1. Shooting hours begin at 9:00am and end at sunset or 8:00pm, whichever is earlier, all year long, regardless of daylight hours. After daylight shooting on the range requires specific permission from the Board of Directors for a designated date and time, and for each occurrence.
2. Formal events of Big Timber Rifle and Pistol Club and scheduled training by law enforcement or authorized instructors will include the designation of an official Range Safety Officer and a Match/Training Director, one person may at times be designated for both roles.
3. Informal shooting shall not interfere with formal events and scheduled training but may be permitted at the discretion of the Match/Training Director of the event or training.
4. Firearms shall be discharged only in a safe direction, so the projectile's impact occurs in a pre-designated location specificially designed to safely dissipate all of the projectile's energy.
5. Only firearms in safe working order which have been properly maintained shall be discharged.
6. When not in a shooting station, all firearms shall be carried in a case or unloaded with the cylinder/breech open and in a safe manner. This rule extends to range parking lots.
7. No firearm shall be loaded until the shooter is at the shooting station. Loading is considered as putting ammunition into any part of the firearm. Magazines may be loaded before approaching the firing line, but magazines may not be placed into the firearm until the shooter is at the shooting station. There will be no loaded firearms behind the yellow safety line.
8. Cease Fire Command, Cold Range and Hot Range Designations:
a. Anyone may call a 'Cease Fire' at any time, for any reason.
b. When a 'Cease Fire' is called, the range is immediately designated a 'Cold Range' and all firearm actions must be opened, emptied of all ammunition, and moved safely to the rack.
c. No person may go forward of a firing line except during a designated 'Cold Range.'
d. During a 'Cold Range,' all firearms are to remain safely racked and there is to be absolutely no touching or handling of any firearms.
e. During a 'Cold Range' there is to be no handling of firearms for the purposes of unpacking upon arrival or packing to leave.
f. All firearms must remain unloaded, racked or packed and untouched, while any person is down range and until the 'Hot Range' desigantion is called.
g. Only after the 'Hot Range' designation is called, may firearms be once again moved to the firing line for loading/firing and/or packed and unpacked for transportation.
9. A firearm shall not be handled with the muzzle pointed in the direction of any person.
10. Approved eye and hearing protection is required for every person on all firearm ranges.
11. No tracer rounds of any kind are to be used on the range.
12. No exploding targets, exploding bullets, or incendiary devices are to be used at any time.
13. No glass, plastics, metals or woods not specifically and commercially designed as targets shall be used as targets on any range (vegetables, fruit, furniture, electronics, cans of any type are not range authorized targets). Paper, cardboard or clay targets and backers, along with proper stands shall be used at all times No throwing devices are allowed on this range.
14. After using a range you and your party are responsible for the immediate cleanup of that range. Remove used targets, pickup empty cartridge brass and live ammunition, sweep if necessary; unwanted live ammunition can be deposited in the red "dud" can. DO NOT THROW LIVE AMMUNITION INTO ANY GARBAGE CAN OR GARBAGE PILE.
15. There will be no loaded firearms behind the yellow safety line.
16. No steel targets unless at a BTRPC organized or approved event.
17. Pistols, carbines and rifles may be used on the 50 yard range. Intermediate rifle calibers are allowed, i.e. 556, AK 47 etc. NO LARGE CALIBERS (HUNTING) CAN BE USED ON THIS RANGE. Shotguns may be used when firing at ground targets. No aerial targets of any kind.
18. Do not shoot the range markers, supporting posts, telephone poles, or no blue sky barrier in front of the bench.
19. Weapons that are capable of being fired 'full-auto' or weapons containing other 'select fire' based trigger systems (such as 2-round or 3-round burst trigger options) are prohibited from being used on the range.