How much does your gun club cost?

$200 per year / $125 initiation fee
Covers wife and any kids under 18
Skeet, Sporting Clays, 300 meter rifle, 100 meter pistol, practical pistol, archery, air gun, on 1800 acres.

We've got a HUGE variance in the prices on this thread. $25-$35/year up to $600+$300/year.

Makes me wonder what kind of facilities some of these ranges have.

its 150 for the whole family. 25 for the first year added on for keys and such.

Can bring up to 10 guest during the week and up to 4 on the weekend. A total of 9 ranges with more planned in the future.

There are 13 regular schedules matches each month as well. Shooting is daylight times only.

great facility and great people

$140 for the first year then $95 per year if I recall correctly.

$50 for the first year, $25/year renewal, $300 for a life membership after the first year.

$50 a year (they just went up from $40.) Plus an extra $10 the first year or if you let your membership laps more an a couple of months.

Mine is $165/1st year, 150 next years. It's an indoor range.

$150 per year and a $50 membership fee for the first year. This is a great club. I receive the gate code and can use the 25, 50, or 100 yd ranges, there is also a manual trap thrower, and automatic trap thrower (operated on Monday nights), an archery range, and a club house. It is a 40 minute commute but it is as much a social experience as a shooting experience. Everyone is friendly and 6 people at one time is "crowded" though the capacity is much higher. It is not uncommon for me to be there alone or with my friends. No guest passes.

Another local range I am thinking of joining has limited hours but is $65 per year. Up to 4 guests at $6 per guest per visit and it has a 200 yard range. It is on the local military base and is well run.

50 a year and 100 dollar initiation fee.

I'm thinking about joining a club at my favorite rifle range. I'd pay $300 per year if they guarantee there won't be any gangster wannabes or hysterically laughing girlfriends.

I go to the NRA Range in the basement of NRA HQ's in Fairfax VA. $10.00 to join. You have to take a written test before you can use the range. After that, NRA members pay $14.00 an hour, non members $18.00 an hour. You can bring your own ammo and targets, or buy the stuff there. 15 lanes with an automated target system. First Class.

I also beliong to n Izaac Walton league Chapter with both pistol and rifle ranges. It's about $125.00 a year IIRC. Nice folks at both places.

I'm not a member of a club since there are three public ranges within a reasonable distance that are either totally free or charge a nominal fee. There is also a great shooting facility that charges $200 initiation and $185 per year. I have visited it, but I'm just not sold on joining. You do get what you pay for, but it's a balancing act. Waiting in line for a spot usually isn't an issue at either place. At the public ranges, there's the possibility of free brass, unsafe shooting practices, a crowded range or being totally alone, and goofballs or know-it-all's. My problem is that at the private range, my experience has been that there is no pick-up brass to speak of, there are cameras watching your every move, you can only shoot paper, there are no goofballs, but there are a lot more know-it-all's. Also, since everyone except guests is paying to shoot there, many have a sense of entitlement that their shooting experience comes first and to not think about others. To me the public range is less controlled, but the people there generally are working together and doing something they enjoy, rather than preparing for some sort of competition.

We've got a HUGE variance in the prices on this thread. $25-$35/year up to $600+$300/year.

Makes me wonder what kind of facilities some of these ranges have.

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It may be simply the difference in the cost of real estate throughout the country as well as the difference in prices for areas in proximity to cities.

I could get a yearly membership at the indoor range 3 minutes from my house that would cost a lot more than the outdoor club 25 minutes away. The outdoor club has a lot more range options and distances, but the indoor range is on nice business real estate on a busy thoroughfare, so it costs more to shoot there.

CoRoMo said:

We've got a HUGE variance in the prices on this thread. $25-$35/year up to $600+$300/year.

Makes me wonder what kind of facilities some of these ranges have.

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Berlin Conservation Club - $5

Twin City Rod & Gun Club - $35

Shiocton Range - Drop box, $3

You can see the rimfire range on top, the 200 yard range in the middle, and the long range (600 yards maybe?) on the bottom. They've put in a pistol range on the side, and have a nice berm up between the rifle ranges now, too.

The only problem I've ever had was at Shiocton, when some kid firing a milsurp on the long range popped off a shot while people were downrange on the 200 yard range. That was before they put the berm in, though. Now there isn't any of that going on. We usually police up any trash we find around, which is very rare. Most people out there clean up after themselves.

I was wrong on the membership fee for the Berlin Conservation Club, too.

Our club just went up to $125/year for the primary member, but I bought a 7-year membership for $500 when they had a fundraiser last year. Additional family members are $20/each per year. The range is a very nice outdoor 50 yard pistol range with 14 covered 2-lane bays and target positions at 7, 10, 15, 25 and 50 yards. There is a fan mounted in each bay, florescent lighting, webbing that extends forward of the bench to catch brass, a red/green safety light above every other bay, a PA system, nice bathrooms and a covered picnic table with vending machines. All in all, it is one of the nicest outdoor ranges I've ever seen.

$400 initiation fee $240 a year all out door shooting

185 acres of planned land which offers 15, 25, 50 and 100 yard covered pistol and rifle firing points, five skeet and trap fields, two archery ranges, a practical pistol range, 5-stand sporting clays, 2 sporting clays courses, and a 200-600 high power rifle range.t

Practical Pistol
Cowboy Action
I.D.P.A.
Sporting Clays
Skeet Shooting
Trap Shooting
Bullseye
High Power Rifle Benchrest
Smallbore Silhouette
Muzzle Loading

CoRoMo said:

We've got a HUGE variance in the prices on this thread. $25-$35/year up to $600+$300/year.

Makes me wonder what kind of facilities some of these ranges have.

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I want someone with a Scottsdale Gun Club titanium membership to show up

$10,000 Membership Fee
$200 a month.

http://scottsdalegunclub.com/memberships/titanium.php

Tucson Rifle Club, $40yr single/$50yr couple
half a dozen ranges from 100yrd to 1000yrds, one public the rest for members only.
Self regulated so no range nazis.

$100.00 start up fee, $150.00 per year.

The General Rifle range (2 positions at 25-yards, 45 positions at 100-yards, 5 positions at 200-yards and 5 positions at 300-yards).

The General Shotgun range has 2 positions single throwers, Sporting Clays, Trap and Skeet field, and 5 Stands course.

The General Pistol range (Known Distance range for 10, 25 and 50 yards and the close in Handgun range, and Action Pistol Bay range for scenario shooting) are also open.

1,000 Yard range is currently open to club members who have demonstrated the ability to shoot this extreme distance safely by providing documentation from acceptable qualifying source, (i.e. Palma, CMP, NRA, etc), attending the DNGC sponsored long distance shooting course or by qualifying in a club sponsored shoot.

These ranges are open 7 days a week, sunup to sundown, except from dusk on Tuesday till noon on Wednesday when the entire Shooting Facility is closed for scheduled maintenance. Unscheduled maintenance may necessitate closing any or all ranges on the shooting facility at other times for safety reasons.

Not a gun club...just a private range with a 100 member limit. 100, 200, 300 yd. rifle, separate pistol range. Cost: $50/year for which you get your own key and unlimited access. CMP and vintage rifle matches. NRA and Mass. GOAL membership required.

It's way out in the woods, no facilities at all. Clean up after yourself, pee in the bushes, no supervision needed or wanted. Everyone gets together once or twice a year for brush, berm, and target stand maintenance. I love it.

Tinpig

I'm a proud member of the Goshen Trail Longrifle gun club. A very nice outdoor range that features 25, 50, & 100 yard ranges. Cost is $30.00 per year and worth every penny of it.

$60 per year and IIRC a $10 initiation fee. I think it's a fairly nice club; it has:
2 separate 25 yard ranges
50 and 100 yard ranges
200 yard range set up for CMP/high power competition
all firing positions covered
rudimentary trap setup - single station, only used Wednesday nights

All of this is well maintained. It is best for rifle shooting, good for handgun, mediocre for shotgun. It regularly hosts CMP, IDPA, 4H, and formal handgun training courses.

The cost and quality are due to generous donations by some members and being an old club from when land was cheap.

$100 a year. For that you get a dollar off of every round of 5-stand and skeet, access to the property any time you want, 25yard handgun, rimfire range, small lake that's well stocked, plus you can rent the clubhouse for events.

$50... 20yd indoor pistol and archery...125yd covered outdoor range..60yd outdoor archery range...

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mine is 35 a yr spouse 1/2 50 ft indoor with reloading room with one time extra fee $20?I dont pay as I amd senior 20 ys and over 62.
in Mass