RE: Shooting ranges and costs
I shoot at my house 90% of the time. I have a 122 yard range, but this spring will try and move that back another 30 yards. Anything that gets out of my steel bullet trap simply goes out into the middle of my marsh if it can make it through all the trees. Right now because of winter I am limited to 100 yards, and most of the time I shoot at the 50 yard station as that's where the shooting bench is frozen to the ground at.
When the livestock is in, I can go to the other farm about seven miles awayand shoot across the hay field into the swamp and can get out to over 200 yards there. Its a lot of rolling hills and the horses and mules don't like the noise, but that's tuff.
Or I can go to this other property my brother and I have, (just a 40 acre that we got a deal on) and shoot into thickets or into a large dirt pile (the dirt pile is an old house that stood on the property that was bulldozed over and pushed out of the way) That is three miles away from my house. There is a nice little cabin built there so I can get out of the weather into a heated house, and when its nice I can sit on the deck and shoot off the picnic table there.
I can also drive 40 miles and go to a private range that charges $10-$12 dollars and they have 50, 100. 150. & 200 yard range. The trouble is you have to make reservations. The person there has a sporting goods shop and sells me most of my optics, so he usually cuts me a deal.