Cost of Shooting Club Membership

[Mark in Ottawa]

A few months ago somebody was asking about the price of a shooting club membership

I just renewed my membership this afternoon and the price was $570 Canadian or about $420 USD

Our club is all outdoors but most of the ranges have covered shooting benches.

We have rifle ranges at 50, 100, 200 and (a small number of spots) at 300 yards. We have two pistol ranges (one with covered shooting points) and an archery range. I don't shoot shotgun and am not sure of the correct nomenclature but as far as I can understand, we have 5 stand, skeet and trap

My membership is for rifle and pistol but not shotgun

Given that it is an outdoor range I no longer shoot in the winter but there were a number of people with shotguns there today, perhaps because it was not all that cold

[Art]

I pay just under $300.00 for my club membership. There are 200, 400 and 600 yard ranges plus three bays, one is 40 yards, pistol and rimfire only and the other two are 50 yards, pistol, rimfire and anything you can shoot on the longer ranges. Firing points are all covered and have benches, though the benches are widely spaced on the 40 and 50 yard ranges.

My fee includes three guest passes. Guest passes can be used a limitless number of times and are a real perk. If it was just me and no guest passes membership would be about $250.00

[Allen]

Sounds a little pricey to me. With everything going up in price I can see people dropping out of membership. In my neck of the woods we have ranges--I haven't priced them lately and I'm sure they have increased but there are limits to what people will pay before asking to shoot on someone else's property.

[Phloating Phlasher]

I just renewed.
$50.00.
skeet & trap
25, 50, 100, 200 & 300 yd all outdoor all covered.
Club house with DIY kitchen facilities.

[JimF]

I pay $75 annually . . . .

Rifle, Handgun, and shotgun (Trap only) . . . .all outdoors.

Ranges up to 200 yds. (At 82 yrs., I only shoot at 100 yds.)

[Major Tom]

I shoot at Big Hollow shooting range near Sperry, Iowa. All ranges are outdoors; 25,50,100 and 300. All firing lines are covered. Cost is $35 per year. No range officers tho.

[lyman]

$75 a year,

discount cause I am outside the 80 mile or so radius tot he club (basically 1/2 price)

indoor range,
clubhouse
skeet/trap fields
archery 3D range
300 yrd rifle
100 yrd rifle
50 yrd Bullseye and an action pistol range,
and 2 bays for plinking , steel and Full Auto,


assorted competitions thru out the month

[barretcreek]

$75/year plus work bond. Clubhouse, Indoor pistol, outdoor pistol, tactical/steel/LE, skeet and trap,200yd rifle with enclose benches. Also belong to trap club hour+ away. Nice clubhouse, one self activated field, sells components. Food. $75.
State has a long range facility off the interstate.

[blackhawknj]

Sounds reasonable to me. Figure in insurance, maintenance, etc.

[dogtag]

For 25 years it was $50 yearly
25, 100, 200, Trap Skeet, Cowboy,
Fishing, Club Bar (After shooting)
No full auto. Coffee in the shack.

[Allen]

Where I used to work, they had a small range for free. 25 and 200 with a large dirt berm and woods beyond that. Also, there were a couple of shooting benches on a slab and covered shed. It was simple but nice and nice of my employer. Now that I'm retired it is too far to travel to shoot. You could have fired a full auto here with no one knowing.

Ranges close to home did run $100 per year (no coffee or other extras) but I have not used them nor priced them lately. One limits 50bmg use. The other does not.

[PaFrank]

what you pay depends on what your club offers, how much land they OWN vs lease among other things.. My club, which is about 14 miles just outside of Philadelphia, has just about everything you might want in a Gun Club. I said ALMOST... Hi power range is limited to 100 yds. and pistol only has 50ft, 25 and 50 yd positions.. no 7 yd positions.. :(
Dues are about 200/yr for an individual.
We have about 5000 members, and even with that the ranges are Rarely crowded. Open 7 days a week from 9am till sunset. Closed Good Friday.

I was president of this club in 2004-5 and if I could give any advice to anyone else that is managing a gun club it would be this. Your dues are too low, you don't have enough members, and you don't have enough land.

Here is is. https://dcfsa.org/

[Vern Humphrey]

Mine cost $8,000 -- more than 50 years ago. I bought the land, and can shoot out to 1,000 yards.:banana100:

[Former Cav]

when I lived in Scottsdale AZ the Scottsdale gun club cost me 275 a year (indoor range, 25 yards, actually 70 feet they added a new backstop) and that is if you pay up front. YOu got to shoot 60 of their bullets in a full auto weapon on your birthday. You could shoot up to 7.62 nato in there (no steel bullets).
Here in TX. Indoor ranges are somewhere between 550 to 600 a year. It if go and pay for just the time it is 20 to 30 per hour depending on if it's rifle or pistol and I get a senior / military discount between 11-1 pm during the week so it is only about 11 bucks an hour. You can shoot rifle or pistol (no steel bullets) and NO shotguns.