Range rules, or private property shootout?

[360]

Which do you utilize the most? A dedicated range with rules and regulations, or private property where anything goes? Removing the cost equation, which do you prefer?

I shoot on private property. While we can shoot at any targets we want to take, we still practice safety. We also clean up after ourselves.

However, sometimes I enjoy the camaraderie of a public range. It's always nice to meet new shooters.

What do you like to shoot at?

 

[JohnP82]

i shoot at a public range 95% of the time. i do not know enough people with enough properyt to be able to shoot at. in the past i was able to go to peoples houses and shoot, but they are either at a different location now or not as close. as long as i can shoot i am happy though no matter where it is

 

[Cat-Herder]

i like ECPR, but i've got some buddies south of indy with a lot of property that is waay more fun. no fees, open air shooting, you can shoot on the move, etc...

 

[esrice]

Private property.

 

[shooter521]

My "home" range is a gun club with a large and active membership, but rarely is anyone else there when I roll up on a Sunday morning. So I get the benefit of using the amenities (plate racks, poppers, shooting benches, target stands, indoor plumbing and such), but still have the freedom to do things I couldn't do at a crowded and/or tightly monitored public range (drawing from the holster, extreme CQ shooting, shooting on the move, multiple target engagement drills, etc). So I guess I've got the best of both worlds in a way.

I've shot on private property a number of times as well, and sometimes that affords the opportunity to do things that even a deserted gun club wouldn't allow (like shooting machine guns or an 81mm mortar)...

I only shoot at public ranges (i.e. open to anyone, pay by the day/hour) when I have no other alternative.

 

[esrice]

(like shooting machine guns

Is it August yet?

 

[360]

I forgot to add an option for a club. But we can clump it in with a public range, since it sort of is.

 

[Goodcat]

I wish I had private property to shoot on! I would love to come with with tons of cans and water jugs and have fun.

 

[DRob]

Where I shoot

I drive an hour and a half to shoot at Crosley F&W. Why? I don't like Atterbury. Indoor ranges don't allow what we shoot, are not nearly long enough, and I hear to many complaints about them from guys here to ever convince me to go to one. Don's has never been an option, and the latest thread about POP's erased any thoughts I might have had about going there.

We usually have Crosley to ourselves most of the time we're there. They have ranges from 20 to 200 yards. I take my own cardboard and staple gun to put up Shoot.N.C. targets. Crosley is a "paper target only" range, open to the public, maintained by DNR, and free. I put up clean cardboard and pick up the trash others leave. If my cardboard is badly shot up, I take it down and toss it. If not, I leave it for the next guy to use.

I need to win the lottery so I can buy enough property to build my own range. That would be a little slice of heaven!

 

[360]

I am attempting to construct a steel target system this spring. It's going to be the size of a child's swing set, with a number of different sized swinging steel plates. I have to go to the scrap yard and pay $.35/lb for it, but it usually lasts awhile. I always try to buy the 1/2"-3/4" steel. The rifles really do a number on them. Once I collect all of the steel I need, I will get it welded together. I just have to do it onsite.

Sometimes we shoot at all kinds of crap. I have a nice broken stainless steel microwave oven that is waiting for the next trip. Quite a few electronic items have met their demise out there.

 

[shooter521]

Private property FTW!

 

[360]

Whatcha blowin' up?

 

[shooter521]

Whatcha blowin' up?

We were just shooting for distance.

Sorry for the

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Kind of a shame, Farmland Conservation Club is right around the corner, and they have a nice range. But I usually shoot right out in the yard. One of the benefits of country living, I guess. Frank Merry's gun club has really fixed up the range nicely, too. I only hope if you go there you avoid HIM. (see the Range Commando thread)

 

[Jack Ryan]

Private property

 

[38special]

Dad owns 40 acres in bloomington, so I usually go there, but if there was a nice close range (get on it LE firearms!) I'd probably go there in the Winter.

 

[Wabatuckian]

Private property unless it's Appleseed or unless someone asks me to demonstrate something I'm trying to describe (I can't talk nearly as well as I type.) Then it's a public range.

Have my very own 100 yard (measured) range in my parents' woods (I've been sorta' the caretaker of those woods for the past 10, 14 years). I usually use that.

Josh

 

[Eddie]

I haven't shot on a public range since I moved out of the city 12 years ago.

 

[RelicHound]

I dont really shoot at ranges I guess..I have places out in the coal mines I shoot as there are no public ranges near me...a few clubs which I am not a member of any of them yet.

 

[r6vr6]

I shoot mostly at a club range. I would prefer shooting at private land that I own. A couple times a year I go to a buddy's place and we have a great time shooting targets that the range doesn't allow.