•••Shooting range or own reloading room•••?

[irishlad]

Since I live in the sprawl that is Southern California I would love my own range. I have a dedicated reloading area in my garage.
When I retire in a couple of years my fantasy used to be to have a piece of land out in the middle of nowhere so I could shoot when I want, but I will settle for getting the heck out of this state and living in a nice town that has an outdoor range. The reloading area / room / shop is a given. That will be set up no matter where I go.

I left SoCal in 2007. Got my reloading room. BLM and National Forest minutes away. Nice free county range 30 minutes away. Has gongs out to a 1000 yards.

 

[Walkalong]

Nice free county range 30 minutes away. Has gongs out to a 1000 yards.

I'm so jealous.

 

[irishlad]

I'm so jealous.

The 300 yard rifle range has concrete shooting tables(bench). Bring your own chair .

 

[Walkalong]

The 300 yard rifle range has concrete shooting tables(bench). Bring your own chair .

We do have that at our local range, but I would love to be able to stretch it out, if for nothing else than to be able to true BC at 1K.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I have my own room for loading and gun storage. Both the gun clubs i belong to are 10-15 mins away. And i have places in the bush where i shoot too. I do some indoor air gun shooting at home too. I would shoot my air guns in the yard. But we have an ordnance in town.

 

[FROGO207]

Neighbors are too close to me for a regular shooting range at home but am able to pop off a squirrel nos and again without trouble. The family farm has 900+- acres with a field that is 25 acres going up the side of a hill. Picture taken last fall.

 

[memtb]

So would you rather have a shooting range right out your back door? Or your own reloading room where all the equipment stays set up year round?
Personally, i'd load ammo off the back of the toilet just to be able to test loads and shoot off my back porch. Sometimes i have to wait a whole year before i can test rifle loads.

Do I have to choose one? Both works pretty well for us! It certainly makes testing new loads easy and efficient! Load 5, test for accuracy, velocity, and pressure. Walk 30 yards to house, and repeat procedure!

Range at house is limited to 300 yards.....unless I cross the river and set up a target. It’s easier to drive a couple of miles.....then the range is virtually unlimited! memtb

 

[merlynski]

I have had my own reloading room (shared with my electronics lab) since the late 70s, so my own range would be heavenly!

 

[ArchAngelCD]

The shooting range hands down!

I can shoot the Speer plastic bullets in my backyard, I cleared it with the local police. Its great practice for shooting revolvers. I shoot mostly .38 Special plastic ammo.

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[T_Walker]

Personally, i'd load ammo off the back of the toilet just to be able to test loads and shoot off my back porch.

Agreed. I'll take a range outback over a reloading room without a doubt. I'd rather have both, though.

 

[lordpaxman]

You can have both, they just have different costs. A reloading room can be carved out of a living space relatively easily. I said relatively so don’t go ape with all the posts of he and she won’t let it happen in the house…
A range out the back door is a bigger ticket item. Here in the People’s Republic of Cuomo, you have lots of rules to deal with how close to neighbors you are. You also need to be a good neighbor - lots of loud noise might not be the best way to make friends, even if it is legal.
I’m fortunate enough to have both right now, but in my previous residence I opted for the reloading room as we were too close to neighbors. Good luck.

 

[jmorris]

When we were kids, my Brother and I had to reload in the garage then store the equipment in our closet when not in use. I much prefer to have my equipment indoors, climate controlled and ready to use all the time.

Having a range in my backyard, that I can even use from the porch if Mrs. Morris isn’t home.

Put me in the group that doesn’t find them mutually exclusive and nice to have both.

I suppose if you said I could only have one, then it would be a shooting range with a climate controlled shed on it.

 

[earlthegoat2]

If you have the resources to have your own range then you also have the resources to have a loading room.

If in a vacuum though, I would pick the range.

 

[jmorris]

If you have your own range, you can reload right there…

 

[Bfh_auto]

I've had the ability to keep a set up reloading room with a range 15 minutes away.
I now have 2 rooms and a 500 plus yard range off the back porch.
If I had to give up the range I would because my neighbor has an 800 plus yard one
Really if the range is within 15 be minutes I would rather have reloading/hunting stuff space.

 

[bullseye308]

I can load anywhere, so a home range would be my pick. My “man cave” is either half the bedroom or living room, depending on how the wife re-configures things every 6-12 months. I have loaded in the house since 89, stored my components in the house since then, and for a couple years could actually shoot here till they put in a subdivision across the fence. I miss being able to load a few then walk outside and test them.

 

[Armored farmer]

I reeeeally enjoymy reloading room in the dead, dark winter. Fire up the woodstove, tune in the radio or bluetooth......I'm good for the whole day. Reloading and piddling with gun gear/hunting gear.
In the dog-dayz of summer, I crank a window a/c unit and stomp out some shotgun shells or maybe a couple boxes of .357mag.

OTHERWISE.......
I'm a shooter. I gotta have a range!

 

[mbear]

I used to have a dedicated reloading room. Then I had kids and lost almost all of my space. I have to share my range also. I call it a range and the cows call it the back pasture. But I can and do shoot at my own place. Max range 600 feet. But I make do.

 

[Hondo 60]

Personally, i'd load ammo off the back of the toilet just to be able to test loads and shoot off my back porch.

Now that there's a dedicated reloader!

Make that 2 of us.
I'd LOVE to have my own personal range.

 

[GooseGestapo]

I can load anywhere, so a home range would be my pick. My “man cave” is either half the bedroom or living room, depending on how the wife re-configures things every 6-12 months. I have loaded in the house since 89, stored my components in the house since then, and for a couple years could actually shoot here till they put in a subdivision across the fence. I miss being able to load a few then walk outside and test them.

Why is it that they do that!?
Just about the time you learn the layout so you don’t stub your toes going to the bathroom in the dark, everything gets turned around.

Most of the basement level of my house is dedicated to reloading... and my range is right out the door. When the wife is away, I can shoot out the garage door.

My favorite deer stand is in front of the kitchen sink. In 15yrs, I’ve killed about a half dozen out the kitchen window, including my youngest daughter killing her first.

Got this one this year:

 

[luzyfuerza]

I have both.

I spend more time shooting than I do reloading. So, having a permanent reloading room is really nice, but having multiple pistol ranges, a 1200 meter rifle range, and a simple clays range on my own property is absolutely priceless.

 

[gonoles_1980]

I could setup a storage tent to reload in and keep my press on a table in there. I would love a small range I could go out back and shoot on. I only own a 1/3 of a acre so that's not possible.

 

[sparkyv]

I choose this;

i'd load ammo off the back of the toilet just to be able to test loads and shoot off my back porch.