Wow ! 75 rounds and I could have kept going

[TX-Dennis]

Wow...$90/year is dirt cheap.

My club is $200/year. Can go every day if you want. That is a family membership that includes wife and any kids under 18. It's a sweet range, though. The little rifle range is 25 and 50 yards. Another is 50-200. The third is 100-300 yards. Covered firing lanes on all. There is a huge silhouette range from 25 yards to 200 meters for rimfire and pistols only. We have a covered pistol house and a dedicated CHL area. A 500 meter rifle range with steel targets is also used for three gun matches. There are 9 pistol bays that will each accommodate from 3-10 shooters. These have covered shooting areas like a big tent. We also have two "auto" bays where you can shoot literally anything up to a small cannon, and a small archery range. I often use the auto bays to shoot at those rubber ground bouncing targets. There's nothing down range for miles but cotton fields, so little danger of stray shots hitting anything or anyone.

It's a long drive, but the other local outdoor range is not to my liking. There are two indoor ranges under construction, but they are not open yet.

Membership also includes a separate shotgun range with trap, skeet, and sporting clays. The only extra cost is you have to pay for your clays at the shotgun range - $5/25.

We aren't supposed to draw from a holster, but we can shoot as fast as we want as long as we are safe. Open from sunup to sundown 365 days/year with the occasional closure of a range or two for maintenance and/or scheduled matches.

 

[kaaskop49]

No comment on ranges, but after decades of carrying both professionally and privately, it's not the number of rounds you fire, but how. I still have an instructor, a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, and he never fails to open my eyes. Every round fired has a purpose, nothing is simply thrown against the backstop for the heck of it.

Learn to develop your shooting that you can do the above. 30-35 rounds in one session may be enough.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[DonD]

Don,

That one is a surprise. And I had been thinking about Texas the other day cause I lived down there for 9 years some years ago, and thought it would be cool to be a gun owner down there. Which I wasn't at the time I lived down there so had no real idea about it all.

The reason there aren’t more ranges is that despite the huge size of TX, most of the land is privately owned, so unless you are buddies with a rancher, there aren’t as many options as you might expect.

On the positive side is that in TX, being anti gun is a sure way to make yourself unpopular. Transplanted Californians and wackjob anti gun liberals would like it otherwise but they’re heavily outvoted. Don

 

[Samuel P. Morris]

@kaaskop49,

I hear ya and I understand. It wasn't so much the round count as it was I could not believe how comfortable it was to shoot this J-frame. I mean I really enjoyed it. And if I hit anywhere on paper I'm feeling good as well.
I have absolutely no desire to get into a combat warrior mentality. It's only if I survive the knock down. And the truth of the matter is I wish I didn't feel the need to carry a gun. But as someone once made comment, "the times they are change'n"
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@DonD,

Our problem up here is we are a relatively poor State and we can't fight the rich carpet baggers coming in here and buying us out of house and home and then they move in and then want to change everything. And most do not even live here year around and some how get around paying full property tax's while the towns raise everyone else cause these fat cats build new and the towns start evaluating off that.
We've had hundreds if not thousands of seniors lose their homes and force to move out of State cause they can't afford to live here anymore. It's down right shameful. Some seniors have even taken to eating can dog food to keep the lights turn on.