Where does a gun owner go to escape the cold and keep shooting.

[oneounceload]

Just what I was thinking, Now where in Florida to move too. What I need in a range is trap and skeet, a 1,000 yard rifle range and regularly scheduled USPSA and other pistol matches. Ya'all got something like that down there.

Bradford Sportsman's, near Graham, has sporting clays, FITASC, skeet, 850 yard rifle (about the longest in FL) plus outdoor rifle and pistol

Hernando Sportsmens has trap/skeet rifle and pistol, along with machine gun shoots

Flagler gun club in Bunnel is another worth considering.

If there are any meeting all requirements in south FL, I do not not know about them

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I live on my own farm and can shoot when and where I want. I bought an 8X8 storage shed and oriented it in the right direction, and shoot from inside -- with plenty of ear protection. After a shooting session, I tell myself, "My brass is all somewhere inside this shed."

Before I bought the shed, I used to have to tell myself, "My brass is somewhere on this planet."

 

[larryh1108]

I have gloves but have never found a pair that gives me a good feel of the trigger so I don't use it on my trigger hand.

You can cut the finger off of a pair of gloves where your hand stays warm and you still have a bare trigger finger. They also sell gloves that has a flap that folds back to expose your fingers and folds back for warmth.

http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Factory-...=1386458742&sr=1-7&keywords=fingerless+gloves

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Hunters are very familiar with such gloves. I have a pair I got at Wal Mart, and another Gore-Tex lined pair that I use elk hunting in the Rockies. The latter have saved me from frostbite more than once.

 

[Rio Laxas]

Come to Anchorage, we've been having a warm spell for the last few days. It is 33°F today and it even got up to 36°F yesterday. Unfortunately, it turned the roads to ice.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I was at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA, when a brigade of the 10th Mountain Division -- specially trained for cold weather and stationed in the mountains at Fort Drum in New York state -- were in rotation there. The temperature was 33 degrees and it was steadily raining.

We were evacuating those cold-weather trained troops so fast I thought we would wear out the helicopters.

Cold-wet conditions are much more dangerous than cold-dry.

 

[Reloadron]

The winters up here keep me at my indoor range and the loading bench. The indoor range allows rifle but a rifle at 75 feet (25 yards) is less than fun. Been cleaning batches of rifle brass so I can load through the winter. Have to get things setup. Years ago I would shoot the outdoor range in snow but my days for that are done. Cold and shivering sucks!

Ron

 

[Vern Humphrey]

A 25 yard range is ideal for smallbore practice. I use a 50-foot target, shoot standing unsupported and work the bolt from the shoulder, putting five rounds into each target on a standard NRA 11-bull 50 foot target. I consider good shooting at that range to be "nothing outside the 8 ring."

 

[km101]

North Texas doesn't qualify as a place to go this year! We are having overnight lows in the high teens/low 20's and it has been below freezing for over 48 hrs now. May not seem like much of a cold front to you guys up north but it brings thing to a halt down here.

And the outdoor ranges are closed due to 3-4 inches of ice! Definitely not normal weather for us! Normal high should be 56, not the 26 that we had today.

Not a big fan of shooting when it is sleeting outside!

 

[swiftak]

I start reloading to get ready for the spring.

 

[hso]

Tx, az, fl

 

[1SOW]

It was 27 degs this morning here in South Texas. The USPSA match cancelled.

Tomorrow it's 'supposed to get up to 50+degs after noon. There's a steel match that's still ON for tomorrow morning starting at 10:00. 5 stages of "How much steel can you shoot in 18 seconds".

That IS cold for this neck of the (missing) woods. Our cold comes from Canada, down the rockies and into Texas. 75 degs one day and and 20 degs a day or two later. We got to see Icicles this morning for the first time in a looong time.

 

[Ignition Override]

Vern Humphrey: In May '80 at AF Survival School we were in the hills about forty miles from Fairchild AFB, Spokane WA.

The instructor told us that a class during a (then) recent winter lost a guy who went to sleep wearing some wet clothes in his sleeping bag. Whether dry clothes had been avail., no idea.

Queen_: Can you shoot ok with lightweight gloves outside when the winds slows or it warms up a little?
I tested my 'new' Yugo 59 (no launcher) SKS yesterday at the river, but without gloves not much fun, unless the sun decides to come out.

 

[Reloadron]

A 25 yard range is ideal for smallbore practice. I use a 50-foot target, shoot standing unsupported and work the bolt from the shoulder, putting five rounds into each target on a standard NRA 11-bull 50 foot target. I consider good shooting at that range to be "nothing outside the 8 ring."

With several nice little 22 LR bolt guns I should give that a try, thanks Vern.

Ron

 

[Krogen]

Same private club I go all year. If it rains/snows, the firing points are covered. If it's too cold, we have wood stoves on the 100 yd and 500 yd firing lines. In the summer, we have shade.

Yep . . . . Spoiled rotten!

 

[cheesebigot]

When you say cold, you mean around 65, right?

Come down to AZ and thaw your bones. The desert is a nice 55 degrees, nothing an extra pair of socks and a hat won't fix and we have all the space in the world.

If staying local, consider this to be Nature's way of telling you it's time to reload so you can better enjoy the warmer weather in your future.

 

[TanklessPro]

Yeah it sucks when the high is in the 40's. I'm just glad it was 80 degrees Friday.

 

[22-rimfire]

You can pretty much shoot all winter long in much of the South if you want to. The colder spells are generally of rather short duration. But it is all a matter of perspective. I don't particularly like or want to shoot when its in the 30's. I have other stuff to do and life does not revolve around shooting.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Vern Humphrey: In May '80 at AF Survival School we were in the hills about forty miles from Fairchild AFB, Spokane WA.

The instructor told us that a class during a (then) recent winter lost a guy who went to sleep wearing some wet clothes in his sleeping bag. Whether dry clothes had been avail., no idea.

Queen_: Can you shoot ok with lightweight gloves outside when the winds slows or it warms up a little?
I tested my 'new' Yugo 59 (no launcher) SKS yesterday at the river, but without gloves not much fun, unless the sun decides to come out.

Last year I shot a USPSA match with a 20mph wind and 26 degrees outside. The wind off the mountains was downright cold plus it was hard to keep the targets up in the wind. My CZ felt like a block of ice in my hands. Anyway that was my last winter match. No more. Call me a fair weather shooter if you must but this old woman is ready for warmer climes.

 

[gdcpony]

Sorry, no sympathy for you all here! When it gets cold around my parts, I slow down my shooting, but spend more time with my weapons. See below.

I usually go here:

And do this:

It works with a gun too:

I tend to get my kids involved too:

 

[stressed]

I shoot outside all the time. I also like testing different weapons in the weather along with different lubes. Probably should post some info.

Weapon and equipment malfunction on the eastern front of WWII has always interested me. (With temps of 50 below zero recorded) In addition to the ruthless nature of combat and the weather I can see how death was welcomed as a relief, and being posted to the eastern front was essentially a death sentence.

 

[mnrivrat]

Try just across our southern boarder into Mexico. Heard it's a hot spot for shooten year around ! Nice'n warm too !

 

[rskent]

I believe Manatee is the only 1000 yard range in Florida.

http://www.manateegunclub.com/

 

[oneounceload]

Try just across our southern boarder into Mexico. Heard it's a hot spot for shooten year around ! Nice'n warm too

Actually there is some serious dove shooting going on in Mexico as well as some great quail hunting....

 

[cfullgraf]

Have an uncle that lives in Louisiana try to tell me how cold it is in Feb when it rains and such---------rain?!?!?----really?

Sorry but you have no idea what real cold is.

I lived down river from New orleans for a while, it gets cold in Louisiana in winter. Maybe not temperature wise, but it gives new meaning to "damp cold".

Remember, they are set up for air conditioning down there, not heat.

In TN, I wait for a reasonable day, but my range is out back.