Strawboss

No public ranges I know of. North Olmsted is a small indoor pistol range club that I think is only open for events, not sure if you can just go there anytime and shoot. As I belong to West Branch, they have inter club shooting in the winter, basically one Saturday a month to plink and do something when its cold out. anyway, I took my AR-15 with a dedicated .22LR upper and they about pooped their panties when I walked up to the firing line. I spent the better part of an hour explaining it was a .22LR upper not .223. They were beside themselves.

South Cuyahoga Sportsmans Club is located in North Royalton but their range is in Erhart which is near Rt. 82 and Rt. 252. West Branch Rifle and Pistol Club is on Neff Rd. off of Rt. 83 in Grafton Twp. These are clubs you need to join and be a member of the NRA to shoot at. I belong to West Branch, they have a 100yd range and a pistol range. I also belong to Ashland Lake Gun Club located on Rt. 42 in West Salem. They have 100, 200, and 300 yd ranges. Ashland is a premiere club with premiere prices to get into, but its got some really nice ranges. West Branch is under $200/year. Both these clubs are owned by the members.

I know the original question concerned police. What I meant was less traffic ie; less police, more fun in that order. I tend to go where people aren't. I was NOT impressed at all with the Dragon and all the humanity and traffic and downright stupidity I saw when I was there in 2009. Plenty of other superior roads all around that area less travelled and less patrolled.

Save yourself all the headache and hit the cherahoa skyway, just as good a road, way less traffic, no police, = more fun, much, much better.

Back in the 80's or 90's somebody made a Ferarri kit for the Fiero, it actually looked fairly good, a lot better than this abortion.

That's a nice M-1! The Garand matches at Perry were great fun. We did an all Garand NTIT or the "Rattle Battle" back in the 90's, we had a blast, all the military guys were coming up to us on the ready line looking at us and having a great time. Speedy, lots of places to shoot rifle in the NE Ohio area, Grafton is the closest, then you got Medina, and West Salem, true, 20 miles at least but worth it to shoot. West Salem will eventually have a 600 yd range. Minerva has a 1000 yd range. Again, a drive, but where can you shoot 1000yds?

I do. I started out almost 20 years ago shooting M-1 Garands, I then got a an M-14 and shot that for awhile, I got tired of being a recoil pad so I picked up a new Bushmaster AR-15 with an A2 stock 1/9 factory bull barrel, I've since added a Giselle two stage trigger, free float tube, Armalite 1/2 minute match sights and a Turner leather sling. My scores went up 20 points over the next few matches and hovered around the 460-475 area and I never looked back. My first match this season is Sunday, I was busy the last two months so I missed the first two. Its a local 100yd match thats basically a warm up for the season, 50 rounds with sighters, a fun match with alibis and coaching for new shooters. Sometimes I like to take a rifle not normally seen on the line like my Soviet SKS or my Tokarev SVT-40 or an M1-Carbine or Polish M-44. I shoot at Camp Perry during the CMP phases and have shot some team matches. Anybody else here shoot highpower?

Sometimes I get mad. I like Angostura bitters. Tires would be white if they didn't add coloring to them, and used real rubber. Diesel is cheaper to make than gasoline. Cashews are not nuts. The skin is the largest organ in the body. Should I go to my in-laws 50th anniversary party to tell my idiot brother-in-law to SMMFD?

Morons like that cause us all to look bad and raise our insurance rates.

You aren't alone in your concern.

My '79 Triumph calls for Castrol ATF fluid.

I use an older Michelin dial gauge with a rest button I got back in the 80's.

I think those Festiva's were built for Ford by Kia in Korea, or was it the Aspire? All the old Chryslers had left hand threads. I also mounted a tire in the wrong direction.

That's very similar to a game we've played at parties for years called "Why and Because". Everyone takes slips of paper and writes a question and an answer to that question, then its all thrown into two bowls, one questions, one answers. Someone picks a question, then someone picks an answer, its random and hilarious because they don't match. Its not really a game as no one wins or loses but its an ice breaker and a crowd favorite.

In Ohio, its not like in the movies anymore, if you aren't home, they tape it to your door and you are considered served, mine was stuck to the wood on the side of the house. Make sure though that all your info, name, address, spelling and such is all correct. It took them a month to serve my wife at work as with her ethnic Russian maiden name, they never spelled it or pronounced it correctly, they finally got it after about the 5th time. That was back in the days when they actually had to give it to you.

Its similar in that its got a low speed limit, no commercial traffic, no traffic lights or stop signs and is fairly well maintained. The Trace is a bit flatter after about 30 miles south of Nashville rolling through farmland whereas the BRP is a bit more mountainous and bit more remote and a lot less places to pull off into nearby towns. I found a lot less traffic on the trace, but it was September.

Ah. I watched about 2 minutes of it at work today as I don't have cable. I'll pass.

I spent a few days on the trace last September, camped near Hohenwald and took day trips up and down and all through the two lanes around that area. Very nice, lots of history, lots of scenery, lots of nice folks. No trucks, very few police, a really good time anytime of the year. SSSSHHHHHH, its good not many folks talk about it or know about it, lets keep it that way!

If you have an underground garage and no wash bay, ask the manager. If not, I like the direct approach by asking to pay a few bucks for water a month, by doing that alone, he/she may just tell you to be discreet and use it when you need it, don't leave a mess and don't tell anyone else. Most car washes don't like you using anything other than whats there to wash a vehicle, meaning a rag or towel to wash a vehicle, but if you are buying a little time they usually look the other way.

I know nothing of this show, looks like its fairly popular, mostly guys, what's the big deal?

Went groundhog hunting first time this year after getting in some face time with the owner/farmer of the fields I hunt, near Fremont. Cool, cloudy day yesterday, Thursday, but they were out, I only saw two and I got one, a small one, surprised him by one of the out buildings. .223 goes right through them at ranges of around 25yds. I had my ccw pistol with me but it was in my pocket, trying to employ the bipod and set the rifle down would have been too much movement and would have scared him. My rig is a Savage left hand stainless Model 110 in .223 with a composite stock, harris bipod, Leupold vari-X- 3-9pwr scope,shooting a 55gr. Sierra blitzking ballistic tip bullet. My longest successful shot was a paced and lased 328 yds a few years back, nothing fancy for many but not bad for NE Ohio, and a good day for me was 14 hogs out of a field roughly 1/4 mile square, also a few years back. I hunt weekdays only from around May 1st to just before deer gun season. With permission I shoot all nocturnal nuisance mammals out during the day as most likely somethings wrong with them to be out. Lately the ODNR has been reporting rabies, mostly raccoons and mostly eastern Ohio though. I hope to get more field time this year.

As I live in Cleveland, I couldn't care less about OSU. I hope they do good but that's where it ends, but, I'm like that about a lot of things anyhow. I was never insulted by anything he said, but, again, not much insults me. I guess this is big news to many. Too bad folks can't say a few jokes anymore. Open season though on whoever the media doesn't like, hell, that's 1st Amendment stuff pal. Notre Dame, who in the past had consistent big losing records but seemed to always be in the top ten in pre-season polls, well, now, that ain't gonna sit well is it? Ratings =money. Better get rid of him. BTW, I hate ND too.

We've been to the coast, Boothbay Harbor. I've always said if you want to experience New England, go to Maine, same coast, same stuff, same food, same accent, very few people. They all seem to drive Subaru's though. It snows there too, a lot more than Ohio.

The police have every right to prevent you from injuring yourself or putting others in danger. To run into a burning building putting yourself and others in danger is not parental rights. Police and fire do not have the ability to know at that exact moment whether or not someone is alive in a burning house. What they do know is a man is trying to run into a building putting himself and others in danger. And even if the child was alive, now we have to stop operations of trying to find and rescue the child and put our efforts into finding and saving the father, even lessening now the chance of finding and saving the child because we KNOW where the father is and that he was alive just before reentering the house. Emotions are a dangerous thing at an emergency scene. They cannot be a priority no matter how right or how strong we may feel about them. It gets people hurt and killed unnecessarily. That is reality and has nothing whatsoever to do with parental rights. I'm sorry I know this is not a popular opinion with many here. I don't like having to tell folks that their loved ones are dead, I've held dead babies in my arms, its not something I relish. But if there was any way to alleviate the pain by telling people that I did everything humanly possible to save their child and it meant restraining the childs father to make that happen, then again, I'll sleep ok that night and for the rest of my life knowing I did my best.

Being a career firefighter with over 28 years of experience, its still sometimes difficult to see people on the worst day of their lives. Its also becoming much more difficult to have to try to explain to people that the whole idea of rescue is to prevent situations where more people have to be rescued, thereby endangering the lives of the very people who are there to rescue the original people. I won't sit here and judge a man who wants to save the life of his child he knows is in a burning house. But I can't knowingly stand and watch him rush back into that burning house without trying to stop him. I won't be able to tell him that he needs to let the trained firefighters that have the proper equipment, manpower, skills, and protective clothing on stand a much better chance of not only finding his child but bringing him out of that house and maybe being able to save its life. I can't tell him that if he goes in, he won't come out. Fires aren't like the movies, you can't see, and most important, you can't breath. I can't tell him either that his child is most likely dead for all the above reasons. I may not be able to tell him these things, but I will show him that I will go into that house and risk MY life attempting to save HIS childs life. If that means the police on scene need to taser him for all of what I mentioned above, then so be it. Sue me for saving your life. Just my view from the fire truck.