Defender3 said:

As others have said, there are a few ranges in the area. With the loss of Elite, the availability is limited.

TL/DR - We are open weekends. Matches are announced on the calendar 3+ months in advance due to required base coordination. Recreational fire ranges are ONLY placed on the calendar the Thursday night prior to a weekend due to the base deconflicting 39 ranges across 52,000 acres. Go to the website, there's enough there to hurt your head.

Quantico Shooting Club

Years ago I was part of a newly elected board with the mission to rehabilitate the reputation of the club and kick the clowns out of the treehouse. The club had migrated to a good old boys club and even then they were F'ing it up. We've been on a steady path to increase the value the QSC brings to the community while meeting our mission of supporting recreational shooting for Marines and their families. We have grown from 300 members to over 1200. Membership is open to all categories of candidates, including those with no military affiliation.

We are a non-federal entity operating aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico and that does require a candidate complete a member package and pay a fee that is based on rank or status. Our most expensive annual membership is $190. The club sponsors members (who need base access) for a DBIDS card that grants weekend range access.

Not all ranges are open every weekend as we have to follow all MCBQ rules regarding OIC/RSOs and we are very safety focused, despite having upwards of 60 people on the rec fire line at any given time (not an issue as these ranges and expansive). Our Board and RSOs are all volunteers and we need three volunteer RSOs to open a range. We have a paid EMT on site every time we open a range and base paramedics across the street.

The Marines ONLY tell us which ranges are available on Sunday night for the upcoming weekend. Range control has to deconflict 39 different ranges across 52,000 acres to ensure if we're shooting a 1,000yds on R4, the impact area in R12 behind us is clear. Rinse and repeat for all 39 ranges. We put availability out to our RSOs and once we get volunteers, we put the ranges on the calendar for the weekend. So, if you read this now at 1600hrs EST on a Thursday, you still won't see the two Range 1 Recreational Fires we will have this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) until posted later tonight. I know, but it's their system. Matches are different as we submit those to base leadership for approval upwards of 6 months in advance; that's why the calendar shows them so far in advance vs no rec fires.

Members can bring guests for $10 a day, so if you know someone and want to give us a test drive, just have them bring you out.

We do shoot matches almost every weekend. Those match fees fund the $70,000 in must pays we have just to keep the lights on and the majority of our $125K annual operating budget. They also (obviously) help subsidize dues costs to keep them as low as possible. Moat all our matches are on PractiScore.

The ranges are all outdoors and are pretty large:
Range 1 - 21 position covered shoot house out to 300m. This is a rec fire range for rifle, pistol, shotgun and black powder. Calibers up to 50BMG.
Range 2 &3 are 600 yard structure fire ranges mostly used by the rifle teams and members practicing for Camp Perry.
Range 4 - 1,000yds. These long-range precision guys shoot every Sunday the range is available. Cleared for 50BMG and 338LM.
Small Arms Training - 4-35yd bays for USPSA, Steel Challenge, PCSL, and 2&3 Gun.
Ironman - 450yd with steel out to 700yds. This is a rec fire range and used for PRS and 2&3 gun. Cleared for 50BMG and 338LM.
Shotgun - 2 active skeet fields and 1 American Trap field. The international trap bunker is down and needs a new computer ($5K) which we will need to budget for to replace. We plan on adding international skeet on field 3 as soon as possible.

Ask a relevant question if needed, but read the website, it's all there.

I'm also a member of my local Izaak Walton so I can do some load development on weekdays to then shoot at QSC on weekends.

Ironman

Range 1

Range 4

Shotgun

SAT

You never know what will show up at the QSC

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Lightning8 said:

Threatening to cut off power to Blue states - that would be rich

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Dispatcher91 said:

They should have fired him. No resignation allowed.

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• It is okay if your scope reticle is canted, just make sure the bubble is leveled to the cant of the scope.
• Find your natural hold - if you do not have an adjustable cant in your butt (no jokes from the adult teenagers please ) then you should know that your shoulder pocket has a "cant" built into it and if you have your fundamentals down you should notice that every time you bring your rifle to shoulder and get your proper cheekweld you will notice the rifle/scope is canted slightly (if you level the scope to the rifle).
• When I am mounting a scope with a rifle that has no butt cant, I have the scope somewhat loose in the rings and set to max magnification, I close my eyes and bring the rifle up to my natural hold - is the sight picture clear from edge to edge, if not then move your scope forward or back - keep doing this until you get a clear sight picture - what you're doing here is ensuring that your eye relief is properly set up for best eyebox experience throughout the mag range (eyebox is worst at max magnification which is why we setup the scope this way). Now that you have your eye relief properly setup, set the magnification where you can see most of the vertical stadia line clearly (usually somewhere near bottom magnification but not all the way - you can have higher magnification but harder to pickup your level or plumb especially at closer distances). Close your eyes and bring the rifle up to your natural hold, is the scope reticle aligned with plumb? If not, then twist the scope in the rings (be careful not to push it toward front or back and mess up your eye relief), keep doing this until that reticle is plumb almost every time. Now your rifle and scope are setup to be plumb to your natural hold where you can be a lot more confident about your shots without checking that bubble every time. Don't let the bubble be a crutch, it is a training aid more than anything.
• When I have a rifle that has adjustable butt cant I will adjust that cant to my natural hold so that the rifle is perpendicular to earths horizon/plumb (as best I can), this way the scope can be level to the rifle and the rifle is level to plumb.
• If you do this but still find the bubble is "off" at times then you need to work on your fundamentals so that your natural hold is the same most every time regardless of what position you're in (your shoulder pocket should be pretty consistent)
• One other tip, when you are torquing your ring screws, put some downward pressure on the scope when you tighten because 4 screw rings tend to put some rotational force when you're tightening which causes the scope to twist slightly. For this reason my preference is for ARC rings and mounts as they have been the best at not twisting the scope when torquing but any ring will work as long as you put pressure on the scope when tightening to help it not move.

Schw15 said:

I'm guessing a lot of jump.

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Schw15 said:

So standard sammi reamer I can single feed the 245s sounds like 3.800 and then mag feed the berger 220s if need be?

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Wizard1183 said:

What’s that mean? You think it’s going to 80?

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powdahound76 said:

Now I remember why yer on ignore

Looked at this to see what whatsupdoc was responding to

Putin isnt good. Zelensky is worse.
I do feel for the ukraine people being under a tyrannical leader who will force them to death in war to line his pockets. They need to turn from the Russians and crush their own govt.

Carry on with the commie cuck routine

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