What do you pay for a place to shoot?

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$65 per year. It includes 25, 50, and 100 yard range with covered shooting stations. We also have a bow range with elevated stand. There is also a large clubhouse that can be reserved by members.
 
$225. a year..... The club sits on over 400 acres, has a rifle range with 50, 100 & 200 yard berms, 8 pistol bays bermed on 3 sides and is a huge trap and skeet facility along with 5 stand and an archery range. Also several big sporting clays courses that are a delight. They wind through fields, woods and meadows with all sorts of different stations along the way. Ranging from pretty easy to pretty challenging. Use of everything is free to members & guests although there's small fees to do trap, skeet and sporting clays. A big club house with a huge covered deck and lots of good folks. Most of my time is now spent on the rifle and pistol ranges but I'm itching to get back to sporting clays. Here's a couple shots of the rifle range that were here on the computer. I even shoot all winter ( just not as often), IMG_5899.JPG IMG_8184.JPG on this range. Luckily it's got a roof over it.
 
public range i go to (and RSO at) is:
  • $12 all day for 1 firearm
  • $70 for year pass
  • rifle out to 300 yards
  • 14 rifle bays, 8 pistol bays
  • trap range
 
Man reading this makes me miss NC. I lived in a small town next to a swamp. Could shoot all day everyday. For the price of ammo and 1000 yd walk. Now it's $36 a month indoor. 25 yd pistol. My usual range had a fire in range shutdown for repairs.
 
OK, here we go. My main club, joined in 1980, pistol range, 100 yard rifle, three trap fields. I've hung in long enough to become chairman of the board. $100/year plus fifteen work hours. Local trap club, member about fifteen years, ten trap/skeet fields, $150/year. My farm, 45 acres of woods, a cabin and food plots, $100,000 purchase, 3K/year for utilities, taxes and insurance. All well worth it but the farm has doubled in value
 
Whoa! That sounds amazing and serious. My outdoor range is on the lip of a swamp and the only moving targets are usually water moccasins or 'gators or the wayward golfer.
 
FL-NC said:
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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Whoa! That sounds amazing and serious. My outdoor range is on the lip of a swamp and the only moving targets are usually water moccasins or 'gators or the wayward golfer.
 
LGS with a simple outdoor range. $20.00 bucks a year. High earthen berms on three sides of each shooting lane, so your fellow shooters can practice unsafe gun handling practices all they want. You won't even see them, let alone catch a stray round, unless they are firing a mortar.
 
First, the best private club within at least a 3-hour radius of the Memphis area, or so I’m told.

Most people don’t know, but you can qualify for a select-fire range, not just the Action Pistol, 200 and 600 yard special ranges, which supplement the normal skeet, trap and other ranges.

About $400 to be approved for membership (safety and character is taken seriously), then about $35/month. Only a 12-min drive: even more value for the cost.
Wish I could get a buddy in Olive Branch to bring his -select fire MP5- and -select AK.
 
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Ages ago (mid 70's) I belonged to a gun club on the left side of this state and I really wish it had a brother over here on the east coast. If my aged memory serves, monthly dues were like $10, but if you paid for the year it was $100 (two months free). had skeet fields and trap fields and a big pistol range. Rifle range was maybe a dozen ports but no one ever there but us crazy smokestick guys. I'd do some longer range pistol shooting there, but for the most part it was primarily used for muzzle loaders.
There was a clubhouse with snack bar food, a soda machine with mostly mixer type drinks (Coke, 7-up, Ginger Ale) and you could rent a small locker for a nominal fee that you could keep a bottle in for socializing once you were done on the ranges.
Pretty primitive but totally fun.
Miss that place.
 
The indoor range I belong to is $36 per month. It's only 4 or 5 years old. Great lanes, well lit, well ventilated, very clean and worth the price.
My outdoor range for the last couple of decades has been at my brothers property. A couple months ago he up and moved to a warmer climate so I'll be shopping for another outdoor range next year.
 
I pay a little over $1500/month. But that's not the real problem.

The real problem is the commute:

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Gun club in town is $145 per year for my wife and me, am joining another across the Rio for about the same price since that's the outfit I shoot my muzzleloader with once a month.
 
Local range is $225/year with three rifle ranges out to 300 yards, several pistol bays, a cowboy action mini town and a small 3D archery area. Looking into a club 2 hrs + away with rifle to 1k but it's over $500/year. Most of my long range work is done "down home" on the farm (3hrs) on my own steel out to 1200
 
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Window AC? Hope that is just a shop................
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Barbour Creek Long Range School is about an hour from me and they have a conditioned shoot house heat and a/c out to 1500 if I'm not mistaken. Only issue is that you have to be enrolled in a course to use it. Price is steep but it includes their custom rifles and ammo, lodging and food
 
One is $185 a year but reduced to to $125 if a new year purchase is made before expiration. And further reduced to $85.00 if a firearm s is purchased. It gives me access to two ranges within a mile in either direction.
The other indoor membership is $400 a year and state of the art facility. (mostly likely will drop that one) Too state of the ART for me. Feel like I am walking into a Hospital.
My outdoor range is $75.00 but 6 hours of service. Also required NRA membership and State Shooting Membership. We are our own Range Master, 7 yd, 25, 50yd berms. For rifle 100 yd. Also a trap and skeet range which we can operate. Travel distance in a little over one hour. But also has a Beautiful Wildlife Mgt area and National Forrest that I hunt in all year. Just a fantastic out door range, with a campground nearby also. Never crowded, especially in winter where on some days, I have been the only shooter..We have our own gate key.

NRA Member ship required at outdoor range and state Shooters Assoc.
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Chuck R. said:
Of course I'm also the range master, maintenance guy, and the landscaper...
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Same for me, except that my range is new, so I also serve as the designer, construction manager, and contractor!

Oh, and the cost: $60 per year (property taxes on ag land). Walking from my front door to the range: priceless!
 
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