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jb2012 wrote:I have never liked going to ranges. Something about constantly having barrels pointed at me, rude staff, the people that think they are "operators", having nothing but a piece of paper to shoot at, and paying to shoot! For pete's sake I paid enough for my gun and ammo, if I want to shoot I want to do it in peace without all of these other distractions. I'll go to a steel range, or maybe a long range rifle range, but other than that I'll leave the range for other people.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people would not go to public ranges if they had somewhere else that they could shoot for free. Unfortunately for a lot of us city folks, there is no alternative unless we want to not shoot at all.

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Lumberjack98 wrote:I use to go there until they started charging by the gun.

By the gun? Do they not realize that the number of people supporting them as time goes on seems to be dropping and maybe they need to stop pushing around the good guys? Crazy...

I think this is their way of limiting your shooting use for the fee charged. Most indoor ranges do this by time (standard is that the fee covers up to one hour's use of one lane). But that requires someone to actually monitor the lanes for time usage. ASC could implement a system like this. In some ways it would be easier since there are set cease fire periods where everyone goes downrange to replace targets. You could get a color coded slip when paying that has the time you have paid through (i.e. 4 PM) and the range officers could quickly walk behind the lanes to check everyone during cease fire periods.

But they have decided instead to say that the fee covers the use of one single gun for the whole day, knowing that very few people are going to sit there and shoot the same gun for 12 hours, or however long they are open. My guess is that very few people shoot for more than 2-3 hours unless they have brought multiple guns, and a fair amount of people only shoot for an hour or so. So it kinda sorta works out in a similar fashion to the indoor ranges with their policy of unlimited guns for an hour. The difference is that it really sucks if you have several rifles you just want to zero at 100 yards. This is a very pricey endeavor with the per gun pricing.

One other note for those unfamiliar with the place. They are very picky about rapid fire. I believe they ask you to limit your rate of fire to one shot per second, so not very good for realistic SD training, but OK for shooting your hunting rifles.

Vol Texan wrote:

Pawpaw wrote:

Vol Texan wrote:
You're absolutely right. I saw a bunch of things popping up on this today, and I had no idea it had been necroposted 8 full years later!

Oh, I knew how it happened. I thought the same thing at first... then I saw in the menu when the thread was opened.

I chose to pick on you because I knew you could take it.

But I'm a delicate snowflake. I've been offended terribly. I need to retreat to my safe space before you utter another trigger word at me.

Trigger? Did someone say trigger? We need to ban these triggers. They are weapons of war and have no place on our streets*

* Except for the weapons carried by my security detail, of course.

KLB wrote:Some places charge by the gun, some by the shooter. It's the owner's range and the owner's call. And it's the shooter's call to balance cost against convenience.

But it is troubling when there are not many alternatives, and the pricing structure seems illogical. A gun range is selling the use of their facility. So it makes sense that if I use more, I pay more. Charging per gun just does not make sense unless I can somehow shoot more than one gun at a time. Charging based on time, or even rounds fired makes more sense. I am actually hard pressed to come up with a worse example of how a range could determine their pricing schema.

That said, yes ultimately a business can price their goods or services however they want. As consumers we can best speak with our dollars to the extent that alternatives are available.

I have some AR15 builds that I want to get zeroed in at 100 yards. Are there any good alternatives to ASC? I live in Katy and work in Houston. I really don't want to pay $5 per gun to fire a handful of rounds on top of an $18 base charge.

I have a membership to Boyert Shooting Center, and they will let me shoot my AR's, but they only go out to 25 yards.