Outdoor Range vs Indoor Range?Which do you prefer?

[USMC1911]

I am fortunate to have both at the club I belong to. However I prefer the outdoor range over the indoor. I appreciate the heated indoor range on a day like today when it’s 26 degrees. I also appreciate the electric targets. I think the Outdoor range is better for my health. Lately I been hearing a lot of shooters saying there lead levels are high.

 

[Net Engineer]

I have access to both as well but I FAR prefer outdoor, it’s just more fun with lots of other shooters around and there are far more options.

 

[Hammer67]

Outdoor ranges whenever possible, which luckily for me, is most of the time. I maybe go to an indoor range less than a half dozen times in a year. I shot at my outdoor range the other day and it was 27ºF - it was great, I had the whole pistol bay to myself.

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

outdoor!

 

[KillerFord1977]

Pistols, indoor.

Rifles, outdoor

 

[wolfpack076]

I have access to both but much prefer outdoors...

 

[Keystone19250]

Outdoors absolutely except when it’s
0 degrees with a wind chill of -18 below zero.

There is an indoor 100 yard range in Louisville but the owners of the business are A-holes.

 

[The Night Rider]

Outdoor

 

[Annihilator]

I love my outdoor range, don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have the occasional wasps, bumblebees, ticks and especially the spiders that seem to craw out from everywhere……

 

[USMC1911]

Outdoors absolutely except when it’s
0 degrees with a wind chill of -18 below zero.

There is an indoor 100 yard range in Louisville but the owners of the business are A-holes.

Visited Louisville for a NRA Convention. The wife and I had a great time.

 

[Talyn]

Outdoor.

 

[powerboatr]

outdoor, but it makes harvesting your brass more difficult.
our range has firing line about 6 feet above the end of the range
so you fire down hill which takes some getting used to. but some signs left behind make it worth while
we try to toss a blanket out in front so the brass does not hide in the grass
my xds toss brass to the right and behind and the 45s toss em fwd

 

[Keystone19250]

Visited Louisville for a NRA Convention. The wife and I had a great time.

It’s a great city, very cultural.

 

[USMC1911]

outdoor, but it makes harvesting your brass more difficult.
our range has firing line about 6 feet above the end of the range
so you fire down hill which takes some getting used to. but some signs left behind make it worth while
we try to toss a blanket out in front so the brass does not hide in the grass
my xds toss brass to the right and behind and the 45s toss em fwd

What’s the distance on your outdoor range?

 

[SaltyMonkey]

Outdoor

 

[Blackfeather]

I prefer outdoor.

 

[Domar1291]

Outdoor

 

[papa]

I have never shot at an indoor range. None close by . Maybe a range 50 miles away but I am not going to drive that far just to shoot indoors.

 

[powerboatr]

What’s the distance on your outdoor range?

at the pistol area is just a tad over 120 yards, but we have 2 lanes for rifles that are 200 and 300 yards going across the back side of the skeet field which it to the right about 60 yards.
past the end is a FIELD with cattle at the 600 yard mark. then another 500 yards is woods.
so far no caws have been hit that i am aware of
setting up to dial in scopes , they have a table you can sit at, but it puts you (i am tall) at a weird down angle, even with stool at max ht.
so i use a big moving blanket and lay on the ground, then a small bipod for the AR 10 to dial in for the middle then the end.

 

[HansGruber]

This time of year, it’s pretty much indoors only here.

But I far prefer outdoor ranges.