Target Practice

[kingfish]

I was aware of a barracks nearby that lets farangs use their shooting range.Can this still be done?Any details would be worth a beer or 3.

[Jimsknight]

The only one I heard of is just outside of Phnom Phen in Cambodia!

30 dollars per mag (m-16/ak-47)

[Lev]

Read the last two posts of this thread:

http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60

[Top Gun]

Ive been to the local shooting range here just up next to the Stanford University and that was good. I didn’t see any long barrels, but they had a great selection of 9mm and 22 conversions (for any chicks), the 9mm's were well serviced and cleaned. Targets were nothing fancy "will fall when hit!" no CQB range, but then again would you feel safe with this going on next to you in Thailand???.
The safety was good and the freedom was also good, I guess this depends on the gun handling skills.
Let me know if you get onto any long range stuff, I would be keen my self.
Happy shooting

[Rob W]

Hi
Is the shooting range still open to the public, if so where is it and would my 12 year old be able to take part.
cheers for any info.
Rob

[JW]

The shooting range at Bo Fai (turning after soi 6 northside) is still open.
Rob, i would have thought that your 12 year old could shoot, but i am not sure whether its advisable. The guns i shot there packed a pretty hard kick, and they aint toys.

[SHADOW]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Very reponseable, even Thailand with it's lack of safety in almost everything it does may shy away from this one. The Milatary are very careful when it comes to things like this, not meaning they would not let you go, but insurance on non Thais is way overboard. If a Thai was shoot the pay out would be limited to say 250 thou Baht about four grand, A non Thai insurance company would be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars. A weapon in the hands of a resonsable person is no longer a weapon but a tool and a deadly one at that, all firearms have one purpose to kill. This for one thing is not something I would like to teach my thirteen year old just yet, stick to the water pistol in the back yard even with cowboys and Indians somebody dies.

[JW]

Shadow, pleased you are of the same opinion. Guns are not for children!

[Gin tonic - no lime]

I bought my first 22 (Winchester Model 23A) a very nice semi automatic when I was 10 with my paper route $$$ it cost me 50 bucks then in 1957 a considerable amount for a 10 year old. I joined the Calgary Rifle Club, and got proper saftey instruction. My friend and I would ride our bicycles (rifles slung over our shoulders) to the outskirts of the city, and shoot the odd unlucky gopher but mostly bottles and bottle caps. I don't think a responsible 12 year old who has had some safety instruction, in a controlled situation such as a range presents any more risk than an adult... Intrestingly the Canadian Government in its infinite wisdom, instituted the gun registry a few years ago, and it would have cost me 3 or 400 dollars to take courses, buy a permit, register the gun ect ect ect, so instead of being able to pass this family 'heirloom' down to my son (who incidentally had 5 years of military cadet training) I was forced to 'donate' it to the government....

[JW]

Hi G and T,
I am aware that the publics perceptions about guns is very different in Canada and the States compared to England. Coming from England gives me different views, our police dont carry guns so we just think of them in a different way. I shot my first real gun at the shooting range here about 3 years ago, found it pretty scary to start, been a couple of times since. I guess you either accept them or not. I still though feel that kids should be no where near weapons.

[Rob W]

Thanks for the lecture on gun safety, I don’t think for on minute that they would give me a 9mm and let me give it to my little one and shoot willy nilly!!.
I would have thought under strict rules a 12 year old is quite capable of firing a .22 in a perfectly safe manner.
Given that we have a problem with youths and air guns in the UK I would have thought that with proper training it would enhance a young boy’s perspective of guns and their use / potential be it a real pistol or a air rifle.

thanks for the replies
Rob

[lomuamart]

To give a gun to a twelve year old is simply wrong, IMHO.