My Atterbury experience today...

[parson]

Rates seem to be pretty fair now. I hated it when they had a 2 hour minimum. If you shot 30 minutes it still cost $15 the way it was.

 

[Griffeycom]

Kind of related;

My first time on the shotgun range there was a great experience. I'd never used the token-fed, button activated Skeet/Trap setup before and asked the RO for some help. He came over and talked to my friend and I about the whole process of skeet shooting and even showed off his years of experience. In the end he dropped another coin or two into the machine which after what he used gave us about half a round more than we paid. Ended up learning a lot from him and it was a lot of fun even with the winds as high as they were that day...I think I managed to hit half a dozen that day

 

[dbd870]

Good on the ROs, and good on you.

Yes indeed.

 

[jrh84]

+1 on the trap/skeet range guys

I've never shot at the rifle/pistol range before, but I have to agree with the above post that the trap and skeet range guys are great. Mark is always happy to help anyone, especially new shooters. Most of the guys that work there will keep it open for a while after closing time if there are still folks shooting. It might be a shade pricey compared to other places, but you won't find nicer facilities.

 

[JC PAINT WORKZ]

i like atterbury i just wished it was a longer range..

 

[sporter]

Atterbury is too much money.

I shoot on a weekly basis and factoring in another $20-30 for the range use in addition to the $30-40 I go through in ammo would makes it prohibitively expensive.

Ceraland is $3 for the whole day...

 

[sbatten]

I have not been back to Atterbury in over 2 years after they raised the fees to a minimum 2 hours and a rate of 7 or 7.50 per hour. When I asked why the fees were so high they said we've had people shooting the posts down range deliberately and the fees help off set that. This really ticked me off because what are the RO's there for. If you see someone doing what he said, make them pay for it not us responsible gun owners.

I'm just sick of this pansy *** society that we will punish everyone instead of the person responsible. Sounds like the idiots that run public schools where if your kid defends themself from a bully they both get kicked out of school for fighting because of the NO TOLERANCE policy.

Thanks for letting me rant, I feel better now!! :-)

 

[Kimber7man]

If you guys get a group together to run down there, I'd be interested in going and meeting some people. Live in Lawrence, work on the south side, and actually have clients in Edinburgh so can slip away "on business"...