Does anyone know of a rifle range in the Dallas,Tx area which allows shooting from field positions rather than chained to a bench shooting through a piece of culvert? Needs to be fairly close as we usually allow one day in Dallas to pick up our rifles, etc.

Stay away from Elm Fork Shooting park in Dallas. They make you shoot through a pipe.

Try Garland Public Shooting Range. They let me shoot standing and sticks would be OK. Prone or sitting would be difficult due to the benches. They also let me set up my chronograph. The only time it might be difficult is right before deer season when they get real crowded.

http://www.eaglepeakshootingrange.com/gpsr/gpsr.htm

Through a pipe? never heard of such a thing.

shooting thru a pipe is the latest thing in liability. prevents bullets from leaving the range and controls noise

Stay away from the Alpine Range in Ft. Worth. That place makes me mad every time I go. Now I go out and shoot with Ashley Emerson on his place...much better.

I agree with DrScott. The guys at Garland are pretty reasonable with those types of requests, especially when it is not busy.
I have shot standing and off sticks.
Unfortunately the number of places to shoot seems to be decreasing. I know we just had two ranges close in the north part of the metroplex. Victims of the urban sprawl.

Shooting through a pipe? bet it's hard to keep the tobacco in it!!

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Shooting through a pipe? bet it's hard to keep the tobacco in it!!

ranges are dying through the country. we built a new one in 2000 & 2001, but to do so we ended up in court 8 times. you wouldn't believe the anti's and the B.S. they they would bring up. A gunshop here ended up with the "pipe" which is about a 3' diameter culvert running from the firing line about 100' downrange. it was the only way he could guarantee the B.S. people that the bullets would stay on the range. If it wouldn't have been for a guy name of david gross, who was on the NRA board for awhile, donating his time we never would have gotten a new range. In fact the silver lining in the cloud was that a couple years latter we were used as the example of why the state needed a range protection act, which was passed and now the commissioner of the dept of natural resources has the say over ranges not local govt and the B.S. artists.