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  • walt lear
    Junior Member
    • May 2008
    • 9

    Are there any shooting galleries in the US?

    I don't mean the shop in Vaccaville, and I don't mean the drug dens. I mean a real, old fashioned .22 short pump action shooting gallery with the row of traveling ducks that flopped down, spinny targets and stuff.

    Are there any? Anywhere?
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    randy
    In Memoriam
    • Nov 2006
    • 4642

    Oaktree gun club has reactive steel targets and rotating ducks Santa Clarita. I just reread your post and Nix the 22 short. Bring a 22LR and you might move them or a 9mm pistol and knock them down.
    I move slow but I make up for it by shooting poorly.

    When I hit the lotto I'm only shooting factory.

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      smle-man
      I need a LIFE!!
      • Jan 2007
      • 10580

      Originally posted by walt lear
      I don't mean the shop in Vaccaville, and I don't mean the drug dens. I mean a real, old fashioned .22 short pump action shooting gallery with the row of traveling ducks that flopped down, spinny targets and stuff.

      Are there any? Anywhere?
      I doubt there is an old fashioned, pay your quarter and get 10 shots from a .22 type range left anywhere. The liability is enormous. The amusment park (Kennywood Park) near the burg that I grew up in outside of Pittsburgh PA had a real shooting gallery. It had Winchester 62s and Marlin 39 carbines. You paid a quarter and the attendent slid a tube of .22 shorts into the magazine. The rifles were chained to the counter. We kids would scoop up the fired cases and then toss them on the people below when we rode the ferris wheel and other overhead rides. The .22s changed over to pneumatic guns that fired large frangible balls and then to an electronic set up where you just point the gun at the target and if you connect the target reacts. The shooting gallery is still there but alas the cartridge guns are long gone.

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