[i67vw3]

>Vincent also intended to make a career in China, but he had specific plans for his time in the U.S. Once, during a class discussion, he remarked that someday he would purchase both a car and a real firearm. The illegal airsoft pistol that he had acquired in high school shot only plastic pellets. In 2017, when Vincent ordered the gun, it had been delivered to his home at the bottom of a rice cooker, as camouflage.

If I ever visit America, like Vincent the second thing I am going to do is to visit an American gun range. I too wish to experience a real gun (semi-automatic or automatic) instead of air pistols.

[CoastalCoder]

I'm hoping to take it one step further, next time I'm in New Orleans: https://www.gatorsandguns.com/

[plantwallshoe]

You should check out a “sporting clay” range. Much more fun than shooting at paper targets.

[beeeeerp]

I think it’s just personal preference. A lot of ranges offer both!

I enjoy plinking more than clay shooting, but that’s just me. There’s something about long distance shooting that attracts me.

Also, if I could afford to try out one of those rotating miniguns from Predator, count me in! (with tracers. I’d really want tracers.)

[dublinben]

So much fun, but so much harder than paper targets. They move!

[keiferski]

Not sure where you're from, but there are a lot of gun ranges in Europe, too. Especially in Central Europe.

[stormfather]

Wear ear protection, even the guy next to you will be painfully, damagingly loud.

[filoleg]

Yeah, think of the most loud live concert you’ve ever heard, to the point where your ears physically start hurting, but make it even louder.

22lr rifles go at around 140dB, and large bore rifles and handguns go above 175dB. Meanwhile, the loudest concert ever was sitting at slightly under 130dB (Manowar in the 90s, not sure if their record had been broken since then).

Definitely take care of your hearing. Even at much lower dB at large concerts, you cause some amount of irreversible hearing damage. And even at much lower volume than 130dB, your ears start physically hurting from the sound pretty bad. Aftering hearing a typical gunshot without any ear protection just a few feet away from you, you might just not want to come back to a range ever again.

TLDR: wear (appropriate type for the specific task) ear protection to concerts, gun ranges, and while riding a motorcycle on highways, you will thank yourself later.