Rubber special flooring norament® 945 grano
provides
safety in a cinema shooting range
Hunting is popular: In Germany, almost 390,000
citizens possess a hunting licence1. Hunters train in
cinema shooting ranges to improve their marksmanship
in conditions that are as realistic as possible. After all:
An experienced hunter will spare their quarry from any
unnecessary suffering. These indoor firing ranges are
equipped with screens at one end that shown films
recreating real outdoor situations. Hunters can shoot at
deer or wild boar, for example, and later check their
performance on computer. In September of 2019, the
Euroshot GmbH cinema shooting range opened in
Steinenbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Hunters,
police officers and sports marksmen all practise at the
facility. Safety is the highest priority at indoor shooting
ranges of this kind, which means that the legal requirements
are very stringent. And this also applies to the
floor covering. The flooring must ensure that the bullets
do not ricochet and injure the shooters. For this reason,
the operators chose to install a norament® 945 grano rubber floor covering that is 22 millimetres thick and
produced in a custom colour. This flooring is not only
extremely resistant, it is also completely rebound-proof
for handguns, rifles and shotguns. In addition, it has the
required fire-protection properties.
Ricochet protection
In 2019, Euroshot GmbH opened a cinema shooting
range, a multi-distance facility for dynamic or static
shooting, a gun dealership, the Siebenmühlental hunting
school and a shooting school in a former furniture
store near Stuttgart airport. Safe handling of weapons
has the upmost priority within this closed complex.
Officers, security staff, hunters and sports marksmen
can practise their shooting skills in the cinema shooting
range or the multi-distance facility covering an area of
over 400 square metres. "We wanted to ensure that
the nora® floor covering perfectly fulfilled the requirements
for shooting ranges, including the long-term
demands", says Dennis Bek of Euroshot GmbH. The
company owner contacted a publicly appointed and
certified shooting range expert for the safety of non-military
shooting ranges employed by the Gießen-Friedberg
Chamber of Industry and Commerce, a shooting
range expert from the customs authority and a shooting
range expert from the German federal police force.
The reports of all experts confirmed that norament®
945 grano was suitable. Shooting range assessors
have now approved the shooting range for operation.
The rubber flooring provides comprehensive protection
against ricochets, rebounds and bullet fragments
from handguns, rifles and shotguns up to 7000 Joules
(certified in line with VPAM ARG 2012). The projectiles
penetrate the resilient yet high-strength material and remain
there until they are extracted. Dimensionally
stable 1002 x 1002-mm rubber tiles will be installed
loosely on the subfloor. The joints will then be sealed
using nora® joint sealing compound.
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Outstanding fire-protection properties and
slip resistance
"The composition and functionality of this special
floor covering make it ideal for indoor shooting
ranges de-signed for handguns, rifles and shotguns",
says Viktor Reichelt, Junior Product Manger of the
norament® product range. The flooring is
exceptionally durable, wear-resistant and flameretardant
(Bfl-s1 in line with EN 13501-1). The slipresistant
surface (R 10) also
provides the shooters with a firm, stable footing. This
specialist floor covering is free from PVC and is available
in two standard colours (beige and dark green).
Further colours from the norament® 926 grano colour range are available on request from a minimum area of
300 square metres. The operators of Euroshot chose a
custom colour. In the cinema shooting range in Steinenbronn,
the pale grey rubber floor covering combined
with the white walls creates a bright and clear sense of
space.