Closed-toe shoes and a high neckline cover almost all of it — hot brass is the reason. What to wear, what to skip, and what you need to bring to a class.
Two rules cover almost all of it: closed-toe shoes, and nothing open at the neckline. Everything else is comfort. The reason is hot brass, which ejects sideways at a few hundred degrees and finds any gap it is offered.
A spent case down a collar is not dangerous, but it is a burn, and the instinctive reaction — jumping, grabbing, turning — is dangerous when you are holding a firearm. That is the whole reason the rule exists.
Range eye protection is designed to go over prescription glasses, and every range has a pair that will. Say so at the counter rather than trying to make a slim pair work — the wraparound style exists for exactly this.
For a class here, no. Eye and ear protection, the firearm, ammunition and targets are all in your seat for both Intro To Shooting and the license class. Bring identification, your glasses if you wear them, and the shoes.
If you are booking a lane somewhere else, ask whether eye and ear protection are included or rented — it is the item most often assumed and most often charged for. Our range price breakdown covers what else tends to appear on the bill.
The class is four to five hours: roughly half classroom, then live fire on our range in the same building. Dress for the range half — you will not want to change, and a seated classroom is comfortable in range clothes but not the reverse.
For everything else worth having with you on the day, see what to bring to your LTC class.
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