Shooting ranges near Springfield , IL?

[milemaker13]

Looking for range suggestions in and around Springfield , IL. I will be taking some family shooting this weekend or next. They live on the north side of Springfield in Sherman.
I've looked online and found a few, but its hard to tell if they're any good or whatever. Does anyone have experience or suggestions?

 

[kscharlie]

Don't know how far you are willing to travel, but there is a pretty nice range near Danvers, Il, which is just West of Bloomington. It takes about an hour to get from Sherman to the range. Jump on I-55 North and exit on Route 9 and head West. Darnall's Gun Works & Ranges. Indoor range, outdoor range (I think this one if for members only), trap, skeet. I lived near Bloomington for 30 years and shot there a lot. Very nice facilities and good people. Haven't lived near there for the past 15 years, so don't know how much it has changed. Look them up on the web and give them a call.

 

[lwolford]

There is MTM Arms in Athens IL. It is North of Sherman on RT. 29. It is all indoor. They allow pistols, shotgun slug, muzzle loader, and rifles (only 22lr, .223, or .7.63x39 and the latter two you must buy from them because they want to make sure you are shooting frangible ammo). There are ten lanes available.

 

[mgresh]

I would second MTM Arms. Only 10 minutes from Sherman.

 

[MAKster]

NSSF has a good directory of shooting ranges.
https://www.nssf.org/shooting/where-to-shoot/

 

[BigBL87]

It's a little bit of a hike, but for an indoor range I really like C.I. Shooting Sports in Bloomington. Pay one fee and you can shoot all day. You can even leave (say, for lunch or something) and come back. A couple friends and I meet there every once in awhile because it is centrally located for us and we really like it. Staff is very friendly and pretty knowledgeable from our experience.

As far as outdoor ranges, not super familiar since I usually shoot at my in-laws place weather permitting, and if I really want an outdoor range we have some nice ones pretty close.

Only part I don't like about C.I. is that with the exception of rimfire, rifle ammo has to be bought there, can't use your own that you brought in and theirs isn't cheap. Concerns about steel cores, etc.. Handgun ammo must be at least partially jacketed, so no lead round nose and the like (IIRC rimfire is exempt from this as well though). Only was ever an issue for me with some .38 Special I had, they just said keep it in the range bag and trusted me not to use it rather than make me take it back out the the car like some places might.