range costs?

[KenInColo]

My town has two private clubs w/ranges.

The San Juan Range has 18 pits and a long range rifle range. All kinds of steel targets and target stands for IDPA/IPSC targets. They furnish the furring strips and targets. Annual membership is $95.00 for you and your spouse or $10.00 a person for non-members. They host numerous pistol competitions, including 'cowboy action'. This is the one I joined for the pistol shooting.

The Montrose Gun Club has only a few pits, a long range rifle range, two trap/skeet fields. This club does not have any IPSC/IDPA target stands and only a few steel targets. They also host 'cowboy action'. They also have an indoor range w/(about) 8 lanes which is very cold in the winter; it has a coin operated heating system. Membership is $85.00 per year + a 'one time' $100.00 initiation fee. However, the initiation fee is required if you allow your membership to expire. Only members may shoot here.

About 20 mi. away is The Delta Trap Club, the foremost trap shooting facility in Colorado. It hosts numerous ATA events, including The Colorado State Trapshooting Championships. Membership is $30.00 per year (this includes a free steak dinner at the annual meeting). Members pay $3.50 (for 25 targets) non-members pay $5.00. The club is open to the public on Wednesday evenings and Sunday morning/afternoons. The kitchen fixes pretty good meals for bargain prices.

 

[dmazur]

Our range near Olympia is a private range, with fees of $70/year. Well, plus another $80 if you haven't done any range maintenance to "work it off".

It's probably not the fanciest range, but it has a 200 yd high-power rifle range (with target areas at 50 and 100 as well), a 25 yd pistol range, an action pistol area (with multiple bays for setting up IDPA-style or CAS stages), a couple of different rimfire ranges, a blackpowder range, and a multipurpose range (where occasionally we see someone shooting trap.)

It's probably a bargain at $70/year.

 

[Sinixstar]

the local range here is I think $2/day per car.

if you don't want to pay that - or you want to see how far you can really shoot, you just drive out to the desert (20 minutes down the road).

 

[ScotZ]

Here in Cincy'the last time I went indoor it was $8 for 1/2hr or $15 dollars an hour.

The state range is about $25 a year or $5 a day. Obviously the yearly rate is the way to go.

 

[gunNoob]

Range I used to go to was $18/hr for non-members.... and the staff aren't too polite so it was a lose-lose.

I need to find a new range

 

[a2fireball]

The one I go to is an indoor range about 25 mins away. Its well run, the staff is great and venitlation is excellent. I like supporting the place and even buy some ammo there even though i can get it cheaper elsewhere.

$10/halfhour-$15/hour

 

[simple_rule]

in nothern virginia, the closest one i go to is 8$ per HALf hour. its called "The Range"

indoor, pistol only, bring your own ammo or buy their nasty reloads.

i have mixed feelings about the place. i prefer shooting outside without time limits so i can hang out and shoot the **** while im there and not get billed for it. it doesnt give you much time for trouble shooting or cleaning before you leave.

i walk out feeling burned everytime. i would like to find a better place. at least one that is worth the price.

 

[Big B]

10$ a day around here. 125$ a year (unlimited use) if you join our rifle club.

 

[scrat]

i cant do indoor. its about 15 an hour. when i go shooting i go outdoor. Spend my 10.00 at the range i get there usually around 9 am or earlier then wait for them to open up. Then around 12 i get something to eat from the food cart. Usually have to go into the ammo store for something. Then maybe around 2, 3 or 4pm i pack up and go. With that there is no way i am paying 15.00 an hour.

 

[MaterDei]

My range costs roughly $3000 per month.

 

[neededausername]

Central AR here, $2.00 for all day at the local outdoor game and fish range, $10.00 for all day at an indoor range, couple of private clubs for around $100.00 a year membership.
Of course around here most people know at least a couple of people with some land out in the county and just shoot there.

 

[nachosgrande]

$20/hour, $18/hour if you buy your ammo from them.

 

[nachosgrande]

$20/hour, $18/hour if you buy your ammo from them.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

They raised the one I walk to, to 11.50 an hour. Yeah I walk ten minutes to the range on days it doesn't rain. I CCW to the range, walk inside, wait till I get inside the range to shoot. Granted I also carry my carrying case with my Ruger P90(for when the fiancee goes) and my new Beretta. I keep my Ruger Redhawk 4" in my shoulder holster under my denim shirt and it doesn't come out unless the range is particularly empty. And my snubbies ride in my pockets. Oh and my carrying case is a kirkland detergent bucket, those three gallon bits. I keep the Ruger and Beretta in their original factory boxes inside it along with my ammo and targets, and the bucket is great for hauling away spent and extra fetched brass. Plus I keep shammy towels in it in case I get spotted pulling out my three CCWs so I can wrap them up. I always leave one of the snubbies in my pocket at a given time.

Only been busted one time, the range likes to inspect guns before letting you use it. The guy behind the counter nearly had a heart attack when I took off my denim shirt and pulled my snubbies out of my pockets, I warned him ahead of time. Felt like Mad Max beyhond Thunderdome.

They've been telling me now for six months I can only use their ammo so I politely buy some 9mm Federal at 13.50 and shoot off close to hundred in ammo twice a month. Oh and we are not supposed to reload but they never check the ammo I bring in so...guess they'll eventually kick me out.

 

[Lightninstrike]

$75 a year, unlimited time.

 

[gregormeister]

My range fee is my mortgage!!

 

[Grey_Mana]

Joining the gun club cost $130, and I think $25 was a one-time fee for the background check and whatnot.

The ranges near me in Maryland are On Target (which is ok) and Select Fire (which I don't recommend), I think they both charge $15/half-hour. On Targt allows outside ammo but Select Fire demands you buy their ammo.

I've been to 'The Range' in Fredericksburg VA - I think it was $5/half hour.

I've been to Clark Brothers in Va - their range is free, but the wait can be annoying because they are so busy.

 

[billsnogo]

I have to travel 40 minutes to get to a reasonable priced indoor range. If I buy the punch card (which I do), it is $130 for 10 visits. One punch will allow me and a guest, and two total guns to shoot as long as I like.

I remember as a kid that my dad could go to a park (thinking state park?) and shoot for free. Wish it was still that way, but the DNR site does not list any such thing for ranges

 

[frankiestoys]

indoor range $8 per hour & buy there ammo (sometimes)
outdoors $5 but its only open on weekends and only twice a month.(sheriff's training range)
These are my options.

 

[jnyork]

$50.00 a year for an out door range with all disciplines ( high power, silhouette, etc) out to 1000 yards plus an 8-lane indoor range. Membership gets you the key to both.

 

[rondog]

North Central Florida? Head out into the country and start asking landowners. Bound to be some rancher nearby that has a dirt pile you could shoot into.

 

[FN_man_08]

My outdoor range is $35 per year plus they require a NRA membership. My indoor range is $175 per year and $6 per hour on top of that.

 

[BADUNAME37]

Outdoor only.
Pistol Range with concrete slab under benches, roof over the benches.
100 Yard Rifle Range with concrete slab under benches, roof over the benches.
200 Yard Rifle Range with concrete slab under benches, roof over the benches.
All three ranges have concrete benches with wooden seats and tops (very sturdy, they don't move a bit). Roofs over all the benches and over the pistol range platform.

Shotgun range (which I never have used)

$35 per year, from January 1 to January 1

 

[AK Krazy]

I'm a member of the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, and with my membership I get FREE use of there pistol & rifle ranges. Most of the time I go to the range I have the whole range to myself it is almost like having my own range, except for the 20min. drive to get there.
You could try finding some kind of shooting clubs in your area most have a small membership fee I only pay $80 per year for use of pistol, rifle, skeet & trap ranges, free club house use, a good place to hunt deer & turkey, a bunch of lakes for fishing & boating, and more hiking trails than I care to walk. I’d call that a bargain!

 

[GreySmoke2]

Western Burbs of Chicago... Lowest indoor is $9 per session. Old range with crank target travelers, low light but good ventilation shoot any ammo, yours theirs any... Next is a new range computerized travelers, still low light and great ventilation $20 session any ammo but they prefer theirs.... last Indoor similar to the second but their ammo only and $25 per session and an attitude to go along... Outdoor range from $25 per session public (50 miles away) to $125- $500yr private ranges. I will be joining the $125yr club (20 miles away) in the spring since they close in a month....