Posted on 09/06/2015 11:27:01 AM PDT by aimhigh
The thrill of shooting real handguns, rifles and machine guns attracts Chinese visitors by the busload — often 20 to 30 tour buses a day, says co-owner Eric Yarger.
Shooting firearms — at a cost of $25 to $350 — is something they can’t do legally in China. Chinese tourists make up about 80 percent of the range’s summer business. It’s not unusual for Chinese customers “to shoot every gun we have,” Yarger said. “They can spend over $1,000.”
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ping
The targets were close enough to apparently give everyone a sense of great accomplishment, and it was by far the most well-recorded blast-away session I've ever witnessed. We locals were as studiously ignored as if we weren't even there, so we managed to avoid any photography.
Mr. niteowl77
Darn, now that’s free enterprise in action.
I was at Yellowstone for four days in July. I lost count of the number of tour buses there were full of Chinese tourists- probably over a hundred sighted in that short time span. They were a giant PITA. Pushing, shoving, running out in front of oncoming traffic and ignoring park rules ( written in several languages, including Chinese. It was a God awful mess.
In Paris, Chinese were EVERYWHERE, taking selfies about every five feet, forcing everyone else to stop walking, after a few times, I said “F It!’ and just walked on through.
Sidenote: We are supposed to be travelling to Rome- Budapest-Vienna- Prague in April-May. Now, it’s looking like we will probably cxl due to the “refugee” problem there now.
People love guns. Guns are fun!
We did Budapest-Vienna-Prague a few months ago. At least then, I didn’t notice anything out of the unusual, that hadn’t already been the case for years.
I suspect in the next few years there will be drastic changes, so if you are going to go, better do it now.
A number of Chinese students attending Arizona State University drive off the road into the Grand Canyon each year. It seems they don't know that can happen when going around curves while driving fast.
In between conferences I spent a few days bicycling around Vienna last spring. It seemed like every school I passed that the children were almost 50% of non Austrian heritage.
Just my own nonscientific personal observation.
I took dozens of Japanese engineers and military men to shoot from Yuma Proving Ground, as a “value added” attraction when they were testing artillery here.
They loved it.
Funny, if they’re STEM students they should be aware of the idea of inertia. Except as it applies to cars and large gorges, it would seem.
CC
Yes, it is odd. I guess knowing about it and experiencing it are different matters. Maybe they think vehicle dynamics takes all of that into account. Cornering thrusters?
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