Wanting to start a TX OUTDOOR range, need help and advice!

[PhulesAu]

Overhang is built for midgets, but sometimes you have to appease the dickheads. Also I am not into elbow to elbow with the shooter next to me. But it still looks like a nice set-up.

 

[Mikeinhistory]

Well, for one, you can clearly see where they had to install that overhang. That just seems like a waste of money to me. I've shot at ranges with them and I'm just not a fan.

Yeah, they are always so low I can never use my spotter scope. Sorry my tripod doesn't collapse to like 6 inches.

 

[BIGPAPIGREG]

I got the range up and going yall, but still under construction. I am open weekends only for now. Texas only requires 500k bodily and 500k property coverage but I have quadruple that at $4m worth of coverage and I pay about $4k per year. About $1k per million.

hats off to ya Bigun for staying the course, and thank you for doing so as well. Hope to one day give y'all a visit as well as some business, just as soon as I find out exactly where you are located....good job Bigun

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Is the low overhang to (hopefully) prevent people from shooting over the berms?

 

[Younggun]

Is the low overhang to (hopefully) prevent people from shooting over the berms?

Yeah.

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[Younggun]

Yay for the OP for getting up and running. Seriously, congrats on serving the community and I hope you make money doing it.

OT Warning for what follows.

Since this thread has risen from the dead, I did as you suggested.

Here are some pictures. What modifications were made (Yes, I read the facebook page so I think I know.) and, more importantly, which do you consider "insane"?

I followed the ordeal as it progressed. The range brought everything up to NRA standards that were agreed upon, at which time the guy (who has no background in range design, Range inspection, or firearms in general) came through and said it wasn't good enough.

They had to make the been sides steeper than what the NRA calls for and several feet higher.

If you followed from the beginning it might be more obvious.

 

[Younggun]

I got the range up and going yall, but still under construction. I am open weekends only for now. Texas only requires 500k bodily and 500k property coverage but I have quadruple that at $4m worth of coverage and I pay about $4k per year. About $1k per million.

www.facebook.com/odessaareaoutdoorgunrange

Awesome, wish it had been open a couple weeks ago when I spent Sunday sitting in an Odessa hotel. Looking forward to having a place to unwind when I get sent out there.

 

[matt2k12]

Awesome, wish it had been open a couple weeks ago when I spent Sunday sitting in an Odessa hotel. Looking forward to having a place to unwind when I get sent out there.

D'oh! Its been open weekends only since Memorial Day...