How much would you pay for a good gun club membership?

[Spike A]

I agree as said above , i don’t really see a dollar amount a big deal as much as availability usage and let’s say atmosphere while there... I am a member on 3 miles away for ( just found out today they raised it from 75 to 100 this year) and I only shoot pistols there for most part... some times I’ll use 100 yd range there.. but mainly I like to go there and chit chat with fellow shooters... I might even go Sunday mornings and hang out with trap shooter guys even though I don’t do it any more just because I like the atmosphere ... it pb comes down to a couple of bucks a visit... which let’s face it .. that’s nothing as what I spend on stuff for my own range... I might spend 275... but just trying to decide exactly how often I could make it there ... if I could get there twice a month... it might be worth it... once a month .. I might just be better off doing something to my own range for 275... but that’s what’s available to me... if I didn’t have that available I wouldn’t think twice about it .. even if I only used it 6 times just for a place to shoot...

In the end i think it comes down to what you want and are comfortable with...

 

[Rsadams]

Mines is like $150 or $175 they went up last year.... Worth every penny...

 

[D Coots]

Yeah! I know that you are very rich!

Not yet, but when I get into a shooting related business I'll be there...,

 

[muleman69]

Really like my range, ten minutes from the house . It is on a freinds property, we can shoot out to a mile. No fees ,bring your own bench and firewood. LIFE IS GOOD

 

[okie]

My club has no initiation fee and $125 a year. if you live long enough and have been a member for several years, seniors pay nothing. We have 25,50, 100, and 200yd covered rifle range. We have a separate pistol ranges as well as trap, skeet, and sporting clays. i understand the machines on the shotgun ranges are pallet fed and a couple type remotes to be able to shoot by yourself. The rifle range and shotgun range each have clubhouses. Bathrooms are at both locations. Hope to have a 600yd range soon.
Terrell Pistol and Rifle range north of Terrell, Texas

butch, do you know jason squires from terrell??

 

[savagedasher]

Gun clubs being successful depends on what you have to offer for the price you pay
You can do with volume or the price of membership
Personal I think volume is the best way
Most shooters can’t afford the coast
We have two clubs close
One charges $12.00 and is packed the other charges $27 and is loosing money

 

[TAJ45]

I have not read all of the replies.

The main and only question is "Whatsitworth to you with what is offered? Some folks buy a High Country or Denali and some are served with a used Colorado for range trips w gear.

 

[Jimmy James]

I dont know what the max is I would pay but I'm paying about $300 total a year for membership to 2 ranges, 1 with 1000yd steel as the draw and its an hour away. The other is about 20 minutes away and is really a pistol and skeet centric club but it has a 100yd rifle range that is handy for zeroing and testing and there is rarely anybody there 75% of the time. One thing to consider about a club is when can you shoot and do you want to participate in matches. One of the 2 clubs I belong to has a match of some sort every Satruday that takes up much of the shooting bays and parking.

 

[perry42]

My local club charges $260 for your first year and $130 the next year. We have 22 ranges from 7yds to 200yds and paid RO's. Most firing lines are covered.

perry42

 

[perry42]

If I lived near Atlanta, GA the Riverbend Club north of ATL would be my first choice of a Club to join. Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Cowboy, Silhoutte all ina beautiful
setting.


perry42

 

[243winxb]

The $20 club has better ranges then the $100 "country" club. The fee of $100 helped pay for a $33,000 electric gate that records your data when card is inserted. The $20 club is 2 miles away, no gate.

$20 year / new member $40 per person & $100 year + new $100 family. is the low and high in my area. Many memberships are full. The state range permit is $35 , free if you have a hunting license.

Clubs should have 1 day per month when non-members can shoot for a fee.

One club has indoor pistol open to the public every Wed. For a fee.
Indoor archery is at another club, small fee.

The NRA has a list of sportsmans clubs.
https://explore.nra.org/programs/clubs/

The $20 no gate club found a car in the fishing pond at low water. Hasmat cleanup was $2200.

 

[butchlambert]

butch, do you know jason squires from terrell??

Fellow Okie, I do not know him, but I usually get my shooting done and leave. i'm not a go to the range to visit type of guy.
I'll try to look him up.

 

[okie]

yeah--good guy, i went to school with him at s.eastern

 

[Uthink Uknow]

243, where are you located?

 

[243winxb]

243, where are you located?

 

[4xforfun]

I didn't read all of the posts, but to the OP......I wouldn't have a problem paying what I pay for my country club membership provided it was top notch.

I pay $300.00 single and $450. for a family at out country club. I have my own range.

Tod

 

[theMadAlaskan]

PM sent to Clunker.

 

[dave@aDave]

Anyone who feels like the shooting sports are expensive should try Drag Racing or Bass Fishing sometime.

My son put around $30,000 into a World Products Man of War engine for his Mustang.
It does go fast.

 

[Concha]

If this does not cause a financial hardship, do it. In Texas hunting leases and deer hunting will cost you from 2000 to 5000 plus to put 120 to 200 lbs of meat in your freezer. A good range with 1000 is 350 a year.

 

[fyrewall]

A range having: rimfire, pistol, rifle up to 1,000 yards with steel, all covered firing points, screened membership, and a running water restroom for Mrs. Fyrewall - $400 per year or a lifetime for $1,500 - I am an old guy but determined to shoot my 3900 rounds per year.