berettaprofessor
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Yeah...weather would have been a good addition to the poll!
What prevents you from shooting more often?
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Kentucky Jelly
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I voted overall time, but the weather is a factor right now. The other reason being it is still deer season here for 1 more week. I just don't shoot during season unless it is at a deer. (bow season now) I do how ever have plenty of time to reload at night. I am about to buy a cheap safe to put all of my ammo in 
. By the time the days get longer, and it warms up I will be a shooting fool. I stopped getting a membership to an indoor range due to the other patrons making me nervous. Last time i went a group of asian women were shooting next to me shooting the ground 5 feet down range. I have not been back since. Would like to find a nicer range with a RO on duty.
. By the time the days get longer, and it warms up I will be a shooting fool. I stopped getting a membership to an indoor range due to the other patrons making me nervous. Last time i went a group of asian women were shooting next to me shooting the ground 5 feet down range. I have not been back since. Would like to find a nicer range with a RO on duty.stevelyn
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Weather. It's always hissing and blowing sideways rain. If it isn't raining then we're getting blow dried.
Do you realize that I've had a Savage .17 HMR for three years now and I don't know where my windage zero is? I'm either fighting a left-right or right left crosswind at the range. I hate this place. I want to go back to Fairbanks. It may be -40 F, but at least it's calm.
Do you realize that I've had a Savage .17 HMR for three years now and I don't know where my windage zero is? I'm either fighting a left-right or right left crosswind at the range. I hate this place. I want to go back to Fairbanks. It may be -40 F, but at least it's calm.
Big Bull
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The indoor range near me is not heated in the range area. They will turn on a couple of space heaters but with the exhaust running it is to dang cold to shoot. After about 15 / 20 minutes my fingers are so cold I can't load the clips.
I don't get it either it would not be that hard to heat the place.
I don't get it either it would not be that hard to heat the place.
MinnMooney
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It's sometimes too damn cold in the winter to set up all of my shooting equipment and then shoot with tingling fingers. Ha....... only kidding. Nothing stops me from shooting!
Ed Ames
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Too noisy.
Seriously, I don't like shooting at public ranges because there are too many people shooting loud guns (myself included) too close to each other. There should be a law requiring mufflers on all rifles that produce more than ~145db. If there was some seperation between lanes it'd be better.
Seriously, I don't like shooting at public ranges because there are too many people shooting loud guns (myself included) too close to each other. There should be a law requiring mufflers on all rifles that produce more than ~145db. If there was some seperation between lanes it'd be better.
MD_Willington
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Weather, Work, Family life, I have 3 children that miss their father since I work about 50 hours a week or more on occasion.
Recently though, a friend of ours with a good size piece of property nearby has offered to let us shoot on her land... she's our preschool teacher.
Recently though, a friend of ours with a good size piece of property nearby has offered to let us shoot on her land... she's our preschool teacher.
I voted "something else", which for me is the desire not to get burned out on shooting.
I have plenty of time, guns, and ammo and membership in a nearby indoor range, so I can easily shoot every day if I wish. As it is I go once, occasionally twice, a week. That way I look forward to it, I enjoy it more, and I don't get tired of it...not to mention it gives me a week to get around to cleaning the gun(s) which I don't especially enjoy.
I have plenty of time, guns, and ammo and membership in a nearby indoor range, so I can easily shoot every day if I wish. As it is I go once, occasionally twice, a week. That way I look forward to it, I enjoy it more, and I don't get tired of it...not to mention it gives me a week to get around to cleaning the gun(s) which I don't especially enjoy.
Ingsoc75
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Distance to the range!
Besides joining a private club where you have to pay $$$ the closest is 45 minutes away.
Besides joining a private club where you have to pay $$$ the closest is 45 minutes away.
Ammo expense is my biggest reason,shoot a lot more 22lr now.but i shoot alot more in the basement with beeman r1, p1,drozd blackbird,& hw97 airguns.much cheaper & convenient,& i get to shoot bottles,radios,anything glass or ceramic,anything i can dig up that i can blast...
SharpsDressedMan
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It gets dark too soon, and I don't have night vision equipment.
NMGonzo
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Cost of Ammo and time available.
Time and money.
Time and money.
wvshooter
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More than anything it's the distance to the range. I started going to the no longer used city landfill which is about three miles away but conditions there aren't great. Other problems include winter weather from November to March.
The rest of the year, March to November the problem is lack of time. I reload so cost is not a problem.
The rest of the year, March to November the problem is lack of time. I reload so cost is not a problem.
I voted cost of ammo but since I'm not reloading these days ammo availability is also a factor. Hard to go target shooting when I'm down to bare bones home and personal defense amounts of ammo most of the time because the stores often don't have the ammo I want or need. I am kind of tired of 90% of my target shooting consisting of going plink! plink! with a .22 when I want to go BOOM! BOOM! with a 30.06.
Y’all griping about the cold. Y’all don’t know what real cold is. I worked a job up north one winter, way way up north. It got so cold that when we threw hot dishwater out on the ground it froze so fast that the ice was still warm.
I didn’t vote in the poll because I shoot as much as always. Off the porch into targets on piled up logs in the woods. No problem with lead in them; the price of timber is so low that I don’t even mess with selling it, it’s all slated to burn.
Ammo is not yet a problem but might become one. I have a bucket of cases and need to start reloading.
Reading many of the posts causes me to understand there are real problems for many in getting a range which is reasonably priced, or just getting to one. I’m appalled by the prices quoted.
Makes me realize that old dirt road out there ain’t such a bad deal, after all. Of course all visitors have to stop at the feed store and call me to come pull ‘em to the house with my 4x4.
I didn’t vote in the poll because I shoot as much as always. Off the porch into targets on piled up logs in the woods. No problem with lead in them; the price of timber is so low that I don’t even mess with selling it, it’s all slated to burn.
Ammo is not yet a problem but might become one. I have a bucket of cases and need to start reloading.
Reading many of the posts causes me to understand there are real problems for many in getting a range which is reasonably priced, or just getting to one. I’m appalled by the prices quoted.
Makes me realize that old dirt road out there ain’t such a bad deal, after all. Of course all visitors have to stop at the feed store and call me to come pull ‘em to the house with my 4x4.
bigalexe
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Formerly it was #'s 1,2, and 3 combined preventing me shooting more often. Now its just the distance.
The first one I've taken care of though by recently acquiring a .22LR rifle that eats into my change pile a whole lot slower than my shotgun. Unfortunately being Michigan it was below 0 degrees last weekend and there's a good bit of snow this weekend so I haven't been able to get out, which relates to #2.
The range I can use is a hunt club requiring a 40 minute round trip, far enough that I have to know more than 5 minutes in advance that I'm going there and if I do go shoot it will eat up a large portion of the day. This is probably the largest issue because its not a simple matter to go shoot 50 rounds of ammo in my backyard with a 5 minute walk from the house. It requires loading all the gear from the cabinet, into cases, get everything into car, drive there, wait for firing line to clear so I can setup... ok you get it.
Now #3 used to be an issue, but as of this month I've joined the club where I shoot so I can't complain anymore. It stretched the wallet a bit but it's worth it IMO.
The first one I've taken care of though by recently acquiring a .22LR rifle that eats into my change pile a whole lot slower than my shotgun. Unfortunately being Michigan it was below 0 degrees last weekend and there's a good bit of snow this weekend so I haven't been able to get out, which relates to #2.
The range I can use is a hunt club requiring a 40 minute round trip, far enough that I have to know more than 5 minutes in advance that I'm going there and if I do go shoot it will eat up a large portion of the day. This is probably the largest issue because its not a simple matter to go shoot 50 rounds of ammo in my backyard with a 5 minute walk from the house. It requires loading all the gear from the cabinet, into cases, get everything into car, drive there, wait for firing line to clear so I can setup... ok you get it.
Now #3 used to be an issue, but as of this month I've joined the club where I shoot so I can't complain anymore. It stretched the wallet a bit but it's worth it IMO.
Distance to the range and time, I guess. I'm a member of a great club with an awesome range, but it's an hour there and an hour back. I also have to drag every damn gun I own with us, or they whine at me. All the ammo cans of all the different calibers too, think there's a dozen. Plus all the peripheral crap that I can't seem to do without, targets, stands, gun rests, trash bags, beverages, snacks and cooler, etc., etc. And if we're shooting cans and jugs full of water, there's always a buttload of those.
When we get around to going, we try to make a good, long day of it. It's usually windy too, which wears you down. The club range has a bunch of separate, individual ranges of various lengths, and we can usually have one all to ourselves as long as we want.
Not to mention schlepping all the guns and ammo cans up from the basement to the truck, and then back down again. Bleh, that part sucks. I'm working on a plan to keep at least the ammo cans and most other accessories in the garage, locked up.
When we get around to going, we try to make a good, long day of it. It's usually windy too, which wears you down. The club range has a bunch of separate, individual ranges of various lengths, and we can usually have one all to ourselves as long as we want.
Not to mention schlepping all the guns and ammo cans up from the basement to the truck, and then back down again. Bleh, that part sucks. I'm working on a plan to keep at least the ammo cans and most other accessories in the garage, locked up.
mcdonl
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For me, this time of year it is the biting cold. I can shoot and enjoy myself in the 20's but once it dips down into single digits I take to reloading more, cleaning more and my new hobby of making grips. As soon as the weather gets a little warmer I will shoot more.
Dont get me wrong, I still get out a coulpe times a month but not 2 times every weekend like in the warmer weather.
Also, money does play into WHAT I shoot but I have enough .22's that I can still have fun.
Dont get me wrong, I still get out a coulpe times a month but not 2 times every weekend like in the warmer weather.
Also, money does play into WHAT I shoot but I have enough .22's that I can still have fun.
OregonJohnny
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I voted "distance to the range". I don't like to shoot at private or public ranges, I much prefer "out in the middle of nowhere", which for me is a 2-hour round-trip.
41magsnub
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Weather for me. As I get older I am more of a wuss with the cold. If I'm too cold shooting isn't fun and that is what it is about for me. For me to go out shooting in the cold there better be the chance of some meat in it for me at the end.
Cosmoline
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I've bicycled 12 miles to the range at zero degrees and back, so don't talk to me about the weather! This weekend I'm planning my annual Winter War memorial march, where I walk the distance with a Mosin on my back.
Then again, I *am* technically insane.
Then again, I *am* technically insane.
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