{"id":2615,"date":"2024-08-30T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:28:55","slug":"housekeeping-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/housekeeping-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Housekeeping Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well guys (and girls), about once a year I have to fuss about things.  As Safety Officer, range housekeeping does contribute to range safety.  We do not have trash service at the range. We do not have a janitor to come around and clean up behind us. We have to clean up after ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did a trash haul at the range yesterday. Both trash cans\nwere full to overflowing.  We keep trash cans\nat the range for casual trash that wanders onto the range, not as community\ngarbage cans.  The can over by the\nconcrete benches looked like it had been used to dispose of trash from a\npicnic; food wrappers, plastic drink bottles, yogurt containers and \u2013 I\u2019m not\nmaking this up \u2013 a dirty baby diaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over at the 100-yard line the can was full of shot up\ntargets, more drink bottles, potato chip bags and food wrappers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you come to the range, bring a Wal-Mart bag of something\nlike that to throw away your trash.  If\nyou bring targets or cardboard backers, take them back home with you.  Don\u2019t leave them \u201cin case someone else might\nneed them\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an example, someone had built a nice target holder with a wooden frame to hold targets.  But \u2013 the frame was shot up and instead of taking the backer and frame back home, the person just laid it down beside the trash can for someone else to dispose of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shot-up target backers and frame<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s talk about sandbag etiquette for a minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 We try to keep\nsandbags on the range for people who want to use them for sighting in or\nsupported shooting. Building sandbags isn\u2019t fun.  We get them from the county highway\ndepartment and we have to fill them ourselves. \nEach one weighs close to 35-pounds and loading them and unloading them\ngets to be work quickly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandbags are a thin plastic material that can be damaged and easily destroyed.  One way to destroy a sandbag is to rest the muzzle of your rifle on the bag when you are firing.  The muzzle blast blows away that plastic and lets all of the filling of the bag spill out.  Don\u2019t rest the muzzle of a firearm on a sandbag; rest the fore-end instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muzzle blast destroys sandbags<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Another way to destroy a sandbag is to rest a Picatinnny rail on it.  The serrations tear up the bag with the same result \u2013 the innards become outarrds. If you have a rail, lay a towel or a carpet square on the bag to protect the bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, in case the string on the bag breaks, don\u2019t just throw the bag on the table or lay it down on the floor for the sand to spill out everywhere.  Sit it up out of the weather and we\u2019ll get a new string on it or we\u2019ll slip it in another bag.  If a bag does spill, there is a broom and dustpan out on the apron to sweep up the spilled sand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open bags spill sand all over the tables<\/strong>

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And, just one last comment – if a sandbag does spill its guts – throw it away, that is a valid use of the range trashcans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well guys (and girls), about once a year I have to fuss about things.  As Safety Officer, range housekeeping does contribute to range safety.  We do not have trash service at the range. We do not have a janitor to come around and clean up behind us. We have to clean up after ourselves. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}