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# Sharing and Borrowing Guns

It's common to shoot with someone else's firearm at the range. So that the person who borrows a gun can log their shoot with it, the owner shares the gun with them first. Until that happens, you only ever see your own guns and your club's guns when logging a shoot — nobody can browse other members' collections.

{% hint style="info" %}
Sharing a gun in Range Mate doesn't lend or hand over the gun itself — it simply lets that member record a shoot against it. You stay in control and can stop at any time.
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## Sharing one of your guns

You can start from two places:

* From a gun's own page — go to **My Guns**, open the gun and select **Share**. The gun is already chosen for you.
* While logging your own shoot — if someone else used your gun that day, use the **Share it with them** prompt under the firearms list, then pick which gun.

Then:

1. Choose who to share with:
   * **A specific member** — search their name (at least three letters) and pick them from the list.
   * **Everyone in my club** — any member can then see and use it. This is handy for a gun you're happy for anyone to shoot.
2. Choose how long it stays shared — until you stop it, for 7, 30 or 90 days, or until a date you choose.
3. Select **Share gun**.

You can share a gun with as many people as you like, and you can **Stop sharing** at any time from the same screen. Stopping doesn't affect shoots that have already been logged.

{% hint style="warning" %}
Some guns can't be shared for legal reasons — pistols, revolvers, Section 1 shotguns and Section 5 firearms must only be used by their certificate holder, so there's no **Share** option for those.
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## Logging a shoot with a borrowed gun

Once someone has shared a gun with you, it appears in your gun list when you [log a shoot](/for-members/your-shooting-records.md), shown as *borrowed from* their name. Pick it just like one of your own guns and record the rounds you fired.

If a gun you borrowed isn't showing up, ask the owner to share it with you — once they do, it'll appear in your list.

## Seeing who has used your gun

Open any of your guns to see its **usage history**. Shoots logged by someone you shared it with are marked **Shot by** their name, alongside the rounds they fired. Your gun's total round count includes every shoot — yours and anyone else's — so you always have a complete picture of how much it's been used.


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