Hi, how far from your home is your preferred shooting range? Mine is at 60 Km +/-

P.S. It's in France and it's very well equipped: shotgun, pistol 25-50 m., rifle 100-200-300m. and sometimes they open a 500 m. line; they run a small bar-restaurant too. It's situated about 8 km north of Monte-Carlo. This is their website.

http://standdetirlalare.free.fr/index.php

The club I belong to is 21 miles from home. About a 40 minute drive. Pistol, shotgun and rifle at various ranges out to 300 yds.

I'm a very lucky guy....my range is 1/4 mile from my house.....but it's mine and that's where I wanted it!

Mine is 70 mi. Pistol, Rifle to 200 yards, trap archery and cowboy shooting. Not close but I can shoot anything I have there.

At 200 yards, not quite far enough, according to my wife.

I am about 5 miles from our range. On a perfect day, I can hear the reports from my back porch.

The golf course where I usually play is about 3 miles, and the lake is about the same. And my wife wants to sell this single wide and move to the city.........no way! Jim R

3 miles

2 miles. Pretty handy and inside the city limits....

Dan

60 miles one way.

I never measured the miles, but the drive takes 15-20 minutes.

About 23 Mi.

VD, If Jim won't sell me his place ,how much will you take for yours? roger

It was 43 yards from my front door, now it's 20 miles and just not the same.

Once it was ok to shoot out the back door but now it is about 35 miles.

15 miles, but the bad part is from Dec-Feb they're only open on Sunday for non members, Wed and Sunday the rest of the year. It's a private range, but they have public days, and 50 people on waiting list for membership. They recently put a 600 member cap on membership due to the public range in town closing down.

I'm 20 minutes from this 1000 yard range. Fifteen points with pit-operated targets, firing lines at 200, 300, 600, 800, 900 and 1000 yards, and a separate 200 yard, covered benchrest range.


My other club with indoor smallbore and pistol, outdoor smallbore, trap and skeet is 10 minutes away.

I built my own on a buddies place, less than 10 min from home. I have 100 and 300yd targets. with a great bench. It is private with only a few friends using it. Many times antelope have walked around the targets when I was shooting and I had to wait to let them walk off!!

Archery - 30yds. from front door (free)
Indoor rifle & pistol range [25 & 100yd] - 9mi. (pay to play)
Skeet Range - 12mi. (pay to play)
Sporting Clays range - 30mi. (pay to play)
Outdoor rifle & pistol range [25 & 100yd] - 45mi. (free)

Gotta have a little variety.

62 miles, 1 hour and 15 minutes.

A 15 minute drive, but it was Cold this morning -3 didn't stay long

There was a range about 5 minutes from my house but its gone because of urban sprall and one of those "master planned community" was built there for the urban clone people to live

Now its a 2 hr drive

I have a 200yd range a 40 from the house.My Pistol Range is 50 yds and right out the back door!!!

About 20 miles from wher I live in PA. In New York, I have one in my own backyard, up to 200 yards.......

47 miles
Range is 139 acres of mixed pine/hardwood .
25,50,100,200,300,500 yard targets.
nice range and nice people.

I could shoot off the back porch, but it scares the wood ducks.

Covey16

15 miles, 25 minutes

The problem is wind, becuase the range does not open until noon wed, thurs, fri, and sunday. It opens at 10 a.m. on Sat.

The wind is typically 10 m.p.h., so I have to wait for a day with less wind.

With 6 m.p.h. wind, I can test some guns at 50 yards.

Many days have zero wind at 6 a.m., but I can't get in there.

10 miles to the range, but I can go about 20 miles in any direction and be on public land, my usual choice anymore, seems a lot safer at times.

I have a resetting 22 target that I shoot at from the porch but the official shooting bench is @ 10 yards from the reloading shop. Its in the open so I'm thinking about building a cover over it so I can shoot when it rains (or snows).
If I had of had my wits about me, I'd have built the shop in a different place so I could shoot out a window. I can shoot to 240 yards.

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If I had of had my wits about me, I'd have built the shop in a different place so I could shoot out a window. I can shoot to 240 yards.

Only if the muzzle is outside that window. Been there done that. roger

Depends on how far I want to shoot if I want more the 300 yards I have to travel 5 miles I can get 700 yards there. If I want under 300 I just step out the basement door walk the distance I need to shoot and shoot.

If one can't pee out the front door and shoot out the back with out any body complaining I would be living in the wrong place.

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If one can't pee out the front door and shoot out the back with out any body complaining I would be living in the wrong place.

and when visitors come to the door and look disgustingly at the yellow snow you just say..."darn that Rover, I have to train him better"!

100 yard range out the side door of the house. Longest range I know of around here is 200 yards and its 20+ miles. I try to keep it quiet from September through December as I am hunting.

I do pretty well with ballistic tables as a result. Last time I went to Wyoming I got off the plane, checked into the motel in Jackson Hole and went to the range.

Fired three rounds from the .338 Win Mag on the 300 yard gong there ... 2" group ... perfectly centered on the gong. I went hunting.