Hey everyone,
As part of our down time, when we’re not performing maintenance, researching our next purchase, or hopefully spending quality time with the family, we’re at the shooting range! This week, let’s talk about it!
Below are some questions open for discussion:
- Between all of your shooting sessions, what is the ratio of you visiting an indoor range to an outdoor one? Which do you prefer?
- How often do you go?
- What does your session routine look like? How long are you there?
- How many rounds are you putting out a session?
- Do you go with anyone, or do you prefer to go solo?
- Any pet peeves about the range(s) you go to?
Feel free to answer any of the above, or leave a top comment with your own question or comment about the shooting range!
I more often go to an indoor range, mostly because I’m spending time with an older relative who loves shooting his big revolvers and cowboy guns somewhere comfortable.
I prefer an outdoor range that lets me shoot around VTAC, similar targets, or something like Texas stars. Bullseying paper from standing is foundational but it gets boring.
About twice a month.
If it’s an indoor range with the relative, it’s about an hour and a half of shooting. Focus on pistols. No real drilling beyond DIY made up dot/corner drill where I rotate between four different targets on the paper. Long guns are only zeroed.
Outdoor ranges I like Texas stars.
I like doing drills inspired by the old Kyle Lamb books. He is both a Green Beret and seems like he likes being lazy. A perfect mentor. The cracked out Youtubers are too intense for me.
I used to do competitions held at ranges using their own rules, which were pretty much open class for weapons, some tacticool score dings, and some wild cards like climbing up a ladder and shooting or dragging a weighted dummy from one point to another and shooting. They always mixed it up.
These days I try to do a jog or a little hike before outdoor range days because I’ve got this (misguided) idea that any drill you can’t do while already fatigued isn’t worth doing.
Everyone has more expensive or cool stuff than me.
I wish they’d had Texas Stars (or that I’d known about them? When were they invented?) back when I had property in a place where it was legal to shoot. They look like so much fun!
As far as I know they’ve been around for ages. Shooting at any kind of moving target is great practice, and those stars are just so simple to set up compared to many other moving options that require batteries or more space.
I agree that being under duress or some kind of fatigue is probably an effective way to train.
I’ve watched some competition recordings and I like the idea of shooting some targets, then sprinting to the next position to shoot more.
Maybe at an outdoor range, shooting at some yard away, then turning 180 degrees, running some tens of yards away to shooting the same target more. I’ve seen a YouTuber do it, and I feel like that could be a common drill.