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Here in northeast Florida, we (wife/I) have a membership with a local Range and we like everything about the Range! They do sell ammo, targets, etc in the small store that is part of the office, but no requirements to buy for Range use. We are older (early 60's) and don't shoot the high-powered stuff or military type ones......only regular firearms.
Most ranges in NH are private and have a smaller cost to be a member or guest. Some may sell ammo, but none I know of require you to buy theirs. None I know of limit what kinds of ammo you can shoot either. I suppose it would be a wise idea to inform the range if you plan on shooting a full auto weapon though. It is legal to have and shoot full auto weapons here, but it will draw attention.
I have never been able to afford any of that, mainly due to the costs of ammo. I can dream.
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Seems that now you can't bring any handloads (understandable, since a lot of guys do over-load their ammo), no cast lead bullets, and, as far as I can see, you generally now have to buy your ammunition from the firing range. They insist on frangible, non-toxic bullets these days as well, but I can't even provide my legally made commercial "handloads" with such bullets.
I know they won't let me near the place with my Freedom Arms .454 Casull, since it would probably 1) deafen everyone in the place, even out in the office, 2) penetrate the backboard and/or 3) richochet all over the place!
I simply wanted to take a family lady friend down to a range in Portland, OR, along with my commercial light .32 Mag handloads for some intro handgun safety training, but... nope!
They also don't sell .32 Mag, so I'm out of luck, even if I wanted to pay exorbitant prices. Guess we'll have to go out into the woods east of PDX.... bummer!
Any similar experiences in your neighborhoods? Anyone else not happy with this sitch?
For the ultra economic folks: No indoor range that I can reasonably drive to will allow steel or aluminum cased ammunition.
Same applies for any hand loads.
"What? You want to shoot cast lead? The EPA may defecate in their pants so we can't allow that. Why would anyone want to shoot cast lead anyway?"
I'm not sure that I'm allowed to even shoot my vast stores of Winchester white box FMJ because it isn't a real full metal jacket since the back of the bullet is exposed lead. These rules seem to be pretty uniform so I wonder if this isn't EPA regulation as opposed to frank extortion on the part of the range.
"You need to check the feed reliability of your new defense rounds? How about you do that somewhere else that isn't a gun range?"
Here in Southern California, where wildfires are incredibly dangerous and to be avoided at all costs, all the ranges I know of -- public, private, law enforcement -- prohibit bullets that are steel-jacketed or steel-cored. There is too much danger of sparking against rocks and catching the brush and grasses afire. I saw it happen on a private range, and know of two other instances (one public range, one LEO range) where it did.
At Cowboy Action Shooting ranges there are usually two other prohibitions. The first is against using any kind of jacketed or gas-checked ammo, because of the damage they can do to the steel targets and to bystanders (bounce-backs of sharp fragments). The second is against shooting any modern high-powered rifle, for the same reasons.
Looks like shooting flinters is dead out west. NH has nothing like that bring her here!,,,,.
I have my .50 cal but I use caps. Wish it was a flint action now. Probably one of my flatest shooting rifles I have. I would like to install a vintage scope on it now, the old eyes do not like iron sites that much.
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