What Is Your Favorite Shooting Range?

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I'm curious to hear about everyone's favorite shooting range. What do you love about it — the atmosphere, the staff, or maybe it’s just really convenient? Share the name and what makes it special!
 
Eagle Peak in Leander, Texas. It's npt especially convenient for me, but they are nice people and it's a good range.
 
El Campo Rifle and Pistol club. It's well run, well maintained, and not all that expensive for membership. For rifle there is 25, 50, 100, 200, and 300 yards. Target backers use staples or push pins. 200 and 300 also has steel plates. I haven't shot on the pistol range much but it's got a berm around it and they can continue shooting while rifle shooters pull or check targets. It's generally not very crowded. I test my reloads there.

The Ranch TX Private Shooting Club near Eagle Lake is where I go to shoot 500 - 1000 yards. It's a very nice facility. They have a lot of events there (like Kalashbash). I've taken my grandkids and let them shoot .22's suppressed. Overall it's a very nice place to shoot.
 
Only been to the one in Richwood. Used to be Big Kountry now it’s Skeeters. Wife talked me into selling my Hi-Power Browning when we first got together because she had three little ones and we lived in a small trailer. So I thought it best also. They grown now with families of their own. So I got me a couple guns again finally. I go on off times and it’s nice when not crowded. Went once when it was crowded and stopped to reload and in the next lane was a young girl no more than 12 or 13 by herself, Kinda spooked me.
 
Mine is a cautionary tale. Background. SIG has a new program similar to GSSF, ShootSIG. I joined. You get good pricing to buy SIG firearms. Unlike Glock who sends a coupon you take to the LGS and get the special price, with SIG you buy direct from them. I wanted a P365XL. Only certain firearms are available. It was not. Several weeks later it was. So I bought one. A list of FFL's pops up. I figured they'd all be SIG vetted and do right by gun people. I chose the nearby one. Range USA. Turns out they are going to charge $100 for the transfer. So a warning to be careful if ever dealing with Range USA. Or just don't ever deal with them. Turns out they are not "good gun people" as a corporate entity.
 
I see an excellent masseuse once every 3 weeks. She and her husband's property is on 34 acres.

They have a small but nice private range I get to use. 40 yds with steel plates on vertical posts and 90 yds with big hanging plates.

Heavy loads in my S&W 500 Mags makes the heavy plates dance! Don
 
I live in NW Houston and for shooting my new black powder Brown Bess, I had to find an outdoor range. There are not as many as there used to be, so I go to the Carter’s Country in Spring. I love it out there: it’s cheap and the people are friendly.
 
I used to shoot at Eagle in Lewisville, but I found that Rifle Gear on 121 in the Colony has a senior discount. Mon - Thurs 10:00 am - 4:00 pm seniors range fee is only $10.00
 
Liberty Ned said:
I live in NW Houston and for shooting my new black powder Brown Bess, I had to find an outdoor range. There are not as many as there used to be, so I go to the Carter's Country in Spring. I love it out there: it's cheap and the people are friendly.
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Is Hot Wells still in business?
 
Bufford said:
I used to shoot at Eagle in Lewisville, but I found that Rifle Gear on 121 in the Colony has a senior discount. Mon - Thurs 10:00 am - 4:00 pm seniors range fee is only $10.00
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That sounds great but a bit further for me since I live in the HEB area. I will check it out though. $10 is nothing to sneeze at but there will be toll fees also to consider which I just miss at Eagle. It might be worth it to check out Nebraska Furniture since I am in the area. :)
 
My favorite indoor range is Marksman in South Houston, TX. Been going there since 1966. My go to all around shooting range is Pearland Shooting Club, but it's a membership range. Outstanding facility!
 
Liberty Ned said:
Unfo

Unfortunately, no. I loved that place and it was closer to my house.
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The death of a customer in 2017 was the beginning of the death knell I assume and then developers sued for a nuisance issue. I used to go when I visited relatives out that way. Money grubbing real estate developers and home owners seem to think they have priority by moving close to gun ranges.
 
puma guy said:
The death of a customer in 2017 was the beginning of the death knell I assume and then developers sued for a nuisance issue. I used to go when I visited relatives out that way. Money grubbing real estate developers and home owners seem to think they have priority by moving close to gun ranges.
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Shooting ranges, airports, whatever, you move nearby tough stuff. You made your choice now live with your choice. Infuriating. Lawmakers should do something about this.
 
Austin Rifle Club probably though I MUCH prefer to shoot on private land. ARC keeps out the riff raff from what all I've seen.
 
puma guy said:
The death of a customer in 2017 was the beginning of the death knell I assume and then developers sued for a nuisance issue. I used to go when I visited relatives out that way. Money grubbing real estate developers and home owners seem to think they have priority by moving close to gun ranges.
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You hit the nail on the head.
 
It's not perfect, but it's very good. Some people would like a 300 yard range, but no one really sees that happening. They also don't do Trap or Skeet. Plenty of ranges, though.

I'd love to have private land to shoot on, but I think the HOA would object! ;)

notku said:
Austin Rifle Club probably though I MUCH prefer to shoot on private land. ARC keeps out the riff raff from what all I've seen.
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Arlington Sportsman's Club. $150/yr membership. Ranges from 25 to 200 yards with 4 rollout target lanes to 25 yards. Skeet, trap, sporting clays and 5 stand for shotgunners and a fishing pond.
 
I don't currently have one. My favorite was the one on my property. Unfortunately, I now have housing developments on three sides of my 50 acres and no place to put my backstop with a clear downrange.
It used to be Ralph's Range in Tom Bean, Texas. It closed after the County DA and the owner got in a pissing match about supposed rounds going over the berm and doing damage to houses over a mile away downrange. The owner just closed it because he got tired of fighting the county instead of raising the berm another 10 ft.
 
Mine is right out my back door. I have 80 acres here at home, most of it wooded. I can only shoot about 150 yards using my current settup, but since all my hunting is about 150 yards or under, that’s all I need. I have a nice bench, and a homemade target stand that I can move closer for hunting handguns (50 yards), or move it back to 125 yards for rifles. If I need to sight in a scope or shoot a handgun for load development, I have a target frame bought from Amazon that works well at 25 yards. I keep it in the garage and shoot from under my carport off a tripod, and sitting in a hunting chair. It’s not as good as my bench, but serves its purpose. The backstop from my bench is a hillside, the one from my carport is a thickly wooded area with a hillside behind it. Nobody lives downrange for a mile or more since it’s creek bottom land behind my place that floods.
 
Alan said:
I'm curious to hear about everyone's favorite shooting range. What do you love about it — the atmosphere, the staff, or maybe it's just really convenient? Share the name and what makes it special!
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Parker County Sportsman's Club..TX
 
I shoot at Bayou Rifles in the Houston area. I've been to a couple of company events at the Athena recently. My, how fancy!
 
TexasGopher said:
I don't currently have one. My favorite was the one on my property. Unfortunately, I now have housing developments on three sides of my 50 acres and no place to put my backstop with a clear downrange.
It used to be Ralph's Range in Tom Bean, Texas. It closed after the County DA and the owner got in a pissing match about supposed rounds going over the berm and doing damage to houses over a mile away downrange. The owner just closed it because he got tired of fighting the county instead of raising the berm another 10 ft.
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I really miss Ralph's Range. Ralph was one of those guys that testified at the legislature in Austin when all of those rogue complaints were popping up with shooting ranges all over Texas. I sure wish I had a place like Ralph's to shoot again. If anyone living anywhere around Prosper, and wants a shooting buddy or wants to get rid of varmints, reach out to me. Wink Wink.
 
Fort Bliss, Texas Rod & Gun Club. As retired military (Army), I pay $150/year. Covered ranges are nice, helps to keep the blazing sun from burning too much.
 

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Covered ranges are a huge bonus during the Summer months for sure! While AC is nice, the sound/smell inside of an indoor range sometimes is a bit too much, and it might also depend on the ventilation.
 
What part of Houston? There are Houston members at the range I shoot at in El Campo (post #3). 25yd, 50yd, 100yd, 200yd, and 300yd plus the pistol range are all covered. NRA range flags at 200 and 300 yards. Pistol range is behind a berm so even when pistol is hot the rifle range can service targets (and vice versa). Members only though I have taken guests with no issues.

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The Ranch is near Eagle Lake. Up to 1000 yards. I don't have any photos of it yet.

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I'm in Friendswood, about 100 mile drive to El Campo so a bit far. And too hot even with covered shooting points.
 

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