Indoor Range Overcrowded

It would take quite a bit to get me to move somewhere where I could not have my own range. This thread reminds me of that very effectively. If I want a roof and good benches etc. there is a state owned and maintained range less than 30 minutes away, otherwise I just shoot on my place. The state range has free targets, porta potties, nicely kept up. You will occasionally get folks blissfully unaware of basic safety, but as a rule it is fine. I have a spot here picked to put a bench in with a roof, but I would then become a rifle and pistol hermit and never venture forth for camaraderie. A basic unkempt appearance might then ensue along with a collection of 40 or so dogs. No cats though.
 
Whassa matta wid cats? :)

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I wish I had someone to shoot with out here, very rarely I do, mostly it's just me.
 
I pretty much always go to the range on weekdays after work. A lot of times I'm the only one there. If I stay a couple hours of course several people will come and go in that time. Now, on the weeks from what I hear they stay pretty full.
 
What Merad said.

I try to time my shooting sessions for those days that I get off work early and everyone else is still at work.

I stopped going to range that was thirty miles north of me because it was simply busy all the time.
 
Being retired makes it easy for me. I go during the work week, usually tuesday morning. Never on mondays. Monday is ladies day and the range gives the ladies free range time. Great if you are there for the scenery but if you want to shoot? Not a chance. :D
 
I have noticed the ranges getting busier lately. Sometimes too crowded for my taste. I try to hit the range during the week as weekends are getting bad. For real fun I just drive to my deer lease(1 1/2 hr away) and plink cans, bottles, etc.
We also have a good 100 yd range for sighting in and practice.
I feel that crowded ranges are a good sign that more Americans are taking advantage of their freedom and will vote accordingly. Strength in numbers!
The anti's are loosing ground all the time and if that means a little wait at the range, so be it. It sure beats the alternative.
 
I have only shot at an indoor range a few times - between the noise, the crowds, the smell, etc. I prefer an outdoor range. The other thing is that I shoot my reloads, and the indoor range that is 10 minutes away does not allow reloads, but the outdoor range an hour away does. Since the outdoor range is also a great sporting clays facility, I combine both shooting when I go there
 
There are definately more people at ranges today than in the past, which I'm happy about - although I wish more of them knew who their elected officials were and would take time to write to them...;)

I think there are more people at the ranges than in the past and I think it's a broader demographic.

And I think it shoots holes in the lie that the Brady Campaign made up to account for increased gun sales statistics (those sales stats and NIC check statistics must really tick them off), - the lie that fewer people are owning more and more guns.

If there weren't an increase in gun owners - the ones buying up all those guns must be millionaires spending a HUGE portion of their disposable income - not only buying guns, but buying multiple copies of the same model !!!

I wish we had better sales statistics. In order for the Brady Campaign to be right with their gun owner numbers, people would each have to be buying 4 or 5 LCPs and LC9s, and SIG P238s
 
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I say the Sons of Guns and American Guns have brought firearms mainstream.
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i agree i think that those shows along with top shot doomsday preppers and other firearm related shows are responsible. i like that more people are getting into shooting and hopefully they can start building more ranges to cover the demand.
 
I think I'll just keep shooting in my yard
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Same for me Farmerboy I can just walk down into the woods on my property and shoot at targets I hang along a creek bank. Haven't fired at an indoor range for several years
 
Juxtaposition

^ there are people in Chicago, New York City and Washington DC who purchased firearms that haven't even fired them yet because ranges are so inaccesible to them.
 
I have only shot at an indoor range a few times - between the noise, the crowds, the smell, etc. I prefer an outdoor range.
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Same here... not my idea of a good time. Too many people, bad ventilation, too many restrictions on shooting form allowed, etc.

Give me the outdoors anyday.
 
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