There's things I like about both, but dislike about each as well.
I go to the CQB matches at Tri-County but try to only attend a few practical rifle matches. This is mainly due to the absolutely inane 'no-muzzle over the berm rule' which makes reloads and fixing malfunctions into absolutely awkward training scar induced fail-fests.
You've also got action bays where you can't use center fire ARs (because deer slugs into dirt is somehow massively safer then a 5.56 round into a dirt berm, right?) and slow fire rules. It's hard because I live 20 minutes away, from downtown (pearl district), and it'd be the best range for my needs. We also considered TCGC for the Magpul classes, but they don't have the training facilities nor the rules/mindset to allow a class like that, which is a shame since it'd frankly be the most awesome location to do it given the location/convenience factor.
Douglas Ridge on the other hand is like a golf course. It's about 30-45 minutes away (I drove it once in 25 minutes hitting every green light on the way there) and as long as you're safe you can go muzzle up, run shotguns, have access to a 1000yd range when available, etc. The issue with DRRC is that they're very old school, and it just takes a bit of time for them to see the value in some of the modern techniques.
So it's tough, I love Douglas Ridge because we've had 3 awesome Magpul Dynamics classes there, some of the BEST ones put on in the PNW, but they lack training bays, etc. Whereas TCGC is very modern, but hampered by a board that's whipped by litigation.
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