A bit of the differnt subject:

These ranges are great and a lot of fun.

This is the Rhein Main indoor shooting range. It is part of the Pond Academy the company that provides security personnel to guard various installations in Germany. The German Retail Gun Dealers Waffen Reul also makes it available for hunters. In German they call this a Schiess Kino "Shooting Cinema". Bassically you have a 25 meter indoor range with two ceiling mounting projectors. You can shoot live rounds from pistols to big bore double rifles. These project anything from video clips of wild game moving through the forest to robbers leaving a bank. German hunting use this to prepare for driven hunts.

I was at the Pond Academy three weeks ago. We put about 60 rounds through a HEYM over and under Model 26 in 8x57IRS. We fired at wild boar moving through the forest. When you shot a laser detects the bullet hole and records your hit. Depending on the settings the video stops or keeps going for a follow on shot. Following the video sequence the technition and show you where your rounds impacted on your target. Games videos include everything from slow moving deer and wild boar to "flying" wild boar (very fast moving). You can also shot at African Game. They have around 150 video clips.

The advantage for the Rhein Main indoor range is that it is about an hour from Frankfurt and its airport. You can reserve the range 24 hours a day seven days a week. Mr. Nowak is a gun maker and a partner in Waffen Reuel. That is how this side bar developed between synthetic stocks and this shooting range.

These "Shooting Cinemas" are ver popular in Germany. Here is the home page of another one close to Ulm. www.mszu.de