Curious

I'm curious about how often we get to go shooting. I am fortunate that I could go any time that I decided to put up with the heat, and drive the 17 miles it takes to get to my favorite place. Most of the time I just make it on Sundays with a couple of friends. I set up a table and we each have a chair we bring. Have some breakfast and shoot til it gets uncomfortable warm. (summer hours) This means going early in the morning. During the winter it's a lot nicer as we can get there later and shoot as long as we want. All my shooting buds have jobs so they are limited pretty much to Sunday, I'm retired so I don't have this constraint. Yuma Az. is the area.

I also work at leisure, and since my gunclub's only a 20min drive over rural roads from my home, I go shooting a few times a week, during the week (to avoid weekend warriors & have the ranges mostly to myself).

In cold/inclement weather, if I don't feel like shooting outdoors, I use our indoor 50' range.

Living in the city stinks for shooting. I can go anytime weather permits, but the drive is 37 miles. 50 minutes is about the average drive time.
You lucky county guys!! :bow:
Flintlocklar

I'm fortunate that we have our own range on the farm, with a 30 foot or better backstop behind it. (Old river bank)
Does this mean I shoot a lot? No! Too much farm stuff to do. I Think about shooting a lot, but time does not permit.

Have shot coyotes right from the kitchen window many times though.

Pukka.

Go three or four times a month. Have three places I go from 8, 12, or 30 miles from the house. The 30 mile is our gun club the other two are BLM, and Forest Service land.

I try to get out at least a couple of times a month. It is about a 20 mile drive from the house and takes about 30 minutes to get to the range.

I can identify with the OP.
I shoot at the ranch which is about a 20 minute drive, and when I go there its usually to do some work, but I plan my trips to allow for some range time.
I usually shoot alone, and I really enjoy the "me time" it allows. Time just slows down, and relaxing while I just take it all in.

I'm 8 minutes from the range, and so far this year I've been 10 times since March, but with my boy, shooting his modern guns and not muzzleloaders.

Still, there is hope, as tomorrow is graduation for my last offspring, my boy. He is going to get as one of his presents, a .54 caliber TC New Englander, WITH the additional 12 gauge barrel, in a case that I ordered to hold the whole "system". He wants to hunt deer with me and luckily..., where I hunt it's shotgun or ML, no rifles. :grin: The 12 gauge barrel will do well vs. turkey or squirrels or rabbits.

So IF he wants to hunt then he needs to learn "the way of the ancient and sacred black powder".
:grin:

LD

Jimbo47 said:

I can identify with the OP.
I shoot at the ranch which is about a 20 minute drive, and when I go there its usually to do some work, but I plan my trips to allow for some range time.
I usually shoot alone, and I really enjoy the "me time" it allows. Time just slows down, and relaxing while I just take it all in.

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:metoo: average 6-8 times a year :redface: Kinda slow now at work and could but they have CLOSED the forests here per fire danger and I believe I may be shot if they seen me out firing a smoke pole :shocked2: :nono:

I used to go 3-4 times a moth then women, kids, jobs n such came into my life (but the family is worth it! )

20 mile trip for me. Outside of the city and along some beautiful, curvy country roads. I work strange hours, so I go as often as I can, usually in the morning. Most times, I'm alone at the range. Works for me. I'm trying to get out there about 3x a week, but sometimes it just doesn't work.

I should add that Monday is planned to be a dedicated Black Powder day at the range...., of course my wife may have decided that it's a dedicated landscaping and touch-up paint the house day, sooo........

LD

sooo........

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You take her to the range too.
Flintlocklar :rotf:

Im spoiled. I live 5 minutes from an outdoor range I am a member of. I get to go shoot any time I want, and still only manage to get up there 2 times a month on average.

Off topic but I like Yuma. I’ve flown there to cover for other therapists a couple of times. Peanut farm, Lutes Casino and the Territorial Prison. Fun times.
Back on topic. I get to go squeeze off a few rounds out in the woods a few times a month. I have to drive about an hour to the nearest formal range so I try to make a day of it. That’s only about once a month or so.

I only shoot about four or five times a year :shake: do to having my wife having very serious depression issues,

About once every month to six weeks. Much less when it’s toasty. I had a 50 yard range on my land and i used it less then I shoot now.
I too had to move to town over my wife’s health, love is for better or worse.

Loyalist Dave, I lived in Wheaton Md for 21 years and was a very active member of the Berwyn Rod and Gun club before it got shut down for awhile. Did a lot of shooting up at the big range complex outside of Baltimore. Thursday night pistol matches at the natl guard armory. Member of the Greenbelt gun club also. Retire and moved from there in Dec. of 91. I wasn't shooting much black powder back then though I had a couple of them. Where do you do most of your shooting?

I try to get out every Sunday for "therapy". Twenty minute drive in the morning and an hour return once the tourists take to the road.

25 yard range at home, 20 minute ride on back roads to the club I belong too. 4 minute ride to a dear friends old sand pit where the PD also shoots. I use to shoot my Emma Gees there before I sold them.

I grew up a country kid where we could shoot our 22's basically anywhere we had a backstop or a suitable target. I still live on a small farm in rural country and I can shoot off my porch (which I did today), and can shoot out to 100 plus yards if desired. I grew up this way and really cant fathom living somewhere that I couldn't shoot at home anytime.