After my last trip to ommelanden I really haven't been shooting and anytime I think of it, I can't find anywhere but Omm or Elk to shoot at, so I've been thinking of joining a private range, just not sure where to go.
Last visit to Omm left me with a REALLY bad taste in my mouth due to an over zealous RO, and the 15 minute bit is getting annoying when I'm trying to teach the girlfriend how to safely handle and fire a different variety of weapons (rifle, shotgun, pistol, black powder, ect. She's a good learner, just needs time with them at the range) and when I'm attempting to sight in older rifles that don't have the luxury of little clicky knobs for adjustments.
Elk neck, nice place, but I keep forgetting to rebuild my target stands everytime I want to go.....and they're currently in a friends garage to boot.
So this leads me to my point, what would be the "best" private range for my needs, and what's the membership joining process like for them? Along with dues and do you have to be an NRA member to join, ect.
Needs are rather simple I think:
rifle range that has a backstop that doesn't have a problem taking steel core ammo, iirc all of my 7.62x54r is steel core)
No silly 10 rd limit like ommelanden, in the future I do wish to build an AR, and I have some 15rd 1911 mags I'm itching to see if they feed correctly (snapcaps hand cycle fine, but I want a live fire test)
Ability to shoot shotshells would be nice, if not slugs at least, though I believe its usually just a question of what is used to hold the target
And last, black powder, I love shooting my 1858, but some people or places seem to be jittery about it.....I can only imagine what that RO at omm would have to say about it.....probly tell me I'm not allowed to shoot it there for some reason or another.
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated.
James
Last visit to Omm left me with a REALLY bad taste in my mouth due to an over zealous RO, and the 15 minute bit is getting annoying when I'm trying to teach the girlfriend how to safely handle and fire a different variety of weapons (rifle, shotgun, pistol, black powder, ect. She's a good learner, just needs time with them at the range) and when I'm attempting to sight in older rifles that don't have the luxury of little clicky knobs for adjustments.
Elk neck, nice place, but I keep forgetting to rebuild my target stands everytime I want to go.....and they're currently in a friends garage to boot.
So this leads me to my point, what would be the "best" private range for my needs, and what's the membership joining process like for them? Along with dues and do you have to be an NRA member to join, ect.
Needs are rather simple I think:
rifle range that has a backstop that doesn't have a problem taking steel core ammo, iirc all of my 7.62x54r is steel core)
No silly 10 rd limit like ommelanden, in the future I do wish to build an AR, and I have some 15rd 1911 mags I'm itching to see if they feed correctly (snapcaps hand cycle fine, but I want a live fire test)
Ability to shoot shotshells would be nice, if not slugs at least, though I believe its usually just a question of what is used to hold the target
And last, black powder, I love shooting my 1858, but some people or places seem to be jittery about it.....I can only imagine what that RO at omm would have to say about it.....probly tell me I'm not allowed to shoot it there for some reason or another.
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated.
James
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