Where do you shoot?
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The local club is in an suburban area (as am I) so no centerfire rifles or pistols that use centerfire rifle cartridges are allowed.
I shoot 75% of the time at the club and 25% at a state owned rifle range about 1hr away.
The local club is in an suburban area (as am I) so no centerfire rifles or pistols that use centerfire rifle cartridges are allowed.
I shoot 75% of the time at the club and 25% at a state owned rifle range about 1hr away.Gadsden
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Guess I'm one of the lucky few. I've got a seventy yard range out back. Hoping to increase to one hundred soon.
Chuck R.
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I belong to a private club that has a pretty decent setup; 3 pistol ranges, 75 yard range, 100 yard, 200 & 300 yard, and when they have special shoots they open up the 500 yard. You get a badge and a key and use it whenever you want. The only problem is that it gets busy on the weekends due to matches and it's a 45 minute drive for me.
I also shoot IDPA at an indoor range (40 minutes), bimonthly combat pistol league at another indoor range (45 minutes) and I shoot monthly Silhouette matches at a club that's close to 2 hrs away.
I like to practice a couple times a week and the commutes were getting to be a real PITA. So I broke down and bought a "back 40" and built my own range 20 minutes from where I live now with the intent of building a house there in the next few years. I have 30 meter pistol, 100, 200, and 300 meter rifle.
Chuck
I also shoot IDPA at an indoor range (40 minutes), bimonthly combat pistol league at another indoor range (45 minutes) and I shoot monthly Silhouette matches at a club that's close to 2 hrs away.
I like to practice a couple times a week and the commutes were getting to be a real PITA. So I broke down and bought a "back 40" and built my own range 20 minutes from where I live now with the intent of building a house there in the next few years. I have 30 meter pistol, 100, 200, and 300 meter rifle.
Chuck
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Guess I'm Lucky, I can go out my back door and shoot at 1000yds with no problem and BLM land to back it up.
Most of thr time just sit on the back pourch and shoot the 22 at cans and things while doinig a barbacue.
Keith
Most of thr time just sit on the back pourch and shoot the 22 at cans and things while doinig a barbacue.
Keith
peacemaker45
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We've got an outdoor range about five min from the house. 75 yds, plus shotgun, if you want to chuck 'em yourself. Only costs about $20 a year. We're wanting to put in a short range in the backyard, for cowboy practice, that way we can leave the steel set up. It's a PITA to load the steel into the truck, drive, unload and set up, shoot, then tear down, load it back up, drive home, and put it back in the garage. Grr. Much easier to just walk out the back, and shoot.
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sharkhunter2018
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I live on 50 acres, so I do most of my shooting right out in my fields. Have a 100 yard range, with a tree (now a stump, after a storm blew it over. Hmm, i wonder what could have caused it to do that ) as a general area to put targets. Used to shoot atleast twice a week, until a neighbor called. So now I only shoot every couple weeks for about an hour. It keeps them and my trigger finger happy. The closest range to me is almost an hour away, so I dont get there much.
) as a general area to put targets. Used to shoot atleast twice a week, until a neighbor called. So now I only shoot every couple weeks for about an hour. It keeps them and my trigger finger happy. The closest range to me is almost an hour away, so I dont get there much.49north
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I live in the sticks and shoot on my 100 yd range quite frequently. After a few years of messing up the trees I built a large box and filled it with sand and metal plates...makes a nice stop. I have a 200yd range about a quarter mile from the house and I have targets set up out back to 400 yds but hard to get to in the winter. Most of my neighbors shoot, but most not nearly as much as I.
Gord
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Southern California's open spaces have been informally classified as I'll Be Dead in 60 Years And It Won't Be My Problem Anymore since the '70s. "Take out more than you took in" only applies to non-Superfund levels of nonorganic material.
I just go out to one of a few places I prefer (10-20min drive, depending) and choose one of several dozen targets that are invariably laying around already, from fire extinguishers to CRT monitors to fiberboard to anything else that was deemed unworthy of a trip to the official dump. If I'm feeling particularly picky or want to be able to differentiate between my bullet holes and the last 20 guys' bullet holes, I'll take some plywood scrap and Shoot-n-Cs and shoot those. Cart 'em back out with me, too - just on principle, I guess, since it wouldn't even be noticeable if I didn't.
It's pretty pathetic - if there were a way to wield a giant heavenly sieve and sift through the SoCal desert, I'm confident that the amount of material recovered would pretty much turn the Natural Resources Clock back a full year.
I just go out to one of a few places I prefer (10-20min drive, depending) and choose one of several dozen targets that are invariably laying around already, from fire extinguishers to CRT monitors to fiberboard to anything else that was deemed unworthy of a trip to the official dump. If I'm feeling particularly picky or want to be able to differentiate between my bullet holes and the last 20 guys' bullet holes, I'll take some plywood scrap and Shoot-n-Cs and shoot those. Cart 'em back out with me, too - just on principle, I guess, since it wouldn't even be noticeable if I didn't.
It's pretty pathetic - if there were a way to wield a giant heavenly sieve and sift through the SoCal desert, I'm confident that the amount of material recovered would pretty much turn the Natural Resources Clock back a full year.
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