In some clubs in the US you can only shoot steel shot. Some clubs you can only shoot lead shot. So you would not be able to use their gun anyway at a lot of clubs. 🙄
There are clubs where Bi is NOT allowed but steel is? I'm wonder about that. Never heard of such a thing. I've heard of nontox ranges, but not only steel nontox ranges.
Skyway Trap and Skeet Club in St. Petersburg, Florida. You shoot into a dirt backstop and you can only use the steel shot WHICH THEY SELL. They sell it, so that they make sure that you only shoot steel shot. The puller walks along with you and tells you when you can shoot, so they can make sure you don't shoot over the backstop into the lake behind it. They take your driver's license and Xerox it and if you ever shoot over the backstop, you will be banned. They have had numerous, frivolous lawsuits about people shooting into a wildlife area behind the backstop, which have never been won. But they still are extremely strict about people shooting there. Plus the ammo costs about $10.00 a box. It was only about three miles from where I stay, but it got to be such a hassle that I started driving 40 miles up to the Silver Dollar Shooting Club, last year, in Odessa, where they only allow lead and you can shoot your own reloads. It is a lot nicer Club anyway- where they have the Florida State Trap Shoot each year.
Call them and ask them about the junk you have to do to shoot there. The first time I went there, I had to sit and watch a 20 minute movie on Florida wildlife and I was informed that if I ever shot into the lake behind the backstop, I would never be permitted to come back. And they check your driver's license every time you go to see if you have been banned in the past. I have not been there in a couple years, but I got so fed up with the hassle it was time to go somewhere else.
