need new range ohio

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i live in bowling green ohio and im looking for a nice shooting range that’s open Sunday
I use to go to Cleland’s but they don’t open on Sundays after Easter
So do any of you now of a range that has nice people running it and I will let my keep the brass
thanks
 
There are a few gun clubs around BG that are open all year. Wauseon, Gibsonburg, Findlay and others have clubs.
 
Here you go~~~

Sandusky County Sportsman's Club

http://www.scsclub.org/

SANDUSKY COUNTY SPORTSMAN'S CLUB

3950 STATE ROUTE 600 - GIBSONBURG. OH

419-637-7610

I belonged to the Sandusky one. A gun buddy suggested it to me. He sponsored me more or less. I joined up there and wish that I had known about it earlier although they do not have an indoor range unless it changed since May 2002.
I used to live in Wood County. My late husband's home, rural county and state not mine. The Sandusky Club was about 11 or 15 miles from my rural home.

I shot up at Cleland's indoor range from the gitgo and it was about a 30 mile drive via turnpike from my former house. (Driveway = 26 miles to the lake too!) I bought firearms from them too. Another county as you already know.

I shot up in Michigan (Club name escapes me now - sorry!) and was asked to join there and at other places in Ohio too.

There is a VERY nice club up close to Port Clinton, Catawba and Oak Harbor too.

Oak Harbor Conservation Club

http://www.ohcc.us/

975 S. Gordon Road

P.O. Box 364

Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449-0364

The guys at Sandusky and at Oak Harbor were always kind to me. I never missed a SC meeting until my late husband's cancer got worse. I was his hospice caregiver... he was in our home not in a nursing home or hospital. They have gun shows there too. Started it when I was a member. They bought more land at the same time or a year down the road. I voted for that immediately at the one meeting. They have all kinds of shoots and events now... I think even MORE now than when I lived back there.

I moved out west in May 2002 so things and people may have changed since that time frame. All ages and some were Vietnam Veterans as my late husband was too.

Good and KIND people. One man wanted me to attend a high power shoot and even lent me his rifle and ammo. He would not take any money from me even for the ammunition.

There were some ranges over by Bowling Green too. Most of the deputies that I knew used them. I do not know if it was for LE or peace officers (Old name.) only though. The ones that I knew are now retired, older or close to retirement except for their KIDS who are employed by the department.

If you ask CHAD or his brother, wife, etc. - he will tell you about another one close to them in the Swanton (?) area I think. Not too far from their place, the airport or maybe it is by Maumee or Holland. I am not sure but I almost JOINED there but it would still have been a DRIVE!

If I still lived back there, not on the east coast or out here, I would still belong to the SC and maybe the Oak Harbor one too. Oak Harbor has an INDOOR range and they practice for all kinds of things from Camp Perry to you name it!

Best wishes!

Catherine
 
I would strongly recommend against shooting at the range at Cleland's.

Lots of the 'element' present there and range supervision seems to be 'spotty' at best with the 'patrons' sweeping each other with their firearms' muzzles. When I've been there in the recent past, I've witnessed all manner of atrocious behavior in the way of gunhandling like others being swept with the muzzles of firearms, weapons being discharged into the ceiling and side walls with astonishing, if not alarming, regularity and guns being dropped onto the floor by inattentive 'customers'. Upon closer examination, one will find a few bullet holes through the lane divider walls:eek: of the shooting positions and 'tables'.
The last time I was there, I saw a rather nervous sort in his mid-30's who was shooting a Browning Buckmark .22 fumbling with the gun at his lane drop his gun, only to catch it in midair and have it discharge into the concrete floor right in front of him. The round took a small 'chip' out of the floor. Thankfully, no one was injured and after this occurred, he shot me a rather sheepish look, shrugged and returned to shooting. :uhoh: I left immediately thereafter and have no plans to retrun there, ever.

When it comes to that kind of a range environment, I'll pass everytime since there are other much nicer places to shoot without such a prevalence of occurences.

Besides the above issues, it is kind of a rundown facility in that it appears to rarely see cleaning, the targets on the 30 ft. pistol range must be sent downrange via a 'hand cranked' rope and pulley system and the ventilation is rather lacking in its ability to keep the air very clean.

For the fact that they charge the same hourly rates as that of other ranges that are nor only better maintained, but also have an automated target retrieval/placement system and actually monitor the patrons using the range in order to insure everyone's safety, I would say that your shooting dollars are better spent elsewhere.
 
Gunslinger now i was NOT there when this happened. But a guy killed him self in the range. after that they stopped keeping it up.
Cleland's is the only range I have gone to. I use to go out and shoot at the farm I worked at but I don’t work there any more. so I started to go to Cleland's but now there closed on Sundays what range do you go to or suggest
Or would not go to.
 
mike,

While the fellow that killed himself at Cleland's was certainly not their fault (I remember when it occurred a few years ago as it happened about two weeks after I had last been there) they did fall off on their range maintenance thereafter. Something like that can, and most likely has happened at other ranges but, letting the range "go to seed" is not going to bring in new clientele either.

For the reasons above in my prior post, I avoid Cleland's all together.

You have a couple of options in the immediate area:

For about $30/year (at least that is what the yearly fees were when I last went there some time ago) you can go to the South East Michigan Sportsmans Club in Temperance, MI, just follow Douglas Ave. due north across the MI line and turn right(east) at Sterns, it'll be on the left(north) side of the road 'bout a 1/2 mile down. they have a 100 yard rife raneg and a 25/50 yard pistol range.

If you go out west of Toledo on Hill Ave. and turn left(South) on King and follow it for about a half mile south, the Adams Conservation Club which has a 100/200 yard rifle range, several pistol ranges and a few trap shooting areas. Annual dues are a bit more at ~$135/year but, these can be mitigated by attending frequently held "work parties" that will substantially reduce that number for you.

They are both controlled access membership ranges which cuts down on the frustration of over crowded public ranges and I am currently a member at Adams Conservation. It is a nice place and most of the folks there are pretty decent also.

Hope this helps,
 
Things must have really changed over the years~~~

Wow... things REALLY changed since I left rural Wood County back in May 2002 and moved out west. I lived smack in the middle of farm land on an acre.

I was up in the city, at Cleland's, only once in 2002, not to shoot but to show a friend the store briefly, and there mainly in 1998, 1999 and some in 2000 to purchase a couple of firearms. I did shoot there tons in 1998.

It was always clean, well ventilated, etc. when I was there. Usually no one was there when I shot or only one other person with a partner. Sometimes people would watch through the window by the door.

Wow... things must have changed for sure.

The names of the other two places sound like ones that I could not think of too.

Best wishes.

Sincerely,

Catherine
 
I will also recommend the Sandusky County Sportsmans' Club in Gibsonburg. It is a good facility with a few options as far as the type of shooting you want to do.

Oak Harbor is another good suggestion.

There is also an indoor range in Graytown, OH called The Bullet Stop. It looks like a small hole-in-the-wall but it's actually a very decent little shop, and the range features motorized target lines. Ventilation could be a little better, and the range is non-supervised although it is monitored. Bit of a drive from Bowling Green, though.
 
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