It is laughable that you think this sport broadly available. It is not.
It’s apt that Bryan Litz posted this last month:
It’s available to anyone in CONUS who is willing to travel 3-6 hours to spend a day shooting, because they’d rather shoot than make excuses. It’s not cheap, and shooters can’t expect to find ranges 2/3 of a mile long connected to every minor metro area, but long range shooting is irrefutably broadly available.
I help run a couple groups on Facebook and through PM’s, I connect shooters every month, some times multiple per week from all over the country, and that’s just for PRS shooting. The network of shooters all over the country in other disciplines of shooting sport or just casual, non-competitive long range shooters is even broader still than the sport of PRS. I’ve yet to find a state where there truly isn’t access for a shooter who WANTS to shoot 1000 yards to be able to do so.
I do find a lot of folks like yourself who reach out, and upon finding out that which is AVAILABLE to them takes longer than going to Starbucks for coffee will decide it’s not worth it to them, but I have never failed to find some resource within a 4-6hr drive where shooters could make a day or a weekend of going to shoot 1,000yrds.
Admittedly, I’m blessed here in Kansas, and own enough acres where I can shoot on multiple properties out to 875 and 1200 yards only driving a few minutes from home, and I have access to 5 ranges within 3 hours where I can shoot 1000+ or even 4000+, having memberships at 3 of them. I also keep an annual membership at an indoor 100yrd range which is a hair over a hour away. Yes, I pay for that access, and yes, I’m driving a 45miles, 70 miles, 90 miles, and 95 miles to the 4 ranges I member with, and yes, I’m driving 2-3 hours to matches at those 3 other ranges on any given month, and I’m paying a decent amount for that access. And as I admitted above, there are a few states where nothing exists (SC, for example), but luckily, most of those states remain small enough such guys can travel that same 4-6hrs to find ranges and matches.
“There are more things on Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than which are dreamt of in your philosophy”. - Wild Bill Shakespeare