Range/Gun Club Membership Fees

[InkEd]

I was just wondering what some if you guys pay annually for membership at a your gun clubs/ranges? Also, what does that membership include beside just the right to shoot there. (Any extra cost to shoot weekly events like 3-guns or SASS?)

The reason is I'm considering joining a private range BUT the cost IMHO seems a little high priced. Actually, the annual membership fee ($250ish) isn't too bad rather the one-time $400! application fee AND still having to pay to participate in the weekly competition events. Is this normal for gun clubs?

I am simply asking because I don't know about it. Thanks.

 

[loadedround]

I belong to two private gun clubs. One charges 125.00 a year for senior members and everything is free with the exception of trap shoots. However I pay 30.00/yr for a Senior Citizen membership(over 60 plus 15 years membership). My other club is 50.00/yr with no extra fees except trap. This club membership is tapped out at 300 members and also has a 200 yd rifle range. Very seldom are the ranges used daytimes. Hope this information helps you.

 

[Sky]

Ten dollars a day or $100 for a yearly membership. The Three gun is ran by another individual who charges $20 per event and pays the range owner $5 per participant. The way it is set up really works great if you want to take someone as a guest to shoot.

Free bottled water is included and sodas are $1.00. Out in the country, bad driveway for about a mile mostly dirt and occasional mud but a great laid back place if you can keep from getting stuck.


Two pistol ranges up to 65 yards

One 125 yard range

one 340 yard range

one skeet range

 

[22-rimfire]

The application fee or orientation fee hurts. My annual fee is around $150. You need to compare your expected use with the cost versus the cost of the alternatives versus the quality of the range relative to your use. I still go to a free range that is between an hour and 1.5 hr drive from my home from time to time because I shot there a lot prior to joining the private club. The private club is very close to where I live and the gasoline savings alone justifies the cost as well as the facilities.

 

[M2 Carbine]

I've been in a very nice outdoor rifle , shotgun and handgun range, West of Ft Worth, for 5-6 years. It's about $140 to join and $70 a year thereafter.

I'm about to renew my membership although I haven't been there in three years.
It's a 40 minute drive from home and considering I have a range at home I'm too lazy to make the drive. I keep up my membership, if for no other reason than to support a nice range.


http://www.parkersportsman.com/
You folks in the Ft Worth area check it out.

 

[RKRCPA]

I belong to two, the first (which I suspect may be the same club as Loadedround), gets me 100yd rifle, 25yd pistol, 50ft indoor pistol and a trap range for just under $150/yr with a guest stamp. The other has 150yd rifle, 50yd pistol and trap for $40/yr.

 

[52grain]

Probably depends a lot on land prices. Gun clubs (especially ones with long distance rifle ranges) need a fair amount of land and in some areas that's not cheap. The $400 application fee sees steep though.

 

[22-rimfire]

Years ago I lived in PA and would not have considered joining a private club because there was so much land for me to hunt and shoot for free. But there is a social benefit involved that is difficult to put a price tag on also unless you like to be a hermit.

 

[iafirebuff]

I just joined a local club - $35 for an NRA membership (required) and then $30 for the club. So $65 a year - priceless since I won't have to use the public ones anymore

 

[punchdrunk]

I like mine. Price is similar.

 

[Robert Wilson]

My local indoor range is about $250/year, no sign-up fee, and members shoot as much as they want whenever they want.

My closest outdoor range is $150/year, $25 sign-up fee, and membership only gets you a reduced daily range fee.

My experience has been that ranges in or near large urban areas are much more expensive than those in more rural areas. If I drive into the countryside for a few hours I can go to a 600 yard rifle range with a $25 annual membership.

 

[Hanzo581]

Indoor ranges here are around $150 a year, the outdoor is $300 a year. There is a small private rifle outdoor rifle club near me that is only $100 a year, but it is tough to get into.

 

[senior]

ranges

Only indoor range around my area of san antonio is way outta line i feel. For openers, $365.00 a year membership fee, then you MUST buy owners ammo ( 2-3 times cost of store ammo)! Years ago, land u could ask permission of owners and shoot all day for free as long as you didn't sling lead over the man's house or use his cattle for target practice but, no more, darn city has just spread out to much!

 

[Reloader_Kev]

Gun Club Fee

Mine is $100 per year with the participation in one work day per year. Below is a link. Very nice well maintained place. I think we have well over 200 members with a long waiting list. Rifles up to 200 yards, trap machines, archery place, indoor heated and cooled pistol range (no magnums). We just this summer added an addition with indoor plumbing, and a place to sit (liars table and drink coffee or soda.


http://abelincolngunclub.com/index.php

kj

 

[cavman]

The 15 position, 50 yard indoor NRA range is $300 per year. Monday night Bullseye league is $11 per night.

The nearest outdoor range is $350 per year, with sanctioned Bullseye matches $35 per match. However, there is an initiation fee of $1,500.

 

[Tom609]

I belong to two. One is a private club with a coded gate that is open all year from 9 am to dusk. The fee is $150 for me and $35 for my wife. Everything is included except organized trap. The other club is open to the public on weekends, but I volunteer as a RSO and have the small fee ($70/yr?) waived, and I get unrestricted access to the range during the week. One is 15 minutes away and the other 30 minutes. Not bad for NJ.

 

[Hatterasguy]

My club is $450 a year if I don't work, and I don't. I get to shoot at their 70 yard outdoor range for that, which is usually deserted so I feel like I have my own private range. Its also a hunting and fishing club, with lots of land for such activities. I have to pay a small fee $3 to shoot trap. I believe the application fee was $70 but I forget now.

I live in CT where good clubs are hard to come by, Hartford seems to be the best but its to far away from me. Also they have neighbors, my club is smart and buys up all the land around it to prevent this.

My only other good options is Blue Trails which is horrible and expensive, and Naugatuck which has a questionable safety record and the public can only shoot a couple days a week so its jammed.

Joining a club is the best thing I ever did, now I shoot whenever I want dawn to dusk, with almost no one else around and no annoying public. I'm usually up their 2-3 times a week.

 

[JTHunter]

There is a club here in St. Clair County, IL, involved in on-going legal battles with county "muck-ups" who have been trying to take the club over ever since they moved to this location. Because of these legal troubles (county has lost at every turn), they are charging a $30/mth. legal fee on top of the $250 annual fee.

 

[Tinpig]

Private rifle association in SE Mass. with a locked gate. Up to 200 members pay $50/yr plus required NRA and Mass GOAL membership; voter registration is also required.
100, 200, and 300 yd. rifle ranges and pistol range. Entirely self-regulated and self-policed except for monthly CMP and high-power matches.

Tinpig

 

[GuyOnTheCouchNY]

400USD One time fee and 30 bucks in range fees. normally its 65+ additional charges if you bring your own ammo.

 

[JohnBiltz]

Indoor range, $250 the first year, $175 every year after that. Family rates are available. That includes some other things. 8 free guest passes, discounts off purchases and classes.

 

[General Lee]

Wow I feel fortunate. http://www.pasapark.com/ $25 a year for a 100 to 600 yard rifle range targets every 100, a 100, 150 and 200 rifle range, several rim fire ranges with plinking targets on pull strings, pistol range with steel pop up targets and many more ranges I haven't even used.

 

[nwilliams]

I pay $60 for a two year range membership.

It's a great range, with an archery section, long range rifle section (out to 1k yards) with covered benches, skeet/trap shooting area and pistol range.

It's an interesting range. You become a member and get a key mailed to you, then when you go to the range you let yourself in and out of the gated property. There are no range officers so everyone who shoots there needs to understand (and does) proper range etiquette.

For $30 a year it's an amazing deal considering how nice a range it is.

Here's a pic of the rifle range section, my buddy took this with his cell phone so it's not the sharpest pic but still came out really nice I think....

 

[bikerdoc]

$100.00 / yr for indoor - outdoor. 5 to 15 bucks for matches

 

[doubleh]

$35 a year and you have to be an NRA member. You have your own key. No supervision. I haven't witnessed any stupidity while shooting and have met some nice people there. It has a covered rifle range with 9 benches and 2 backstops at 25 and 100 yards. Single backstops at 50, 200, 300, and 400 yards. It also has 8 seperate pistol bays. Pretty good deal but we have a lot of slobs that bring junk to shoot at and leave it laying when they leave. There are 5 55 gallon barrels at the rifle range and one at each pistol bay for trash but some are just to lazy to use them.

I pick up some of the mess every time I'm there (pat myself on the back) but it seems just as much is there the next time I go. :banghead: I picked up all the shotgun hulls in front of the shooting benches one time this summer. I had a 5 gallon bucket full.