my target was. I was informed that insurance required that only approved targets be used to avoid people shooting out lights or shooting the cables in two.
I was asked to not bring cardboard or plates in the future. It was ponted out that they had approved targets for sale. This is really a moot point since I won't be going back.
I could see a problem if I were putting up breakable targets, pictures of religoius leaders, obscene pictures, or otherwise dangerous or offensive items but I have shot at paper plates for several years and on other occassions at this
range. The clerk did say that the range owner had seen my plates and gotten on the clerks case about it.
In short it shouldn't matter if a paying customer uses his own targets on a slot he is renting at a more than fair hourly rate. To say that I am annoyed is an understatement.
Has anybody else had similar bad experiences at indoor ranges?
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Originally Posted by 35remington
and the other guy bashes learning disabled children and i get booted off and he gets consoled and told that i was just being a jerk. NO PLACE FOR ME!! there a borish bunch of no nothing 19 year old wanabes. Experts on the art of self defense and self defense weapons but i never found a single one of them that had actually been in combat or were police officers that had fired a round on duty. 
