Please forgive my frankness but this comment is pretty short-sighted.
It is important to pursue the discipline of shooting sport you most enjoy and along the way, meet others of the same mindset and demonstrate a desire/need for more facilities to support it. If you sit on your can and do nothing, then that is what you will get. We need to consistently demonstrate the need and it will happen.
As for long range, there are more opportunities than you realize. My club has an 800yd range and supports F-Class so I am kinda fortunate. However, we have guys coming in from NC and GA to shoot in our F-Class matches and the word is getting out. Recently, two more ranges closer to GA have started opening up to PRS and other long range disciplines and the guys making that happen are competitors in our F-Class matches who have witnessed the demand.
As much as I like Long Range, I am really really interested in Extreme Long Range. I finally built a shooting system for the ELR Light series but was sad that in order to compete, I had to travel hundreds of miles because there is not a lot of support for this discipline on the east coast. However, i did learn about and subsequently attended an ELR event in Central VA and had an awesome time. It was well worth the 400mile trip and I found out that the vast majority of the competitors were also traveling hundreds of miles as well with one coming all the way from Alaska. While there, I met a gentleman who is working hard to expand and grow the sport and seeing the demand gave him the evidence he needed to promote and build new venues. Since then, I have learned of a few other ELR opportunities on the east coast. They are still a few hundred miles away but certainly doable.
Long range and Extreme Long Range are not for everyone but I can tell you first hand that once you try it, be careful because it can quickly turn into an addiction. It is a very cool, challenging, and enjoyable sport.
