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  • WhiteHot
    Member
    • Apr 2009
    • 263

    Glass Factory, Santa Barbara Questions

    Hey SB CGers. I have never been up to the Glass Factory but am looking forward to going soon. I was wondering when the place typically closes down for fire season and when it reopens. Anyone been up there recently? How was it?

    For those that dont know, it is located here:
  • #2
    giarcpnw
    Member
    • Apr 2005
    • 209

    It's open right now.

    No shade. wear sunscreen

    The place is trashed. Clean up after yourself.

    Yahoos start showing up in the afternoon. (UCSB kids etc)

    If you can, get a spot to the far left or right and you have a berm on one side of you.

    You have to call your own cease fires but people are pretty good about it. If you want to shoot paper take some kind of a target holder. and you can get out to about 100-150 yards easily.

    C

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    • #3
      WhiteHot
      Member
      • Apr 2009
      • 263

      Thanks for the tips. Sucks that it is trashed. That is a really good way to lose one of the few places to shoot locally.

      Any idea of when it typically closes down for fire season?

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      • #4
        Army
        Veteran Member
        • Oct 2005
        • 3915

        It is usually down to just dirt in the summer, so little fire danger exists (except for way up the hill). Unless there is a definate fire danger, it will remain open.

        I usually got the far right area. That keeps the idiots to one side of me, and the berm catches my brass. The left end is out of sight of most of the range, and some bozo will almost always head downrange without checking or calling for a cease fire.

        Bring water and munchies, sunscreen and hat, trashbags and heavy gloves.

        Keep a third eye out for stupid people. Too often, people of an "immediate southerly country" persuasion, will pile out of a van with tiny children and grandma in tow, and proceed to blast away at most everything (including your targets) with no safety gear on anyone. I rarely went up there alone, so as to give me more eyes to keep watch.

        Be wary of relieving yourself in the creek at the rear. Last time, I was covered in dozens of deer ticks. Kept finding them hours afterward. I still get the willies about that day.
        "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself...A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."......Cicero

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        • #5
          sb_pete
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2008
          • 1039

          +1 to everything above. Unfortunately some jackasses blew apart the bench that used to be on the right side. The table top remained last time I was up there (~5 weeks ago), but it was just sitting on some rocks.

          Watch out for yahoos. Most people up there are very nice and easy to talk to. Even the wanna be gangbangers and the like. Sometimes you get people with very poor safety habits or newbies being taught by friends who make terrible teachers. A gentle and polite reminder to not muzzle sweep people and to always shoot in a safe direction has never failed to correct the behavior. Of course, it may have helped that I always did it wearing both a smile and a loaded pistol

          I prefer to use the bench on the left side of the main area. Keep in mind you'll need to bring up all your own stuff unless you just want to be like some of the yahoos up there just shooting at trash all day long.

          I usually bring some cardboard boxes to cut and use as target backers, also as a mat to lay on and/or stage ammo&guns on. I also find that scrap plywood and the like is easy to lean-up against the existing trashpiles, staple targets to, and shoot at. Soda cans and clay pidgeons also make for nice targets.

          At one point the rangers were kind enough to install the benches as well as some steel swinger targets. The targets have been blown apart and both benches shot up - one to the point of destruction. Don't be that guy. If you feel the need to shoot up a computer monitor, tv, dishwasher or whatever, clean it up when you're done. The place ain't a trashdump and similar areas have been closed down as a result of such behavior.

          JUST DON"T BE AN A-HOLE, PACK OUT MORE THAN YOU PACKED IN!

          -Don't forget the trash bags - thick ones
          -Don't forget leather gloves - shot up trash is sharp

          I find it easier to bring a garbage bag out with me while I am setting targets. That way, if the range gets crowded when you are ready to leave, you don't have to go way out to pack up garbage. I don't actually feel the need to pack out specifically the targets/trash I have made. I feel that as long as I am packing out more than I pack in, I have done my part. I find the the black 3mil thick "construction cleanup" bags from Home Depot are the best for the kinds of jagged, shot-up, metallic or wood garbage I pack out.

          I like to shoot coke cans, but I usually place them between 100 and 250 yds going up the hill. Most cease-fires don't have people going out that far. As a courtesy, I only do it once. I bring out the cans in the cases, then I bring back the cases filled with empties that were laying out on the hill (often my own from the last time I was there).

          There is a dumpster at the ranger station at the entrance of East Camino Cielo by hwy 154. Some people feel it is good to throw the trash in here to reassure the Rangers that at least some people are cleaning up after themselves. Others think it unkind to fill the ranger dumpster with trash not their own. I have never seen the dumpster full, so I go with the first position.

          Anyways, I hope that helps. I am not saying that you would be inclined to trash the place, but it is easy to be lazy up there.
          -Pete

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          • #6
            sb_pete
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2008
            • 1039

            As a side note, isn't there a similar place up the 33 past the Ojai Valley Gun Club? Would that be closer to you?

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            • #7
              WhiteHot
              Member
              • Apr 2009
              • 263

              Thanks Pete. People that trash this kind of stuff really piss me off.

              I work in Goleta so the Glass Factory is kinda on the way home. I will probably make it out to Rose Valley some time but I heard that it is about an hour off the freeway.

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              • #8
                jumbopanda
                Calguns Addict
                • Aug 2006
                • 8382

                Originally posted by giarcpnw

                Yahoos start showing up in the afternoon. (UCSB kids etc)
                Hey, what's that supposed to mean?


                OK fine, I admit, I have gone up there and dual wielded a couple of times...


                The people you really have to worry about are the occasional non-English speakers who run down range without calling a cease fire.
                Mo' BBs.

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                • #9
                  WhiteHot
                  Member
                  • Apr 2009
                  • 263

                  Originally posted by jumbopanda
                  ...without calling a cease fire...
                  What is the proper range etiquette for doing this. How long should you wait in between cease fires? Do you just yell it out or what? Obviously a newbie here.

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                  • #10
                    Adonlude
                    Banned
                    • Feb 2008
                    • 491

                    Most of the time the Glass Factory is a great place to shoot but like others have said there are the ocaissonal degenerates practicing terrible firearm safety. One thing to look out for is when people aren't respecting the firing line. Often times people will park 20yds behind the firing line and keep their equipment back there. They then handle and load their guns back behind you and walk up to the firing line with their loaded gun to shoot. This really pisses me off.

                    Two visits ago I had this group of 3 guys set up and start shooting skeet just to the right of me but about 10ft back from the firing line. Some people just dont care about other peoples safety. They want to play with their guns way behind everyone else where THEY are safe.

                    I have to say that I do not like being there when it is crowded. Needless to say I also carry a holstered loaded pistol at all times.

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                    • #11
                      JimmyD
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2008
                      • 636

                      Bring your own table. don't count on the table on the right or left to be available. Chairs are a good idea too!
                      theres tons of crap downrange for you to shoot at. if you're worried about trash, or leaving before a cease fire is called out (usually not a problem, just call your own) just bring some shoot N Cs and stick it on flat surfaces of trash. Bring gloves so you can properly reposition stuff without getting splinters or cuts.
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                      • #12
                        Sawdust
                        Member
                        • Oct 2005
                        • 251

                        For that range, the only time I would go there is early morning on a weekday so that I would have it to myself; way too many yahoos.

                        Sawdust

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                        • #13
                          sb_pete
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2008
                          • 1039

                          Originally posted by jumbopanda
                          The people you really have to worry about are the occasional non-English speakers who run down range without calling a cease fire.
                          LOL, that guy was frickin comedy

                          BTW dual wielding is perfectly acceptable when you bring out the AK pistol

                          -Pete

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                          • #14
                            DedEye
                            Calguns Addict
                            • Nov 2006
                            • 8655

                            Originally posted by sb_pete
                            LOL, that guy was frickin comedy

                            BTW dual wielding is perfectly acceptable when you bring out the AK pistol

                            -Pete
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                            • #15
                              Adonlude
                              Banned
                              • Feb 2008
                              • 491

                              I went to Glass Factory this Sunday and I am sorry to report that everything bad about that place happened to me and I am NEVER going back on a weekend. There were about 5 cars worth of people there when I got there so I pulled in towards the far right side. The only group between me and the right wall was the stereotypical spanish speaking group that others have lamented about above. It looked like Dadez, Momita, and 3 ninos were there trying out a Mossberg 590 tactical shotgun. Against my better judgement I stay and start shooting anyway while glancing over at them as if it was the rear view mirror of my car. Sure enough the eldest nino, about 20ish, turns around to talk to Dadez casually holding his shotgun infront of him parallel to his body with the barrel aimed directly at me and the entire firing line! I move out of the way while saying loudly "YOU ARE POINTING YOUR SHOTGUN RIGHT AT ME". The moron couldn't understand me and just sat there staring at me with his shotgun aimed at me and everyone else on the firing line. Luckily Dadez figured out what the problem was and a few rolled R's later the shotgun was pointed in a safe direction. Nino then walks up to the firing line and starts shooting. YES IT WAS LOADED AND READY TO GO. Nobody else on the firing line ever realized what was happening.

                              I am sick of the lack of safety I see there. You would be wise not go on the weekends

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