The shooting range problem?

Most shooting ranges fall into two categories. The first is indoor ranges with a maximum range of 25 yards (a Glock can hit a man between the nipples at 100 yards with sufficient skill), have a range officer staring at you, have 500 rules, have dumbasses with AR pistols making the place too loud for normal earpro, and might give you lead poisoning if they're not ventilated properly. The second type of shooting range is an outdoor range of maybe 100 yards owned by some kind of small town gun club who forces you to join their social club to use the range, makes you attend meetings, and has weird rules that extend to your personal life.

The only way get quality shooting training and be left the frick alone is to crawl a mile into some swamp allocated as a "town forest" because the land is so shitty and mosquito infested that they couldn't sell it to anyone. I've become an expert at wilderness navigation and survival over the past ten years just as byproduct of looking for places to shoot.

Why aren't there 100 yard clearings with a berm where you're just explicitly allowed to shoot and don't have to deal with bullshit? Isn't this supposed to be America? It would cost states almost nothing to build and maintain public shooting ranges. You don't even have to plow them, people can just wear snowshoes. Literally just a fricking a place to shoot and not have to deal with people is all I want. No reason whatsoever why it needs to be this difficult.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You're the New Hampshire guy aren't you?
    You can shoot a Glock from 100 yards from what you've told us.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not from New Hampshire and I haven't been to this forum in months. I can shoot a Glock proficiently at 100 yards though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I haven't been to this forum in months
        >this forum
        You've never been here before ever. Maybe go back to arfcom or reddit?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >It would cost states almost nothing to build and maintain public shooting ranges.
    Theres your problem. You can goto almost every major guntubers channel and find at least one video of them either complaining or talking about the trash left at public shooting areas and how we should cleanup after ourselves. You underestimate how awful people really are.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't care about trash though. If anything I feel comfortable when there's trash everywhere because that means nobody gives a shit. It means it's a freedom zone. It's like when you find a network of uninhabited dirt back roads where the stop signs all have bullet holes in them. That's where I feel at home. Trash is no reason to close down a shooting range. Just make a dirt pile at the base of a hill and let people do whatever the frick they want and leave them alone.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It means it's a freedom zone. It's like when you find a network of uninhabited dirt back roads where the stop signs all have bullet holes in them. That's where I feel at home.
        God I hate white trash

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        See, I agree with your premise and consider the possibilities until people like show up, and then I rethink the whole idea. You can’t have nice things with subhumans like that taking part.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >gib land for a public range, it would cost almost nothing to maintain
        >btw we're going to shit all over it
        what's wrong with you

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What the frick does it matter if there's trash? You can use beer cans as targets.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's not going to be a can here or there. You're going to have people dumping tires and furniture and shit. White trash has no limits to their degeneracy

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              So what? The alternative is not having a good place to shoot. I couldn't care less about trash. Dump as many tires as you want. I shouldn't have to join some social club or become Tarzan just to fricking shoot.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You are the reason we are losing access to public lands for shooting you inbred, goat fricking, third world brained shitbag.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I don't litter.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe you don’t but your ilk do. You’re no better than Black folk or pajeets.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Doesn't even matter. "Ohp, someone chucked a tire, guess we gotta shut down the range" is the dumbest, lamest attitude I've ever heard on /k/. I hope there are enough tires to build a fortress.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nobody gives a shit about one tire, a responsible individual will just clean it up.
                But after tire #216, bunch of broken glass #129, and smelly bags of household kitchen trash #455 that responsible individual will finally get jaded enough to stop cleaning up after the children around him, at which point the range will indeed go to shit.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                But you can still shoot. I'm accustomed to shooting through peek-a-boo gaps between trees while being harassed by mosquitoes, spitting out spider webs, bleeding from thorns, and sweaty and exhausted from bushwhacking a mile or more through land that people gave up on trying to settle over 200 years ago, and then STILL being paranoid that I'm going to be confronted by a game warden who thinks I'm poaching or a hostile land owner who is too lazy and stupid to post his land. I couldn't possibly care any less about trash. I just want to FRICKING SHOOT.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >hostile land owner who is too lazy and stupid to post his land
                Landowners are not required by law to post and trespassing is illegal regardless of a sign. You should never walk onto a piece of land if you don’t know who owns it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Tolerating someone else fricking up a shared space is tacit participation. If you cared about the place you'd get them to knock that shit off, whether through the range janny, your parks department, or the police.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Maybe this is me being too much of a fricking boy scout, but holy shit, clean up after yourself, you subhuman homosexual.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Maybe practice reading comprehension. I'm not saying I throw trash everywhere. I'm saying I don't care if other people do and it's not a good enough reason for society to not have good shooting ranges for everyone.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >good shooting range
                >trash everywhere
                Which is it, anon?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The purpose of a shooting range is to shoot, not to look pretty. If there's trash everywhere, that will keep vacationing urbanites away. It's a plus. A few bullet holes in the road signs keeps them away too.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Who said looks were the only concern?
                Trash is a fire hazard, it attracts vermin, it's fantastic leverage for buttholes who want to shut down the range, and it can many cases be a safety issue.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I just think it's weird that your mind goes there. It's a weird thing to be concerned about. I've never thought about trash in my life. I've never had a problem that was caused by trash.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You are probably dirty and an urbanite.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Actually I'm extremely organized and I was raised in a place with more bears than people.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >t

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No one is saying you can’t shoot garbage, but we want the grounds cleaned before leaving. A lot of people, including you, seem to either not clean up after them selves or shoot things that can’t be cleaned up.

            Stop being poor and buy land. Make your own range. Zero rules, zero restrictions, 24 hour access. Can shoot alone or with friends, no range officer hovering over you the whole time. And no random morons trying to make small talk. Ranges are for poor people and boomers who use it as a social club.

            100% agree, and this is my plan. Make outdoor ranges through my state with places for shotgun, rifle, and pistol. Land is fairly cheap around here.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I don't care.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >What the frick does it matter if there's trash?
            Post hand.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        frick ya mudda

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, but you’re way off. The way liberal politics and regulation would work today would have any government made gun range near towns or cities be either manned, membership/reservation, or indoors. I live close to Charlotte and even though it gets country fast past where I live I really couldn’t see an unmanned range being made near me.
        > It would cost states almost nothing to build and maintain public shooting ranges
        In rural areas yes. Urbanites will 100% protest how often they recover lead, rebuild the burm, and ask for security/staff. Eventually it just becomes too expensive.

        > I don't care about trash though.
        But that’s the issue. Trash like you don’t give a shit about how they effect the world around them, and that gives anti-gun gays a way to make us look worse.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Fellow CharlotteBlack person wya?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Just on the outskirts near the uncc, but not at it. What about you?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              A little past Mount Holly but from Charlotte. Area past UNCC is blowing up quick you’ll be ran out eventually plus university has become absolutely infested with Black folk. If you come across it you should join the /k/ discord. First group I’ve met that actually shoots and are full of normal individuals.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I’ll check it out if I see it, but yeah this area is trash I’m trying to move up to Salisbury or a surrounding town. West Charlotte is going up too man... traffic is crazy out there and their building that new hospital out there.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I find it extremely odd how hung up you people are on the trash thing. I don't give a frick about trash so long as it's not out in the woods, littering in nature is the only thing that offends me. If you've cleared land for a shooting range, you have already destroyed the environment there. Trash isn't going to make it any worse. You people sound like urbanites. Rural people throw beer cans all over the road because the road itself is already trash.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Trash isn't going to make it any worse.
            Nah, trash makes it much worse. For starters, many shooting areas don't require clearing any land at all. It's just finding a natural backstop--it could be a mountain in the desert, a hill, or the opposite side of a valley. If land is cleared for a range that land isn't destroyed, there's still all sorts of plants and animals there even if trees were cut down. I'd much rather look out over a field of grass than a field of beer cans. I'd much rather hang targets on a mound of clean dirt rather than a pile of busted glass bottles which could cut me if I have to kneel or sit. I'd like to shoot without having to smell the reek of someone's kitchen trash nearby or having to swat the mosquitoes now breeding in the tire pile.

            >Rural people throw beer cans all over the road because the road itself is already trash.
            No, trash individuals throw beer cans all over the road because their parents were failures at life and didn't teach them any better. That has nothing to do with rural vs. urban, Black folk do that same shit in the city just the same as white trash does in methville. It's all the same game.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You're a literal Black person.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Motherfricker you are an honorary opossum. Post paw right the frick now, trash animal.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why is there never a middle ground between the most petty, authoritarian douchebag who pleasures themselves at the idea of being a hall monitor and a living breathing embodiment of someone's caricature they use to explain the tragedy of the commons?

        "Normal" people implies there should be quite a few of them, but they are nowhere to be found.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >"Normal" people implies there should be quite a few of them, but they are nowhere to be found.
          Two factors at work here.
          1) Over time even the most reasonable person gets jaded with the stupidity of his fellow humans and thus there is a strong tendency for people to turn into authoritarian douchebags.
          2) I suspect many of those people you're labeling douchebags are in fact "normal".

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I don't care about trash though.
        White hands DID NOT type this. When I got to my open range park, I want to be around deer, squirrels, blue jays, cardinals, turkies, racoons and foxes. Not trash. I was in my bed, reading on my phone and seeing you write such moronic opinons forced me to get up and get on the pc. Frick you.

        A reason why a lot of gun clubs have high fees and rules, is because they don't want mouth breathers like you around. Another reason why there isn't more public land to shoot on, is because politicians hate you and don't want to help you in any way.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I want you to read Tragedy of the Commons and see if you can figure it out.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You can still shoot at the commons no matter how bad it gets. A shooting range isn't a garden. If it becomes unsightly, then people will avoid it, meaning I'll have the place to myself most of the time. I would rather shoot at a trash dump than any range around me currently.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No civilized government on earth would give you even a square inch of land if your intent is to shit it up until it becomes "unsightly," why in the world do you think they would go for this?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If anyone needs to understand the rat like existence that fuels the lower classes: I’ll refer them to your post.

      • 2 years ago
        BigC

        >I don't care about trash though.
        Sub-human behavior

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >trash everywhere
        >freedom zone

        the absolute state of americans

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I don't care about trash though. If anything I feel comfortable when there's trash everywhere because that means nobody gives a shit. It means it's a freedom zone.

        Africans feel the same way. Which puts you on their level.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Adding to the (You)'s:
        The range I go to has bullet holes fricking everywhere: safety signs, shading structures, trash cans, even the fricking port-a-pottys are riddled with holes. And whenever I go to the end of the range bay to set up my target I have to be careful I don't step over glass shards and plastic bits littered all over the place.
        The reason this pisses me off is because the range I go to is otherwise amazing and, more importantly, free. I always worry the people who run the range are gonna get fed up with people like you and start charging people like me or start implementing all kinds of dumbass rules that ruin it for people like me all because of people like you.
        You need to think in terms of community, ESPECIALLY with such a niche hobby/responsibility as gun ownership.
        tldr; frick you

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >even the fricking port-a-pottys are riddled with holes
          It’s all fun and games until someone get shot while taking a dump

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you are a smelly moron chimp and I hope you die

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Is there any way I can clean up broken glass at the range? This 1700 yard range is pretty nice (except for ) because you gotta know a guy to tell you where it's at, which is a nice moron filter. However, the more widely known 500 yard range is absolutely littered with broken glass from 0-100 yards and it frickin sucks. I try to do what I can by repainting and re-hanging the gongs that gays like to shoot down on purpose, but the glass problem bugs me.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            pulverize the area with explosives and then bulldoze it flat, finally cover the whole thing with about 200 truckloads of fresh dirt
            bam, easily done

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A hundred people go to a shooting range. 99 people clean up their trash, one guy doesn't. Now there is trash everywhere.

      Your conclusion? Everybody is shit, except yourself of course.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >99% of people obey public sanitation rules
        It's literally known to be a Pareto distribution with 20% cleaning up after themselves and 80% not bothering. Frick off.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >80% of people litter
          maybe in whatever Black person hood you live in

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            If you take away the publicly provided trash cans, you bet your sweet ass, they do. If you don't empty those trash cans regularly, you bet your sweet ass most people will either drop their shit on the ground right next to it, or start piling it up on top of the can. If there's no public trash cans, most people won't take their trash back to their own homes to police it, they'll just dump it right where they are.
            This includes whites.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >t.pic related

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Stop being poor and buy land. Make your own range. Zero rules, zero restrictions, 24 hour access. Can shoot alone or with friends, no range officer hovering over you the whole time. And no random morons trying to make small talk. Ranges are for poor people and boomers who use it as a social club.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I would have to give up shooting to afford land.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Unfortunately land is really expensive.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Read the first 3 words of my post again.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If being poor was something that you could just magically stop doing then there would be no poor people anywhere in the world.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the government should subsidize land for me to go shooting on because I'm too poor to have my own
        >also I should get to dump trash all over it and be a piece of shit with it
        Why would they want to spend the time even considering the idea, let alone the money to purchase said land to basically let it turn into open landfill at the hands of hicks like yourself

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I inherited some land a few years back and legitimately considered opening up a very relaxed outdoor range for something like $50 per year with minimal rules/involvement for some passive income.
    After talking to some people who've done it, looking into area demographics, and talking to insurance about it, I decided it wasn't worth the risk considering the average moron these days.
    Legal waivers really only carry any weight if you're a multimillion dollar company that can afford to waste people's time in court until they run out of money or patience.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's a damn shame. Last I checked, nobody has ever been shot by a piece of land. The responsibility for accidents should lay solely on the person who had their finger on the trigger. The entire legal system needs to be completely purged and rebuilt.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What about a *private* gun club with a token or two

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nah I just let it return to wilds, lease it out for hunting season every few years to cover the property taxes and give me some extra pocket change. Occasionally go camp on it when I have the time.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Have sex incel

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >>Why aren't there 100 yard clearings with a berm where you're just explicitly allowed to shoot and don't have to deal with bullshit?
    BECAUSE IT'S NOT SAFE! YOULL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >It would be so easy to have more public ranges
    >Pic related
    >Someone shows up for the express purpose of demonstrating why that won't work

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Literally just a fricking a place to shoot and not have to deal with people is all I want.
    Then you'll have to deal with all the people who are the reason shooting ranges have all those rules.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah but I can stay away from them. I can't do that at an indoor range or social club.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like the best option is to find a range you like and go move near it. Lots of red states have pretty good ranges. There are places within 20 mins of me that are like you describe, just clearings with a berm (mountain). They are typically filled with people at all times, and tons of trash. I like the range because I go shoot in matches, and get a wide variety of scenarios to practice without having to set up a bunch of bullshit out in public land. Also I would never go to an indoor range frick that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ranges can change a lot though, so be wary.

      About 20 years ago there was a pretty great range near me. Facilities weren't the greatest, but it was pretty nice. For $10 you could shoot all day, no time limit or number of guns limit. They had outdoor pistol and rifle ranges out to 200 yards. If it happened to be busy an RSO would hang around but he was pretty cool. Rules were very simple: no alcohol/drugs, no hazardous targets like propane tanks, clean up after yourself. No club membership required, you could just show up, pay, and shoot.

      It was fine for a couple of years, the guy started getting old and couldn't really check up on what was going on at the range so he just hung out in the office building instead. It soon turned to shit, trash and broken glass everywhere, people shooting up the target hangers on purpose, all the convenience stuff for shooters to use like sandbags, wooden blocks to use as risers, thumbtacks & clips to hang targets all got stolen. It became nearly impossible to clean up after oneself because frickheads filled up the dumpster with their household trash.

      Never underestimate the ability of humans to ruin a good thing.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why aren't there 100 yard clearings with a berm where you're just explicitly allowed to shoot and don't have to deal with bullshit?

    Isn't this just BLM land and state forest ranges??

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Being a newbie to gunz I like my shooting range, I can rent a bunch of cool guns and the range guy there was really friendly and gave me shooting tips.
    I had fun! :^)

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why aren't there 100 yard clearings with a berm where you're just explicitly allowed to shoot and don't have to deal with bullshit?
    I have two unmanned outdoor ranges just like this a short drive away from me, and several more if I drive out a bit further. I still choose to shoot in the National Forest 9 times out of 10 since I don't have to be around other people and I like dealing with traversing and shooting through foliage. Love Missouri.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    there are in the southwest, anon. I live outside of las vegas and there's huge stretches of open desert, blm spots close to town with berms up close *and* open stretches, and almost infinite coyotes to shoot, east coast sucks unless you're fine with indoor pistol ranges.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Stay off my range trash Black folk.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Telling the local DSA chapter RIGHT NOW

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    we have public ranges in Wisconsin. Everytime I go you have morons flagging people with hot weapons, walking around the range with hot weapons (I don't give a shit about holstered pistols, but rifles I give a lot of fricks about) and general dumbassery. I hate public ranges.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >local outdoor range has a $24/year membership fee
    >all they ask is what you're shooting today and can they see your easily photoshopped permit to get in
    >brooms to sweep up brass to either pick up yourself or put in a bucket for them (don't have to do either if you don't want to)
    >25, 50, and 100 yard stations, only thing ever asked of me is others asking me how I like my guns

    Is this the bare minimum or a heavenly place?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds pretty nice to me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I shoot mostly steel case ammo. The cases corrode into harmless iron oxide dust in like a year. I'd rather walk 20 miles than pick up brass.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        there's steel casings all over the edge where the grass and shooting bays are at, the literal 70 year old RSO's don't give a frick

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >that pic
    That’s the only good thing about this post

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why aren't there 100 yard clearings with a berm where you're just explicitly allowed to shoot and don't have to deal with bullshit?
    Literally my range and one of the few good things about living in West Texas.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Oh I'm sorry does YOUR state not allow you to just march out into the woods and shoot?

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >neighbor had 65 acres a lil north of us and said we're free to go on it whenever to shoot, fish, hike, camp, etc

    wagmi

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You’re looking in the wrong places, anon.
    Pic related is my go to and it’s heaven for me
    >huge
    >beautiful (yes, the Southern Midwest deserts can be beautiful)
    >hardly ever is there any more than six people there
    >dozens of pistol bays spanning about 50m
    >three rifle bays that go up to 500m
    >no fee whatsoever
    >not even RSOs
    >no club association, range is owned and maintained by the Parks and Recreation department
    >mostly clean aside from the usual trash people use as targets and leave there without cleaning up

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I used to shoot at a public range in a state forest but the dnr kept having to shut it down because rednecks would take trash out to shoot and not clean it up.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You shouldn’t be allowed to own a firearm if you don’t own land.

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