Looking for a shooting range
 

Looking for a nearby indoor or outdoor shooting range for target shooting. with pistols

Try the Eustis Gun Club in Eustis. Not very far from The Villages.

I've driven past an indoor range on SR44 right side just before you get to Leesburg (about 6-7 miles east of Buena Vista). If you go there, let me know how you like it. The Villages has a group called the Sharpshooters who shoot there, along with an indoor range in Ocala, and an outdoor public range in the Ocala forest. Here is the SS's website: The Villages Straight Shooters Club - Home They just had a basic firearm talk yesterday at Seabreeze and about 40-50 people attended. The SS group seemed to be a pretty good club of shooting enthusiast who like to promote the sport and self defense.

The Gun Shop and Range is much closer than Eustis or Ocala. I don't think that they have an outdoor range.

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This is the one that I use. It is clean and close. Indoor range only.

They rent pistols and sell ammunition and targets. If you rent their pistols you have to use their ammo. If you bring your own pistols/rifles you can use your own ammo.

Not bad for $9 an hour.

Z

SR 44 on the right towards Leesburg. Not fancy but close by.

is it air conditioned, and does it have good ventilation? Inquiring minds want to know...

Yes it is air conditioned and has
Very good ventilation.
It is a very adequate shooting facility.

btk

I didn't bring any guns to TV home. The insurance company on the home wanted to know if I had any guns in the home. If I brought guns to TV home what does this do to my insurance?

There's an App for that. Try: RangeFinder It works well and you can select the driving area, zero to one hundred twenty miles.

They would have wanted you to add a rider if the value of your firearms were high dollar amounts (ie. collections, rare models, etc.). If you only had a few, your regular home owners or NRA insurance would cover it.

Also a quality, heavy safe is a good idea.
Not fool/theft proof, but will thwart a "smash and grab"
and keep the grandkids safe....

Thanks. I might bring my small handgun safe and bolt it to the floor.

My insurance company did not ask me any questions regarding firearms. Maybe they didn't want to attack the 2nd amendment issue.

Bay Kid, they asked because there is a max limit that companies will pay due to theft of guns. You would need to schedule them to make sure you had sufficient coverage in the event of a loss.

I know the Lady Lake Police practice on Marion County Road in Lady Lake, just off cr 25, to verify call police dispatch 352 751-1565

Thanks Gator

Handgun safe
 

Just wondering...what would you do if someone broke into your house? I'm guessing that, before you could unlock the safe and put bullets into the gun, something dire would happen.

I don't own a gun and have always wondered what good a gun would do if it was unavailable and unloaded.

Thanks. :confused:

Very good point. However, many people own more than one handgun, and they may choose to have some locked up, when not needed for home defense.

There is no confusion actually. If the gun is in the safe and unloaded it is not for home protection....just safe storeage.

The only gun deemed ready for home/self protection is one that is loaded and nearby.......anything else is rationalization of what ever for what ever. Unloaded guns offer no protection.

Before keeping a gun loaded either in the home or permitted and on one's person, please be sure to take the appropriate lessons in gun handling and defense. It is much, much more than just buying the gun.....which in the entire equation is the easy part.

btk

Check out the villages club: The Cool Gun Club. On their website they have range recommendations. Some were not recommended because they were not considered safe.

Hey. It's Florida, just go outside. :doh:

Last year I went to both the Eustis Gun Club Range and the Ocala National Forest Range.

That was about a year ago, so from memory the Eustis Range has about 1500 members and are getting close to full. They charge $165 a year and have very nice covered ranges for 50 and 100 yards and smaller shotgun and pistol ranges. Also an obstacle course but you have to be qualified before you can use that. I went as a guest of a member and paid $5, once you've gone 4 times you must join if you want to continue going. It was a good ways from TV, took about 40 minutes. You have to go to a club meeting on Sunday morning and be voted in, or something like that.

The Ocala Nat'l Forest Range is free to the public, it's closed one day a week, see the website. It is much smaller than Eustis, there is about 12 covered shooting spots for 100 yards or less and then a second smaller range for shotguns. It's off Rt 40 about ten miles east of Ocala, but we found going up Rt 25 and then some other roads we were able to cut the trip much shorter. The main negative is there is no one in charge. I have read stories about not everyone putting their rifles down when others go down range. Also, you need to have someone watch your rifle when you go down range or it may be stolen. The day we went we had no problems. Just as we got there two spots opened up, so we didn't have to wait. It stayed packed the two hours we were shooting and everyone was pretty nice and knew the rules. You'll need to bring your own 2x4 or something to hold your targets.

I haven't been to the indoor range on Rt44 for a couple of reasons. I heard it wasn't air conditioned, just large fans. It was only 25 yards and you couldn't shoot rifles except on Saturday. Also the owner was sometimes not the friendliest person in town. That is just hearsay from the guys I know. Overall, Eustis is probably the best place of the two that I've visited.

There is also the Dade City Range. That's south on I-75 toward Tampa about 50 miles. I have not visited this place, but from their website they look much like Eustis and is a little cheaper. $100 per year but the first year has an additional $100 initiation. They do allow shooting without membership but it's $40 a day.

I've gone to the one on Rt 44, The Gun Shop, the outdoor one in Lake Weir. I think that's the Ocala one previously mentioned and R & D Tactical just off 441 in the north end of Ocala. The Gun Shop was hot, target returns were broken. R & D was neat, cool. The Outdoor range off of route 25 in Lake Weir, very safety conscious, neat. Cost to join was $200 and $165 /year for as much shooting as you want. That one is only abut 30' from my house near 466. I suggest you try them all, see which one fits you.

In the 65years I have been shooting, I have never been to or heard of a gun range anywhere that was not safety first/conscious!!!!

btk

gun range
 

There's one on CR44 heading into Leesburg.

Coming down this fall to buy a home, etc., but looking for a trap shooting location (club or range), as well as somewhere to shoot my black powder Civil War guns. Any recommendations? Thanks, Bob.

That's good. I've been shooting all of one year, safety impressed me.

well put and very true.

I own an Allstate Insurance Agency. The Insurance companies are not concerned with what side of the 2nd Amendment you are on. They only want to make sure they have priced your premiums appropriately based on the value of the guns you have.

All of the earlier posts on insurance were accurate. There is a set amount of insurance that your home owners policy will cover due to loss of guns. If the value of your guns exceeds their cap you need to Schedule (insurance term) higher values to be properly covered.

We use The Gun Shop on Rt 44 towards Leesburg..it's the closest to TV. Contrary to other postings we've found it to be a great place to shoot. The owner/manager (Gordon) is very knowledgable. Range fee was $10 / hr. They open at 10 a.m. But be aware that they have several gun clubs that utilize the ranges on some days until 10:30. Best to call ahead. That happened to us today.

Bygone days.
 

There was a time when that was true.

Alas, no more.....................

They may scare the be-jeebers out of your nice neighbors if they find out!

UPDATE - Just got back from The Gun Shop shooting range on Rt 44. Price increase, now $15/hr.

Hope they put the extra $5 toward air conditioning. :)

There's a big shooting range in Lake Mary. They use bears for targets.