My Range membership is M-F, but most times I can get in on the weekend with no issues.

Today was not one of those times, which was a little odd since it was late in the day, a lot of lanes were open, and I have been going there (and spending money) for years, but....

No big deal. Rules are rules and I will get there this week. I wanted to put about 200 rounds through the P228.


Anyway...gave me a chance to work on my new project...

Making crappy CrossFit workouts.

Today...

Four (4) rounds

10 Deadlifts 155#
10 Wallballs 20#
10 Burpees
5 Fount Squats (from the floor) 155#
50 Double Unders


Really wanted to call it after three rounds...

Burpees just chew me up.

Makes me wonder if Gun Clubs are a thing of the past. I have never been to a public indoor range. Those local to me are basically big box gun shops which charge by the hour. It's like 20 bucks per hour so I guess they arrive with fully loaded magazines and the trigger finger staged and ready. Rip through all your ammo, leave all your brass behind and get out. By contrast, my home state, anti gun shit hole, had Clubs everywhere. Could be 350 Menbers, might be 1400. Memberships were generally $35.00 to $100.00 per year. I had 4 Clubs within 12 miles of home, which I was a Member to 3 of. Rifle ranges, outdoor and indoor pistol ranges, clays, archery, IDPA, USPSA, Club Houses with cold beer and game dinners, work days where Members came to clean and upgrade the property. I have not found a single Club here in Kentucky. You either shoot on private property or pay the big box stores. Same in Ohio. Damn it to hell, even in Pennsylvania we had beautiful Gun Clubs.

I have learned, a lot of the big box stores won't allow reloaded ammo on range. Guess I could understand were one renting a gun to try out. They will gladly sell you ammo. I could spend an entire day at my Clubs ranges. One indoor Club was available 24 hours. If I couldn't sleep, I'd pack up my range bag, grab a few pistols and select a target rifle, drive over and scan the front door lock, shoot all night. Be the first one on the skeet range waiting to smoke doubles against a over cast sky. Or, me and 32 others with M1s playing high power. Enjoying the days with friends and fellow shooters. Those were the good days.

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Originally posted by David Lee:
Makes me wonder if Gun Clubs are a thing of the past. I have never been to a public indoor range. Those local to me are basically big box gun shops which charge by the hour. It's like 20 bucks per hour so I guess they arrive with fully loaded magazines and the trigger finger staged and ready. Rip through all your ammo, leave all your brass behind and get out. By contrast, my home state, anti gun shit hole, had Clubs everywhere. Could be 350 Menbers, might be 1400. Memberships were generally $35.00 to $100.00 per year. I had 4 Clubs within 12 miles of home, which I was a Member to 3 of. Rifle ranges, outdoor and indoor pistol ranges, clays, archery, IDPA, USPSA, Club Houses with cold beer and game dinners, work days where Members came to clean and upgrade the property. I have not found a single Club here in Kentucky. You either shoot on private property or pay the big box stores. Same in Ohio. Damn it to hell, even in Pennsylvania we had beautiful Gun Clubs.

The Isaac Walton League has chapters all over the country. The interests of he members vary, but many of them are gun clubs masquerading as conservation enthusiasts so as to fly under the radar. The ones I know about have the same sort of member-driven mentality expressed in the quoted post. You might want to investigate chapters in your area.

10 burpees, I'm good. 11 Burpees, kill me already.

Looks like a decent WOD. The DU will kill me though. I used to be good at them, then somewhere along the way I lost my ability to more than about 20-25 at a time.

Would be good to have you do both on two separate days.

Day one go to the range and within 90 minutes go to the gym.

Day two:
Go too the gym first and within 90 minutes go to the range.

To see if one affects the other

Why were you not admitted to the range? You said there were open lanes and you're a member.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Why were you not admitted to the range? You said there were open lanes and you're a member.

flashguy

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My Range membership is M-F

If only that had been earlier in his post.

Oh.....

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Why were you not admitted to the range? You said there were open lanes and you're a member.

flashguy

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My Range membership is M-F

If only that had been earlier in his post.

Oh.....

Sorry. I failed to note that his OP was on Sunday. (Days of the week don't mean a lot to me.)

flashguy

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Days of the week don't mean a lot to me.

I'm not into time, man.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Would be good to have you do both on two separate days.

Day one go to the range and within 90 minutes go to the gym.

Day two:
Go too the gym first and within 90 minutes go to the range.

To see if one affects the other

One of the guys who used to work with me was/is an SF guy.

Great guy...even better shot.

Those are his drills. Run 100 m. 10 burpees. Run back to the firing line (100m).

Shoot 10 rounds at bullseye at 15 yards. 7 seconds.

Tough. very tough.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Why were you not admitted to the range? You said there were open lanes and you're a member.

flashguy

My membership is M-F...and it was Sunday.

Most of the guys I know pretty well and if they have room...they will normally let me in, but...

Not that guy and not that day.

Not his fault. He is just doing what he is told.

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Originally posted by KDR:
10 burpees, I'm good. 11 Burpees, kill me already.

Looks like a decent WOD. The DU will kill me though. I used to be good at them, then somewhere along the way I lost my ability to more than about 20-25 at a time.

Thanks. Trying to get back at it.

I'm 55 and needed to get back to it.

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Originally posted by David Lee:
Makes me wonder if Gun Clubs are a thing of the past. I have never been to a public indoor range. Those local to me are basically big box gun shops which charge by the hour. It's like 20 bucks per hour so I guess they arrive with fully loaded magazines and the trigger finger staged and ready. Rip through all your ammo, leave all your brass behind and get out. By contrast, my home state, anti gun shit hole, had Clubs everywhere. Could be 350 Menbers, might be 1400. Memberships were generally $35.00 to $100.00 per year. I had 4 Clubs within 12 miles of home, which I was a Member to 3 of. Rifle ranges, outdoor and indoor pistol ranges, clays, archery, IDPA, USPSA, Club Houses with cold beer and game dinners, work days where Members came to clean and upgrade the property. I have not found a single Club here in Kentucky. You either shoot on private property or pay the big box stores. Same in Ohio. Damn it to hell, even in Pennsylvania we had beautiful Gun Clubs.

Funny thing- back when I lived in gun owner hell ( New York) almost every rural town had some version of rod and gun club with available outdoor range, indoor range or both. Within about a 25 mile drive of home we’re about a dozen

Now I move to a gun owner heaven ( 8 years ago ) Arizona, and gun clubs and ranges are pretty limited. In my area there is a commercial run outdoor range ( previously a gun club but a big dispute of the members of the board of directors resulted in club disbandment) two indoor commercial shop type ranges, and just one other private club. When I first moved here and went in a gun shop to ask where people shoot, the response was drive out into the national forest pick a good spot and have at it. Trouble is they close the national forest land to shooting during wildfire season, so if I was not a member of the one club and one of the indoor commercial ranges, you would be unable to shoot for several months every summer.
The commercial indoor range is a flat $20 nonmember range fee, stay as long as you like, they don’t limit types of ammo ( except specific calibers found to damage the back stop) and membership ( which results in not paying the 20 per visit fee) is about $250 a year, so if you shot just once a month you would pretty much pay the same as I shoot a minimum of once a week at the indoor range the membership is the economical way to go.
Regarding finding gun clubs, I often find they for whatever reason seem to be well kept secrets.even in the old pre internet days, they were not listed in the phone book, and finding them was often a matter of word of mouth