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I know what you need.
Silencers, air guns or stick with 22 using quiet-22 and CB ammo.
Silencers, air guns or stick with 22 using quiet-22 and CB ammo.
Where in South TX are you?There is one range about 20 miles away that has bays out to 100 yards but none close by where you can shoot further out any further. And this is in South Texas.
Yup, already suggested - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ven-shoot-anymore.929652/page-2#post-12878285I know what you need.
Silencers, air guns ...
I live in Florida and I'm working with lawmakers to approve more funding for more public ranges through FWC.Long time reader, first time poster.
I feel like this community might understand my lament.
Short version, I grew up really poor shooting my Pumpmaster 760A1 BB gun in my back yard. I could sit there for hours and it was just the most relaxing, enjoyable thing I've done. It was an inexpensive hobby and I always knew that, when I got older, I'd want to have a house with a safe backstop where I can safely shoot a rifle and hunt on my own property.
After years of searching, I've realized that's extremely unlikely. If you're curious about my journey, I've been looking for over five years. In spite of the fact that I have a huge footprint I can live in, finding land in my state to safely shoot has been a nightmare:
I figured this wasn't going to be too big of a deal if I find a nice range near my house where I can go out and shoot during their open hours. After going to the local towns in my area and looking at nearby ranges, I ran into the following issues:
- Acreage is extremely expensive. I'm regularly seeing 5 ~ 10 acres go for over $200,000.
- Even if you have the acreage, having a safe backstop and neighbors that are far enough away to safely shoot is a real difficult problem.
- In my experience over the last 5+ years, real estate agents haven't been sympathetic or particularly knowledgeable about shooting. I've had some show me all sorts of houses and try to convince me shooting towards a neighbors house is okay ("Just use a .22!")
- Even finding out if you can shoot recreationally is a huge pain in the neck. In my state, it goes down to the borough / township level. Often even making a phone call or stopping by the office isn't good enough because nobody wants to take accountability and "tell you that you can" because of the liability involved in case someone doing something stupid.
- Even if you have ordinances that are 2A friendly, often noise ordinances act as a loophole from non 2A friendly neighbors to complain. Basically you're just hoping nobody in earshot feels like filing a complaint.
- Just because an area is okay to recreationally shoot today doesn't mean it will be tomorrow. We're seeing an influx of city / suburban folks move out to rural areas who "don't like gunshots" going to township meetings and kicking up dust.
- If you work from home / use high speed internet for your kids' school, you're basically going to have a very hard time finding reliable high speed internet in areas rural enough with attitudes that are pro-2A.
State Ranges:
- State ranges in my state require a hunting license (Which is close to $100) or a range permit. They also have really, really restrictive Fudd rules. As in, rules literally like "You can only load 3 bullets in the magazine at a time." or "No targets that look like people." and "You must wait 3 seconds between each shot."
- I figured I'd try it anyway. After 20 minutes of shooting, I had a game commission officer approach me and shriek like a girl "What do you hunt with THAT?!?" *pointing to my AR*. After checking my license and seeing I was legally allowed to be there, emptying my magazine and finding that I was following the rules with only 3 rounds in the magazine, and then discovered I was recording myself shooting (and therefore honoring the "3 seconds between each shot" rule), he shocked me with a new rule. I was shooting from the standing position, pointing my rifle a the target, discharging a round, and then lowering my muzzle to the ground. I was informed this was "unsafe" and how he was doing me such a huge favor by not fining me. I didn't mention I was an army veteran and this is a standard drill. I just wanted to pack my stuff and leave.
Private Ranges:
There are private ranges here where they do 3 gun, but the waitlist to get in is insane. They also require a monthly fee, regular volunteer work, and an NRA membership. Even then, I was considering joining because I knew someone who shoots there who took me on a range trip. Sure enough, I've looked it up, and there are tons of people in the nearby area who are trying to get it shut down. They "don't like the sound of gunfire" because "they have children."
The other private range I went to literally had a huge PVC pipe style tube that you had to aim your rifle through. You were not allowed to shoot outside of that pipe. Part of the introductory safety course to the range was how often people try to get them shut down or continuously launch faux complaints about bullets "zinging over their neighborhoods" (which there's no way they're coming from this range unless everyone is having negligent discharges every day). Hence the pvc pipe.
Basically I'm just going to sell a bunch of my guns and move into town. I don't want my first post to be a negative one, but where can I just take an SKS, load it to capacity, and fire controlled pairs at a target 150 meters away? Where do you folks shoot at?
Yes, ASR is a great range. And BLM land[ desert], is even better. No people, quite and simply beautiful desert terrain. It is where I shoot 90% of the time. Shooting, solitude, BLISS!For as much hate as I get for living on the left coast...
The couple of ranges that I go to are 600 yards and have the ability to go to 1000.
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Then we have BLM land.
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If you look closely, that far white dot is sitting at 2000 yards.
There's always a tradeoff to where you live.
Which I've said about 5 different times in this thread is illegal in Pennsylvania.. I shoot on the mountain. And in coal strippens.
Hehe, I did that once when I was about 14. Had the window and screen open. I shot from inside the room with a '94 30-30. Never did that again. That probably started my hearing degradation. Mother shrieked from downstairs, and my dad came boiling upstairs wondering what I was doing. Got the coyote, tho'. Oh the days........416 Rigby I shot coyotes out my bedroom window with a 416 loaded with light 350gr Sptz Speers.
The Valley.Where in South TX are you?
Id love to see where youre coming up with this. What I see you referring to is DCNR and Game Lands regs on state land.Which I've said about 5 different times in this thread is illegal in Pennsylvania.
,§ 135.181. Rifle and handgun ranges.
(a) General provisions. In addition to § 135.2 (relating to unlawful actions), the following pertain to lands under Commission ownership, lease or jurisdiction designated as rifle or handgun ranges:
Yes, that's correct, and it's heartbreaking. I have friends and relatives who became high-school teachers, and they all either retired as soon as they could, or quit and took up other professions, because of the abuse they received from their students. Things are really different from when I was in school.Regarding the "brainwashing" of the young, in defense of the current age cohorts and year groups, remember that between the high rate of illegitimacy and the high divorce rate these are the first generations for who fatherlessness is the norm. Then there's the widespread rejection by men of the role of protector, provider-mentor.
Yep. A few days ago, my wife and I were out ground squirrel shooting on our friend's ranch near here. We do that several times every spring, and we always stop by our friend's house to ask them where their cattle are - because that country is just hilly enough that there could be a hundred head of angus beef hidden on the other side of a hill that's not tall enough to stop a .22LR bullet from skipping over it.Sometimes I would hit a cow, so technically where I shoot depends on where in the pasture the cows are
I'm a lot closer to Lexington that you are. Around here, that might get you a 1/5 acre lot with a modest house.In the state of Kentucky, $200k will easily get you about 20 acres of hills, IE shooting land, with a modest house on it.
Id love to see where youre coming up with this. What I see you referring to is DCNR and Game Lands regs on state land.
PA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Title 34; Chapter 25 - Protection of persons and property
§ 2507. Restrictions on shooting.
Target shooting shall only be lawful when it is done:
(i) Upon property owned by the shooter or by a guest of the property owner.
(ii) Within 200 yards of the camp or other headquarters where the person shooting is quartered or is an invited guest or visitor.
Are you close enough to enjoy shooting in the Allegany National Forest? We camp and shoot there often. https://www.fs.usda.gov/activity/allegheny/recreation/otheractivities/?recid=6083&actid=106#:~:text=You are not shooting across,lawfully engaged in waterfowl hunting.
Yes, it is. See above.Yeah it's not against the law to shoot out in the bush. Or abandoned mine strip-pens. Only time i was asked to not shot in one area. They were going to log for a few weeks. After they were done. It was good to go.