Tell me how your shooting range/club works...

[Hokkmike]

The rules are simple for mine:

* The dues are $30.00 a year (no extra fees)

* Shooting hours are clearly posted

* Members must carry ID and Club Cards

* No guests

* Facilities for rifle, pistol, SASS, trap, Olympic trap/skeet, sporting clays

* Club house access for all members requesting it

* FMJ ammo frowned upon

* Youth activities are supervised

* Hunter training provided

* No rentals are available

How does your range/club work?

 

[theken206]

Walk out back, set up targets, shoot targets.

thats about it these days.

 

[Craig_AR]

Naive Question

"* FMJ ammo frowned upon"

?? Why?

I thought FMJ helped reduce lead contamination. I know my guns are cleaner after firing FMJ than after firing SJHP or unclad.

Craig

 

[hanno]

$50 a year gets you a card that opens the front gate. Shooting from 0900 to dusk year round. Clean up your own brass and take care of "our" club. Guests okay. That's pretty much it.

Ranges for pistol, (out to 50 yards) rifle (out to 200 yards), and shotgun.

On week days, I typically have the place to myself.

 

[huckster]

"No guests"

Why? and how do you introduce new folks to shooting?

"FMJ is frowned upon"

What does that mean exactly? Not allowed, or literally, everyone else present at the range must frown at you when you shoot it?


The range in NM I used to go to was:

$35 for a year pass
Shoot as much or as long as you like while the range was open
Open 6 days a week, county run
Rifle range to 300 yrds
Covered pistol range to 50 yrds
Four "bays" out to 50 yrds

if somebody was doing something odd the RO would wander over to take a look.

 

[tblt]

$120 a year per person

$149 family up to 4 people

$10 per person no time limit

factory ammo only

25 yard indoor pistol range shotgun or 22

50 yard indoor rifle range

about 30 rental guns $10 first or $20 unlimited amounts(must use range ammo)14.95 for 50 9mm

open 7 days a week till 10 pm

 

[Rembrandt]

Renewable family membership fee $120 per year, gets you a gate combination that allows full access to the gun ranges and park year round. No alcohol allowed on property, 25-50-100-200 rifle & pistol range, archery range, 3D archery, trap-skeet-sporting clays, indoor range, IDPA, computer prairie dog town, 5 acre lake, clubhouse, camping, and more. Hard to explain everything that goes on....pictures may help.






















http://www.amesikes.org/amesikesoffers.htm

 

[Chester32141]

Outdoor range ... no special facilites but a few covered benches and a big pile of dirt for a backdrop ... $250 one time buy in and $180 / yr membership fee ... $2 per person visitor fee .... shoot from sun up to sun down ... next closest range is 25 mi down the road costs $5 / day and very busy ....

 

[mekender]

no guests? i guess they dont want new members to join eh?

the one im joining here in a couple weeks is $100 a year, 6 pistol bays with steel targets, a 50/100yrd rifle range and a 100/200 rifle range... wobble trap and 5 stand trap for the boomsticks... members carry id, guests welcome... youths welcome with supervision... CCH and other tactical classes are conducted...

 

[Zedicus]

Outdoor Range: No fees, no range master, Any kind of Gun Allowed, open from dawn to dusk, just pack your mess back out with you.

Indoor Range: $10/hr open as long as the store is, any kind of gun ok, shooting guests sharing same lane $5 extra ea
( www.impactguns.com in boise)

 

[BridgeWalker]

$100 per year per family, with $50 initiation fee. Separate policies for each sport, with a different guy in charge. It can be confusing figuring out who does what, and who to talk to. They offer trap, skeet, sporting clays, indoor rimfire (winter only, I believe), archery, pistol/rifle (25, 50, 100).

Electronic gate code to get in, general shooting hours 10 am-sunset. Clays games, rimfire during regular hours--weekend mornings and Wednesday afternoons. Trap/skeet $4/round, non-members $5. I don't play sporting clays or do indoor rimfire, so I dunno about those.

Pistol/rifle range is behind a locked gate, key is an additional $15 annually.

For shotgun, only as many rounds as necessary loaded: so singles, one shot only, doubles, two shots. Actions open at all times.

Pistol/rifle, five rounds max per mag, officially, but no one seems to object to revolvers loaded to capacity, and actually there's no RO in the pistol/rifle area. Paper on backboards only. Members are asked to contribute to maintenance/replacement of backboard as needed, and I replaced a couple of those this past December.

No rapid fire allowed.

No one looks askance at EBRs, despite the mag restrictions and the ban on rapid fire. Always a couple postings up of ARs and such for sale. I think those restrictions are just a matter of safe capacity. With no RO and pistol/short range rifle sharing the 25 yd space, and people often working up at defensive ranges, it's pretty important to keep things pretty low key. And most of the money and use comes from shotgunners and hunters, so it just seems what works for most people.

 

[Sam1911]

Covered rifle range, one indoor pistol range (nothing over 1200 fps.), one covered outdoor pistol range and seven other outdoor pistol/shotgun/carbine ranges. Other ranges include steep plate racks, gongs, and two shoot houses. Archery and trap. Ranges open from 8:00 am. to dark, except for the indoor range with no time limits.

Some hunting land.

Membership is $60/year. No other fees besides match fees.

Visitors can come 3 times (must pay a $1 fee and sign a temp. membership) and after that must join.

Very active IDPA, SASS, and bullseye teams/clubs as well as CMP matches each month. Regular visiting instructors and a yearly tactical study program of some notoriety.

Its a good club!

-Sam

 

[Pilgrim]

$60 initiation fee.

$25 annually, covers the family.

$5 daily per guest of a member.

Three pistol ranges. No magnum rounds on steel.

.22 rimfire silhouette range.

Center fire silhouette range w/ targets at 200, 300, 400, & 500 meters. No magnum rounds.

25, 100, & 200 yard range for sighting in hunting rifles, etc.

Trap range.

Bow range.

Pilgrim

 

[starshooter231]

My club works the same as hanno, but only $45per year for entire family (me,wife,kids)

 

[RiflemanTripleEight]

No cost.

No hours.

No limitations.

That's about it.

 

[gggman]

$25 per year. Outdoor range only, covered shooting stations, berms out to 200 yards. Guests are ok with a member, shoot whatever you want whenever you want. Clean up your messes.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Mine is $100 a year, but they limit the total membership to 300.

It's been around since the 50's.

Pretty relaxed rules for the most part.

Daytime only shooting. It's on about 40 acres but there are neighbors so we stop at dark to keep the peace.

 

[MD_Willington]

I drive down the street, we go into a big field on 11 acres, we shoot targets...Everyone has fun, maybe even a BBQ afterwards.

That's about it.

 

[ggb3]

http://www.gcrpc.com/

 

[keyhole]

www.bonecreekgunclub.com

 

[redneckdan]

$20 per year, yearly "safety training discussion"...not a big deal

Anything under 2200ft-lbs and 2000ft-sec is fair game

Indoor 25yds range

Free use of the club pistols

 

[BullfrogKen]

To round out Sam1911's description of our club:

Membership fees for WSSA are:

$55.00 for Adult (individual)
$70.00 for Family (two adults and all children under 18)
$40.00 for Senior (over 62)
$40.00 for Guest (optional, non-voting category available to those residing outside York, Cumberland and Dauphin County)

A one time $10.00 initiation fee applies to all but the Guest membership.


Temporary membership:
Non-members may visit up to 3 times for the purposes of a trial visit, accompanied by a regular member, for $1.00.
Those participating in a WSSA-sponsored activity (match, training class, etc) have no visit limits, but must still pay $1.00 and complete the Temporary Membership form.


We run hot ranges. But most matches run their events cold.

No Range Officers, unless a match is taking place, and then they are pretty much just confined to that activity.

Professional trainers from across the country are out offering classes about 10 times/year.

a yearly tactical study program of some notoriety

That's one way to put it.


Its a pretty active club, with a wide variety of really outstanding people, and great facilities.

http://www.westshoresportsmen.org/

 

[Sam1911]

Quote:a yearly tactical study program of some notoriety

That's one way to put it.

I was trying to "be discreet!"

-Sam

 

[51Cards]

$98/year. $10/guest.
.22 and non-magnum handgun.
Indoor, 50-foot basement "dungeon."
Shoot as fast or as slow as you like, as long as you're absolutely in control.
No holster draws (um --- if you're not alone ... )
NRA cert available.
Lots of LEO and ex-LEO.
As much instruction, advice, and experience as you can stand.

It's a crappy little hole in the ground, and we all love it. A lot.

 

[denfoote]

I walk up to the nice lady, give her $5, then travel the short distance to the range master, give him my receipt, I then go to my assigned table and shoot for as long as I want.

http://www.azgfd.gov/outdoor_recreation/ben_avery.shtml

Ben Avery Shooting Facility

Run by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.