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no human sillhouette targets?

brandon_brandon_ Member Posts: 211 ✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
*I intended for this to be in General Discussion*


There's a range near my house I was looking into joining. I just went to their website and the number 1 rule is "No human silhouette targets". Is this common with most ranges? I've surely never heard of this before.
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  • Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is not common, but it is not unheard of in Liberal areas which have not found a way to cut out shooting altogether.
    IPSC has the "Classic" target, sometimes called the "amoeba" for use in such jurisdictions.

    Note that the NRA does not offer shooting events for American Commoners to shoot at humanoid targets.
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm gonna have to sell my b-27's then.

    I have never heard of that.
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  • RogueStatesmanRogueStatesman Member Posts: 5,760
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by txlawdog
    I'm gonna have to sell my b-27's then.

    I have never heard of that.


    No you won't ... we live in Texas ... REMEMBER!! [8D][:D][8D][:D][;)][;)][;)]
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    I think the proposals are for just the silhouette targets 'wearing' sombreros and/or 'eating' fried chicken and watermelon ... or, in fact, of course, any dragging crosses.
    [8D]
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  • dolfandolfan Member Posts: 4,159
    edited November -1
    Yes...at the county owned public ranges in So. FL.
    One is in Miami-Dade Co., the other in Broward.
    Sillhouette targets, including the ones with Sadam, Obama and assorted bad guys are banned.
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, I just have never even thought about those type of problems that you folks up north or in the blue areas of the United States have to go through. This is the United States, right? Come to Texas, and I will let you shoot cans, bottles, or even targets. If we make a mess, we got to clean it up though. Yea, I'm getting green I guess. The whole think seems pretty silly to me.
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  • dolfandolfan Member Posts: 4,159
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eboydell
    Well Hell, Miami is just New York down South! NO surprize there.[:0]
    NO, actually it's South and Central America NORTH!!![xx(][:D]
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  • bigtirebigtire Member Posts: 24,800
    edited November -1
    Never heard of that. Sounds like a load of BS. [:(!]

    Tell them they are not Human Sillhouette targets.

    They are Zombie Sillhouette Targets! [:D][8D]
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went through boot camp with a boy from Florida. He was one of the reddest rednecks I ever met. Redder than mine even. I mentioned one day that I thought there were more Yankees in Florida than New York City. Almost had a fight on my hands. [:D]
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • B&G ClingerB&G Clinger Member Posts: 1,789 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been told at a local range, that in the state of California it is a CRIME to shoot sillhoutte targets. seems rediculous to me. California is a world away to me. Never been there. Probably never go. Here we shoot at pictures of people posing as bad guys let alone sillhouttes.
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What will I do with all the copies of the pictures of my mother in law? That is the only reason that I go shooting anymore!
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    The club range here in WA has a rule: No FULLSIZE silhouette targets, because of the angles at closer ranges, the shooter might elevate the muzzle (Especially if the shooter is short) and have rounds escape the range. Halfsize and smaller are allowed.

    The restriction is about safety, not "Human Silhouette".
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  • kiwibird1kiwibird1 Member Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like a range nearby me. No human silhouette targets, no double taps, blah, blah, blah. Dont use that range anymore.
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  • sheepdipsheepdip Member Posts: 3,124
    edited November -1
    1200885897-janex600.jpg
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not fonda Jane...

    Do you see a similarity to Blue Dress Monica?
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Too much PC bullsnitz going around anymore.
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  • River RatRiver Rat Member Posts: 9,022 ✭
    edited November -1
    Aren't they illegal in some New England state, such as Vermont or New Hampshire? Here in Wyoming, we use Californians. Like prairie rats, there are plenty of them, and they breed rapidly.
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  • HavegunJoeHavegunJoe Member Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have heard of it before but it is not common. Pretty much P.C. bull crap. Luckily it has not happened around me.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,484 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been on a couple of ranges in Illinois that do not allow human or animal targets.
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  • slipgateslipgate Member Posts: 12,741
    edited November -1
    The one range around here will let you shoot at bin laden targets. I don't think NRA lets you use any silhouettes.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by brandon_
    the number 1 rule is "No human silhouette targets".

    You must live in liberal land USA. We don't have those rules in Texas.
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    in dallas, I went to the range and put up these two saddam targets, when I was done the guy just asked me if I got him. I showed him both targets and said yeah I got his brother too.
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  • FatstratFatstrat Member Posts: 9,147
    edited November -1
    When I bought my Rock Island 1911 last week, I got a free session at the stores indoor range. (1st time I had ever been to one). The target they supplied was a Arabic Terrorist.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My range, restriction is paper target, MUST hit backing or move to shorter range, and no full auto fire before 10am. However, if PC has overtaken your range, try this. You know the peel off targets? They come with "pasters" to extend the life of the target, 4 per pack. On a blank cardboard backer, place 2 dots horizontally in the upper fourth, centered, but about 4 inches apart. a foot below, place 4 dots vertically, centered, about 4 inches apart. You now have a head shot and "center body mass" shot- consisting only of 6 black circles. See if they can complain about that.
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    one indoor range I go to in Kent has all kinds of human targets in ALL races/colors-no discrimination there--when I lived in Fresno the indoor range there stopped having the human targets after a complaint was lodged[xx(]
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  • Rebel_JamesRebel_James Member Posts: 4,746
    edited November -1
    How about zombie targets??

    www.zombietargets.net

    .
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    That's a new one on me...
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  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    been illegal here since 1996.
    the politicians said it "encouraged people to shoot real live people" and that is a direct qoute from the idiots!
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only outdoor range in Jax, FL only allows approved targets and silhouettes ain't one of them.
    http://www.grpc-jax.com/index.htm
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eboydell
    Well Hell, Miami is just New York down South! NO surprize there.[:0]

    Been a wile since u been in Miami,huh?
    If you'd been there in the last 30 or so years, you'd know MIAMI is CUBA,,,"UP NORTH".
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  • FWAdditFWAddit Member Posts: 918 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's a free country, and I would never tell anybody what images they couldn't print on their targets.

    But me, I can't make myself shoot at pictures of people. A generalized silhouette I could possibly do, but that photograph of Jane Fonda with a target superimposed on it just makes me shudder to think about shooting at it. I think a drawing would affect me the same way.

    Okay, call me a wimp. I can take it.
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    it might be unsavory, but that's what defensive shooting practice is all about. people are allowed to use guns to protect themselves, and one necessity is to practice on a realistic target. there has never been a report of a floating black circle 100 yards away trying to kill someone.
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