Range Poll

Where do you shoot?

  • On my own land

    Votes: 29 23.6%

  • Have a membership at a range

    Votes: 67 54.5%

  • Pay per visit at a range

    Votes: 18 14.6%

  • Public land

    Votes: 3 2.4%

  • Friends land

    Votes: 6 4.9%
  • Total voters
    123
At home or up at the hunt club. I've got a little rimfire shooting gallery set up in the front yard. Me and my son have been having a ton of fun out there. We hang out at 30yd for him and I can scoot back to 50.


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I let my membership at Calibers in Greensboro lapse. Now we drive the 1+ hours to Moorseville to shoot at Point Blank Range and just pay the daily fees.
 
I have plenty of places to shoot on my own land but like to go to my club 10 minutes through the woods because of all the interesting targets we have at the club and all the interesting games we play.
 
After 4 years my name came up for DPRC, and so I have been going there. Fantastic place for my needs and I am so happy to be a member of that great club. Love that place.

Was previously a member somewhere else, but couldn't really justify paying for two private memberships.
 
zuerjoha said:
Judging from their site it appears they don't allow any center fire rifle at all. Maybe I'm misreading it.
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That's accurate. I called and they said that they don't have a rifle range. They did mention a pistol bay.
 
Mostly DPRC. I still shoot .22 here on our land but it is getting a bit too crowded around here for much more than that.
 
I voted "friends land", but is actually a friend of a friend who has bunches of acres on the Yadkin in Davidson County. We can get out to about 200yds or so, but it is dependent on my buddy, so I fall back on the indoor range at Sportsmans Lodge ln Yadkinville.
 
I've been a member at Cumberland County Wildlife Club for 12 years. We only have 25, 50, and 100 yard ranges, but have covered benches, and a large clubhouse with full kitchen we can reserve for private functions.
 
Been a member of DPRC since 2006 and now go out a couple of times a month. When I joined I'd take my son out and teach him to shoot since the neighbors complained about me shooting in my yard (out in the county). Deputies came, saw everything was good and said no problems. But, to keep peace I joined the range and have enjoyed it ever since. My son was the high shooter for the entire company at Parris Island when he graduated, but now he comes up here so I can take him and his wife to the range for shooting fun. You'd think the USMC would have a range for Marines to shoot on other than just the "official" ranges for qualification purposes. Yeah, they have funky ranges for the "special ops" guys, but nobody can use those ranges either.
 
zuerjoha said:
Judging from their site it appears they don't allow any center fire rifle at all. Maybe I'm misreading it.
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You are correct. Pistol only.
I brought a 22lr AR15 and was not allowed to shoot it since it was a rifle.
It was then I realized I was still in RTP.
Leave that place to the cork sniffing shotgunners.
 
I can't help but notice no one mentioned the game land ranges. The one closest to me (Caswell game lands) is free and open very convenient hours.

If I did not own land I would be a regular at that place...with the exception of deer season. Those Fudds are holy dogcrap dangerous!!
 
On my own land. I have a shooting bench with steel at 50,100 and 200 yds. We have 2 clay throwers as well and shoot clays a good bit too. Distant gunshots are pretty common around here.
 
I have an annual at PBR Mooresville. Probably going to change that to Denver Defense, closer and with 50 yd. lanes after my agreement is over.

They're nice people and maintain a nice clean range, and the annual is reasonably priced. But it sucks to get there. I77 BS. I have gotten to the highway, seen the traffic and turned around and went home or paid to use a different range.

I would love to find an outdoor range closer, no matter how I slice it, it's an hour or maybe more to get to one!
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I'll probably go to Foothills sometime in the near future.
 
  1. For what you get, FLD is underpriced. He has enough pistol and rifle ranges in one property to populate 2-3 decent ranges. And that is not adding the competition stuff and the new building. Bottom line is you would have better luck finding an honest politician than a day there you would need to wait to shoot. Different from many ranges they do want you to practice shooting from holster. As in, if you are practicing self defense you better do it properly. I do hope one day he will put some steel at 1km in the 1200yd range. You know, just so you can say "oh, you shoot at 1000yd? That's nice. I shoot metric." From his emails, Paul seems to be there all the time improving on it. And in person he is about as opposite to a douchebag gun range owner as you can get, and I met quite a few. The drive for someone coming from, say, CH or Greensboro is a bit long so get there on Saturday when they open -- 8am -- and plan to stay for at least half a day.
  2. Wake County range is usually very busy, but it is one of those ranges that also worth joining if you live close enough. Once you get the card you can pay only for when you use, which can get pricy quickly. So go there with a goal in mind. Good place to try a load or a new rifle (up to 100yd) or pistol. Most of the RSOs are pretty nice and helpful. More restrictive than FLD -- no holster drawing or fast shooting -- which makes sense since it is more crowded.
  3. The Range or whatever it is called. You know, the one member John Z owns/uses/whatever for the zombie shooting thingie. It is small and configured primarily for competitions but it is very well thought out for that IMHO. Also worth going.
  4. Caswell state range. Very small, as in one range for pistols and one (100yd) for rifles. I was told it can get rather busy but the firing stations looks very well done.
  5. There is another Caswell range some 7 miles south of the state one but that one is private. It has lots of pistol bays, some with steel, one rifle one (150yd?) and I think 5 shotgun areas with launchers and stuff.
And that is what I know or have heard of
 
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I shoot at least once a month at personal defense and handgun center on Tryon road in Raleigh. About 65 bucks a year for an associate membership. I can rent a lane for 10$ (no time limit or at least I've never had them charge me by the hour). I can use "range 2" and draw from concealment, shoot steel plates or set up stages etc. For 15 bucks an hour.

I've seen some splashback so eyes are a must!

Their prices seem competitive to me and they carry a fair amount on consignment which means interesting deals.

Decent deal for me.
 
John Lentz Hunter Education Complex. It's a state range. It's free unless you shoot skeet/trap, and then it's ridiculously cheep. Like $3.25 for a string of 25 clays.
 
Just got a membership at Hickory Mtn R & P in Siler City, but I also shoot at DRPC with some friends and all over for matches (most often The Range in Oxford and Central Carolina Gun Club in Burlington).
 
SimpleMan said:
On my own land. I have a shooting bench with steel at 50,100 and 200 yds. We have 2 clay throwers as well and shoot clays a good bit too. Distant gunshots are pretty common around here.
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That's just shy of 30 miles...

What in the hell are you shooting?

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hlpressley said:
I have been fortunate enough to have my own land for the last 15 years or so. Despite having 10 acres of land it is proving to be more and more difficult with encroaching neighbors complaining about the noise and or even making up stories. I still shoot on my property but not as much. I have since joined Rowan
Wildlife Club and despite it being a 2.5 hour round trip, I don't have to hear any crying.
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Good silencers make for good neighbors.
 
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