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Title: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on January 17, 2011, 12:58:18 PM
To folks living in the subject vicinity:  where do you shoot?  And just as important, where don't you shoot?  I want to start shooting, regularly, again, after a (too) long hiatus. There seems to be a lack of good facilities that I can find.  One nearby indoor range requires that all the ammo is purchased from them - not cheap, but I do see their point in ensuring a minimum of lead in thier air supply.  The economical place I found near Winchester VA ("The Cove") takes a toll on the car just to get to the range (a  set of ruts vs a road) but the price is right.

So - are any folks from this area out there, and where do you recommend to shoot  and to stay away from?  I'd also like to find folks to shoot with.

Thanks
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: E.Shell on January 17, 2011, 01:15:31 PM
Howdy Hayfield123.

I live in MD now but am in the middle of a move to Louisa, VA, so your answers would also interest me.

I've never shot there, but how about the Clark Bros range on Rt-15/29/17?

I'm currently the Chief Range Safety Officer for Quantico Shooting Club and you might check into membership and/or matches there. We have trap/skeet, long range and some carbine/handgun opportunities.

Summit Point is another spot you might look into. The three-gun program we had at Quantico has moved over there and is MUCH improved.

You might also go poke around AR-15.Com and ask around. It's not bad if you don't take it too seriously, and they have "Hometown Forums" for the various states. The Virginia/West Virginia forum is pretty active.
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on January 17, 2011, 01:36:08 PM
Thanks, E.shell.  I'll research Summit Point and Clark Bros.  Quantico is a long drive, but if I can't find anything else, I may look into it. 
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: 2fewdaysafield on January 17, 2011, 04:38:10 PM
+1 for Clark Brothers. Been 11 years since I lived in Va, but I shot there fairly regularly from '80 to '99.
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on January 17, 2011, 04:51:04 PM
Just looked it up - its a 90 mile drive.  I can't believe I can't find someplace close to home!  I wish back to the days when I was a kid and I could strap my .22 to my handlebars and shoot at just about any field I rode to . . . without a thousand calls to 911 about shots being heard!

We had a free range, not far from Martinsburg - but thanks to some clowns mounting their targets ON TOP of the berms, and hitting someone's home, five miles down range, the state closed it to all but shotguns!

I may have to drive that far!
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Artist on January 17, 2011, 06:10:54 PM
I've got a lot of the same issues in IL. There are plenty of indoor ranges around the NW Suburbs but its a drive from hell to get to any long range facilities suitable for rifles.
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: 2fewdaysafield on January 17, 2011, 08:07:13 PM
Have you tried doing a google search for "Shooting ranges in West Virginia" or similar?
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on January 17, 2011, 08:13:00 PM
Regularly!  But I'd also like to meet some fellow shooters in the area - and to benefit from their advice and experience.  If someone has been to a range and has a problem with it, it would be good to know - like the state range that closed because folks were putting targets on top of the berms . . . that kind of person is also liable to be sucking down the beer while he shoots - and I want to be far from that place and that kind of shooter!
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: 2fewdaysafield on January 17, 2011, 09:27:14 PM
Have you tried asking around a couple of LGS?
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: E.Shell on January 17, 2011, 09:46:14 PM
AR-15.Com-VA Ranges (http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=33)
AR-15.Com-WV Ranges (http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=639)
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on January 17, 2011, 10:21:19 PM
E.Shell - awesome - thanks!
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: big_lu_lu on January 18, 2011, 12:22:09 AM
All depends where you live in Northern Virginia and I can provide you with some choices?

Indoor pistol range, I recommend SharpShooters Small Arms Range in Lorton.

Outdoor pistol, rifle, shotgun, I recommend Quantico Shooting Club.  Check out the new website and go to the calendar page.  Lots of upcoming matches for 2011.  Rec fire is posted by Thursday of the week and hope to post sooner?it has to do with range control and the Marines use?you cant go wrong and for $100 you wont find anything else close to that deal.

Lastly, NRA range in Fairfax is also a choice.

Hope that helps
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on January 18, 2011, 06:28:59 AM
Thanks forallthe suggestions - I live in the WV Eastern Panhandleand the posts have been very helpful!
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: photobiker on January 19, 2011, 08:23:48 AM
Hayfield try:    www.wheretoshoot.org (http://www.wheretoshoot.org)

Ranges are broken down by state.

Happy shooting
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: EchoBravo on March 03, 2011, 09:09:20 PM
+1 on NRA HQ range, but that's pretty far for you. Others that are a bit of a drive but worth it are Cresap Rifle Club in Frederick, MD (Sat/Sun only, 10/25/50/100 yds, prices going up but still cheap and very safe), and Green Ridge State Forest just past Hancock, MD off Rte. 68- That's a weekend trip for me, but they have camping close to the range and it's $25/yr to shoot there- 100 yds rifle and ~20yds pistol. You have to shoot rifles through big funky tubes for sound control though and there is no RSO.
Title: Re: WV Eastern Panhandle/Northern VA Places to Shoot - Where are they?
Post by: Hayfield123 on March 03, 2011, 11:05:13 PM
Thanks, everyone!