Shooting in the range is kinda boring

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  • Threeband

    The M1 Does My Talking
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    Dec 30, 2006
    25,232
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    It sounds like you want to get away from shooting paper at an expensive indoor range.

    Have you tried Action Shooting?

    I mean that to include any form of Steel shooting, or IDPA, or USPSA, or Three Gun, or Two Gun.

    Where do you live? There are a lot of options for different kinds of Action Shooting all over the area.
     

    Mule

    Just Mule
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    rbird7282

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    Dec 6, 2012
    18,531
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    It sounds like you want to get away from shooting paper at an expensive indoor range.

    Have you tried Action Shooting?

    I mean that to include any form of Steel shooting, or IDPA, or USPSA, or Three Gun, or Two Gun.

    Where do you live? There are a lot of options for different kinds of Action Shooting all over the area.


    This. I almost never shoot paper anymore, usually just Falling Steel, 3 gun, or long range matches


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    Threeband

    The M1 Does My Talking
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    You left out CAS .

    Yup, add Cowboy Action Shooting.

    There's also Gangster Era Action Shooting, and I myself used to shoot N-SSA, which is all breakable and reactive targets.


    Shooting paper at an indoor "range" would bore anyone, unless they were really focused on developing some narrow skill-sets.

    The problem with any Action Shooting is that it's addictive, and eats up a lot of ammo.
     

    alucard0822

    For great Justice
    Oct 29, 2007
    17,643
    PA
    Compete, and / or look for a better club, PA or WV have a ton of them if you are close.

    This is how our handgun range is set up, shoot from the deck with benches(or standing) or from the pit where you can move around. Lots of steel on the 25yd handgun and a few plates on the 200yd rifle range. It's Windsor Fish&game in York county, but PA being PA there are probably 5 other private clubs in the county, and a couple of thhe other ones have a lot more stuff. I compete at York Isaac Walton, much larger range with more pits, and a few others are similarly awesome.
     

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    TravisVerve

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    May 3, 2021
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    Compete, and / or look for a better club, PA or WV have a ton of them if you are close.

    This is how our handgun range is set up, shoot from the deck with benches(or standing) or from the pit where you can move around. Lots of steel on the 25yd handgun and a few plates on the 200yd rifle range. It's Windsor Fish&game in York county, but PA being PA there are probably 5 other private clubs in the county, and a couple of thhe other ones have a lot more stuff. I compete at York Isaac Walton, much larger range with more pits, and a few others are similarly awesome.

    Im right south of Balt city. I go to C&S in York to get magazines so York isnt crazy far. thanks for the tip!
     

    Boards01

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    Jun 2, 2020
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    Yes. The boating scourge has really gotten out of control. After my last few rooty tooties sank on my buddies boat Im never going near the water again
     

    Sylvester The Cat

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    Jun 18, 2021
    221
    Shooting at the range is boring and expensive....and always puts someone in a place of disciplining me like a child because they have been given a-hole immunity by the ownership.

    Not doing it.
     

    JMB

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    Jan 30, 2019
    22
    I’m moving to Vermont in less than a year and will 93 acres that I can shoot on and carry without a permit.
     

    lemmdus

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    Feb 24, 2015
    380
    I couldn't agree more. It has been frustrating to me over the years I've lived here in Central Maryland because I grew up in rural SW Nebraska. Although you can't do this anymore, when I was a kid finding a place to shoot was as easy as going to the local landfill. Not only was it safe due to all of the pits and backstops literally everywhere, but finding fun things to shoot at was easy.

    Another place I did a lot of shooting was the piece of ground a relative of mine had just outside of town. Me and a friend would grab our .22s, a few boxes of shells, and then we'd ride our bikes to it, spending the afternoon plinking.

    By the time I was a young adult, my Dad, who was the chief of police in the town, had the town set up a range for "the police department" (I'm pretty sure the only one who used it was him) right at the edge of the south side of town. When he retired, he set up a personal shooting range on the same plot of ground I mentioned earlier owned by his cousin. We NEVER paid for range time, and never had to worry about getting flagged by some idiot with no awareness of muzzle safety.

    In March I went on a winter camping trip with my brother-in-law to a piece of private property in West VA - the whole point was to have a guy's weekend of shooting. That was a good time, but it's not something that can be done on the regular.

    I think that if you live in less populated areas of the state, a person can probably set something up on their own private property provided that it meets the guidelines of what you have to do in order to have a personal range. That's actually a goal of mine for my retirement years - it would be awesome to be able to step outside and do my own thing with shooting without having to drive to the range, wait around waiting for a lane to open up, and then being limited to have to pay for shooting paper hanging from a clip. It can keep the skills going, but it's not a lot of fun compared to how I grew up.

    Unfortunately you would be hard pressed to find that in Maryland or the East Coast. Upstate New York used to be like that when I would spend summers up there with my cousins. We would hang cans and had a hill for a back drop. As you said the land fill and and shut down quarries where a great place too. PA you might be able to find that too, if you can purchase land for that.
     

    Choppin

    Coming in hot
    Jun 22, 2020
    48
    Fern-Dizzle
    I personally like making day trips to Delmarva, usually pretty empty during the work week. Only thing I hate is going up there when it’s crowded, seems like every local up there owns plated carries and has 9 guns hanging off them. It’s always been decently safe up there to shoot though.
     

    DanGuy48

    Ultimate Member
    Just got back into owning a few guns this past year. Finished a couple 80% (AR and Glock style)

    Shooting at the range is useful but kinda boring and super expensive.

    Anyone know of/ have a place where you could plink at various targets outside?

    I used to have a buddy years ago who had a farm where we could set up exploding targets, soda bottles, etc lol... That was fun.

    Isn’t that the truth. I used to have so much fun just lining up big dirt clods in the plowed cornfield behind my parent’s home and watching them turn to dust when I hit them. I would love to have a place somewhere to just plink. I was a member of a pistol club some years back and had a key so I could come in at off times. I never took targets, much preferring to bounce pine cones around in the back stop.
     

    jamestheless

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    Jul 29, 2021
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    I couldn't agree more. It has been frustrating to me over the years I've lived here in Central Maryland because I grew up in rural SW Nebraska. Although you can't do this anymore, when I was a kid finding a place to shoot was as easy as going to the local landfill. Not only was it safe due to all of the pits and backstops literally everywhere, but finding fun things to shoot at was easy.

    Another place I did a lot of shooting was the piece of ground a relative of mine had just outside of town. Me and a friend would grab our .22s, a few boxes of shells, and then we'd ride our bikes to it, spending the afternoon plinking.

    By the time I was a young adult, my Dad, who was the chief of police in the town, had the town set up a range for "the police department" (I'm pretty sure the only one who used it was him) right at the edge of the south side of town. When he retired, he set up a personal shooting range on the same plot of ground I mentioned earlier owned by his cousin. We NEVER paid for range time, and never had to worry about getting flagged by some idiot with no awareness of muzzle safety.

    In March I went on a winter camping trip with my brother-in-law to a piece of private property in West VA - the whole point was to have a guy's weekend of shooting. That was a good time, but it's not something that can be done on the regular.

    I think that if you live in less populated areas of the state, a person can probably set something up on their own private property provided that it meets the guidelines of what you have to do in order to have a personal range. That's actually a goal of mine for my retirement years - it would be awesome to be able to step outside and do my own thing with shooting without having to drive to the range, wait around waiting for a lane to open up, and then being limited to have to pay for shooting paper hanging from a clip. It can keep the skills going, but it's not a lot of fun compared to how I grew up.
    Georgia here. Most counties allow safe shooting on your own property here. Towns you get complaints, you usually have to stop...they usually have ordinances.
     

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