Quoted: For example, one you have to have "sponsors", "get recommended by three members", "have to wear a certain size shoe", etc? WHat happened to helping the sport grow? Making it very elitist isnt gonna make it grow. I'm fine with filing out a membership app and for them to check to see if you are legal to have firearms, but when you need to "know" people to enjoy a HOBBY, it gets rather lame.
Since our shooting pit got shut down (thanks to some idiot kids who decided to shoot OVER the burm and hit a house half a mile away), theres really no place to shoot rifle and pistol from the same range or to use for sighting in rifles for deer season. Beloit Gun CLub is out of the question. After seeing how they treat people during public sight in days, nope.
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The range I joined required you to have one sponsor and put in work hours... The first year membership is also $185.
However, this perticular range has 600/300/200, 500/300/200, 100, and 25yd ranges, plus trap, skeet, and archery.
Well worth it, IMHO... Especially since they DO have one range (100yd) that is pistol/rifle friendly...
P.S. I am referring to RCLR, aka '7 mile'...
There are plenty of folks on this board who will sponsor you if you wish to join, it's in Oak Creek, however, so it may be a ways away...
Boone is similar, IIRC, but a tad more restrictive on what can be shot where, and they don't have the longer ranges....