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Why would you pay money to go shooting when you can drive up into the hills and shoot for free, in the beautiful forest? The forest doesn't care if you rapid fire, practice drawing and shooting, shoot reactive (IE tannerite) targets. You can walk downrange whenever you want to check your targets.
Basically, I don't see why people pay to go shooting when they can drive out into the middle of nowhere and get a better experience.
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People have lots of reasons.
Save on gas money, depending on where you live
Don't have to worry about some drunk/stoned moron shooting when you are down range
Good benches with lighting in the winter so you can shoot until 9 pm
30 or so self serve auto throwers on the shotgun ranges
Access to the cheapest AR500 steel targets available
Don't have to be associated with ass hats who drag trash out into the forest
Access to good affordable training classes
Indoor .22 range
Archery range with good targets
Access to more brass than you know what to do with if you are willing to pick it up
Don't have to drag target stands around
Easy access to more competitions than you can shoot in any given month
Don't have to worry about shrapnel from someone lighting off pipe bombs or tannerite too close.
Known range steel targets out to 250 for cast bullets and .22's
Access to a big network of other shooters
A 14 bay action range where you can draw, move and shoot as fast as you want as long as you are hitting the target or really close to it.
A junior small bore program which sends kids to the junior Olympics every year for about $35 a season.
The woods have their good points but I got tired of having to pack up and leave when other people showed up and were unsafe. It's not worth getting shot to spend a day shooting.