Comments on: If You Shoot a .50 Cal Rifle Indoors – Or Hang Around When Someone Else Does – You Deserve What You Get https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: CapnJack https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-119761 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:42:07 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-119761 I don’t use indoor ranges any more for just that reason. It seems there is always someone in the next lane with his muzzle braked, high powered rifle, a years worth of ammunition and 15 minutes to shot it all up.

]]> By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118948 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:28:27 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118948 In reply to JimB.

“Some folks musy just go cheap on hearing protection.”

Active noise reduction muffs backed up by 20 Db-down viso-elastic foam EAR plugs, junior…

]]> By: JimB https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118908 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:21:01 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118908 In 40 years of shooting, I’ve never gotten a headache from shooting indoors and have no ear ringing.

Some folks musy just go cheap on hearing protection.

]]> By: jwm https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118822 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:20:10 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118822 In reply to Geoff “I’m getting too old for this shit” PR.

Moderation. Again.

]]> By: jwm https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118821 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:19:25 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118821 In reply to Geoff “I’m getting too old for this shit” PR.

It wasn’t that bad. Dude with the fiddy was to my right. He was shooting semi auto and he was taking his time. Dude on my left was shooting a full auto, drum fed, 12 ga like from the predator movie. That thing sucked. Both these guys were several stalls away. We also had someone doing a belt fed down a ways. I think it was 7.62 nato. People in Utah believe in 2a.

My worst indoor experience was here in CA. Guy shooting a .50 cal Desert Eagle in the stall next to me. His empty brass kept raining down into my slot.

It was like having smoking trash cans thrown at you.

]]> By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118808 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:44:23 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118808 In reply to jwm.

Shooting my Ruger SuperRedhawk .44 mag indoors was fun, but it did beat you up a bit.

I can’t imagine myself wanting to experience a .50 BMG lighting off indoors, no mater what earpro I had on.

I wouldn’t enjoy that degree of concussive blast…

]]> By: jwm https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118802 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:19:24 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118802 In reply to hawkeye.

Yes. I would much rather shoot outdoors. But this place was in the middle of a city. Just a short drive away.

]]> By: hawkeye https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118799 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:01:55 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118799 In reply to jwm.

I used to shoot at an indoor range that allowed 50 cal. No dust in those rafters. I haven’t shot there in a while, since I signed up at an outdoor range where a membership is less than 1/6 the price, and I can shoot out to 300 yards. I do still go there to buy now and then, since they provide an in-house lifetime warranty on firearms.

]]> By: jwm https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118714 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:55:35 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118714 I was at an indoor range in Utah that rented machine guns. One dude had brought a Barret .50 cal semi auto to shoot. The range was built to handle it. It felt like the whole building rattled when he touched it off.

Fun day.

]]> By: Chris T in KY https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/rifles/if-you-shoot-a-50-cal-rifle-indoors-or-hang-around-when-someone-else-does-you-deserve-what-you-get/comment-page-1/#comment-118689 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:41:53 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=30630#comment-118689 New York headquartered writers have never held or shot a BB gun. Let alone shot real guns. And they have chosen to not even try to learn about them.

It never occurs to them that a safety device called a suppressor is the answer to solve this harmful loud noise.

The media are the enemy of civil rights.

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