Hi everyone! I'm newer to PA, I moved here back in October 2019. I'm not too familiar with ranges around here. Many ranges i find are indoor and let you shoot one shot every few seconds, no quick follow up shots, etc. They are very limited on what they will let you do. I'm looking for something outdoors with a little more freedom. My question, are there any ranges around Bucks county or nearby counties where you can sort of do what you want? (I mean safely, not recklessly shooting and acting like an idiot).


Thank you!

If you're close to Warminster there is Guardian Training Center, they are the only public indoor range I've ever been to that allowed drawing from holsters.

I’ve found in the ranges I’ve been to that they are a little more tolerant with “regulars” especially if they see good safe gun handling.
Never had any complaints about rapid firing during any range trips.

Pricetown rifle and pistol.   Specifically states no full auto without prior authorization.

You can shoot your semi off as fast as you please though.

If you can go week days there is never anyone there.

Thanks! That's a little over an hour from me, but sounds worth it. I'll have to go there and see what it's like. I'll also need to find a sponsor according to the membership requirement.

I am not a member this year but have been for 4-5 years prior. I can hear the shooting from my house lol.

They had that requirement when I went, but as long as you showed up at a monthly meeting they signed you up. There is a new president though so maybe that changed. They are great people though.

Claytons (Horsham, PA): Generally does not seem to care about rapid fire, but I don’t think they allow drawing, etc. They’ve never pestered me for NFA paperwork. Gets very crowded and I used to go semi-often since it’s very local.

Guardian Training (Warminster, PA): Mentioned above, they let you do a lot of different things with a very new/nice facility, although staff has seemed a bit odd to me and have pestered me for NFA paperwork, etc. Has never been crowded the few times I’ve gone.

Wicen’s (Furlong, PA): Outdoors, zero rapid fire, benches only for rifle (100yd), standing pistol (25yd), archery?, and a skeet shooting area. RSOs have always seemed decent, some are more fuddy than others. They recently went “private”, so a higher upfront cost.

Target World (Chalfont, PA): Haven’t been here in a while but no real complaints or anything, just unsure of their specific rules. Recently renovated indoor range and is nice overall. They also have an archery range upstairs, I believe.

Unfortunately, you’ll likely need to mix and match ranges depending on what you want to do. There is a private range, Bucks County Fish & Game (Doylestown, PA) that seems to offer a lot, but I think it’s burdensome to join. All of the above are fairly nice, it just depends where you’re located and what you’re looking to do.

Sorry, I've been gone for a while after making this thread. Yeah, I'm not really finding what in looking for. Mixing and matching is going to be my best bet. I'm originally from NJ and there were several places that had looser rules and longer ranges. I'm trying to shoot longer distance and the most i can find it 300 yards in Carbon county. I'm interested in getting into long range shooting, but can't seem to find anything around here. There are a lot of 100 yard ranges.

Little bit of a drive and membership required.

https://www.nhrpc.org/

That looks like it would be a good place for all purpose. It's about an 1hr 15mins from me, but it's doable. Thanks for the info!

Don’t hold your breath, I’ve been on the waitlist for 4 years

They have a 1000 member cap and only 25-50 spots open a year. Best chance to get in there is help out with events if you can manage to.

University rifle club in Reading usually is looking for members. The website must be outdated as I’ve seen several people post the range goes to 600 now. Might be worth checking out. https://www.universityrifle.org/

Ouch....that's ridiculous haha. I'm not waiting years to get into a range. I'd rather just buy enough land somewhere and go shoot on it! I'll take a look into University Rifle.

BCF&G (bucks county fish and game) is a nice outdoor range just south/? of Doylestown. I used to belong there, nice outdoor range for 100 yards.
I live in Philadelphia and getting there was a hassle at the time. Don’t recall it being crazy expensive and I don’t think there were club work hours required, could be wrong about that.
Probably rejoin at some point nearer to retirement.

They have other shooting resources but I only went there for the 100 yard range.

https://bcfg.org/

Interesting, that's not far from me. Do they have any dumb fudd rules?

https://bridgetonsportsman.com/

When I was a kid, I lived near this place. I can't tell you much about it, I just know it's there. If you go, maybe leave a report as I would like to move back to that area someday