As far as I know, the only gun range near DFW that lets people shoot FMJ ammo is Gibson’s Outpost in Mesquite. It is pretty old and dusty, but only costs $12 to shoot all day. You have to get a membership card, which costs $8 and is good for a year. They have pistol range in 10 and 25 yds, and rifle ranges in 50, 100, and 200 yd.
It gets mixed reviews on google, and I can see why. The man showed me two holes in their wall from ‘unloaded’ guns brought into the store. One of the biggest pluses for me was that this place is likely a big turn off to yuppie-types.
There is old stuff stacked everywhere, with a thick layer of dust on most everything. They let you bring in your own targets and let you borrow tools if you need them too. The shooting booths at the rifle range are concrete tables, mostly right-hand layouts, and pretty close together. They call a cease-fire every 20 minutes or so and check every gun to make sure they are all unloaded. Overall, it was a good experience and I’ll definitely go back, especially since I have lots of cheap FMJ ammo to shoot!
I recently converted some of my personal folders (like MyDocuments) to reside within an encrypted file. Besides the obvious benefit of keeping the information in that folder more private, another reason was so I can take the contents of the folders with me anywhere (on a external USB drive) and not have to worry about what would happen if I lost the drive or what other people would see if they borrow the drive. (In the un-encrypted state, the folder looks like a big file on the drive full of gobbledgook) Another advantage is that if the drive is stolen, they won’t have all my personal documents, they would just have some encrypted files that are meaningless. Since the whole folder is housed within one file, copying, syncing, and backups are easy too.
