Range Rules

Range Safety Is Everyone’s Responsibility

Except for the rifle range, the Walnut Creek rifle club is an unsupervised operation.  When you are using the pistol ranges or the archery range, you are a range officer. If there are more shooters on the ranges, every shooter on the firing line is a range officer.  Any shooter observing an unsafe condition is instructed to take charge and call a CEASE FIRE ON THE FIRING LINE.  All shooters are then required to empty their weapons, insert empty chamber flags in their weapons, and place their weapons on the firing bench until the situation is remedied.

One of the cardinal rules is that there is to be no handling of guns if anyone is downrange.  We accomplish this by providing yellow plastic empty chamber flags, shown below.

Below is a view of guns with and without chamber flags.