taking too many guns to the indoor range at the time ?

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How many is too many ?
I try not to stay over one hour, so just getting ready ( setting up targets, loading mags) and packing everything up at the end, takes at least 10-15 minutes out of that.
To really enjoy and concentrate, I feel that 2, maybe 3 is a maximum.
Plus, I feel inclined to clean all of them after the range, so I hate cleaning a handgun after only 50 rounds, for example.
it always seemed strange to me seeing people that zoom in, fire only few shots and leave after 10-15 minutes. Maybe they have annual membership ( I don't - I pay per hour) so it does not matter to them?
But to me, going to a range is a little bit of ritual and excitement, I am trying to maximize my time there.
 
I am lucky enough to have an outdoor range at home. Even with this convenience and the luxury of time I do prepare the day before. Enough loaded mags to last for the next days session. Although I could easily do so I rarely mix different types of guns or calibers in one range session. I like to concentrate on the gun and/or the caliber that's picked for that day................that is if I am not plinking. Which I do every now and then ;)
 
I don't usually go to indoor ranges, but when I do I find that two guns is pretty much all I can bring if I want to give each of them some decent trigger time. I try to show up with all my mags/speedloaders loaded. I generally seem to run over the hour by a few minutes but the range I go to doesn't seem to mind.
 
I don't frequent indoor ranges as much as I used to now that I can shoot on my property, but I still go every so often.

The number of guns you bring should depend on how much time you want to spend with them. Typically I allow 200rds for an hour session with pistols. That's not going fast and I don't have mags preloaded.

I have shot as many as four pistols (50rds each) but generally will only bring one or two.
 
The last few times to the range I have brought 2 or 3 firearms. There's a daily fee with no time limit at the indoor range I go to, but after an hour or so I start feeling worn out if I'm firing a lot of center fire.

My last trip I was there for almost 2 hours since I was firing a lot with my M63, and I was practicing firing with my non dominant hand.

On that last trip to the range 4 guys showed up and each blew through about 100 rounds of ammo in like 20 minutes and then left, which seemed kind of odd
 
I shoot at a couple local indoor ranges fairly frequently as I live in Washington state and it occasionally rains here. For work I'm on the outdoor ranges during crappy weather, so indoors is where I do a lot of my T&E or come up with different drills.

I always take too many handguns to the range, usually anywhere from four to eight. If the gun was previously clean, and I didn't shoot more'n about 50 rounds through it, I don't typically clean it the same day. If I fired two or three hundred rounds through it (my duty and carry pistols), I clean 'em that night, and I kinda enjoy cleaning my handguns, especially if I have a good cop or war Blu-Ray or recorded movie to watch while I clean. Last range session's guns got cleaned during "13 Hours," a great movie to clean guns to.

I understand what the OP says about trying to maximize time on the range; that's why I always pre-load all my mags for each pistol I take. I typically spend about 90 minutes when I'm solo, two or three hours when I take family or go with a buddy. So how many guns is too many? I dunno, but I probably draw the line at about ten.
 
3. Witness full size 45acp, Taurus PT92C, Witness Pavona 380. I try to go mostly during the week either just before lunch time or 1pm. Then mostly no one else is there. If I run over the hour I'm not harassed for it. I also stay away on the weekends unless the wife is going too.. Then there is also an outdoor range that pays by the half day or the whole day and you are allowed to use any range, pistol, rifle or shotgun. 1/2 day is usually more than enough for me.
 
I took six yesterday, but it was for a quick comparison between potential carry guns, so it was only twelve rounds each and one target per gun. Sundays aren't all that busy at the indoor range; I doubt anybody would get fussy if I stayed a long time. If it starts to get crowded, I leave anyway, since lots of gunfire disturbs my harmony.
 
One. I usually take only my current carry piece. The only exception is when sighting in.
 
I almost always bring too many, and some end up not getting fired. If I'm simply function-testing a few new acquisitions, I'll shoot four or five over the hour.

If I'm shooting more for fun, skill, or to "qualify" a new defense-duty gun, it will go down to one or two.

I don't remember ever shooting only one any time after acquiring my second firearm.
 
Typically I bring two or three guns with me to an indoor range, with about 100 or 150 rounds per gun. I load up all the magazines before I get there and usually stay for an hour or so.
 
My range is one fee for the day. I almost always take 3 or 4 and shoot between 300 and 600 rounds. My usual time is 2.5 hrs.
 
Good Ol' Boy said:
I don't frequent indoor ranges as much as I used to now that I can shoot on my property, but I still go every so often.

The number of guns you bring should depend on how much time you want to spend with them. Typically I allow 200rds for an hour session with pistols. That's not going fast and I don't have mags preloaded.

I have shot as many as four pistols (50rds each) but generally will only bring one or two.
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Exactly my method. Two guns. 100 rounds each. Once a week, occasionally more often. Load and reload mags during the session. Easily finish (when not shooting with a group) within the fixed-price allowed hour. With a group on individual lanes Incsn still finish my ouotanin the hour, but barely. I usually take one .22LR gun and one 9mm.

Regsrding cleaning I take the same two guns to the range for two or three visits and then clean them. So maybe 200-300 rounds between cleanings and two-three seems. Works very well for me. Deposits are easily removed without extraordinary cleaning procedures.

About the loading at home vs. loading at the range. To me pre-loading the mags is a mistake. You blast through all your ammo in a hurry. One can become fatigued and sloppy. The reloading interludes at the range slow things down to the good. At least in my case I do better shooting-wise by using the loading tonrestnthe shooting psyche for few moments. I load and shoot either 5 or 10 rounds at a time, making it easy to put the number of rounds on a target at a specific distance that I want.
 
Labguy47 said:
My range is one fee for the day. I almost always take 3 or 4 and shoot between 300 and 600 rounds. My usual time is 2.5 hrs.
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Good on ya. I would go bonkers trying to shoot that many bang, bang, bang. As Groucho Marx was apochraphally reputed tonhsve said on the air while talking to a woman with 20+ children, “I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
 
I have a membership to an indoor range which is where I do most of my pistol shooting. Since I have a membership I don't feel the pressure to shoot as much as I can per session. Generally I take 2 guns, sometimes 3 and shoot for 30 minutes. This allows me to get about 150-200 rounds downrange and not feel rushed. Since I go weekly my gear is always ready. As far as cleaning, it depends. Sometimes I'll do a couple range visits per cleaning sometimes not. Depends on how busy I am. :)

-Jeff
 
2 max. I haven't been to an indoor range in years and went with some buddies about a month ago. I'm pretty sure he charged us for him taking 10min to sign us in and get in the actual range area cause there is no way I was in there an hour and 15min. By the time you get in, hang targets, load mags, and fire the first round 5min already passed. I tried switching back and forth between a revolver and semi auto and just said screw it and stuck with one.

I did everything in my power to get into a private outdoor club so i can take whatever i want and stay as long as i want. yeah its a little pricy but i get a lot more trigger time.
 
two guns.

One to work with and one as backup if the first one needs to be set aside, a situation which has happened once.
 
About the only time I'm in an indoor range is for a match or a class. I have a backyard range where I shoot a couple times a week. I generally focus on one gun at a time and usually have a plan of what I want to work on. Usually a couple hundred rounds at a time, but can be as little as a couple mags depending on the drill and how much time I have.
 
Only one or two here, but that's more because I don't have a deep bench, so to speak. The most I've ever taken at one time was five, all for function check and sighting in. It became an unpaid job by #3 and I wish I'd have packed a lunch.
 
Bartojc said:
I have a membership to an indoor range which is where I do most of my pistol shooting. Since I have a membership I don't feel the pressure to shoot as much as I can per session. Generally I take 2 guns, sometimes 3 and shoot for 30 minutes. This allows me to get about 150-200 rounds downrange and not feel rushed. Since I go weekly my gear is always ready. As far as cleaning, it depends. Sometimes I'll do a couple range visits per cleaning sometimes not. Depends on how busy I am. :) -Jeff
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Same circumstances and routine for me.
 
Indoor, outdoor, two guns is normally plenty. Might be the ACE for warmup and a 9mm or .45 for IDPA practice. Might be Gun 1 vs Gun 2 or Caliber A vs Caliber B, or chronograph in Barrel X vs Barrel Y. Or shoot rifle P while rifle Q cools off.

I have gotten overenthused and taken more but that requires a longer stay with breaks. I can take a lawn chair and cooler to the outdoor range, the indoor range has a "members' lounge" with TV and refrigerator.
 
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