Juniper Green has two ranges, indoor and outdoor. The indoor range firing point can accommodate 4 shooters and the outdoor range 10. We do have a large membership though and a degree of consideration is required to ensure things run smoothly and all members get full use of the facilities we have. Naturally our range rules and safety take precedence but a few rules of etiquette may help pave the way to a more enjoyable shooting experience for all and help any new members.
|
If you arrive as the range opens, offer to help whoever is there to set up. That way we all get shooting more quickly. Don’t walk past the container with gun in hand and leave whoever it is to struggle down the hill with a loaded wheelbarrow and an air cylinder! |
|
On busy nights, do not hog a shooting position. After 10 – 15 minutes step back, socialise for a while and have a coffee (mine is black, no sugar). That way everyone gets a go. |
|
Tuesday nights are junior nights. They take precedence at the range so if you see a junior waiting, give way to them. |
|
If you see a member struggling with something (particularly a new member), offer to help. Just because we are all perfect and know how to zero a scope doesn’t mean they do. You might even surprise yourself and learn something! |
|
If a member mentions something to you regarding safety (e.g. muzzle down when it should be up, magazine left in, gun left cocked in the rack) thank them, apologise and rectify the fault. Keep your teddy in the pram!! |
|
Don’t use the top of the gun rack as a shelf. If a tin of pellets or something falls off on to someone’s expensive scope they may not be too pleased. Remember guns go in the rack scope out and pistols on the pistol rack. |
|
Don’t touch someone else’s gun without permission. |
|
Use the shelves at the indoor range or the rack at the outdoor range for gun bags / boxes. |
|
The club do not provide paper targets so any you see will have been brought and put out by someone. Please ensure that you ask permission of the owner before shooting a paper target that you did not personally bring and put out. |
|
A member may be using one of our knock down plinking targets for some reason. If they knock it down and then re-set it – don’t knock it down for them again; shoot something else for a bit. If someone does repeatedly knock down a target you have reset for a reason, ask them not to. We are all, apart from the Chairman, reasonable people. |
|
If whilst shooting you accidentally dislodge a target, call for a cease fire and put it back up! Any cans or yoghurt pots that land in the river are yours to paddle for. Don’t set out any targets on the shooting point side of the river. |
|
If you do call a cease fire, go down the range, do what you have to do and return as quickly as possible to call the cease fire off. Members have come to shoot and they don’t want to be held up whilst you discuss with a mate the niceties of wad cutters vs. Diablo pellets or look at the flowers. |
|
If there is a cease fire it is now a rule that you clear your gun and put it back in the rack until the cease fire is called off – don’t leave your gun on the firing position. |
|
At the end of a club night rubbish must be cleared and taken away, targets retrieved, targets painted, cash counted and the range put in a good state ready for the next users. You will not endear yourself to the remaining members if you shoot until near closing time then slope off (particularly if it’s outside and raining heavily). We all have things to do that require us to leave early sometimes but not every time! |
|
Don’t leave the container open, unlocked and unattended – it might be your kit that gets stolen! |
|
Have a care when clearing up and Leave the Ranges as you Gordon would wish to find it. |
