I'd been hearing good things about Elm Fork Range, so I took a friend of mine from H-town to check it out.
It's a large facility. Plenty of choices as far as shotgun, handgun, and rifle. Lots of people there. Generally a good crowd. Easy location to get to. Not cheap, but not too expensive.
Staff was reasonably professional and the range looked well maintained.
If you are going to do some basic marksmanship training with your handgun it is a good range.
I have to say I was disappointed with the handgun range overall, as it is not a good place to do self defense training.
The website talked about pistol bays. They have them. But I could not rent my own pistol bay. Had to share one, with not very many choices of how to set up the targets. They should have made this crystal clear on the website.
Rule: Limit 10 rounds loaded. The Clinton gun ban is over?
I assumed that shooting from a holster was not allowed, but what floored me was there is a rule: "One second between shots"
How in the world am I going to practice self defense with that restriction. Answer: I can't.
When I did some rapid fire(.2 second splits, hitting with every single shot fired at 10 yards) the range officer came over and told me next time I did that would be kicked out.
What got me most about this is that these rules are no where on Elm Fork's website. I didn't see these rules or hear them when I paid my range fee.
I only found this out when I got on the range. Felt cheated.
Anyway, just want to warn others so they don't run into the same issues.
I imagine their other ranges(shotgun/rifle) do not suffer as much under the burden of these rules.
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