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The only ranges near me are skeet, trap and 5-stand. Skeet is about 3.50 a round for members, 5 stand is 4.50 to 5 depending on the range. Everything in the area is only open on sundays and 1 or 2 evenings a week. The range I shoot at most is member-owned with no staff.
There is a very rough around the edges private sporting clays range about 1.25 hours away that is only open by appointment--that's $45 per 100.

Wish I had more selection around me but with no population center anywhere close, it's not very likely.

Skeet is $3.00 at one club, $2.75 at another I have been a member for most of my life where member work and there is no paid help. At the "country club" it is an even $10.00 a round. Being a snob cost, but you do see some a few real nice guns if you shoot there.

I just shot 3 rounds of skeet and a round of sporting clays(50) today for $30 dollars plus a tip for the thrower which was a young girl, NE Ohio. In PA where I shoot it is $7 for 5 stand and $18 for 50 and $25 for 100 bird sporting clays, remote control throwers, and a cart if needed is an extra $10. It seems the larger places have more overhead and need to charge a little more and the smaller and more rural areas are a bit less. Any way I look at it I can't shoot in my back yard and these prices seem very reasonable to me.

WOW!! How did you shoot so many rounds of Sporting Clays in one morning? You must have really been hauling the mail!! For most guys it takes all morning to shoot just one or two rounds.......... But I think our club charges $25.00 for 2 rounds of sporting clays, but that is before the pay hike goes into effect next month. From what I hear, a lot of clubs charge $7-10.00 for a round of trap or skeet. And that is quite a bit.

Sorry....I shot 50 taa'gets

I think that to pay double or even triple the cost of the clay targets you shoot at is just and reasonable but anything over $5 per round of skeet, trap or five-stand is unfair and unreasonable on a volunteer operated range. The club I belong to charges $3 for anyone who shoots except RO's (range officers) who shoot for $2.50 (and we get to do all the work too, like unloading the tractor trailer when it arrives with 24 pallets of targets . . . or loading the trap machines and picking up everyone else's empties.) What a bargain, we get to do all of this for a savings of $ .50

I knew that, jOe. I was just pokin' at you. :).............. At our club, we have people working on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. It is closed on Mondays, so you can go out and shoot on the other days, but you have to have your own puller. It costs the same, whether you pull yourself or have a club member/worker do it.

Hermon Skeet Club members pay $3.50 for 25 target rounds of skeet or trap. 25 5 stand targets go for $4. Non-members pay fifty cents more/round. Kids pay $2/round. The club makes money for capital purchases by way of the NSCA shoots. NSSA events bring little in. We didn't have any ATA events this year.

Club membership costs ought to be mentioned, to get an apples to apples comparison. Our annual charge is $48. Life membership is the greatest deal going, at $400. Life members get a key and access 7 days/week.

Sam

At my club, we get charged 25 cents/target thrown on Sporting. The nice thing is that we're given an electronic counter that you plug in at each station. You can shoot the course as set out (sequences of singles, reports, true pairs, etc) or just fool around, which is what most of us do, shooting each target or pair until we either understand it or, as is often the case, decide they've loaded the armored targets and give up. At the end, you present your counter and pay. You even get credit for reported no-birds. You can get a puller if you like, but the duty usually just revolves within each group. If you're alone, there's a delay feature, but it's too complicated for me.
We also have GREAT lunches for under $10, which is the best bargain in the DFW area.

My club (Oil Capitol Rod & Gun Club) is member owned club limited to 1000 members. All work is done on a voluntary basis.We have some of the hardest working volunteers I've ever been around! Skeet and Trap is $3.00 for members $4.00 to guest. We don't have a Sporting Clays course, but at times set up impromptu targets with remote traps. We just purchased a semi trailer load of targets and were advised there would be an substantial increase on the next load. I suspect there will be adjustments.