What do you pay for a place to shoot?

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In line with the post about joining a club with an outdoor range, for those of you who pay to use a range, what are the yearly costs?
For me, I have dawn to dusk access to a first class range (although the limit is 100 yards) for $40+ required NRA membership, so around $90 a year. That is about a fifteen minute drive. There is also a DNR operated range, also limited to 100 yards and not as good facilities with limited hours and closed to the public two days out of the week. The DNR range is, I think, $3 per session or an Indiana State Park pass which is $50 a year or $25 for seniors. That is about 20-25 minutes away.
Until I decided to let my membership drop at the end of July I could take an hour and a half drive to Friendship and use the NMLRA range with a 500 yard max. Cost there is now $35 for electronic membership or $50 if you want a paper version of the member magazine.
None of these are as convenient as when I could walk out the door and be shooting in a couple of minutes, but I still get the feeling I’m pretty lucky.
 
$75 a year dawn to dusk. 6 pistol bays and a 500 yard rifle range. It's a 15 minute drive and I rarely see anyone else there. It's far from first class, but it's a place to shoot in peace. 4x4 is almost a necessity to get to the 500 range.
 
We have a state-owned public outdoor range about 30min. away. They charge $12 a head, shoot as long as you want.

The nearby indoor ranges require a yearly membership, all around $25 plus a range rental fee each time you shoot. My favorite spot gets $14 for a lane, but up to 3 shooters can share it and there are no time limits. One other place locally charges $10/hr up to 2 shooters per lane.
 
I belong to two, one is $100 a year and gets me trap, 150yd rifle, 25yd pistol and 50yd pistol ranges. The other is $50 a year and gets me 100yd rifle, and several pistol ranges, all with hard cover over the shooting positions, ten minutes from the house.

Rarely see anyone else at either range. I don't shoot indoors.
 
There is a range I went to when visiting friends and was interested.

$55.00 per year; however, if over 65 a lifetime cost of $275 is available. And there is:
  • One large covered shooting range and multi-distance target areas for IMHSA and other competitions (up to 380 yards)
  • Three 100 yard, covered shooting bays
  • One 25 yard, covered shooting bay
  • A trap shooting area
  • A field exercise area
  • A club house & parking area
However, I never joined because it costs me Nothing to shoot. However, since I pay Federal Income Taxes, I do in a roundabout way, pay for the Federal lands I shoot on.
 
You guys make me feel like a sucker.

I am a member of an outdoor range with what I would call full amenities. There are 2 skeet fields, a trap field, 10 station sporting clays course. 5 stand. 2 pistol areas, two 100 yd rifle areas. 5 tactical bays. And a 500 yd range. As well as a kids 22 range. And an archery course. Fishing pond. Pro shop and club house and bar.

45 minute drive that I make at least once a week. Limited membership.

I’ll just say over $500/yr.

Its truly one of the only PEACEFUL places to shoot in the area that isn’t someone’s private land.

Believe me I wish there was no club house or any of that for a few bucks less

However, there are very few hard rules. You can rapid fire as long as you hit the berms. Everyone is friendly and willing to lend a hand.

What worries me is that this place is really trying to get big events to shoot there. If they get them and their noteriety builds, I see it becoming more expensive and becoming more of an old boys country club. I hate those kinds of places.
 
$150/year.
20 bay indoor pistol/rimfire range (50 feet) with electric target carriers and no pistol calibre restrictions. Shooting from holster allowed. Open 1000 to 2000 six days/week.

Outdoor, 25 & 50 pistol and 100 yard rifle ranges. (covered) 50 yard archery, not covered.

Range ammo, cleaning supplies, dozens of varieties of targets, for sale reasonable prices at counter.

Staff all former military and/or LE. Safety and courtesy rules STRICTLY enforced.

10 minute drive , all pavement. County owned.
 
$170 a year.

Four pistol bays, three 50 yard ranges, including one Bullseye range, 2 100 yard ranges and a 200 yard range. There is also full shotgun facilities.

7:00 am to dusk, 365 days a year. No restrictions other than no .50 BMG and no select fire. We can draw and fire from the holster, rapid fire, move and fire.

It's about 30 minutes from the house. A big plus is all the brass people leave laying around.
 
$100/year plus NRA membership. Has 12ish table benchrest from 50-200 yards. Hi power range from 100-600 yards. 3 "USPSA" pistol pits. 3 "multi-purpose" ranges at up to 20 yards, with roughly 8 bays each range, two for pistol cartridges and rimfire, one for rifle. Rimfire range with probably 20 tables. Bullseye range with at least 20 tables. I've only been a member for 6 weeks and have only gone twice on Friday afternoons, but one time my daughter and I had the entire place to ourselves and the other there was maybe 6 people on the whole compound.

Also was a 3 year wait, then a $120 initiation fee and 8 hours or service. It's a mile from my house as the crow flies, and a 5 minute drive.
 
$100 the first year, plus $10 for the RFID gate key, which is refundable upon leaving membership. From then on, with 10 hours of documented work, it drops to $25. Amazingly, very few of the 800 members put in 10 hours-I am one of the few, as my coaching the HS Trap team is included, and well over ten hours.
The range has a 50 yard .22/pistol range, two trap fields, a 25/50/100/200 yard rifle range, and archery practice range and walk-through range. We also have indoor archery in the winter.
Membership is per family, guests are welcome with a member.
 
$200/year for indoor range...24 bays...electric target rails- 5 miles away

$150/year for shotgun membership (trap, Skeet, SC) 35 miles away...discounted shooting, not free
 
$250 per year (+ initiation $150 first year); about 10 minutes from my home - 365 dawn to dusk. It has everything: trap, skeet, rifle, pistol, archery, dog training, club houses, fishing, etc. - to a retired guy like me, it is bargain entertainment - extremely peaceful, well designed, well maintained, mature/ polite/ responsible members. I feel fortunate to be a member.
 
In line with the post about joining a club with an outdoor range, for those of you who pay to use a range, what are the yearly costs?
For me, I have dawn to dusk access to a first class range (although the limit is 100 yards) for $40+ required NRA membership, so around $90 a year. That is about a fifteen minute drive. There is also a DNR operated range, also limited to 100 yards and not as good facilities with limited hours and closed to the public two days out of the week. The DNR range is, I think, $3 per session or an Indiana State Park pass which is $50 a year or $25 for seniors. That is about 20-25 minutes away.
Until I decided to let my membership drop at the end of July I could take an hour and a half drive to Friendship and use the NMLRA range with a 500 yard max. Cost there is now $35 for electronic membership or $50 if you want a paper version of the member magazine.
None of these are as convenient as when I could walk out the door and be shooting in a couple of minutes, but I still get the feeling I’m pretty lucky.
I paid a one time lifetime fee about $200,000 but I can shoot all day and all night 365 days a year for ever if I want and I make my own rules.
 
More than 10 years ago I paid $750 plus tax for lifetime membership in an indoor range. They have maybe 30 bays that are up to 25 yards. It is mostly for handgun, but they allow rifles up to certain calibers. AR's are ok, but no 30-06.
 
$50.00 per year plus NRA membership. 50 yard pistol range and 300 yard rifle range. Not fancy but a great place to shoot. About 30 minutes from my house.
 
I shoot at the local DNR range. 25yd pistol range & 100 yd rifle range.
$30 per year. +$5 for a "hard" card that will not fall apart!;)
 
$300 a year for unlimited access. Trap, Skeet, sporting clays, 400 yard rifle, 100 yard rifle, CAS, private pistol and rifle bays. All bays have covers, fans and lights for night shooting - they supply the target stands too.
 
A lot more than most of you, but I have the place in Land Use so that knocks the cost down to a few thousand dollars per year. ;)

I have land but dont shoot at home as my horses dont care for it. So I pay 50bucks a year for an outdoor range Rifle/Pistol/Trap/Skeet/Archery. It quiet and I can run drills to my hearts content.
 
For the place to shoot, I do not pay Federal Reserve Notes. It's public land that everyone here can use. There are millions of acres (literally, not hyperbole) within a few minutes drive of where I live. Suitable pits or hillside backstops for handgun shooting are less than 5 miles away. Beautiful, 1600+ yard rifle ranges with clearly visible backstops are a little farther, maybe 10 miles. For handgun, the best part of it is the ability to move and shoot at a wide range of azimuths safely (shooting alone in a pit with surround backstop). For rifle, there are a lot of unique opportunities for high angles and long range. Again, we need not pay any money to use it, but I do pay taxes, some portion of which goes to the USDI (BLM) and USDA (FS) to manage the respective parts of it.

If there is a shortcoming, it's the distance to high value training. I will have traveled out of state three times this year for training. The ranges I visit for training are all much better equipped with a variety of steel targets, movers, swingers, poppers, obstacle courses, shoot houses etc. I won't find any of that where I normally shoot, but in those cases what I'm paying even more for is the instructors' attention. It's typically $200 to $300 per day. Still, I do not envy them for their ranges.
 
I shoot at a club where each member is vetted by the staff, and there is a non-negotiable cap on the amount of members that will be allowed on the roster at one time, and there are no range officers, line safeties, etc. except during matches (hence the vetting process). I pay $45 a month to train (and I go weekly) at this state-of-the art facility that is also used by military Special Operation units, law enforcement SWAT types, and some other government entities- but they still welcome members without such backgrounds, if they know that the member is a "good fit" for the club. It features 8 separate "flat range" bays from 50-100 yards deep suitable for rifle or pistol, 3 sniper towers, numerous building facades and structures, 2 stations that consist of piles of boulders to simulate engagements in environments that don't naturally occur in Fl., a 100 yard zero range with benches, various apparatus such as VTAC barricades, tank traps, tire walls, derelict vehicles, a school bus,etc, a platform suspended by chains to simulate a rocking ship deck, steel targets on every range, and the ability to engage steel (to include both static targets and movers) with rifles out to 900 yards or even further, depending on other factors. There is even a 3 level shoot house (mostly restricted for agency use) where frangible, SRTA, and UTM/SIMS ammunition can be used. So while $45 a month may seem steep, for what I get and the fact that I use it weekly (and I go on weekdays, which often means that this entire place is essentially MINE) I'm getting a pretty good deal.
 
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