What about your gun club?

[Pappy John]

WOW ! I didn't know that my Harrisburg Hunters & Anglers was such a bargain. I didn't vote because they only cost me $45 per year.

Two rifle ranges, two outdoor pistol ranges...one PPC and one bullseye, and an indoor pistol range with twelve stations. Lots of trap, skeet, and sporting clays area. Outdoor and indoor archery setups. Large clubhouse with kitchen and meeting space.

 

[Ankeny]

I couldn't vote because our gun club doesn't have annual dues. We shoot IPSC once per month and IDPA once per month. For a $30.00 one time fee to join, you get a key to the storage area where we keep the mobile plate rack, Steel Challenge stuff, poppers, etc. Folks are welcome to use the supplies, but we ask that guys use the targets from previous matches first.

The storage building is provided by the town in conjunction with the recreation district. In the last two years, the county recreation board has provided us with $5000.00 for range inmprovements and the local district donated $10,000.00 to dig two new pistol bays, gravel, etc. They also kick in $500.00 annually for consummable supplies like tape, paint, etc. Around here, the local folks (recreation districts, etc.) promote the shooting sports whenever they can.

 

[M67]

Stephen, since our German friend has already hijacked his own thread,

Sunny Scotland isn't all that far from Sunny Norway. If you should ever get lost on your way home from the pub and wake up in Oslo, send me an e-mail and we can arrange a trip to the range. Our gun laws aren't quite what I would like them to be, but all things considered...

Or a beer. If price is anything to judge by, £4 or more for a pint should buy you the best dang beer in the world.

Anyone else, for that matter, we did have a small German-Norwegian THR range trip last year, always nice to meet other shooters.

 

[Kim]

Don't belong to a gun club. Range------1000 acres owned by my family. Targets------ lots of things. Membership-----whether I like you or not. Mini- club my front yard or my sisters---we live next to each other. Targets cans, paper targets, old stump and old real estate signs, or a varmit or two at times.

 

[P95Carry]

Couldn't vote!

One club is just a small Hunting/game deal .. with a range out back suitable for up to 100 yds .. pretty basic but very handy. A single trap house too .. which gets way too little excercise. Cost? $10 per year!

Other one is much larger .. good clubhouse, and annexe for small functions .. two trap houses and a thriving shottie mebership. Down along one side of main area is rifle range ... again only up to 100 yds but ... three bench firing point ... and during the week usually no one there. Cost? $10!! Mind you ... they charge for this and that ... 50 bird trap is $10 ... and various other things bring in funds so ... they have a good income overall.

Suit me fine.

 

[Rob62]

The club where I am a member was originally built for and around skeet and trap shooters in the 1950's. There are probably 3 to 5 skeet and or trap ranges. Not being a trap or skeet shooter I never bothered to count them to see how many there actually are

There is one 100 yard rifle range that has three covered shooting benches. And one 25 yard pistol range that also has covered shooting positions.

Every Wednesday night the club has a dinner for members. Costs for the food are nominal and all profits go back into the club.

The club also has regular "Turkey Shoots" where non members as well as members are welcome. There have been some attempts to have regularly schedules competitions such as bowling pin shoots but these do not seem to be very popular and I do not know if the club still has them.

There is a regular bunch of clay shootesr that meet and shoot skeet several times a week. I also think they shoot ssomething called 5 stand - frankly, not being a clay shooter I don't know exactly what that is.

Fees: $80 per year for membership, $3 per round of trap or skeet (25 clays), and $3 per day for use of either the pistol or rifle range. However for $25 per year you can get unlimited access to use the rifle and pistol range. So with me not being a clay shooter it costs me a total of $105 per year for unlimited use of both rifle and pistol ranges. Access to the range and club house is via a padlock that members get a key issued for. Shooting hours are self imposed at 9:00 am through 9:00 pm 7 days per week.

On an ominous side note the club has recently decided that it would not allow full automatic fire at the club. Even though here in Georgia full auto weapons (class III) can be legally owned, they can not be shot at the club. Not sure why this decision was made but it stemmed from a complaint of a resident near the club.

Overall I am happy with my club membership.

Rob

 

[rust collector]

clubs in the middle of South

Lewis & Clark Rifle & Pistol Club maintains a 200 yd range about a mile and a half from my house, and leases a 50ft indoor pistol and smallbore range from the city. Dues: $10 annually. Actually, I went to the business meeting this year and talked them into raising dues to $15 as we need to find new land for outdoor range use due to encroachment of "civilization".

Trap shooting at the Izaak Walton clubhouse is $4 per round, no membership required. Sporting clays get pricey though--$15 for 50 targets.

The hard core of L&CR&P is dying off these days. In its heyday in the 50s, many more members, matches and projects. I'm trying to get youngsters out to the outdoor range to shoot 22s, hoping to get them excited about the shooting sports.

 

[jamz]

Massachusetts Rifle Association

The oldest active, documented gun club in the United States, or so they say.

Dues are $100 per year, and that includes all your spouse 'n kids. You also have to work once a year for 8 hours at the range, or you can "buy out" of it for $70 or so.

It has an archery range that's open year-round, a skeet and trap range, a 100 and 200 yard range that is usually closed in winter months, an outdoor 25 yard range that is closed in winter months, an outdoor 50 yard range that is usually open year round, and a 50 yard indoor range with 10 stations that is obviously open year round, and an indoor 50 foot .22lr and air gun range.

Though I prefer shooting outdoors, the indoor range is really worth the money here in these 10 degree days. It is well lit, nicely heated, and has those overhead motorized target mover things, so you can clip your target in, and send it away, never having to leave the firing line. It's unlimited caliber, so you can shoot everything except incindiary rounds in there.

Also, a friendlier bunch of people I've never met.

-James

 

[Stand_Watie]

My club is me, my wife and my daughter and my range is a cardboard box with a circle drawn on it, sitting in the back yard

Dues are the mortgage and taxes - but I'm the only member who has to pay dues.

 

[denfoote]

$200/year
Indoor range.
Unlimited range time!!

www.mandallshooting.com

 

[Dan Morris]

$70 per year for civilian, $30 for LEO. Rifle/pistol/AW and trap. Range time is unlimited unless being used for LEO training. or PD match.Guests allowed under member supervision. Located on leased county land, is about 25 miles west of Denver.
Dan

 

[BluesBear]

I only belong to a local indoor range.
it's $100 for a single membership and $125 for a Family. I asked if I, since I am single, bought a Family membership if I could use it to bring friends. The manager said sure so I bought the Family one. Unlimited range time and discounts on eyes and ears for guests.


Haven't found a good outdoor club around here. But there is a good place, out in the middle of nowhere, we call the "pit" where you can go to shoot anything.