What does it cost to go to the range in your neck of the woods?

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$15 per hour at the local indoor range. Free if I drive the hour to the outdoor Hunter Association range. The real test is finding it.
 
My wife and I belong to the FOP outdoor range that’s 10 minutes from our house. It’s $50/year each and the money goes to Toys for Tots. It’s nothing fancy but is safe.

A half hour from the house is the best range I’ve ever seen. Oak Ridge Sportsman’s Association (ORSA). They have several hundred acres landscaped like a golf course. There’s a dedicated 1000 yard high power range, shorter distance rifle range, pistol range, indoor pistol and rifle range, Skeet, Trap and understand Sporting Clays soon. Also there’s an 8 stage action pistol range they conduct 3 gun, steel challenge, cowboy, IDPA and USPSA marches each month.

The price, $150/yr.
 
Public Outdoor Ranges - Free
Private Indoor Range - $34 a month + $10 for additional family members.
 
Fifty dollars a year and NRA membership. Twenty dollars a year plus $6.00/round at the trap club.

BLM land isn't hard to find but you get what you pay for.
 
Member of two clubs here in the UK.

One costs £70 per year, plus £1.50 green fees per shoot (no time restrictions). I like to use this club on some weeknights after work. 25m indoor range with 10m air pistol range. Can use all types of pistol calibres.

Another club is £140 per year with no green fees per shoot. This is only open on Wednesday and Saturdays, so I use this on the weekend as I work Monday - Friday. 100m range where all calibres (except high muzzle energy) are permitted.

Pardon my ignorance please, but I thought handgun ownership in UK isn't allowed, and shotguns are allowed, but high power rifles are tightly controlled and use required special permit.

I read before that an olympic shooter had to take her firearm across channel to practice.

I know your laws are more restrictive than ours here in the US, but I really have no idea. Van you take the time for a high level summary of what can and cannot be owned / possessed at home?
 
Indoor range 20 dollars unlimited time. Half price 10 dollars for 3 hrs 11am to 2pm Tuesday and Wednesday
 
Pardon my ignorance please, but I thought handgun ownership in UK isn't allowed, and shotguns are allowed, but high power rifles are tightly controlled and use required special permit.

I read before that an olympic shooter had to take her firearm across channel to practice.

I know your laws are more restrictive than ours here in the US, but I really have no idea. Van you take the time for a high level summary of what can and cannot be owned / possessed at home?

No problem! Our laws aren't very straight forward so please allow me to explain the basics of owning firearms in the UK. I've tried to keep it brief.

There are two main types of certificates that are available in the UK: Firearms Certificate (FAC) and Shotgun Certificate (SGC). I have an FAC so I will concentrate on that. When you apply to the local firearms licencing department (government run) for an FAC you apply for slots on your license (1 slot = 1 firearm in a given calibre) and you are permitted a slot if you can provide a good reason (eg using the firearm for target shooting at a club in which you are a full member of). You can't apply for a 50bmg if you're only a member of a small ore rim fire club, for example. Sound moderators (silencers) are completely legal and occupy a slot on your licence, no tax stamps or waiting periods like you guys have. Health and safety for hearing protection is a good enough reason to own one.

The bread and butter firearms considered as "Section 1" are any type of manual action firearm (eg under lever, bolt action, martini action) in any calibre (even 50BMG is allowed) or semi automatic in 22lr calibre. In general handguns are banned, so your comment on Olympic shooters is correct. The only types of handguns which are Section 1 legal are blackpowder firearms, or long barrel pistol/revolvers where the barrel must be at least 12" and the overall length must be at least 24". You can own semi automatic pistols in this configuration but they must be 22lr calibre, just like the semi auto rifles.

Firearms can be kept at home and you must have a safe installed in which your firearms are kept. Ammo should be kept separately.

Your typical AR-15s etc fall into our Section 5 category, and licenses which cover Section 5 firearms are not generally given to the public. These types of licence are generally reserved for people who work in Maritime security or people who are firearms dealers.

My firearms collection varies from your humble Lee Enfield to a long distance "tactical rifle" in 6.5x47 Lapua. I also have an M1 carbine which is "straight pull" as the barrel was made without a gas port drilled into it.

To answer your question on high power firearms, currently they're treated no differently to a bolt action 22! So long as you're a member of a shooting club where you are permitted to use a 50bmg, you can own this type of rifle with no additional license.
 
It used to cost me $762.59 per month, but then I paid my home and property off. :D

The public range here that I used to be a member of is $50 per annum.

35W
 
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Welshshooter- Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my question. Still confusing, but probably just because I don't live under the restrictions. Glad my antecdents fled to the colonies! Ha, ha.
 
For those that frequent shooting ranges that charge a fee, what does it cost to go to a range in your neck of the woods?

Here (Central Coast of California) it's $20.00/day (08:00-4:00 PM) or $10.00/day for club members ($70.00/year.) That includes paper targets, along with steel targets.
Dunno.... Lemme see.
I guess in my neck of the "woods" it can get quite steep.
Cooler of sammich fixin's : $35.00
Coolers of water & beer : $55.00
Arc welding rods for target repair : $12.00

Shooting on our own terms in the BEE-A-UTIFUL upper Sonoran Desert...... PRICELESS!

Going to a proper range, we use Ben Avery Shooting Facility and I don't recall what it costs - it's THAT cheap. Sometimes we open our own range there too, also very inexpensive.

Todd.
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Three private clubs within 20 miles. Initiation fees range from $2000 to $3500 per member with annual dues from $300 to $500. Don’t know what amenities they have, as I haven’t been there. :)

‘Public indoor range: 25 yd pistol and 2 rifle sight in bays. $20/day’ or $300 annual
Public outdoor range: 25 & 50 yd pistol, 50 & 100 yd rifle. $15/day

Indoor range is 5 mi away and outdoor is 20 miles. It’s not cheap to shoot in DFW!
 
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Game and fish commission rifle/pistol range (50 yard pistol, 200 yard rifle) 30 miles away $3.00 per person per day. Nearby gunshop indoor range (25 yard) $10.00 per person for the day.
 
I feel for you guys.

Only a handful of you as lucky as me. This county has one public range about 6 miles from my ranch. When the wind is right I can hear them.
So far I have three ranges on the nearly treeless high desert set up with dozens of steel targets; one out to 200m specifically for rimfire, steel or aluminum cases. Another with steel targets from 50m to 750m with wind flags for which I am building a double decker shooting platform so the spotter can be directly above the shooter.
The third is a pistol range with another dueling post and various silhouettes.

I have a good location for a 1000y and 1000m range but need to dig pits for the target marker.

In addition half the ranch is bordered by public land where I can set targets out to 2500m if I buy a cannon.

No neighbors and lots of tannerite makes for limitless amusement.
 
it cost me nothing to go out on my deck and shoot. the average size ranch in my county is 10.000 acres with a herd of 900 cattle. you can see it is open land and hills but very few neighbors. i shoot anything i own with out a problem. we have a road 100 yards in from for the house but i never shoot in their direction. i can shoot out side and relieve me water also, offends no one. ive planted so many bushes and trees that it is hard to see my place from the road. sorry that someone has to pay to shoot.
 
Here's my home range. Pretty much the best range I've ever been too. The video will shock those who have been led to believe that all of California looks like Downtown LA or SF, that all highways are gridlocked and/or have been told it never rains in CA.

Too bad it did not show the back ranges: archery, black powder, silhouette, small bore and cowboy action.

Best of all, the Pacific Ocean is about 3 miles from the range. Beautiful -- especially on those hot summer days when it hits 78F with little humidity... ;)

 
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Most of the indoor ranges in my area are $20 for an hour of range time. Some of the outdoor ranges are around $23 for an all day pass for all ranges (great deal). Rumor has it that there are some free DNR ranges north of me.
 
$100/yr. Includes rifle range out to 300 yards and gongs at 300 meters. Indoor and outdoor pistol ranges, trap, skeet and archery range.
 
$25/hour for non-members at local indoor range. I pay $275 annually unlimited time on weekdays. I'm looking for a cheaper option.
 
£40 per year, no range fees or other fees except drinks. (Tea or coffee only!). Competitions (by post) have their own fees.
Airguns and BP firearms (pistols and rifles and smoothbores but not shotguns) and rifles up to range limits (depends on calibre and velocity of rounds).
 
I belong to a local private club that has two outdoor ranges in the are. I pay $125 a year to shoot as much as I want to. There is a local range open to the public that is run by a local army base. They charge $12 a day for civilians. I don't like shooting indoors so I have no idea how much the local indoor ranges cost.
 
I am a Land Share owner in one club, a life member in another (The drive is a bit nettlesome 8+ hours one way) and last but not least I can shoot on my own property.
 
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