I am a member at two ranges. Outdoor is limited to Fri-Sat-Sun, $125 a year. It is 22 miles away, each way.
Indoor is ten minutes away. It is unlimited use and available 7 days a week for $300 a year. I shoot there on average 2x a week; sometimes I shoot several guns and I’m there for a while, other visits are shoot one gun and gone in half an hour. I double up with plugs under earmuffs. This keeps most shots tolerable.
Occasionally you get next to the wall, which I like because there is 50% less to distract or worry about. The other times you are somewhere in the middle with shooters on both sides. Then I just do my best to pay more attention to things going on around me.
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Open desert is at minimum an hour and change away on the freeway, it’s at least 60 miles one way. It can be great if no one is around. Popular areas can become a bit of a war zone when the weather cools down.
I have had a few indoor sessions here and there marred by guys shooting muzzle-brakes on their AR rifles, making the blast almost unbearable; guys sometimes handling guns behind the line that get the RSO out to set them straight; or scattershots who bounce their rounds off the roof, through my target or hitting the target hangars. Some of the circled shots landed at least six-eight inches above where they should be hitting.
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You realize very quickly that not every shooter keeps their rounds in the 8-9-10-X rings, in fact I will say most of the shooters I am seeing shoot like these guys were.
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(I hope they are new shooters, who will seek out some good instruction and vastly improve.)
Like just about everyone else, I would prefer to be solo and outdoors when I shoot. But when you live in suburbia, ya gotta do what ya gotta do if you want to enjoy the shooting sports.
Stay safe.