New indoor range

**kyratshooter** · 12-17-2015, 02:17 PM

We have a new gun shop opening up the road a bit. They have a nice indoor range with rifle lanes as well as pistol capabilities, gun rentals and package deals.

They even have an old geezer rate on Mondays as well as their passes. Also have "ladies night" and Friday "date night" specials.

I have always considered the rates indoor ranges charge as being ridiculous at $25 per hour, forced ammo purchase and other irritations. I have refused to pay and just go out in the back lot here at home and shoot. I live almost in sight of a state range, but it has developed some really strange rules and limitations.

But winter is going to eventually arrive, and these guys are offering me unlimited range time, free gun rental, bring a friend for $5, use my own reloads, the ability to shoot an AK indoors and a free hat at a very reasonable rate if I buy a pass package.

The free hat was what clinched the deal!

**hunter63** · 12-17-2015, 03:06 PM

If I had a range close here I would do the same thing.
That sounds like a heck of a deal.

I did renew my membership to The Big Buck Rod and Gun Club......$7 bucks a year single.....$10 bucks a year family.
At 'The Place" so is 200 miles away....and only an out door range.....but, Hey, dogs don't get nuts like they do if I shoot at the cabin.

**crashdive123** · 12-17-2015, 04:39 PM

Mine is an outdoor range. Mrs. Crash doesn't care for indoor ranges........but for a hat, who knows.

**finallyME** · 12-17-2015, 05:27 PM

Man, for a free hat..why not.

Someone just put up an indoor range in town. It is a gun store/indoor range where you can rent and shoot as well. I have never gone to the range, just the store. Of course, if I drive 5 minutes out of town, I can shoot for free. And, if I drive a little farther, I can find empty desert and shoot at longer ranges for free. Sometimes it is nice to shoot inside though.

**Rick** · 12-17-2015, 05:46 PM

Ask to see the hat before you sign anything. I've gotten into...I mean...seen this kind of thing before.

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**natertot** · 12-17-2015, 06:59 PM

Congrats, KyRat!

Yeah, I am not a fan of the indoor ranges either. It does sound like you got a good deal that was worth it. What is the name of this place? I may have to check it out. For the hat..... of course!

**kyratshooter** · 12-17-2015, 08:00 PM

Point Blank.

They have locations on your side of the River too.

http://shootpointblank.com/locations/

**natertot** · 12-17-2015, 09:49 PM

Yeah. I've been to one. They have RSO's which is a good thing. However, the one time I went the RSO wanted to teach me. I wasn't there for that and was a little irritated by it. They also made me buy their ammo which was overpriced.

I do like their store. Good staff and overall they have pretty good prices. Just got a bad taste re: the RSO. I may have to give them another look.

**finallyME** · 12-18-2015, 10:40 AM

I found info on my local indoor range.
https://www.getsomeguns.com/l-25-range.aspx
The only benefit for me would be that I could either rent a handgun that I might be looking at to buy, or rent a "machine gun" and just waste a lot of money on "their" ammo. Of course, it is better than going to a country club. At this point in my life, I would rather brave the weather, and go somewhere free with a longer range option. I am sure that when I am as old as KYRS, then an indoor range would be ideal; if I was a Yankee, that is. Hopefully I will have my own by then.

**natertot** · 12-18-2015, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by finallyME

I found info on my local indoor range.
https://www.getsomeguns.com/l-25-range.aspx
The only benefit for me would be that I could either rent a handgun that I might be looking at to buy, or rent a "machine gun" and just waste a lot of money on "their" ammo. Of course, it is better than going to a country club. At this point in my life, I would rather brave the weather, and go somewhere free with a longer range option. I am sure that when I am as old as KYRS, then an indoor range would be ideal; if I was a Yankee, that is. Hopefully I will have my own by then.

.....and if you were from California!

**kyratshooter** · 12-18-2015, 02:53 PM

I have to admit that my search for an indoor range option is partly due to my depression era parents.

I could shoot outside in a lot of places, including my back yard, but I keep losing my empty cases!

Due to the stinginess and inability to stand a reloadable case thrown away I am willing to pay $35 per month to shoot inside on a concrete floor just to make recovering $0.05 worth of brass easier.

If course the approaching winter, and eventually it will get here, makes the prospect of stomping through snow so that I can both freeze and lose my empty brass at the same time a possibility, so an indoor range with heat, AC, hot coffee, a lounge area and amenities is more appealing at this moment that it would have been a month ago.

In the past I have actually and physically frozen my butt to the shooting bench at the state range and I find that less appealing as the three coldest months approach again. The only good part about their return is that I have lived another year to see their return.

I now have the prospect of waking up with the snow knee deep, cranking up the Jeep and driving to town for a quick check of the latest batch of reloads, lunch at the "early bird special" of my choice, then a return to the range for another few rounds before racing dark to get home before I break my driving curview.

Besides, the good range at the club is run by other southern geezers and they do not operate when the temp is below 45. (Literally, they close the range at 45 degrees.) After all, we are south of the river, well out of Yankee territory where tee shirts and shorts are year around wear and that tropical paradise of Kalifornia where the weather is always perfect, the sun always shines and all people can be all things to everyone. Our Mamas taught us to come inside when it gets cold unless you are making money for being out there!

So I may have a second set of shooting buddies of the extreme fair weather nature. Some of my friends still work for a living and do not get off until it is too late to consider a trip to the wild to pop a few rounds off, slog downrange in the mud to check the target, and do all the adjustments necessary for proper shooting. They would be open to a five minute trip down the street to the indoor range where weather or light, proper clothes and work schedules are not a factor.

There is another bonus too. I mentioned this to a couple of friends who live in town, in the depths of suburbia, and they need a place to teach their grandkids, daughters and such to shoot. That used to happen in the barn lot of the farm, but today's retirees and grandparents no longer live on the farm. Used to be a kid bragged that they went to the farm and grandpa let them shoot the .22, Now days they go to the range and grandpa lets them shoot the .22, or rents them a Sig.

**crashdive123** · 12-18-2015, 06:24 PM

Snow hasn't been a problem at the outdoor range I use in........forever. Just sayin.

**kyratshooter** · 12-19-2015, 04:31 AM

You just wait Crash!

The new theory is that a new ice age is imminent.

While everyone north of Macon, GA has built up some immunity to the cold you are going to be in deep doggy doo, or possibly deep snow, and you will get no pity here!

Just imagine all those native Floridians trying to drive on iced roads, and every woman from Tallahassee to Key West whining constantly that they are freezing to death and possession of a down comforter being the new status symbol in Boca Raton.

**Rick** · 12-19-2015, 08:12 AM

The local indoor range charges $400 a year for membership. The outdoor range I belong to charges $65. The indoor range charges $17 an hour for handgun and $22 an hour for long gun. My outdoor ranges charges $65 a year. Yeah, I shiver in the winter but consider shooting between snowflakes another challenge the indoor range can't offer. Besides, I'm a cheap basteed.

**Batch** · 12-19-2015, 12:25 PM

The problems with indoor ranges is the lack of range. And in a lot of cases, the lack of range officers.

The problem with outdoor ranges are usually range nazis (RSO's). And down here, the weather and insects. ALL of the outdoor Ranges I know of are right against the Everglades. So it is hot, humid, mosquitoes, deerflies, and thunderstorms.

I grew up with access to an indoor range. Because my dad's hunting buddy owned a range. He didn't charge me for lane fees or gun rentals. Just ammo and any targets I used.

When he finally sold that I was charged $100 dollars a year for lane fees. You could bring your own ammo and targets. So, I would hit the range on the way home 3 times a week.

Then someone else bought the range and the fees went up to $250 a year.

The outdoor range I was a member of until just recently went to annual membership only and raised that to $350 the first year and $250 each subsequent year. You could bring a guest member to the range and pay $20. But, you could only bring them once. After that they had to join. You had to go through an initial safety/club meeting as a new member.
You can literally shoot anything you want at any rate of fire you want. So long as you do so safely. And there are well trained NRA certified RSOs present at any time.

The reason for all of that was that they had built a new town around the range and the well to do folks who moved into the new town in the everglades didn't want a range in the town that they had built around the range. So, the went about trying to rid their town of this noisy eye sore. They used lawyers, police and the EPA. All of which require money to fight. Also, while they could regulate the hell out of business operating as a range. It is a little more difficult to regulate a private club on private land.

But, as the politics moved in, the range members and staff became more political and dramatic. So, I moved on.

I haven't found a good solution or a new range to call home yet. I can't just drag my dueling tree out at the indoor range. It's paper only.

We can target practice in the woods. So, that is the best option right now. Just not as convenient as going shooting on the way home.

**natertot** · 12-19-2015, 11:35 PM

I agree with Rick. I too pay $65 dollars a year membership for an outdoor club. I have access to 30, 50, 100, and 200yd rifle/pistol ranges. I also have access to skeet, trap, and five stand shotgun ranges, an archery range, 3D archery, a pond to fish, and campsites. Every time I look at an indoor range I think $25 for range time and $40 for two boxes of their over priced ammo which is a years worth of membership for one hour of shooting. I just check out the merchandise for a deal and leave it at that.