taking too many guns to the indoor range at the time ?

[Sergei Mosin]

Two guns with 100 rounds each is usually enough for me. I try to preload magazines but, depending on the gun, may have to refill them at the range. Of course, if I'm shooting revolvers there's plenty of loading to do.

 

[rpenmanparker]

Indoor, outdoor, two guns is normally plenty. Might be the ACE for warmup and a 9mm or .45 for IDPA practice. Might be Gun 1 vs Gun 2 or Caliber A vs Caliber B, or chronograph in Barrel X vs Barrel Y. Or shoot rifle P while rifle Q cools off.

I have gotten overenthused and taken more but that requires a longer stay with breaks. I can take a lawn chair and cooler to the outdoor range, the indoor range has a "members' lounge" with TV and refrigerator.

Is the refrigerator where you put your rifle to cool off?

 

[ATLDave]

it always seemed strange to me seeing people that zoom in, fire only few shots and leave after 10-15 minutes. Maybe they have annual membership ( I don't - I pay per hour) so it does not matter to them?

I'm an annual member at an indoor range that is about a 10 minute drive for my house (if the traffic isn't fired up). Most of the time when I go, I'm going to spend a little while and work or something about my shooting. But there are times when I am working up a load or trying to solve a function issue where I'll throw a target out there, shoot 10 or 20 rounds out of the gun/cartridge in question, and split... perhaps to return later that same day.

I'd say my most typical indoor range session is to put 50-100 rounds through a .22lr working on hitting very small things at modest distances (i.e., shoot out every bit of a small target sticker, which means aiming for discrete shreds of paper towards the end); then shooting some 38 wadcutter or moonclipped 45 ACP to work on DA revolver trigger control and watching the sights throughout a longer pull; then putting some through one of my carry guns to keep that fresh; then cranking through ~100 gamer loads with my USPSA limited gun. So I guess 3-4 pistols is typical for me. I do not feel compelled to clean after every range session.

 

[Sovblocgunfan]

I prefer not to have to keep track of a bunch of stuff when I’m at an indoor range. Would rather just focus on the gun and shooting it.

No more than two for me at an indoor range. Usually just one.

 

[cheygriz]

Due to the climate here, I normally use an indoor range for handgun. I have an annual membership.

I go to the range to shoot, not to fuss with loading magazines. I usually take two, or rarely three, weapons, and 10 loaded magazines (150 rounds) for each.

If the weather is to miserable to do anything else,, and I plan to spend the entire morning at the range, I'll throw in a .22LR and a brick of Golden Bullets.

I buy silhouette targets in packs of 100, and usually shoot 50 rounds at each target, so I only need three targets per weapon.

I strip and thoroughly clean and lube each weapon every time it is fired.

 

[mdauben]

How many is too many ?

I generally limit myself to two guns per visit, although some times I squeeze in three. More that that just gets counter productive for me, as I don't spend enough time with any one gun to get a worthwhile "work out" with it. For me, that is usually one rimfire gun, and one centerfire gun. I like to "warm up" with my rimfire, and focus on basics like hold and trigger. For the centerfire, that's usually one of my self-defense guns and I try to do more "practical" practice (as least, to the extent my range will permit).

I try not to stay over one hour, so just getting ready ( setting up targets, loading mags) and packing everything up at the end, takes at least 10-15 minutes out of that.

I try to buy extra mags for every gun I have that uses them, and load them all at home before I even go to the range. This helps cut down range time wasted reloading my guns. I agree that more guns seem to increase you "not shooting" time exponentially!

 

[bearcreek]

I've only been to an indoor range maybe half a dozen times, so can't really say about indoor specifically I guess. 95% of the time, I'm "going to the range" (which for me consists of stepping out my back door) to practice shooting and fighting with a weapon, not test guns, so I normally have my carry pistol and/or a rifle.

 

[sota]

When I take other people, especially new ones, 10 easily.
I'm a member of a private club and I usually go when no one else is there so it's not a big deal.

When it's just me, 1, 2, maybe 3, depending on what I feel like accomplishing that day.

 

[reddog81]

I went yesterday and put 70 rounds through a High Standard Sport King .22 at 20 and 25 yards
36 rounds through a Colt Cobra
70 rounds through a Glock 41
35 rounds through a S&W 4516-1
and 50 rounds through a 1911
The Glock and 4516-1 are both recent acquisitions and I wanted to compare them to a 1911. I was shooting for about an hour.
Sometimes I take less sometimes i'll bring a little more. Sometimes I'll want to test some reloads and only put 20 rounds through one of the guns.

 

[Red-5]

I generally prefer to bring two. Sometimes I will bring a third is shooting the same caliber. Most times I bring a .45 and 9mm or 38S. Others will bring along a 10mm and something else.

Outdoor, since there is no time limitation, will bring a couple of handguns and a couple of rifles.

 

[Labguy47]

Good on ya. I would go bonkers trying to shoot that many bang, bang, bang. As Groucho Marx was apochraphally reputed tonhsve said on the air while talking to a woman with 20+ children, “I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”

Just because you are time constricted you only get 200 rds an hour, I am shooting multiple styles and practicing multiple scenario just not standing bullseye. And I am doing it in 2.5 hrs not 1. You do you and I will do me. I recommend you go to the next machine gun shoot at Knob Creek KY. See how many rounds a minute can actually be shot out of a GE mini gun.

 

[jmace57]

I usually take 5 or 6. I work from small caliber up to large caliber, shooting my .22 first, then .,380, then 9mm and finally 45.

Twice I have had the same lady come into the range and take the lane next to me...set up a human silhouette target at 7 feet...slam 3 mags into her Glock one after another shooting 45 or 48 rounds as fast as she can pull the trigger. In about 2 minutes she has come in, set up her target, fired the gun, retrieved her target and walked out, having completed her "practice".

 

[ATLDave]

I wonder what funny thoughts people have had about my shooting when I've been working on something at the range. I'm sure when I'm practicing weak-hand-only shooting, the person next to me (who can only see my target, not me) is wondering why I'm so bad. I'm sure, when I have worked on raw trigger speed or been experimenting with how different grip pressure or grip arrangement impacts sight tracking, somebody listening and looking at the target would think "that guy is shooting way too fast... what a waste of ammo." I'm sure that, when I come in to the range for the third time in a day and put two quick magazines (perhaps without even running a target downrange) through the gun then leave, someone who wasn't there for my first two visits may wonder what I think I'm accomplishing by quickly emptying two mags into the backstop... without knowing that I'm just completing a function check after some repair or part replacement or ammo change.

Without knowing what and why someone is doing what they're doing at the range, it's pretty much impossible for me to know whether their approach is sensible or foolish (barring readily-apparent safety issues). Of course, I don't know why I'd even want to try to judge. I'm more of a live-and-let-live guy, I guess.

Maybe my attitude comes from years of being a golf nut before I got into shooting. I naturally hit a pretty high ball in golf and tend to turn it left.... something that a lot of not-great golfers simply cannot do. Many is the time I would be at the range and working on trying to hit the ball low or get it to move right by a controlled amount and, against my wishes, revert to my usual shot.... and get some verbal encouragement from the guy (never a gal... always a guy) in the stall next to me. "There you go, that was a good one! Keep it up, you'll get there!" Of course, I'm sitting there fuming and cursing under my breath because I was trying to do precisely the opposite. That has made me very wary of "judging" how others are doing when I don't know what they are trying to do.

 

[rpenmanparker]

Just because you are time constricted you only get 200 rds an hour, I am shooting multiple styles and practicing multiple scenario just not standing bullseye. And I am doing it in 2.5 hrs not 1. You do you and I will do me. I recommend you go to the next machine gun shoot at Knob Creek KY. See how many rounds a minute can actually be shot out of a GE mini gun.

Of course. Nothing I have written here is meant to direct what others should do. But I really like a one hour session for myself. Short and sweet. And I do practice speed shooting as one part of my drills. I just value the down time between msgszines while reloading to think about what I am doing, what is good and what is bad about my technique and the results it produces.

 

[P5 Guy]

The indoor range I used to belong to is now closed to the public thanks to antigun mayor Kriseman and antigun CLEO Holoway.
Now outdoors is all I shoot at. I'll bring firearms of the same caliber which can be as many as six. Or few as one or two.

 

[Figboot]

I'm lucky enough to have family property to shoot on but I still usually only take one or two guns. Taking more guns means more work and more downtime both of which I like to minimize.

 

[dekibg]

OP here.
I just went today and took 1911 and its 22LR conversion kit.
Only one gun case in my hand ( conversion fits there, too) and gun and a half to clean afterwards.
Easy peasy

 

[cheygriz]

ATL Dave,

Good post. I couldn't care less what anyone else on the range thinks of the way I practice.

I rarely do magazine dumps unless I just got the weapon back from the gunsmith. Then I will usually "dump" two magazines at a big silhouette at 5 yards. If this upsets any other shooter on the line, they can suck it up and get over it!

I also couldn't careless how someone else practices as long as they're safe. I don't give "advice" unless it's requested.

 

[Glockula]

Indoor ranges around here want to keep your brass and sell it. They also dont allow hand loads......

Consequently I cant shoot much at the indoor range. The range fee is for two hour time bocks though which I find more than enough time to pack 3 or 4 handguns.

 

[FROGO207]

I have my own outdoor range and belong to a local private club with both indoor handgun and out door 100 YD range. I will take at least two rimfires and probably four or more centerfire handguns and usually one rifle to the range. The indoor part is heated and 24/7 usable by members. It has a clubhouse full kitchen and the facilities as well as 15 shooting lanes. Heck I will show up and shoot for the morning, stop and make a lunch (often venison chili smothered burgers) then shoot until I am bored. Some days I will bring a hand press and fixings then spend the whole of it on load development for some firearm or another. The club is mostly used by me in the winter months.

 

[Jim Watson]

Indoor ranges around here want to keep your brass and sell it. They also dont allow hand loads.......

Indoor range of which I am a "member" lets me shoot reloads and pick up my brass. I thought I had a deal going with them to buy sorted range pickup at a good price but they did not follow through.

If they had gotten difficult about it, I would be shooting a lot of revolvers, .22s, and crap ammo.

 

[Walkalong]

Sometimes I take only one gun and fire a few test rounds, sometimes two or three, maybe four, but occasionally I make a day of it.

From 2013 (2 .32 Mags, 2 9MMs, 4 .357s, 1 .38 Super, 1 .45 ACP, & 1 .45 Colt.

 

[rpenmanparker]

I’m fascinated by the folks I know who like to own guns, but don’t like to shoot them except for one or two rifle rounds a year to get their annual venison.

 

[sota]

I have my own outdoor range and belong to a local private club with both indoor handgun and out door 100 YD range. I will take at least two rimfires and probably four or more centerfire handguns and usually one rifle to the range. The indoor part is heated and 24/7 usable by members. It has a clubhouse full kitchen and the facilities as well as 15 shooting lanes. Heck I will show up and shoot for the morning, stop and make a lunch (often venison chili smothered burgers) then shoot until I am bored. Some days I will bring a hand press and fixings then spend the whole of it on load development for some firearm or another. The club is mostly used by me in the winter months.

There have been multiple times I've gone to mine and been the ONLY person there from 9am to 3pm. Those are some nice times. I bring lunch, snacks, plenty to drink, etc. Never thought about portable reloading rig, but that could be interesting when the time comes for the big gun.

 

[rpenmanparker]

Don’t you folks wonder how shooting ranges make any money when they have so many employees walking around and frequently so few customers.