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I see a target as merely a target, but the "trapshooting clique" at the club had enough votes to impose the "No humanoid target" rule. Be that as it may....
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This has GOT to be the dumbest rule that I have seen come across the boards in recent times. Michigan state ranges have a similar ban, so I asked the range officer "What exactly is a 'humaniod' target"? I was told a target resembling a human. O.K......so a black sillouhette isn't a humaniod target, right? Oh, no....it is, because the outline is that of a human! O.K., so a big rectangle with a little rectangle on top isn't a 'humanoid' target, right? Now it depends on which range officer you talk to......and they all cap it off with "Look, I don't make the rules, I just enforce 'em"
We are allowed to use images of 'legal' game animals, but not 'illegal' ones......so no shooting at pictures of elephants or gorillas, even though (last time I looked, anyway), Michigan didn't have an elephant or gorilla season! And what if it's illegal in one state, but not another and I plan on hunting in that state?
THEY'RE ALL MADE OUT OF PAPER, FOR CRIPE SAKES!!!!!
What a bunch of mental pygmies we have running this state..................
.....but I degress! Adam, I would love to practice more with my CCW sidearms as you describe; however, ALL of the private and public ranges here REFUSE to allow drawing from a holster of any kind and rapid fire (we must allow one second between shots). Having said that, I do practice (with an unloaded firearm) drawing from a concealed position, and once or twice a year I go to the State Game Area were I know of a parking area that is pretty much a shallow bowl. I usually go in Jan/Feb/March, as most hunting seasons have closed by then and I'm not disturbing anybody's hunting. I also try to wait until after noon so as not to disturb any local residents in the area. The sides of the parking area make a pretty good berm, and any rounds that are off target end up in soft dirt. I take along some cardboard sillouhettes that I cut out of refrigerator boxes and some stands I've made out of 2x2 pieces and 3/4" pine planking. I've only had two people stop to see what I was doing......one was a county sheriff who told me to have a nice day and to please make sure I cleaned up my mess, and another was an A-hole rabbit hunter who came in and tried to claim he was hit by a spent round! I asked him were he was hunting and he told me west of were we were; I said "that's funny, because I'm shooting in a southerly directions, and I'm not using the ammo that killed JFK" (the humor escaped him
)....he later admitted that he just didn't "like the noise while he was hunting rabbits". What a jacka$$!
Anyway, good post and that is what I do....maybe someone can find a similar area and do some of the things I do.