ccsniper
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$80 a year. although, I have a personal range now so I am not renewing it. theirs is nice (goes out to 300 yards) but my new one is nicer (goes out to 1000 yards).
How much does your gun club cost?
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jfrey
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My best friend owns a ranch near town, so since I help him work cattle, I hunt and shoot for free. We have a pistol, rifle (100 yd.) and long rifle (600 yd.) range on the ranch so it isn't hard to find a target to shoot at.
bonza
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9MMare asked:
Sure, it's the Everett Sportsman's Club located on Ebey Island, just off the Hwy 2 Trestle. PM me for directions if you wish.
Sure, it's the Everett Sportsman's Club located on Ebey Island, just off the Hwy 2 Trestle. PM me for directions if you wish.
Shadow 7D
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Thinking about joining the local range, its about 250 a year, but they have at 20 lanes / ranges, with a full (Olympic) shotgun range, except I don't really shoot sporting clays or any of those games. You can pay day usage of $10, but its only open thurs through sun for the public.
madmattmd
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My club membership fee is $85 annually ($100 application fee to be paid by new members upon acceptance). 12 work hours are required (fee per missed hours).
We have a two-story clubhouse with full kitchen, a picnic pavilion with full kitchen and separate bathrooms with showers, a catch and release fishpond that also is great for swimming, camping, a “short” rifle range of 50 yards and a “long” 600 yard rifle range, 25 yard pistol (all outdoor), traphouse, and 14 stations for sporting clays. No on-site Range Officers. It’s a great deal in our area as there aren’t that many opportunities in Maryland for shooters.
We also have a local County public range that charges $50/year in County or $85/year out-of-County (daily fees are $10 and $15 respectively; lifetime membership is $300 and $600 respectively). It’s open Wednesday through Sunday for the public, closed Mondays, and LE day on Tuesdays. The public range has separate covered rifle and pistol ranges. Of course, they have on-site Range Officers and are pretty tight on rules (which is good, as the only problem they have had is a local Deputy with an accidental discharge). It’s a very nice facility and provides an opportunity to shoot safely (and legally) that doesn’t exist in many areas of our “progressive” State (or, is that regressive?).
Private gun range membership opportunities have become more available since the 1980’s when I was first looking for a good place to shoot. That, of course, is due to the unfortunate loss of many of our WWII and Korean War vets. There was a time when the waiting list was years.
Since we took our rifle range out to 600 yards (from 300), my club has experienced a big surge in interest in membership. We have a 150 limit on memberships. The issue for us is weeding out the folks that aren’t going to be assets to the club. Because of the history of our club and the facilities, it’s more of a community than simply a “gun club.” I don’t have a problem with folks joining a range because all they want is a place to shoot, but, I send them to the public range or the much larger private range that is owned by a group of clubs. It’s a lot of work to maintain (and improve) a club with more than just a range.
Matt G
We have a two-story clubhouse with full kitchen, a picnic pavilion with full kitchen and separate bathrooms with showers, a catch and release fishpond that also is great for swimming, camping, a “short” rifle range of 50 yards and a “long” 600 yard rifle range, 25 yard pistol (all outdoor), traphouse, and 14 stations for sporting clays. No on-site Range Officers. It’s a great deal in our area as there aren’t that many opportunities in Maryland for shooters.
We also have a local County public range that charges $50/year in County or $85/year out-of-County (daily fees are $10 and $15 respectively; lifetime membership is $300 and $600 respectively). It’s open Wednesday through Sunday for the public, closed Mondays, and LE day on Tuesdays. The public range has separate covered rifle and pistol ranges. Of course, they have on-site Range Officers and are pretty tight on rules (which is good, as the only problem they have had is a local Deputy with an accidental discharge). It’s a very nice facility and provides an opportunity to shoot safely (and legally) that doesn’t exist in many areas of our “progressive” State (or, is that regressive?).
Private gun range membership opportunities have become more available since the 1980’s when I was first looking for a good place to shoot. That, of course, is due to the unfortunate loss of many of our WWII and Korean War vets. There was a time when the waiting list was years.
Since we took our rifle range out to 600 yards (from 300), my club has experienced a big surge in interest in membership. We have a 150 limit on memberships. The issue for us is weeding out the folks that aren’t going to be assets to the club. Because of the history of our club and the facilities, it’s more of a community than simply a “gun club.” I don’t have a problem with folks joining a range because all they want is a place to shoot, but, I send them to the public range or the much larger private range that is owned by a group of clubs. It’s a lot of work to maintain (and improve) a club with more than just a range.
Matt G
FROGO207
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Blue hill rifle and pistol, $40 year. 24/7 range indoors, outdoors daylight only. There are lots of places to shoot around here off Island but it is fun to get a bunch of others in one spot and spit some lead.
jnyork
Member
Lander Valley Sportsmens Association in Lander, Wyoming has two excellent ranges, indoor and outdoor, with facilities for High Power out to 1000 yards, all disciplines of silhouette, bench rest, pistol range etc outdoors, and 8 lanes of .22 rimfire and airgun indoors. $50.00 per year for NRA members, $25.00 per year if you help out. http://www.lvsa.info/
chuckusaret
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Gee, not many replies from the southern states....i.e. Florida. The cost of using the gun ranges in Palm Beach County Florida is outrageous. My last trip cost me exactly $100 for an hour and 100 rounds of very cheap grade of what appeared to be reloaded .40 cal ammo.
jnyork
Member
Wow, Chuck, that aint so hot! 
We have homes for sale here in Lander.
We have homes for sale here in Lander. 
endebt
Member
My gun club is the ranch. I can shoot out the backdoor or the front door. I have a 1000yd range set up and steps back to 100yds. I can shoot out of the barn when it is not nice outside. My hand gun range is out the back door of the barn. It is set at 7yds to 50yds. I can not falthem having to pay to shoot. I guess it is good to be born a texan and loving it. Ya'all should come down to Gods county.
100 a year for a 100 yd rifle range, 200 yard rifle range, 25 yard pistol range (plates and targets.) several Shooting events a year ranging from IDPA pistol matches to 50 yard benchrest rimfire matches. also use some of the rifle stations for shooting clays.
overall I am pretty satisfied with it....
overall I am pretty satisfied with it....
DammitBoy
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This thread has made me very thankful for what is available to me at a very reasonable fee.
737Driver
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$100/year, + 15 work hours. Get unlimited use, 100 yd rimfire, 200 yd covered position, 50 yd covered position, 2 pistol bays, 1 open 75 yd, 3 trap ranges for $4/round, archery scattered around perimeter.
The Lone Haranguer
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chuckusaret
member
I have been thinking about moving, in fact I just asked my wife where she would like go. Typical woman, her reply, Dockside Cafe. I like the area around the little town of Marana Az and plan on making a trip there in October to see one of my daughters there.
VanBurne01
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Regular (Individual)
Annual Dues (Jan. 1 to Dec. 31) $125.00
Application Fee $75.00
Club house, trap range, 2 pistol ranges, rifle range.
Annual Dues (Jan. 1 to Dec. 31) $125.00
Application Fee $75.00
Club house, trap range, 2 pistol ranges, rifle range.
sfc_mark
Member
$100/year family membership.
2 Skeet/Trap Ranges, 25-800m Rifle/Pistol Range, Sporting Clays, Archery.
With membership my family and guests get 50% off range fees.
I also get tax-free purchases/transfers from the FFL (club is on a military installation).
2 Skeet/Trap Ranges, 25-800m Rifle/Pistol Range, Sporting Clays, Archery.
With membership my family and guests get 50% off range fees.
I also get tax-free purchases/transfers from the FFL (club is on a military installation).
j-easy
Member
It was almost $300 the first year and its like 120 per year after that, for a private range with plinking, 50, 100, and 300m ranges and a shotgun range with a nice thrower. all the firing lines are covered.
mountainpharm
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$100/year in NW NC. Our website is www.acwlc.org
tribbles
Member
Our municipal range is free to use. It has separate pistol and silhouette ranges, a general-purpose area, a shotgun area, and target stands out to 1000 yards. It looks like a trap area is being built now too. The local club acts as range stewards, and they do a pretty good job.
Makes me thankful to live out here.
Makes me thankful to live out here.
bottom shelf
Member
About $850 the first year, then $100 a year after that.
Includes 4 pistol bays, one with a plate rack
75 yard plinking range
bullseye pistol range
High power rifle range
Smallbore rifle range
2 skeet ranges
Includes 4 pistol bays, one with a plate rack
75 yard plinking range
bullseye pistol range
High power rifle range
Smallbore rifle range
2 skeet ranges
Retired and live on 350+ acres in a very rural area of south La. Have a large reloading area 100' from the house and a combo rifle/pisol range that runs out to 800 yds (1 1/8th mile behind the berm). The only cost is bushogging the grass. Rural life ain't all bad!
$5000 to apply- fee is kept no matter the outcome. Keeps riff-raff away.
$50,000 initiation.
$5,000/year thereafter.
Lifetime is $75,000 if under 35; thereafter it's $50,000; $25,000 if over 60.
Expensive, but well worth it. Unlimited free ammo made to order by the two resident custodians who double as gunsmiths and landscapers. For all matches, local coeds are hired as target setters and gun bearers. The Chef was trained in Milan and Buenos Aires. Valet parking.
The only downside is the unsufferable people you meet there.
My real range is five minutes away on a dirt road, $30 per year, a very basic facility open to all comers. When we meet a stranger who is not an idiot, we attempt to recruit them. Not at all busy: members usually have the place to themselves for hours on end. Members keep it clean and it tends to stay that way.
We have 5 concrete benches under roof, with target frames at 100, 200, 300yds. You can set your own steel further out as the backstop is a 200' high ridge. You can rapid fire, shoot on the move... Any caliber.
We are not set up for trap, skeet or sporting clays. This just isn't shotgun country - I wish it were otherwise.
The archery range goes to 100yds, with lots of targets, and half these stations are roofed over as well. We hold a couple 3D archery trail shoots each year, with the trails winding through elk and grizzly habitat on the mountain and along the creek. No kidding !
There's a concrete outhouse, two trash barrels, gravelled access, all fenced.
I like it.
$50,000 initiation.
$5,000/year thereafter.
Lifetime is $75,000 if under 35; thereafter it's $50,000; $25,000 if over 60.
Expensive, but well worth it. Unlimited free ammo made to order by the two resident custodians who double as gunsmiths and landscapers. For all matches, local coeds are hired as target setters and gun bearers. The Chef was trained in Milan and Buenos Aires. Valet parking.
The only downside is the unsufferable people you meet there.
My real range is five minutes away on a dirt road, $30 per year, a very basic facility open to all comers. When we meet a stranger who is not an idiot, we attempt to recruit them. Not at all busy: members usually have the place to themselves for hours on end. Members keep it clean and it tends to stay that way.
We have 5 concrete benches under roof, with target frames at 100, 200, 300yds. You can set your own steel further out as the backstop is a 200' high ridge. You can rapid fire, shoot on the move... Any caliber.
We are not set up for trap, skeet or sporting clays. This just isn't shotgun country - I wish it were otherwise.
The archery range goes to 100yds, with lots of targets, and half these stations are roofed over as well. We hold a couple 3D archery trail shoots each year, with the trails winding through elk and grizzly habitat on the mountain and along the creek. No kidding !
There's a concrete outhouse, two trash barrels, gravelled access, all fenced.
I like it.
Tim the student
Member
Indeed. My ranges are all free (other than the taxes that support them that is...)
Good to see that most people seem to enjoy their ranges of choice. I don't know how I'll react the first time I have to pay to go shoot though.
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