What prevents you from shooting more often?

What is the biggest obstacle to you shooting more?

  • Cost of Ammo

    Votes: 98 32.0%

  • Distance to the range

    Votes: 48 15.7%

  • Cost of range fee/ membership

    Votes: 13 4.2%

  • Overall time availible

    Votes: 102 33.3%

  • Too many good THR threads that keep me glued here

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • Something else (please post)

    Votes: 43 14.1%
  • Total voters
    306
  • Poll closed .
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yayhoos that get in the way that make shooting at ranges unenjoyable. looking for a private place now.
 
multiple things:

-cost of ammo (I'm broke)
-time (I'm busy)
-weather (I hate the cold...like, really, really hate it:cuss:)
 
I voted cost of ammo... It's substantially higher than it was a year ago.. Wal-Mart (hate them) finally got 575 round bricks of Federal .22 in stock!!! only $30... I refused to buy as a matter of principle; what kills me is that others WILL, and reward this gouging (and have .22 caliber fun that I am NOT).
We live in AK and the winter doesn't bother me; it's a sure bet that you won't have to wait on a bench when it's -10. Sadly, it's been in the 20's lately and the range just opened back up - closed for the month of December. It's been pretty busy. Fired the 7,500th(dreth?) round through my PT1911 last week. Can't wait to hit 10K :D
 
Prior to our first lil one. The wife and I used to shoot atleast once a week doing coursework/scenarios with a group of friends. Sadly i've only been shooting about 4 or 5 times since she was born. Family > *

Just got my 550 put back together, going to start reloading again and hopefully get some time in a few times a month.
 
i voted for cost of ammo but in reality, i woldnt mind paying for it if i could just find it!
 
Cost (ammo and range), free time (after work is out as it's dark), finding a range that is not hideously expensive, a very long drive, or staffed by jerks (our closest range is Fudd central, front counter guy almost had a stroke when I asked if they did 3 gun, idpa etc).

Finding a good range is toughest. I'd make time to burn a few rounds of .22 a lot more often if there was a close range not stocked with angry old jerks.
 
Being that I shoot mostly milsurp rifles I have no problem finding ammo. My main problem is being in college and finding a range that I can afford to shoot at. The local indoor ranges around here are $8 for a half hour of pistol, $8 for shooting a rifle at 50 yds for an hour but, if you want to move out to 100yds it will cost you another $4, then 200 yds costs you about $20. I could get a membership at a club for roughly $90 but thats roughly a 30 minute drive to any of them.
 
Time. My base pay is around 35k a year, and I make close to 50k a year. I live an hour away from work, so that's two hours a day in the car. Been working tens lately, so that's over half my day.

Ammo availability is also a problem. However, since I haven't had time to shoot, the 50 rounds I bought here and the 100 rounds I got there have added up.
 
I chose the Glued to the Highroad thread. First, someone had to. Second, it's a lot warmer inside. 20 degrees and wind are enough to keep me inside.
I just realized how old I sounded...
 
I voted other, although the cost of ammo is a factor. Mostly it's because my wife is handicapped and we can't get out as much as we used to. I won't go without her. She enjoys it too much to leave her behind, but just isn't able to anymore.
 
The range here is kinda expensive, $200 first year, $100 after that. No work mean no shooting range.
 
cost of ammo ($35 for 20, 30-06 & $33 for 20, .243)is one but its worse that it's a tank of fuel to get to a range and back ($60) if i want to shoot centrefire. there's a pistol range nearby but it only lets you use the .22 rifle once a month. so cost in general is the main thing, because to make the trip worth while you need to spend the day at the range, which tends to cost $200 plus for every trip to the range.
 
basicly, i have 3 things that keep me from shooting more. 1) is weather, especially right now, when it is freezing cold. going shooting when you can not hold a gun steady because you are shaking from being cold is futile. i still go in weather like this some, i sit in the truck, with the heater wide open, get to the point i am on the virge of sweating, and step out and shoot (pistol). when i get to cold, i just repeat the process.

2)in the summer, it is family. my wife has been quite sick the last few years. so it is almost like being a single father. pretty much, if the kids are going to do something, i am the one that takes them. hopefully, this year, my daughter will try shooting again. last time out, she had a hot 22 shell casing land down her shirt, and it burned her chest. that was all for her for the rest of the year. next time, she will have to dress differently!.

3) not so much the cost of ammo, in my case, it is the reloading components. i am on a fixed income. have been for several years. it is hard to find extra money in our steady budget for components that have in some cases, doubled in price. i am making adjustments, finding less expensive powders, casting my own bullets (although the casting equipment was not cheap!) etc. once the credit card bill is paid for for the casting equipment, then maybe i will see some decent savings. now, if i only had a way to make my own primers........!
 
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