Does Your Range Require Their Ammo?

All the indoor ranges I know of in Palm Beach County require you buy their ammo. I take that back- Gander Mountain might not. No indoor ranges in Martin County. The closest indoor range is in St. Lucie County, and they won't let you shoot your own ammo.

Darned shame. You'd think when they have someone coming in with hand loads, they'd realize that this is probably someone who is fairly involved in shooting. I hand load for a half a dozen pistol calibers, and only shoot in Broward, 80 miles from home. I've probably bought a hundred guns in the last ten years, a drawer full of holsters, not to mention parts, accessories, magazines, etc. I spend plenty of money, but never seem to find my way into these shoot-our-ammo-or-go-home places.
 
It's an indoor range and they allow rifles on a few lanes. They require you purchase their ammo for 5.56 NATO. Probably 7.62 also, but I've never shot that there.

On handgun or shotgun ammo, no. They will inspect the stuff you intend to shoot. No steel core stuff.
 
If you pay at the range for range time,usually they don't require ammo sales as far as I know.

If the range is free as far as time,then they usually require you to buy something-ammo-targets-something to use the range.

Now when you rent guns,most ranges will usually require you to use -only- their ammo in their rental guns.
 
Reason being, the steel case ammo usually has steel cores (their reasoning), and the steel cores blow holes in the bullet traps.
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The traps should be able to handle it. The problem with steel core is the possibility of fire. Steel-to-steel contact at high energy levels tends to create a small shower of sparks, which can ignite unburned powder.
 
The traps should be able to handle it. The problem with steel core is the possibility of fire. Steel-to-steel contact at high energy levels tends to create a small shower of sparks, which can ignite unburned powder.
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He was talking about actual holes in the traps. Could have been penetrator type (M855) ammo, I dunno. Beats me... the only stuff I have that's prohibited there is some Russian ammo (my entire 7.62x39 stock and a hundred or so rounds of Silver Bear .223), so it's NBD for me. If I want to run through that stuff, I go to an outdoor range with no ammo rules other than no tracers.

Problem is, I have a box of .22LR tracers and nowhere to shoot it (should be fun out of a suppressed gun). :D
 
Like Geetarman wrote, the range where I shoot requires that you buy their ammo if you are shooting a gun you rented from them. I shoot my own guns and I bring my own ammo.
 
This range does state that they will allow you to use your own ammo only if they do not stock the caliber. However, they then charge a $5 usage fee.

I have a farm 50 minutes from where I live where I can shoot all I want at whatever I want with whatever I choose, but the nice thing about the range is that it's literally on my way home from work. And, it is the ONLY range in town indoors, and the only public range in the area as well. You have to drive an hour to get to the next public range. With that said, I work close to that other range and it is indoor and they let you shoot anything except steel case, but my range fees will be higher there since I don't have a membership to that range.

Oh well.
 
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