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Tell us about your shooting club...

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited November 2001 in General Discussion
I'm curious about some of the shooting clubs everyone belongs to....how much are your memberships?, what type of facilities do they offer?, How many members?
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    1 member,and it don`t cost a thang!.218
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I fondly recall the Sackett's Harbor Sportsmen's Club in Jefferson County NY. They had a wonderful sporting clays course and a 100-meter range complete with silhouette stands. It wasn't fancy but there were many wonderful afternoons spent there with friends.Now....there is this place in VA where membership is reserved exclusively for members of the PVM........
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Rem.,you`re gettin` to be annoying with your banquets and your shooting clubs!!!~Bee Man Of Alcatraz~
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well Rembrandt Ill give you the first serious answer. The club I belong to cost $50 a year, $65 for your first year. We have a 100 yard shed, 50 yard shed, and a 10-20 yard shed. We also have a place to shoot skeet, clays, etc. There is also one patterning board for turkey and buckshot sighting. We have a place to shoot bales with our bows- Targets being 25,40,50, 75 yards. We also have a walk through archery range, with approximately 30 targets ranging from 10 to 80 yards. All things considered it is a great range. Only problem is the occasional bozo.
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  • 1blitzer1blitzer Member Posts: 72 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Indoor archery up to 30 yds, indoor pistol up to 25 yds, and indoor airrifle & .22 25 yds.Outdoor trap and sporting clays. Rifle range 25, 50, 100, and 200yds. No full auto or multi-burst allowed. Handgun range with B27 target holders at 25 and 50 yds. Action handgun range with plates, knock down plates, and bowling ball pins.Several walkthrough archery ranges, archery bales every 5 yds from 10 to 50 yards.A sand broadhead pit and a treestand with a bale at 20 yds. A stocked trout stream tops off the list.$50.00 to join and $35.00 to renew.
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  • UnclePatUnclePat Member Posts: 77 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just joined one today in SE Louisiana. Sporting Clays, soon-to-open pistol/rifle range. Great, friendly staff. Am looking forward to lots of popping & plinking.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WE have two skeet and one trap field.Two pistol ranges,one is also a auto fire range.ONE two and three hundred yard rifle ranges.All except the two and three hundred yrd ranges are well lit for night shooting.We also have four bath rooms and a airconditiond meeting room .You can take your CCW on sight.ALL FOR $50 a year.
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The one I belong to has annual dues of $75, you get a gate combination that allows you and your family access all year round. About 750 members, 77 acres, 5 acre lake, 50-100-200yd rifle range, outdoor and indoor pistol range...archery, 3D courses, Trap-Skeet-Sporting Clays....beautiful clubhouse for rent and get togethers (full of North American & African game mounts), campgrounds, hiking trails,....wish my scanner worked, I'd post some pictures.
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  • ED PED P Member Posts: 190 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pelham NH Sportsman's club, $70 a year, archery range, skeet/trap, indoor pistol, outdoor 100yd silouette, outdoor 100 yard utility, sandpit utility, decent clubhouse.600 yard rifle range- a real rarity in Southern NH, almost done- can't wait to try out the M1A next Spring when it's ready.
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  • ED PED P Member Posts: 190 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    http://www.pelhamweb.com/fishandgame/
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I belong to to clubs. One is $12 a year and has a 200, 100, 50 and 25 yard rifle and pistol range. A shotgun board and an indoor 50' .22range. Membership gives you a key to the gate and building plus a discount for fishing tournaments and all shotgun and .22 matches The other club has outdoor 100 and 50 yard rifle range. it also has member access skeet/sporting clay matches. Archery range with 30 target bale/paper target range and compitition and certain weeks they have a full blown 3d shoot for archery.cost is $35 a year for family
    when all else fails........................
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  • instrumentofwarinstrumentofwar Member Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ids....did you say something about a virgina range frequented by the PVM, all of a sudden i have a craving....hey boy cold beah?
    whatever you do, try to look unimportant, the enemy may be low on bullets
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  • Mark IIMark II Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No club. I have been known to frequent the NRA range in Fairfax, Va. I am wondering where in PA is this 200 yard range that 7MM was speaking of, and where is 1blitzer from? These sound like places I would like to go to.
    "To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet an enemy."
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  • Richie RichRichie Rich Member Posts: 439 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    phoenix. rod & gun,dues were around 75 for a family package. I did just join an am not sure of all the goodies but they have alot of activities around the year. Ranges include public on weekends only and a combo to members fo 7am to dusk 7 days a week. they have a 10,20,50 and 100 yard public,22 smallbore only,100,200,300 and 500 yard members only but they will let the public use it with members, they have a 20 yard pistol members only they offer ccw training and a lot more than I am listing as well I may be off on some of the distances but they are close.
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  • DaRoostaDaRoosta Member Posts: 270 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I haven't joined a club since I moved 3 years ago. There is a nice public facility less than 10 minutes away. Cost is $2.00/day and is done basically by the honor system. You put your two bills in an envelope provided at the gate and punch holes for the date on the detached portion and put it on your dashboard. On busier weekends, near hunting seasons, there is usually a volunteer range attendant at the big-bore range.They have about 20 concrete bench tables under a covered range for the 100-200-300 range. Down the road a little farther are 2 different shotgun ranges where you can throw your own clays. Next are the pistol and smallbore ranges, which includes a few tables, some covered, some uncovered, at 25-50-100 yards. Still further down the road is an archery range, but well away from the firearm ranges.
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Used to belong to Daniel Boone, it was 100 bucks a year. 25 yard, 50 yard, 100 yard and 200 yard ranges, all with range bells, a running deer target at 75 yards, trap houses, skeet and a fish pond. I didn't go often enough to justify the payment, so now I have a 50 yard and 100 yard range with boards laying across 55 gallon drums, and a 25 yard range with an old stove to stick the targets to, or set the cans upon. That one is free. Beastland, population 1, and I'm not sure if I'm welcome.
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mark II The range that has the 200 yard bench is located near Mount Union PA, if you look at you map come north on 81 from VA into PA, you will see exit 3 rt 16, follow rt 16 west to 522 north. Keep following that till you hit Mount Union. We are about an 1 3/4 hour from winchester VA
    when all else fails........................
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  • Bubba JoelBubba Joel Member Posts: 5,161
    edited November -1
    The range I belong to cost $30.00 per year..It's nothing fancy..Pistol range (metal plates) Rifle range (set up your own targets and metal plates)..100 and 200 yards...This is a outside range, in the middle of nowhere...Lots of members tho...
    visit the texas militia org forums
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been trying to get into some kind of club for over a year now. There just aren't any around me that don't have waiting lists. The one that Beachmaster is a member of will allow you to shoot at their competitions as a guest, but they too have waiting lists for membership. I swear, it is really bad in the Detroit area. I can't buy a membership (and I'd be willing to spend some good money). So, I end up going to terrible state-run ranges that only allow single-load-only and are extremely strict about everything (plus, the LONGEST range is 100 yards and you usually have to wait 1/2 hour for a bench). I've got to move.....
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey RemYour club is bringing in over 56,000.00 a year in just club dues, with the amount of members and the fees you mentioned. Are they doing an incredible amount of beautification, enlargeing, come pick you up from home, or what?? Where is all the money going?
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Robsguns, half of the dues go to our parent organization (Izaak Walton League) at the state and national level, the local chapter only keeps about half that amount. Annual operating budget runs about $80,000 per year, so the remainder comes from events, rentals, trap & skeet, etc. There are no paid employees, everything is done by volunteers. Expenses include grounds equipment, insurance, building maintenance, conservation projects, and so forth. It's a first class facility, but expensive to maintain.
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  • jeenyesjeenyes Member Posts: 330 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 4 acres in the hills around northwest ark. Have a hunting shack on it with solar power and wood stove and propane. Really great place to shoot or just hang out.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rem, Oh, you donate a lot, I see. I dont really see how your treasurer does it, must be pulling his or her hair out giving money to Walton and still needing to raise money for expenses. Long as every one is happy, thats all that counts, .
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    THE FARMFriend owns it. Gave two of us free access. Go shoot whenever you want. Bring what you got, full auto's a plus. Skeet thrower supplied. We even invited the workaholic to go down there with us last weekend, and told him if he behaved we might let him come back. He thought it was nice of us, since he owns the place. The other guy likes to go so much, he is willing to buy the ammo and clays. We help when we can, but he buys the stuff in bulk.You know, a pickup truck load of clays from wallyworld, Cases of 12 ga from cheaperthandirt. Awful nice guy. Glad to know him. We invite who we want, so we never have any bozo's. I left early today after shooting a few, and somebody called the game warden. He got there for a "dove shoot". They were nice enough about it, since they drove 30 miles on a bogus call. They even invited the game warden to shoot a few. Told you they were nice guys.
    Have Gun, will travel
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  • Walt NunleyWalt Nunley Member Posts: 228 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ME MY BROTHER IN LAW AND A ROCK QUARRY
    Submarine Sailor,Truck Driver,and very bad typist.GO RUSTY #2
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