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Where do you shoot your rifles?

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Private rod and gun club, its the least expensive option around here. Dues are $450 a year.
 
I guess I have it better than some folks, and worse than others. I belong to a club that's about 35 minutes from my house. They have rifle to about 600 yards, plus a pistol and shotgun setup. I also have access to the National Forest and National Grassland areas, though it is sometimes tough to find a great area to shoot up there, at least within an hour drive of my house.

I'm truly envious of the folks who can shoot from their house, and if I ever escape from suburbia, my goal is to buy a house that comes with land suitable for shooting :)
 
Private club about 60 miles away. 600yd rifle range with longer under construction, pistol ranges and pits, all in all a great place. I generally head down every other week and like some others have said, make a day of it.

I am a member of two private pistol ranges very close to where I live, but they are 50ft and 25yd ranges with velocity limits.
 
Got one 50/100 yd range about 15 minutes from my house, a 25/100/200 bout 20 minutes away, and a 50/100/300 bout an hour away. All are free, and run by the various county conservation boards.
 
Off my front porch, and often out my bedroom window, out to the tundra, where I have variuos targets a awaiting my bordom......~~LOL!!~~
 
private club range..... we have 5 yard to 300 yard targets.... the main rules are no full auto and no alcohol.... I can deal with that..... membership is $75 per year.... open 365 days a year.....
 
I shoot pistol and rifle on two military ranges and a public range. All of the ranges are within a 1/2 hour drive. One of the military ranges has reactive targets and static targets out past 1000 yards. The other military range has static targets out to 600 yards but will have a 1000 yard range by the end of the year. The public range has pistol, shotgun, CAS, IPSC, silhouette, etc and a rifle range out to 200 yards for paper targets and around 400 yards for steel. Not too bad really.

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Free AL DNR Range about 25 min from the house. Only complaint is people dont pick up their spent shotgun shells, steel cased ammo, and garbage they drag down range to shoot at. Two 100 yard ranges, 1 50 yd, and 1 25 yd.
 
5 miles away as the crow flies, 15 miles up and around and back down again to the the "Spot".
 
I own a few acres and have my own private range, shoot right out of my reloading room.....day, night, rain or shine out to 600 yards. 850 yds if I get out of the reloading room right now, I still have some dozing to do.
 
On my 110 acres, or my neighbor and farming partner's 260 acres. Yeah, Western and Alaska guys, us Easterners have pitiful little spreads...

Les
 
Into the Loosahatchie River, about ten minutes from Lakeland, TN, on the edge of Bartlett/Memphis. The local guys shoot there every day.
Look, the much-feared ATF has much Bigger "fish to fry".

I never touched a gun (just pellet-) from 1985 until 2007, because we lived in Memphis and I assumed that nobody had access to such a semi-rural river area.
Even though the nice range-MSSA-is only two miles from the place, the river is much more fun.

GBExpat/MT-: You guys are very fortunate. It can beat the hell out of shooting in the UK and Germany, based upon what friends (from there) tell me.
 
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Green with envy here!

I normally shoot at the NRA headquarters range in Fairfax. Its indoors and only 50 yards, but its about the nicest indoor range i've ever seen and it allows everything up to .460 Weatherby. There's another nice 50yd indoor range called Silver Eagle in Ashburn that is friendly in terms of high-powered rifles. As for outdoor ranges, they're all private:(. The nicest one is the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club, but that has a big wait list and costs several grand per year.
 
Both Elko and Tallahassee have very nice ranges. Elko has pistol bays, a 50yd rimfire rifle range, a 300 yd range, 600 yd range and in near future out to 1,000 yd. 300 yard range is covered and has benches. The Tallahassee range is in the Apalachicola Natl. Forest. Covered benches. Pistol range goes out to 50 yds. Rifle range maxes at 100 yds. Both are public and have no charge for using.
 
If I want to drive at least 30 miles and beyond anywhere from slightly southwest to slightly north west and darn near anywhere between those two points I have access to millions of acres of state, BLM, and National Forest land. Pick nearly any spot and you are good to go.
 
I shoot at a private club: Pioneer Gun Club about 35 minutes from my house. They have a 100/200 yard rifle range, a 25, 50 and 100 yard range, a trap range and several pistol bays with NRA action shooting. As well they have an indoor range open 24 hrs a day for members which is about 20 minutes from the house. Dues are $150 a year. Its a great club with lots of things going on.

I love shooting falling plates with my Mkiii.
 
Offhand twenty-twos into a bullet trap from my patio. For bench work and centerfire shooting I have to walk about 45 yards from the house to my 50 yard range. For long range shooting I have a conservation range about 15 minutes away. Life is rough.
 
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