Indoor or outdoor gun range. Which do you prefer?

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  • baboon

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    Out here by the lake!
    Outdoor for me.

    Baboon,

    Your experience is a new one on me.

    Recording me, I guess I couldn't do anymore than ask them to stop or ignore them, but 'shoot my guns' - KMA assholes........
    It has to do with showing up with the MP5K. Most times a friend has cam e in to visit & I ask if they want to shoot a machine gun. My gun club does not allow it & is an hour away.
     

    Darkpriest667

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    I prefer outdoor ranges if they are built correctly. Concrete for floors and a concrete walkway up to the targets as well as covered bays.

    The mudpit at our reunions has never happened at the outdoor ranges I frequent. I'm trying to find one like TXgunrange down in the Austin area, but it's proving to be difficult.
     

    studenygreg

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    How do you like the Bullet-Hole range west of San Antonio? Been going there for well over 10 years. Nardis in the Alamo Ranch area is my first indoor range to join and I’m really liking it.
    I can still shoot my long guns at Nardis when all I wanting to do is a function test and get it on paper.
    I live on 281 and overlook parkway so I dont normally go to the westside of town. I have been to buck and doe, mission ridge, lonestar, the original nardis, and bracken range. I rotate depending on what I am doing.

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    EZ-E

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    I have 3 ranges within 10 minutes of my house. 2 indoor & 1 outdoor. I prefer to shoot outdoors on someone's property vs. any of the ranges. I just got a membership to Shoot Point Blank & they have a nice indoor range with sound control treatment in the range & bullet proof glass between the stalls. They try to split 10 lanes to rife & 10 lanes to pistol. I really wish there was a place to shoot steel on the NW side of Houston.
     

    equin

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    I prefer outdoor. I admit, though, that I’ve only been to a few indoor ranges many years ago, so I’m guessing things may have improved with some by then. The ones I’ve been to in the DFW area had really long waits on weekends, expensive per hour lane rates, very poor lighting and ventilation, and were almost as hot inside as it was outside in the summer time. Add to that the deafening noise even when doubled up. But judging from some of the posts on here maybe those issues have been addressed with some of the newer ones.

    I’m a member of an outdoor range, and while it’s nice, it does get a bit muddy when it rains. It also only goes out to 200 yards, but it does have some nice shotgun stages (skeet, trap and sporting clays if you’re into that). But I much prefer shooting outside than inside.
     

    baboon

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    When I was a kid in high school work program I had a job as a greens keeper on a golf course. Riding around the place on the various vehicles I always pictured how cool it be if I could convert the course into a shooting range. Sand traps would have plates for sub guns & pistols. Fairways would be long distance rifle shooting & various clays for the shot gun. Pro shop could be a walk through kill house.
     

    easy rider

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    I prefer outdoor. I admit, though, that I’ve only been to a few indoor ranges many years ago, so I’m guessing things may have improved with some by then. The ones I’ve been to in the DFW area had really long waits on weekends, expensive per hour lane rates, very poor lighting and ventilation, and were almost as hot inside as it was outside in the summer time. Add to that the deafening noise even when doubled up. But judging from some of the posts on here maybe those issues have been addressed with some of the newer ones.

    I’m a member of an outdoor range, and while it’s nice, it does get a bit muddy when it rains. It also only goes out to 200 yards, but it does have some nice shotgun stages (skeet, trap and sporting clays if you’re into that). But I much prefer shooting outside than inside.
    Okay, the overhead map I showed was the rifle and pistol range. Here's the shotgun range:
    https://goo.gl/maps/DneSV9cVy31Ua2ZP9
     

    Bozz10mm

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    The closest outdoor ranges to Round Rock, that I know of, still involve a good 20 or 30 mile drive or so from there. The Firing Line, North of Georgetown, is probably the closest. Best of the West in Liberty Hill, and Lonestar Range and Academy a few miles past Liberty Hill on 183 N. Also Eagle Peak in Leander.
     
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