Shooting ranges...how busy are they now?

[fortyshooter]

I haven't been to a public range in 8 yrs and was wondering how busy they are due to shortage of ammo?

[Sir Henry]

I haven’t been in a few weeks but when I was there it seemed rather normal. Very busy on the weekends and only a handful of us retired people that shoot mid week.

I suspect it effected the weekend shooters who work and might not have the ammo inventory some of us life long shooters have laying around.

[John E Davies]

I haven’t been to the one I joined lately, but I hear shots all the time when the wind direction is right, it is about two miles away as the crow flies. A lot of the more “mature” members don’t go there to shoot, they just hang out in the lounge area, drink coffee, stare into space and gossip for hours on end. It is a really old club, started in 1916. I think some of the original founding fathers still go there to nap.

I guess it is Shooter’s Heaven, where bent, arthritic gun enthusiasts go to die..... That kind of social activity never appealed to me very much.

John Davies
Spokane WA

[JEBar]

the trap ranges I've visited seemed to be operating pretty much as usual .... rifle/handgun ranges weren't very busy

[leverjc]

After the initial boom a couple months ago my local range seems to be about normal or a few less shooters. Haven't been there in a couple of weeks because of knee surgery.

[bandit1250]

Our club range seldom has anyone there but my shooting partner and my self with occasionally my wife gets to go if time is available. We never shoot there on weekends or holidays. My friend and I have taken half dozen or more rifles each and spent almost eight hours there shooting and never had another shooter stop in. I sweep the concrete deck where the benches are every time we shoot there before we leave and clean up all empty casings. If I go there the following day there will be no sign there was another shooter had used the range in the evening. I think folks in the club got caught by surprise on the ammo shortages they are seeing again. My wife and my friend and I have shot nearly 30,000 rounds since last November but will slow down now with hunting season coming up very soon. We finally got a Sept. start to squirrel season in Pa. this year. Maybe not the best year with the abundance of rattle snakes there has been this year. I feel the ranges will get more shooters there as they get ready for the fall seasons. Some don't like the primitive ranges with no bathrooms and carry out every thing you brought in. Here is our club range. Nothing fancy here. 30--50 and 100 yds.

We do have a gun rack.

[Vaquero]

Don't do public ranges so I have no idea.

RP

[North Country Gal]

We've stayed home this summer doing most of our shooting in our backyard with the air guns. Our neighbor, though, is a board member of our local club range and he reports things have been pretty normal over the summer.

[RanchRoper]

Normal for us. Hardly anyone there...

[BigAl52]

I see some fancy there Bandit. Those 22 rifles are some fancy in my book.