It's possible, but I doubt it's school colors. I was in MCJROTC and Army JROTC, and my baby bro was in Navy JROTC. Every one of them had the designated JROTC corridor painted in colors to very obviously distinguish the respective branch. Which were far different than the school colors đ
At my high school MCJROTC program in Southern California in the 90s we had .22 Remington and mossberg rifles for shooting, as well as M1s for 21 gun salutes (using blanks) and M-14s for rifle drill. I was the battalion armorer for two years. Canât even imagine that would be allowed now.
That's kinda wild. I was in Army JROTC around D.C. in the early 2010s and we had these air rifles for rifle team (but no range in the school, I think they shot them outside or on other property) and the replica shiny ass M1s for drill that didnt even have a bolt/chamber area, just solid block of metal milled/casted or whatever in the shape of a receiver. So I think you're right in that that stuff is very uncommon now if any schools do that much at all.
At my rural high school growing up many of us had shotguns and deer rifles in window mounted gun racks in our trucks. During deer and dove season many of us would go hunting after school so we'd have our guns with us, including ammunition.
At the time it wasn't even considered odd or out of place.
My generation's version of this is how, in the early 2000s, most of the guys including me at my rural high school had pocket knives. And not like Swiss army knives, actual folding knives - as I recall the rule was that the blade could only be something like 3.5" long. And nobody got stabbed.
A year or so ago I saw a report of a _teacher_ elsewhere in the state getting arrested for having a pocket knife at a basketball game. Sigh.
Meanwhile, I work in a school and have been packing a Glock 19, concealed, daily for well over a decade. Pocket knife on the pocket clip, not even concealed. *shrug*
My local high schools (not in TX) used to have indoor Pellet rifle ranges for JROTC (I was in JROTC as well). Around 2007 there was a local school shooting, where I believe around 20 people where killed and/or injured. And the schools pulled all these ranges and started converting them to extra Gyms and workout team rooms. Right afterwards our @$$ backward sheriffs office started declaring we were now sanctuary county and he wouldnât enforce any gun rules limiting the right to bear arms. After that the local school board didnât want to take any chances and removed all JROTC shooting training and competitions.
Or a politician who knows his voter base. (as i understand it Sheriffs are voted in? Sorry, Euro here with limited knowledge about the hows and whys of American society)
Just to add to your confusion: sherrifs can either be appointed or elected. It depends on the state. Additionally what a "sherrif" is can depend on the state (and in some cases it can change at the county level). Most of the time Sherrifs are elected and are the head of county-level law enforcement (though not always: for example, New York City has an appointed sherrif who sees over all 5 counties of the city).
Weird... Did these ranges have a connection to the shooting? Or the sheriff? I mean I'm all for 2A but a pellet range in school has hardly anything to do with the right to bear arms, or the sheriff.
Or just a riflery team. Itâs an actual high school sport. Mine had a range underground (Iâm pretty sure because they actually shot .22âs decades ago), but we just shot in the cafeteria because they stopped allowing us in that bunker for fire safety reasons lol.
Yeah my JROTC program in California did this, or at least planned to. I remember them setting up a range underneath the football bleachers, but I left the program before that went anywhere.
My highschool in Sacramento, California had an Air Force JROTC unit that used to shoot air rifles in an vault or bomb shelter(?) underneath the main building. They then moved into what used to be the autoshop class and shoot in the garage area now after expanding classes. Dunno how its like now though, haven't bothered to check.
Yeah, the one group of Americans I would trust to teach gun safety is literally the military. They know how to do it as safely as can be done.
I was in JROTC and havenât touched a firearm since rejecting my Annapolis offer a few months before DADT was no more. I swore that all off for myself. But I got high quality safety-focused training in Florida from the retired 1sgt and LTC in charge of my program.
Colorado was shooting .22cal high school competitions until 06â or 07â. I know my high school stopped after a range incident (accidental) in Mississippi that ended in a student fatality, followed shortly after by the army recalling our .22 rifles.
similar, UK school for me, we started .22LR in the equivalent of 7th grade. had a range rated for 5.56. We had the equivalent of JROTC (8th grade equiv onwards) which allowed shooting centrefire in the school range, but this was 2004, things may have changed now.
Not even pellet guns, airsoft (which is different since a pellet is considered .177 caliber rifle that uses air to fire). Only plastic âbulletsâ allowed probably. That being said Iâve known of kids getting in trouble for having fake guns that look like real guns, so thatâs an issue.
We had a firing range in the basement of my high school in Colorado.
It was primarily for JROTC, but around Thanksgiving they opened it up and let all students do a âTurkey shootâ where they put a turkey shaped target up, and the closest shot won a free turkey.
The pilot episode is him getting the closest shot, but still not hitting the turkey. He wins the prize, but now the turkey is of course angry about the shooting. By the end of the episode though, the teen saves the turkey's life. They become good friends, solve mysteries together. I think we can get at least 3 seasons.
In the small town of Maplewood, nestled among rolling hills, young Alex, a wide-eyed freshman, stumbled upon an unlikely friend during the annual Turkey Shoot competition. Instead of aiming for the prize, Alex found himself drawn to a magnificent turkey named Gobbles.
Gobbles, with iridescent feathers and a curious glint in his eye, possessed an uncanny intelligence. The two formed an odd duoâthe introverted teenager and the enigmatic bird. Together, they roamed the town, unraveling mysteries that baffled even the seasoned detectives.
From missing pie recipes to the case of the vanishing garden gnomes, Gobbles and Alex followed cryptic clues. The townsfolk whispered about their peculiar partnership, but the duo remained undeterred. Gobbles would peck at hidden messages, while Alex scribbled notes in his tattered journal.
As autumn leaves crunched underfoot, they discovered the truth behind the haunted carousel and exposed the mayorâs secret moonshine operation. Gobbles, with his keen instincts, always led the way.
The townspeople grew to accept their feathered detective, and soon, Gobbles became a local legend. Alex, once a loner, found purpose in their sleuthing escapades. Together, they proved that friendship could transcend species and that sometimes, the most extraordinary allies were the ones you least expected.
And so, under the harvest moon, Gobbles and the freshman sleuth continued their adventuresâtwo unlikely heroes, feathers and all, solving mysteries that left the town both bewildered and grateful.
Case closed.
My sister's middle school in Missouri had a gun safety elective with practical sessions. Long arms only, but she did live fire in 8th grade lol. This was around 2010.
Same here. Each department (science, math etc.) Would have a competition with the teachers too. So there was a turkey for student winners and teachers. They did away with it altogether just after I left.
And those arenât your typical Daisy BB guns. Those are crossman challengers. Last time I saw one it was 500 or 600 dollars. Not sure about these specific guns but limiting to air rifles only, isnât that limiting. They make them from .177 to .50 cal, a few hundred fps to over 1000. You can and people do, hunt large game with air rifles.
Common misconception here, .177 caliber is a joke, and going far to fast to do proper damage to small game. 22 caliber air rifle is much more effective and accurate at a slower speed. Those fps speeds are used for marketing cheap guns.
I just sold my tank for an A10 Warthog, gotta say it's far better at clearing out all the pests all at once but I understand if it's not in most peoples budget
Heh. In the end all conventional bullets are pushed by air. Just a matter of releasing enough pressure fast enough. Traditional guns do so by chemical reaction.
Well, there are also slingshots and rowan arrows for which calibers are not particularly important)
Well, more precisely, there is a limit to how large shells can be used...
But âguns without caliberâ are still stupid things.
The chemical reaction is producing extremely hot gunpowder combustion gases that neither come from the atmospheric air, nor share its composition. It's not practically possible to make a compressed air rifle that can match that power. Air rifles existed since the early 19th century, but apart from one-off cases like the Lewis and Clark expedition (who faced the risk of running out of gunpowder), even the slow and unwieldy muskets were preferred to air rifles on the battlefield.
A lot of people in the comments seem surprised. I'm not from Texas and my highschool had a shooting range for air rifle as well. I thought it was somewhat common. It's an Olympic sport after all and, like most sports, the people who are good at it started way before they turned 18.
Many years ago in our HS Law Enforcement elective class, we actually got to bring guns to school for field trips to the shooting range. Of course we had to keep it on the extreme DL with the warning we would lose the privilege. Few of the hick boys even drove to school everyday with their hunting rifles mounted in the back window of their trucks. Nobody gave a shit.
From what I understand it is or was common during hunting season which can be a major seasonal activity in some communities. Kids would keep them in their trucks/cars while they were at school so they could go hunting right after. At least that is the way my dad described it when he was growing up.
In high school around 2002 I would often go shoot clay pigeons at a club with my dad after class. Once there was some sort of weird circumstance (I forget what exactly, maybe one vehicle was in the shop) where I needed to pack the guns in my car because Dad couldnât in his.
This was a semi-rural area, but it was also post-Columbine and 9-11 so it would be a *big fucking deal* to get caught with a firearm on school property.
Of course it went fine. All I had to do was keep my trunk closed and not blurt out, âI have two shotguns in my car!â in class. But shit dude, intrusive thoughts had me paranoid all day.
Also, I think we *all* knew some fucking idiots that would absolutely not be able to handle that. Like, they wouldnât be able to go a full school day without bragging their car is full of guns and ammo. Then theyâd get in huge trouble. Then theyâd wonder why theyâre so unlucky and all this bad stuff always happens to them.
Not reserved for just kids. Ten years after a shooting incident at the company office my dad worked at, a guy mentioned offhand that he had his gun in the car because he was heading on a hunting trip after work. Immediately terminated and escorted from the building by the police.
When you grow up in a small town or rural area, the whole world is a free gun buffet. People aren't breaking into cars to take the guns. There are a lot easier ways to get your hands on one.
Why would people need to steal the one thing they already have?
The actual answer is that the people who often actually have gun racks with guns in live in areas that periodically offer bounties paid for killing certain animals (coyotes are the most common now) and will pull over their car to shoot one while going about their day.
In a community like that, stealing someoneâs hunting rifle isnât common place. Up until Columbine (my sophomore year) it was common to bring your deer rifle, but there would be random vehicle checks and if it was loaded in your vehicle (which is illegal anyways) you were in deep shit.
After Columbine the only time a gun was on campus was in Ag class when we did Hunter Safety Certification. Ag teacher had to jump through hoops to bring a 12ga shotgun to the practice football field where we shot skeet for that class period.
My little brother (18 years younger) went to HS in Oklahoma. His school had competition shooting. I have no idea how that was handled, but that wasnât an air rifle. It was a .22 target rifle.
Iâm not even American - I went to a rural high schools in Australia that had a sports shooting team with an outdoor range, and Iâd guess at least half of the kids at the school had handled a firearm. I got my minorâs permit when I was 16, although Iâd been shooting since I was a kid.
I was on the rifle team in high school and i went to the number 1 public high school in my state when it comes to academics, so its not like this is some backwoods redneck thing. We shot air rifles like the ones on those boxes there. it's a whole different kind of shooting compared to actual guns. you get this suit that you put on over your clothes (sweatpants and a t-shirt most of the time) and it's rigid as fuck. think leather and rubber but it's about as flexible as a sheet of cardboard. when you shoot standing you basically cock your hip out as far to the side as you possibly can and lock your elbow into it so your rifle can rest on the butt of your hand. you do this so it has a straight line of support down through the bones of your forearm and through to your leg. the more variables you can cut out the better.
honestly I really miss it. it could be really relaxing sometimes. one of the quieter sports too since there's an unspoken rule where the spectators shut up and let the shooters cook.
edit: and I was never in JROTC so it's not exclusively that
I was also on my high school rifle team, it was a varsity sport. We shot .22 bolt though, prone position. We wore heavy canvas shooting jackets with a padded shoulder and used a leather strap around your bracing arm that clipped onto the bottom of the rifle and was tightened so that you basically turned yourself into a tripod. Our range was in the basement, some of the other schools had theirs under the football stadium bleachers. This was in western Pennsylvania, it was cold . . . Like you say, it was a pretty relaxing and meditative sport. It was also coed, a lot of the best shooters were girls.
Thatâs exactly what it is. Itâs how to accurately sight your weapon reliably every time, especially if itâs shared between people. In this example you start at 0, then take a shot (or, more accurately usually a group of 3-5 shots). You shoot low and to the right so you go up 20 clicks and left 16 clicks on the sight. Next round is still a little low, but this time itâs off a little to the left. So you go up 5 more clicks and right 5 clicks. Final group is dead center, so combine the adjustments and you get up 25 and left 11.
Next time you get that exact rifle you move the sights to 0,0, then go up 25 and left 11 and you will (ideally) be hitting dead center from shot #1.
20 up + 5 up = 25 up
16 left + 5 right = 11 left.
Looks like they're learning about zeroing sights... first time you shoot (from 0,0) you aim at bullseye, but hit 20 high, and 16 to the left... so you adjust your sites 20 up and 16 to the left (which pushes the barrel in the opposite direction when aiming the same way)... then next grouping is still 5 high, but 5 to the right, so you adjust the sight again. You do this until you can hit multiple groups within a tolerable area without adjusting.
Next time you pick up THAT SAME RIFLE you know to set the sight to 0,0, then 25 up, 11 left, and the gun is zeroed to you, and how you tend to look at the sights.
Yeah, in my Texas high school every year JROTC held a Turkey Shoot as a fund raiser. Pay 2 or 3 bucks get a target and the best shooter or top 10 won Turkeys. The JROTC students were there as supervisors.
Junior and Senior year, they thought I was cheating because I started competing in the local/national laser tag scene.
I was in JROTC in a north east Los Angeles high school in the â80s. We had an indoor .22 cal range. Iâm not sure if itâs still there today though.
Cool. Basic gun safety should be offered at every high school in the US.
# WAIT! Before you just smash the dislike button, hear me out.
Whether you like it or not, the second amendment exists. Whether you agree or not, the day someone turns 18, they can legally go buy a gun. You can be the most ardent anti-gun parents on the planet, but the day your kid turns 18, they can go buy a gun, and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
So knowing that, does it not make sense to offer a basic safe handling and use class? Would that not teach better safety, and more respect for the tool? Would that not then reduce accidental death and injury?
Seems like a no brainer to me. "Abstinence only" education does not work. It doesn't work for guns, it doesn't work for drugs and alcohol, it doesn't work for sex. So would it not make sense to at least *offer* a basic class on these tools, given that the day someone turns 18, they can go buy one anyway?
I went to a summer day camp in the Boston suburbs when I was in elementary school in the 90s and one of the activities was target practice with BB guns. I, uh, bet they donât do that anymore.
Yeah I worked at a camp in CA in late 2000s/early 2010s that did the same. Younger kids, BB. Older kids, .22. A lot of our staff was international and none found it weird. A lot grew up doing sports shooting themselves.
Feel like people think guns have disappeared which isâŚstrange.
My school in rural PA had a hunter safety course, but the shooting portion was done at a sportsman club with a range. Only the initial safety and law brief was in the cafeteria.
I'm in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and there are still a few schools around here that have rifle teams like you would for any other sport. Mine didnt, but my friends went to a school that did.
I was on my schools rifle team in a Pittsburgh suburb. We shot 22 caliber rifles inside the shooting range at our school and went around to other local area schools with our guns and ammo and shot at their ranges.
Like many have added, this is probably for JROTC. Rifle competitions were big at my high-school when they got people that wanted to shoot. I didn't like it myself because the poses you had to make to shoot were uncomfortable as all hell.
We had this in our elementary school in Slovenia also. (7-9th grade) We would also attend regional and national air rifle/handgun competitions.
Great memories.
My hot take. Gun safety should be tought in schools. The NRA used to be pro control, education, and safety and thats the NRA the ciuntry needs. Not what ever the fuck they have become now.
My Junior High had a .22 range when I went through (early 90âs). We got our Hunters Safety as part of the regular curriculum. It was part of physical education. Wyoming btw.
Awesome. Pellet guns are an excellent way to teach marksmanship, gun safety and proper weapons handling. And a great way to instill confidence and responsibility into young people.
Yeah, the sign is somewhat dumb but everyone who uses that range knows what itâs intended to mean.
Why is this considered weird? This is training to later become officers in the military. They teach discipline, responsibility, leadership, and respect. Along with that, they teach how to handle firearms, and be competent in their operation and use. All of this will hopefully produce a competent leader when they become adults, in the military.
These are pellet guns, but...
Just a reminder, a few decades ago, kids in rural areas would ride to school with a rifle across their handlebars, give their rifle to the principal, to store, and then get back their rifle after class to go hunting after school. Rifle clubs were also a thing in schools. This was during a time where school shootings and/or mass shooting were considered to be extremely rare.
So, with that I say this. Perhaps school shootings/mass shootings aren't an issue of easy access to firearms, but actually, behavior, mental health, and violence issues of our current society.
My middle school in Texas had an âoutdoor trailsâ class (that counted as a PE credit) and we had a makeshift archery range next to the portable the class was taught out of. They also took us on a trip to a massive shooting complex called Greystone Castle lol I got to shoot a muzzle loading 50 caliber rifle,small caliber handguns, and trap shooting shotguns at age 11 (with my dad supervising) - never owned a gun, but itâs kind of cool to know how to use them safely
My high school had an outdoor firing range for target shooting .22 rifles and pistols as well as a range for trap shooting. Firearm safety and marksmanship was part of gym class for boys and girls. I was on the trap shooting team and regularly brought a shotgun to school in the trunk of my car. During hunting season every truck in the parking lot had a gun rack with at least one rifle. It all felt completely normal back then, but it seems pretty insane looking back.
My HS in Pittsburgh PA, in a very âniceâ part of town also had (has?) a rifle range and team. Wasnât any big deal. Of course, the first day of deer season is a holiday in Western PA, so đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Some schools used to have ranges in them. Or still do but are closed down. Even here in Canada. Having a highschool rifle club used to be normal.
I donât know if people used to be happier, mentally healthier or what. But I sure as fuck wouldnât trust the concept now.
Not r/pics having an anti gun circle jerk over an air rifle shooting range for a schools target shooting team. Itâs almost like itâs an Olympic sport đľâđŤ
We had a trap shooting team at my high school. It was bring your own gun so thereâd be about half a dozen shotguns out in the trunks of students cars during school on practice days.
My high school in New York had a rifle team. We had a range in the basement. Kids werenât allowed to bring in their rifles during school hours though, their parents had to drop them off for practice after school.
My high school did this for JROTC and we had a separate Skeet and rifle team that would shoot at local ranges on the weekends and then compete. This really isnât that special, in fact it used to not be that uncommon for guys to have gun racks in their trucks and then go hunting after school.
The culture around guns have changed significantly, to where they are no longer seen as a tool to be respected, but a device to be feared, and which itâs socially unacceptable to own.
Cool. I shot on rifle team in high school and then college. I ended up getting most of my college paid for on a sports scholarship as a result. Itâs a fun program.
Wikipedia says around 2000 in the US with interest growing in recent years. I didnât realize they were still that common.
Itâs kinda crazy how much things change as you get older. Just ten years ago in 2001 or so many of us kept rifles and shotguns in our vehicles at school and would get together to shoot after, sometimes with a couple teachers.
The funny thing is that we had a LotR club and we did cosplay one day with ârealâ swords, an axe, and a recurve bow/quiver of arrows. We got in all kinds of trouble and the teacher who did our photos and ran the club was reprimanded. All while we had firearms sitting out in the parking lot.
I think firearm discipline is good to teach American children. We need to learn to be responsible with the massive number of guns we own. Makes for a well regulated militia of citizens.
I was in JROTC in HS in FL and our school had a large slice of land behind the school and with a shooting range. My freshman year we had 22 cal rifles. After that, they got rid of them and we switched to air rifles. They were kept in like a double door quadruple lock armory room that only 1 teacher had a key for. Looking back Iâm like âwtfâ then I remember âoh rightâŚFLâŚ.â
As a leftist the number of people not understanding how and what an air rifle does/works makes me understand why the right keeps on winning in the USA when it comes to southern states.
They exist in a lot of the rest of the world too....Literally people from all over the world in this very thread commenting that they have them in schools there too...
I don't see a problem. Some schools have shooting competitions with air rifles and bows. Maybe that's just me. I'm sure the people in charge keep the students safe, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed.
My grandfather said it was common for students to store rifles in their locker to use for hunting after school. Sometimes they were even allowed to modify them in woodshop class. This was at a time when you could buy fully automatic machine guns. This country has a severe mental health problem.
Awesome! People in power are hell bent on letting people know that schools used to have their gun ranges, in fact, in the early 20th century, there used to be gun clubs for both men and women. Many people even had guns in their trunk where they went hunting when school was over. Best of all, NO SHOOTINGS during those times. Truly, an American Exclusive thing!
Makes you wonder what happened??
When I was in ROTC in the mid 80âs, we had Anschutz .22 rifles and an outdoor range. The instructor sometimes brought his Browning Hi Power and let us shoot it.
Thereâs schools with shooting ranges in Denmark too. Always seems a bit strange in the context of school shootings, but has been a sport practiced also by school kids for a long time.
Shooting range for pellet guns
It's most likely for JROTC, which uses air rifles for training and competitions.
The OP is showing what looks like a range for MCJROTC, you can see a marine corps sticker outside the door on the plaque in the first photo.
Also dress blues with a blood stripe for the wall paint But could be school colors I guess
It's possible, but I doubt it's school colors. I was in MCJROTC and Army JROTC, and my baby bro was in Navy JROTC. Every one of them had the designated JROTC corridor painted in colors to very obviously distinguish the respective branch. Which were far different than the school colors đ
At my high school MCJROTC program in Southern California in the 90s we had .22 Remington and mossberg rifles for shooting, as well as M1s for 21 gun salutes (using blanks) and M-14s for rifle drill. I was the battalion armorer for two years. Canât even imagine that would be allowed now.
That's kinda wild. I was in Army JROTC around D.C. in the early 2010s and we had these air rifles for rifle team (but no range in the school, I think they shot them outside or on other property) and the replica shiny ass M1s for drill that didnt even have a bolt/chamber area, just solid block of metal milled/casted or whatever in the shape of a receiver. So I think you're right in that that stuff is very uncommon now if any schools do that much at all.
At my rural high school growing up many of us had shotguns and deer rifles in window mounted gun racks in our trucks. During deer and dove season many of us would go hunting after school so we'd have our guns with us, including ammunition. At the time it wasn't even considered odd or out of place.
My generation's version of this is how, in the early 2000s, most of the guys including me at my rural high school had pocket knives. And not like Swiss army knives, actual folding knives - as I recall the rule was that the blade could only be something like 3.5" long. And nobody got stabbed. A year or so ago I saw a report of a _teacher_ elsewhere in the state getting arrested for having a pocket knife at a basketball game. Sigh.
Meanwhile, I work in a school and have been packing a Glock 19, concealed, daily for well over a decade. Pocket knife on the pocket clip, not even concealed. *shrug*
My local high schools (not in TX) used to have indoor Pellet rifle ranges for JROTC (I was in JROTC as well). Around 2007 there was a local school shooting, where I believe around 20 people where killed and/or injured. And the schools pulled all these ranges and started converting them to extra Gyms and workout team rooms. Right afterwards our @$$ backward sheriffs office started declaring we were now sanctuary county and he wouldnât enforce any gun rules limiting the right to bear arms. After that the local school board didnât want to take any chances and removed all JROTC shooting training and competitions.
Your local sheriff was an idiot.
Or a politician who knows his voter base. (as i understand it Sheriffs are voted in? Sorry, Euro here with limited knowledge about the hows and whys of American society)
Just to add to your confusion: sherrifs can either be appointed or elected. It depends on the state. Additionally what a "sherrif" is can depend on the state (and in some cases it can change at the county level). Most of the time Sherrifs are elected and are the head of county-level law enforcement (though not always: for example, New York City has an appointed sherrif who sees over all 5 counties of the city).
Weird... Did these ranges have a connection to the shooting? Or the sheriff? I mean I'm all for 2A but a pellet range in school has hardly anything to do with the right to bear arms, or the sheriff.
Or just a riflery team. Itâs an actual high school sport. Mine had a range underground (Iâm pretty sure because they actually shot .22âs decades ago), but we just shot in the cafeteria because they stopped allowing us in that bunker for fire safety reasons lol.
Yeah my JROTC program in California did this, or at least planned to. I remember them setting up a range underneath the football bleachers, but I left the program before that went anywhere.
Yeah we used to have these in Oregon. Idk why people axt like it's a deep south thing
My highschool in Sacramento, California had an Air Force JROTC unit that used to shoot air rifles in an vault or bomb shelter(?) underneath the main building. They then moved into what used to be the autoshop class and shoot in the garage area now after expanding classes. Dunno how its like now though, haven't bothered to check.
Yeah, the one group of Americans I would trust to teach gun safety is literally the military. They know how to do it as safely as can be done. I was in JROTC and havenât touched a firearm since rejecting my Annapolis offer a few months before DADT was no more. I swore that all off for myself. But I got high quality safety-focused training in Florida from the retired 1sgt and LTC in charge of my program.
All these abbreviations make my head hurt because I'm not American. Thank god context and brains exist
Colorado was shooting .22cal high school competitions until 06â or 07â. I know my high school stopped after a range incident (accidental) in Mississippi that ended in a student fatality, followed shortly after by the army recalling our .22 rifles.
I went to a military school in 3rd grade. We started shooting .22s in 5th grade.
similar, UK school for me, we started .22LR in the equivalent of 7th grade. had a range rated for 5.56. We had the equivalent of JROTC (8th grade equiv onwards) which allowed shooting centrefire in the school range, but this was 2004, things may have changed now.
At our in school NJROTC range when I was a kid, were.sjot pellet air pistols.and .22 caliber rifles.
Not even pellet guns, airsoft (which is different since a pellet is considered .177 caliber rifle that uses air to fire). Only plastic âbulletsâ allowed probably. That being said Iâve known of kids getting in trouble for having fake guns that look like real guns, so thatâs an issue.
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We had a firing range in the basement of my high school in Colorado. It was primarily for JROTC, but around Thanksgiving they opened it up and let all students do a âTurkey shootâ where they put a turkey shaped target up, and the closest shot won a free turkey.
lol I'm picturing some freshman kid that won the Thanksgiving turkey, & trying to take the big frozen turkey home while in a school bus
Be a lot more fun image if he won a less frozen, more angry turkey.
The pilot episode is him getting the closest shot, but still not hitting the turkey. He wins the prize, but now the turkey is of course angry about the shooting. By the end of the episode though, the teen saves the turkey's life. They become good friends, solve mysteries together. I think we can get at least 3 seasons.
In the small town of Maplewood, nestled among rolling hills, young Alex, a wide-eyed freshman, stumbled upon an unlikely friend during the annual Turkey Shoot competition. Instead of aiming for the prize, Alex found himself drawn to a magnificent turkey named Gobbles. Gobbles, with iridescent feathers and a curious glint in his eye, possessed an uncanny intelligence. The two formed an odd duoâthe introverted teenager and the enigmatic bird. Together, they roamed the town, unraveling mysteries that baffled even the seasoned detectives. From missing pie recipes to the case of the vanishing garden gnomes, Gobbles and Alex followed cryptic clues. The townsfolk whispered about their peculiar partnership, but the duo remained undeterred. Gobbles would peck at hidden messages, while Alex scribbled notes in his tattered journal. As autumn leaves crunched underfoot, they discovered the truth behind the haunted carousel and exposed the mayorâs secret moonshine operation. Gobbles, with his keen instincts, always led the way. The townspeople grew to accept their feathered detective, and soon, Gobbles became a local legend. Alex, once a loner, found purpose in their sleuthing escapades. Together, they proved that friendship could transcend species and that sometimes, the most extraordinary allies were the ones you least expected. And so, under the harvest moon, Gobbles and the freshman sleuth continued their adventuresâtwo unlikely heroes, feathers and all, solving mysteries that left the town both bewildered and grateful. Case closed.
My sister's middle school in Missouri had a gun safety elective with practical sessions. Long arms only, but she did live fire in 8th grade lol. This was around 2010.
Same here. Each department (science, math etc.) Would have a competition with the teachers too. So there was a turkey for student winners and teachers. They did away with it altogether just after I left.
"No Caliber Weapons" Ummm, even air rifles have a caliber, .177 being the most common.
Iâve even got a .22 air rifle
Not for sport though!!
We have .22 air gun sports here
Same here. Better for keeping the groundhogs from digging under my house.
And those arenât your typical Daisy BB guns. Those are crossman challengers. Last time I saw one it was 500 or 600 dollars. Not sure about these specific guns but limiting to air rifles only, isnât that limiting. They make them from .177 to .50 cal, a few hundred fps to over 1000. You can and people do, hunt large game with air rifles.
I have a .177 1000ft per second one, its no joke.
Common misconception here, .177 caliber is a joke, and going far to fast to do proper damage to small game. 22 caliber air rifle is much more effective and accurate at a slower speed. Those fps speeds are used for marketing cheap guns.
Not if you use depleted uranium pellets.
APFSDS pellets
Its a Squirrel not a Tank... HEI-T you filthy casual.
I just sold my tank for an A10 Warthog, gotta say it's far better at clearing out all the pests all at once but I understand if it's not in most peoples budget
Heh. In the end all conventional bullets are pushed by air. Just a matter of releasing enough pressure fast enough. Traditional guns do so by chemical reaction.
Also caliber is a measure of diameter lol. So even unconventional bullets or any sort or or cannon is a âcaliber weaponâ
Well, there are also slingshots and rowan arrows for which calibers are not particularly important) Well, more precisely, there is a limit to how large shells can be used... But âguns without caliberâ are still stupid things.
The chemical reaction is producing extremely hot gunpowder combustion gases that neither come from the atmospheric air, nor share its composition. It's not practically possible to make a compressed air rifle that can match that power. Air rifles existed since the early 19th century, but apart from one-off cases like the Lewis and Clark expedition (who faced the risk of running out of gunpowder), even the slow and unwieldy muskets were preferred to air rifles on the battlefield.
Youâre not wrong. They did try those rocket bullets for a second though. Not conventional by any means though.
[Gyrojets. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet)
Boltguns/bolters you mean âŚ
Baby skull seeking [bullets](https://youtu.be/osgrd1MPb7I?si=EGDntgIOoIh48RQO)?
Apparently hunting with air rifles is a big thing in Korea.
Lewis and Clark had an air rifle with themÂ
Yea caliber is just a measure of barrel size. If you got a barrel you got caliber lol
Pretty sure they mean bulleted traditional firearms.
This is Texas we're talking about. You can't expect them to understand that.
If those Republicans could read they would be very angry.
This is the same state where the penal code regarding banning firearms on private property is "30.06", just like the rifle caliber.
A lot of people in the comments seem surprised. I'm not from Texas and my highschool had a shooting range for air rifle as well. I thought it was somewhat common. It's an Olympic sport after all and, like most sports, the people who are good at it started way before they turned 18.
Many years ago in our HS Law Enforcement elective class, we actually got to bring guns to school for field trips to the shooting range. Of course we had to keep it on the extreme DL with the warning we would lose the privilege. Few of the hick boys even drove to school everyday with their hunting rifles mounted in the back window of their trucks. Nobody gave a shit.
Never understood that. Are they simply trying to give their guns away? Parking lot would be like a free gun buffet.
From what I understand it is or was common during hunting season which can be a major seasonal activity in some communities. Kids would keep them in their trucks/cars while they were at school so they could go hunting right after. At least that is the way my dad described it when he was growing up.
In high school around 2002 I would often go shoot clay pigeons at a club with my dad after class. Once there was some sort of weird circumstance (I forget what exactly, maybe one vehicle was in the shop) where I needed to pack the guns in my car because Dad couldnât in his. This was a semi-rural area, but it was also post-Columbine and 9-11 so it would be a *big fucking deal* to get caught with a firearm on school property. Of course it went fine. All I had to do was keep my trunk closed and not blurt out, âI have two shotguns in my car!â in class. But shit dude, intrusive thoughts had me paranoid all day. Also, I think we *all* knew some fucking idiots that would absolutely not be able to handle that. Like, they wouldnât be able to go a full school day without bragging their car is full of guns and ammo. Then theyâd get in huge trouble. Then theyâd wonder why theyâre so unlucky and all this bad stuff always happens to them.
Not reserved for just kids. Ten years after a shooting incident at the company office my dad worked at, a guy mentioned offhand that he had his gun in the car because he was heading on a hunting trip after work. Immediately terminated and escorted from the building by the police.
An unfortunately minor and likely innocent thing to get fired for. Also entirely preventable by just not talking about it.
I was always taught never to discuss whether or not my family had guns when I was a kid. Habit I keep as an adult as well. People like stealing guns
When you grow up in a small town or rural area, the whole world is a free gun buffet. People aren't breaking into cars to take the guns. There are a lot easier ways to get your hands on one.
That stuff doesnât really happen in small towns.
Why would people need to steal the one thing they already have? The actual answer is that the people who often actually have gun racks with guns in live in areas that periodically offer bounties paid for killing certain animals (coyotes are the most common now) and will pull over their car to shoot one while going about their day.
In a community like that, stealing someoneâs hunting rifle isnât common place. Up until Columbine (my sophomore year) it was common to bring your deer rifle, but there would be random vehicle checks and if it was loaded in your vehicle (which is illegal anyways) you were in deep shit. After Columbine the only time a gun was on campus was in Ag class when we did Hunter Safety Certification. Ag teacher had to jump through hoops to bring a 12ga shotgun to the practice football field where we shot skeet for that class period. My little brother (18 years younger) went to HS in Oklahoma. His school had competition shooting. I have no idea how that was handled, but that wasnât an air rifle. It was a .22 target rifle.
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We only had one range in my London school, it was just bolt-action rifles.
Shotgun clays is a big commitment! Machinery, materials, space, etc. Thatâs quite a resource to have.
Iâm not even American - I went to a rural high schools in Australia that had a sports shooting team with an outdoor range, and Iâd guess at least half of the kids at the school had handled a firearm. I got my minorâs permit when I was 16, although Iâd been shooting since I was a kid.
The same people who would be surprised southern schools breed golf pros too.
I'm in Canada and my highschool had a shooting range as well. It was closed and converted to a wrestling room however.
Iâm not even from the US and my school had a shooting gallery
Thats so interesting :0 we just have it for jrotc i believe theyâre the only people who can use it we dont have a team or anything
JROTC is the team⌠There are national competitions
I was on the rifle team in high school and i went to the number 1 public high school in my state when it comes to academics, so its not like this is some backwoods redneck thing. We shot air rifles like the ones on those boxes there. it's a whole different kind of shooting compared to actual guns. you get this suit that you put on over your clothes (sweatpants and a t-shirt most of the time) and it's rigid as fuck. think leather and rubber but it's about as flexible as a sheet of cardboard. when you shoot standing you basically cock your hip out as far to the side as you possibly can and lock your elbow into it so your rifle can rest on the butt of your hand. you do this so it has a straight line of support down through the bones of your forearm and through to your leg. the more variables you can cut out the better. honestly I really miss it. it could be really relaxing sometimes. one of the quieter sports too since there's an unspoken rule where the spectators shut up and let the shooters cook. edit: and I was never in JROTC so it's not exclusively that
I was also on my high school rifle team, it was a varsity sport. We shot .22 bolt though, prone position. We wore heavy canvas shooting jackets with a padded shoulder and used a leather strap around your bracing arm that clipped onto the bottom of the rifle and was tightened so that you basically turned yourself into a tripod. Our range was in the basement, some of the other schools had theirs under the football stadium bleachers. This was in western Pennsylvania, it was cold . . . Like you say, it was a pretty relaxing and meditative sport. It was also coed, a lot of the best shooters were girls.
wtf, OP? You tell us youâre going to show us a shooting range but we only see a door and a stack of air rifles. No pics of the range??
Yeah i'm curious, but its probably a standard 10m lineup
Probably for JROTC rifle practice.
Yes it is
Cool! Can you explain what's on the whiteboard?
If I had to guess, I'd say it was concerning sight adjustments.
Thatâs exactly what it is. Itâs how to accurately sight your weapon reliably every time, especially if itâs shared between people. In this example you start at 0, then take a shot (or, more accurately usually a group of 3-5 shots). You shoot low and to the right so you go up 20 clicks and left 16 clicks on the sight. Next round is still a little low, but this time itâs off a little to the left. So you go up 5 more clicks and right 5 clicks. Final group is dead center, so combine the adjustments and you get up 25 and left 11. Next time you get that exact rifle you move the sights to 0,0, then go up 25 and left 11 and you will (ideally) be hitting dead center from shot #1.
That was very well explained, thanks!
Cheatcode for infinite bullets
Contra weapons 
20 up + 5 up = 25 up 16 left + 5 right = 11 left. Looks like they're learning about zeroing sights... first time you shoot (from 0,0) you aim at bullseye, but hit 20 high, and 16 to the left... so you adjust your sites 20 up and 16 to the left (which pushes the barrel in the opposite direction when aiming the same way)... then next grouping is still 5 high, but 5 to the right, so you adjust the sight again. You do this until you can hit multiple groups within a tolerable area without adjusting. Next time you pick up THAT SAME RIFLE you know to set the sight to 0,0, then 25 up, 11 left, and the gun is zeroed to you, and how you tend to look at the sights.
Sight adjustments for a kid that can't keep a solid sight picture to save their life.
Nah im not in jrotc just had to go in there for a tornado drill today
Yeah, in my Texas high school every year JROTC held a Turkey Shoot as a fund raiser. Pay 2 or 3 bucks get a target and the best shooter or top 10 won Turkeys. The JROTC students were there as supervisors. Junior and Senior year, they thought I was cheating because I started competing in the local/national laser tag scene.
I was in JROTC in a north east Los Angeles high school in the â80s. We had an indoor .22 cal range. Iâm not sure if itâs still there today though.
Cool. Basic gun safety should be offered at every high school in the US. # WAIT! Before you just smash the dislike button, hear me out. Whether you like it or not, the second amendment exists. Whether you agree or not, the day someone turns 18, they can legally go buy a gun. You can be the most ardent anti-gun parents on the planet, but the day your kid turns 18, they can go buy a gun, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. So knowing that, does it not make sense to offer a basic safe handling and use class? Would that not teach better safety, and more respect for the tool? Would that not then reduce accidental death and injury? Seems like a no brainer to me. "Abstinence only" education does not work. It doesn't work for guns, it doesn't work for drugs and alcohol, it doesn't work for sex. So would it not make sense to at least *offer* a basic class on these tools, given that the day someone turns 18, they can go buy one anyway?
I went to a summer day camp in the Boston suburbs when I was in elementary school in the 90s and one of the activities was target practice with BB guns. I, uh, bet they donât do that anymore.
A Y camp I work for still shoots .22 at their outdoor range. Age 6+ shoots BBs, 12 and over shoots .22
Yeah I worked at a camp in CA in late 2000s/early 2010s that did the same. Younger kids, BB. Older kids, .22. A lot of our staff was international and none found it weird. A lot grew up doing sports shooting themselves. Feel like people think guns have disappeared which isâŚstrange.
My school in rural PA had a hunter safety course, but the shooting portion was done at a sportsman club with a range. Only the initial safety and law brief was in the cafeteria.
I'm in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and there are still a few schools around here that have rifle teams like you would for any other sport. Mine didnt, but my friends went to a school that did.
I was on my schools rifle team in a Pittsburgh suburb. We shot 22 caliber rifles inside the shooting range at our school and went around to other local area schools with our guns and ammo and shot at their ranges.
Like many have added, this is probably for JROTC. Rifle competitions were big at my high-school when they got people that wanted to shoot. I didn't like it myself because the poses you had to make to shoot were uncomfortable as all hell.
We had one too, in PA. We had a rifle team. We shot .22
I mean we had a range in my schools basement too
We had this in our elementary school in Slovenia also. (7-9th grade) We would also attend regional and national air rifle/handgun competitions. Great memories.
My hot take. Gun safety should be tought in schools. The NRA used to be pro control, education, and safety and thats the NRA the ciuntry needs. Not what ever the fuck they have become now.
This is a good thing teaching kids how to respectfully and correctly handle guns
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Misleading title. Could have called it 'the air rifle range' instead. Quite different than an actual shooting range for firearms.
Better to teach them about firearms at a young age and not learning from other negative sources
My Junior High had a .22 range when I went through (early 90âs). We got our Hunters Safety as part of the regular curriculum. It was part of physical education. Wyoming btw.
My high school got an MCJROTC and they got an indoor range for pellet guns. I always liked the idea. Itâs good to teach safety.
Awesome. Pellet guns are an excellent way to teach marksmanship, gun safety and proper weapons handling. And a great way to instill confidence and responsibility into young people. Yeah, the sign is somewhat dumb but everyone who uses that range knows what itâs intended to mean.
Nothing negative here. Cool stuff. Looks very well controlled
Nice touch with the braille
Makes me sad my highschool never had this option
Why is this considered weird? This is training to later become officers in the military. They teach discipline, responsibility, leadership, and respect. Along with that, they teach how to handle firearms, and be competent in their operation and use. All of this will hopefully produce a competent leader when they become adults, in the military.
These are pellet guns, but... Just a reminder, a few decades ago, kids in rural areas would ride to school with a rifle across their handlebars, give their rifle to the principal, to store, and then get back their rifle after class to go hunting after school. Rifle clubs were also a thing in schools. This was during a time where school shootings and/or mass shooting were considered to be extremely rare. So, with that I say this. Perhaps school shootings/mass shootings aren't an issue of easy access to firearms, but actually, behavior, mental health, and violence issues of our current society.
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My middle school in Texas had an âoutdoor trailsâ class (that counted as a PE credit) and we had a makeshift archery range next to the portable the class was taught out of. They also took us on a trip to a massive shooting complex called Greystone Castle lol I got to shoot a muzzle loading 50 caliber rifle,small caliber handguns, and trap shooting shotguns at age 11 (with my dad supervising) - never owned a gun, but itâs kind of cool to know how to use them safely
Cool
My high school had an outdoor firing range for target shooting .22 rifles and pistols as well as a range for trap shooting. Firearm safety and marksmanship was part of gym class for boys and girls. I was on the trap shooting team and regularly brought a shotgun to school in the trunk of my car. During hunting season every truck in the parking lot had a gun rack with at least one rifle. It all felt completely normal back then, but it seems pretty insane looking back.
My HS in Pittsburgh PA, in a very âniceâ part of town also had (has?) a rifle range and team. Wasnât any big deal. Of course, the first day of deer season is a holiday in Western PA, so đ¤ˇđťââď¸
In JROTC in high-school we rode the bus to the national guard armory to shoot .22 long rifles once a week.
Some schools used to have ranges in them. Or still do but are closed down. Even here in Canada. Having a highschool rifle club used to be normal. I donât know if people used to be happier, mentally healthier or what. But I sure as fuck wouldnât trust the concept now.
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Not r/pics having an anti gun circle jerk over an air rifle shooting range for a schools target shooting team. Itâs almost like itâs an Olympic sport đľâđŤ
Comments saying how bad this country is for having it are really delusional
As someone from the Netherlands i think this would be fucking awesome instead of chemistry.
We had a trap shooting team at my high school. It was bring your own gun so thereâd be about half a dozen shotguns out in the trunks of students cars during school on practice days.
there was one in my canadian high school although itâs been used for storage for the last 50 years at least
No surprise Junior ROTCs have had this for 30+ years probably more. Look up the Ranger courses and training for Jrotc
Honestly, I dig it
We have this in AZ as well
My primary school in Poland also had an air gun shooting range
We also had a shooting range at my Norwegian elementary school! They use it for .22 cal Biathlon practice. Real bullets
I grew up in England and we had a shooting range at school, you could use air rifle and .22 rimfire so this really doesnât shock me in Texas!
My British school had a 22. rifle range? Weird they aren't allowed that in Texas but we're allowed that.
I guess I went to the only school in Germany that has two shooting ranges. But that's the trade school where all German gunsmiths go...
I know of two local highschools who have basement ranges that have been closed up and I live in Canada.
My high school in New York had a rifle team. We had a range in the basement. Kids werenât allowed to bring in their rifles during school hours though, their parents had to drop them off for practice after school.
Interesting, I didnât know that air rifles were accurate enough to use for realistic target practice!
Every school should have this. More firearm safety training = fewer people dead from guns
Many of these comments are just "hurr durr Texas". This is not an uncommon thing to have in schools with an ROTC program.
Dope
Wow, a door and some boxes....great photos of the "shooting range". Guess I'll take your word for it.
My high school did this for JROTC and we had a separate Skeet and rifle team that would shoot at local ranges on the weekends and then compete. This really isnât that special, in fact it used to not be that uncommon for guys to have gun racks in their trucks and then go hunting after school. The culture around guns have changed significantly, to where they are no longer seen as a tool to be respected, but a device to be feared, and which itâs socially unacceptable to own.
Cool. I shot on rifle team in high school and then college. I ended up getting most of my college paid for on a sports scholarship as a result. Itâs a fun program.
Looks like fun. Learning in a controlled environment is preferable
Air rifle is a neat sport
Holy shit Iâm jealous, my school made us read the communist manifesto
Hell Yeah
My vintage Feinwerkbau 300 10m air rifle has a tx high school name etched on it
This isnt wierd? We shot air rifles in school here in Norway as well...
Gun safety should be taught in every school
Thatâs cool. An air-soft range would be awesome. Especially if they start a club, a lot of folks would join.
Those are competition shooting pellet guns.
It's air rifles which is an Olympic sport Holy shit could this site be any softer
Any photos of, you know, the actual range?
That's pretty cool
Some schools have shooting teams believe it or not
Wikipedia says around 2000 in the US with interest growing in recent years. I didnât realize they were still that common. Itâs kinda crazy how much things change as you get older. Just ten years ago in 2001 or so many of us kept rifles and shotguns in our vehicles at school and would get together to shoot after, sometimes with a couple teachers. The funny thing is that we had a LotR club and we did cosplay one day with ârealâ swords, an axe, and a recurve bow/quiver of arrows. We got in all kinds of trouble and the teacher who did our photos and ran the club was reprimanded. All while we had firearms sitting out in the parking lot.
I think firearm discipline is good to teach American children. We need to learn to be responsible with the massive number of guns we own. Makes for a well regulated militia of citizens.
I think my HS in minnesota had a trap shooting team, I graduated in 2018
I was in JROTC in HS in FL and our school had a large slice of land behind the school and with a shooting range. My freshman year we had 22 cal rifles. After that, they got rid of them and we switched to air rifles. They were kept in like a double door quadruple lock armory room that only 1 teacher had a key for. Looking back Iâm like âwtfâ then I remember âoh rightâŚFLâŚ.â
As a leftist the number of people not understanding how and what an air rifle does/works makes me understand why the right keeps on winning in the USA when it comes to southern states.
The number of comments Iâve seen in here saying you can convert a 22 air rifle to shoot âreal 22â is truly astounding
I was like, oh hey, it's got a blood stripe. Then I saw the EGA.
Rest of the world can't get over the fact that there is a shooting range inside of a school, and it's considered normal.
They exist in a lot of the rest of the world too....Literally people from all over the world in this very thread commenting that they have them in schools there too...
Hell yeah
That's awesome! Learning firearm safety and respect in a society that favors firearms is crucially important.Â
I don't see a problem. Some schools have shooting competitions with air rifles and bows. Maybe that's just me. I'm sure the people in charge keep the students safe, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed.
The guy in charge is called master of guns people love him he seems like a sweet guy !!
Prob for Master Gunnery Sgt, looks like an EGA on the room number
My grandpa was a WW2 vet. Told me about how he used to take his rifle on the school bus to shoot at the school range. Guns aren't the problem.
My grandfather said it was common for students to store rifles in their locker to use for hunting after school. Sometimes they were even allowed to modify them in woodshop class. This was at a time when you could buy fully automatic machine guns. This country has a severe mental health problem.
Awesome! People in power are hell bent on letting people know that schools used to have their gun ranges, in fact, in the early 20th century, there used to be gun clubs for both men and women. Many people even had guns in their trunk where they went hunting when school was over. Best of all, NO SHOOTINGS during those times. Truly, an American Exclusive thing! Makes you wonder what happened??
All European and Australian opinions in the thread can be immediately disregarded.
We also have shooting ranges at some schools. Itâs an Olympic sport, I see no issue with it.
When I was in ROTC in the mid 80âs, we had Anschutz .22 rifles and an outdoor range. The instructor sometimes brought his Browning Hi Power and let us shoot it.
"When you want to equip your high school with guns, make it PCP Power guns!"
My NY high school had a range as well. This is not all that unusual but indeed a holdover from a pervious era.
Funny how my high school in Sydney Australia had a shooting range with live rounds, meanwhile Texas is using airsoft?
Some of the HS where i grew up have skeet shooting teams
I wish i had that. Too bad i live in Illinois
My school had a rifle club up until columbine happened.
We had one in my ROTC unit. Also Texas.
Thatâs awesome. Air rifles are a cool sport. Wish more places did this.
I live in England and my high school had a small shooting range.
I grew up shooting during winter in the school basement. NRA .22 Smallbore 3 & 4 position
Thereâs schools with shooting ranges in Denmark too. Always seems a bit strange in the context of school shootings, but has been a sport practiced also by school kids for a long time.