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Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 18, 2005, 06:28:05 PM
Here is where I shoot.www.antelopeclub.org/ (http://www.antelopeclub.org/)

I am a member there.  Membership is annual.
Feel free to surf the site.  We have 10 yrd,  15 yrd,  25ryd,  50 yd, and 100 yard lines.   Its one of the best facilities in the nation and only 30 minutes from my house.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: mbott on August 18, 2005, 06:48:55 PM
I've yet to join a private club, but I'm in the process of researching a few here in Central OH.  When I shoot outdoors, I can usually be found at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Woodbury Range.  It's 55 miles east of me near Coshocton, OH.  Archery, shotgun, pistol and rifle.  There are 55 covered shooting postions spread across 4 ranges: 25, 50, 100 and 200 yards.  The positions are either wood benches or concrete.  If I remeber to take the camera with me tomorrow, I'l post some pictures of the place.

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Mike
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: mbott on August 18, 2005, 07:07:00 PM
Found some pictures:

Looking over the Shotgun area to the 200 yard range (part of the 100 yard range is behind the maintenance shed):

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/3180/shotgun6ww.jpg)

Shooting positions on the 200 yard range:

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/3711/positions3ji.jpg)

Down the 200 yard range:

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/6690/dwnrng7tf.jpg)

Not bad for $24 a year.

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Mike
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 18, 2005, 07:10:05 PM
Great facility and excellent photos.
Here are some photos from ours.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/wingedliberty/wacphotos.jpg)
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: jwc007 on August 18, 2005, 07:35:20 PM
For Handgun:  www.pinetreepistolclub.org/ (http://www.pinetreepistolclub.org/)

I frequent several Rifle Ranges, but do not have pics or Websites for them, as yet.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 18, 2005, 07:47:36 PM
jwc:

 That looks like a nice facility.  Very nice indeed.
A really great vacation would be to travel the CCW reciprocity states with mine and try out all the ranges in an RV vacation,  now thats something to think about for retirement.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: BRASMAN on August 19, 2005, 02:35:17 AM
I shoot out in the desert and at a range that is about 5min from my house or at an indoor range at impact guns or the state has a very nice range about 30 min away by Logan Utah.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 19, 2005, 03:54:35 AM
We should consider ourselves fortunate to live in these areas where shooting facilities are plentiful., some folks in other areas cannot shoot handguns at all.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: BRASMAN on August 19, 2005, 11:46:39 AM
My Dad lives in Indiana and he is a member of a great range. They even have a 500yrd rifle range with the burm you stand behind and mark the targets like in Sgt York. I had more fun standing behind the burm or pit and hearing the bullets go over than when I was shooting. Those mobile 2mile radios come in handy for helping people spot.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: Golddogman on August 19, 2005, 02:56:20 PM
I'm surrounded by a combination of public land and a 100 acre farm. The guy who owns the farm is a shooter, and he's built a very nice bench, plus berms at 25, 50 and 100 yards - and it's all only a couple hundred yards from my back door.

So I'm there anytime I want to play with guns.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: Walt-Sherrill on August 19, 2005, 04:12:39 PM
My IDPA club shoots at the Grandview Range.  Its nice to be able to shoot year-round, during the snow, during the rain storms, etc.  (I have an annual membership, and our IDPA club member have a special arrangement with the club that allows us to shoot 3 times a week in off hours, shooting reloads, and from the holster, neither of which is allowed for general members.)

Its a modest range: 8 lanes of 50' (but we can expand it to 20 yards for the IDPA Classifier.)

www.gftc.com/classes.htm (http://www.gftc.com/classes.htm)
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 19, 2005, 04:51:13 PM
Walt:
  Its open until 8pm on weekdays,  You gotta love it!
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: Walt-Sherrill on August 19, 2005, 04:54:32 PM
Our club has Sunday mornings, Monday Afternoons, and Friday nights (after closing) to shoot as long as we want... Only a couple of us have keys, and we open, cleanup and close.  The range is under new management, and as the various keyholders leave, I expect the arrangement to change.

Its worked well for the last several years.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 19, 2005, 05:05:47 PM
Ours is good like that also and range officers have keys afterhours and I can go anytime I want, and the local police range is open until 9pm ,(Mondays 8pm, nobody feels accurate on a Monday. (*_*)LOL)
  Our fees are $180 the first year and $110 subsequent years.
we have IDPA,  SASS, and everything else you can imagine.  The great thing about membership is that you can shoot all day for $3 and your guests for $5 (non members), the general public is $15/day.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: czerious on August 20, 2005, 09:05:10 AM
I usually go to Ben Avery, fantastic facility run by the state of AZ. Most of the range folks are volunteers, and are very focused on helping you have a safe and fun time. You can tell from the web site, they are family oriented from top to bottom.Trap, Skeet, Smallbore, Practical Pistol, Class 3, Blackpowder, Long range, Silhouette, if it goes bang, they have a dedicated range for it. Last year it was voted in as a State of Arizona Point of Pride.

www.basfaz.com/ (http://www.basfaz.com/)

I also enjoy going out into the desert for informal shoots with my buddies, but the days of Open Range being 20 minutes from your home are long gone and finding those spots is taking more and more planning as the years progress.


zerious

Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 20, 2005, 04:06:12 PM
czserious.

Thats a nice facility.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: EZ CZ75 on August 21, 2005, 12:10:21 AM
I really prefer to shoot outside and set up my own little targets.  Luckily, my wife's family has about a 3000 acre piece of dirt on Bear Lake's shore in Utah.  Over the years I have set up concrete pads at various positions and ranges.  The terrain is both flat and mountainous, so real world shooting (hunting) is easily simulated and I never have to worry about the other guy.
On indoor ranges, this year is the first year I shot in one (Doug's shoot'n'sports, SLC, UT) and the ease of shooting was great, just different.

I will try to post some pics of the 3000 acre shooting range.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 21, 2005, 12:18:56 AM
That would be great to see.  You bring up a good point.  I have struck a balance between outdoor informal shooting and well regulated indoor and structured competition shooting.  I enjoy both.  I find that the structured shooting helps me shoot better recreationally on a casual basis.  One builds a foundation for the other.  Its a great thing when you think about it.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: Unregistered(d) on August 21, 2005, 07:10:03 AM
The indoor range just highly irked me, so this is the little outdoor range we go to. Nice, quiet, 100 yard range, nothing special, $4 to shoot all day, no running water, pit toilets, and we love it. Never full, never busy, nice people shoot here...
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/armoredman/TMP2.jpg)
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/armoredman/TMP3.jpg)
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/armoredman/kh2.jpg)
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 21, 2005, 09:40:18 AM
A very nice facility you have there.  Kinda looks like Area 51 from the air. LOL
  Its good to have choices, but heck, some folks live in states where they can't shoot at all.  I have access to several police ranges, plus an oudoor NRA facility,  We should never take that for granted.  
   There was a time when rifle shooting was taken up by every red blooded American boy and ranges were in every town.  Now its a sad state of affairs.  , with the Boy Scouts and other youth groups being attacked for promoting firearms safety and outdoor responsibility.
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: wiseakr on August 22, 2005, 04:54:33 PM
www.harrisburghunters.org/ (http://www.harrisburghunters.org/)

 greeat gun club, not real happy with the way they have there web site set up but all the info is there that you need, just have to find it lol
Title: Where do you shoot?
Post by: KingPolymer-III on August 22, 2005, 06:45:45 PM
It really looks like alot of folks are shooting at great facilities.  This is so great to see.