This is going to be a bit of a rant, but I'm interested in what people think. I presently live in Georgia. I've never been happy here for a number of reasons and one of them is the surprising lack of rifle shooting sports "space" availability. For a "southern state", which you'd think would be more rifle friendly, I find it exceptionally difficult to shoot more than 100 yards without either being a member of a prohibitively expensive rifle club or personally owning a hundred acres of land. You can't target shoot on public land (which is somewhat understandable, even on large tracts, because its largely forested vs. a desert). The few public rifle ranges >100 yards have routinely been closed "for improvements" for >1 year at a time (despite just being rebuilt a few years ago) and they only go to 200 yards. There are a few 800-1,000 yard ranges that don't require or offer a prohibitively expensive membership, but can be as high as $50+ per hour, in one place you have to officially register your firearm to a government database (military base), etc. Just hurdles I had hoped didn't exist.
Worst of all, finding somewhere interesting to shoot steel without being breathed over by a grumpy old man. I exaggerate, but it's not uncommon.
Maybe I'm being a little to picky and I'm sure I'm being a little unrealistic, and I know shot bullets are dangerous and the risk is exponential the farther you shoot. But I know in places like Utah and Wyoming and the like people just go out to the public desert with some steel, set it up, and fire away. I want that "free-feeling" experience before anti-2A fear mixed with people's uncontrolled baby-making habits over-populate that freedom away. I have been thinking of Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, maybe Texas.
But I also want a job.
Interested in what the community here thinks in terms of "where I should move"?
Worst of all, finding somewhere interesting to shoot steel without being breathed over by a grumpy old man. I exaggerate, but it's not uncommon.
Maybe I'm being a little to picky and I'm sure I'm being a little unrealistic, and I know shot bullets are dangerous and the risk is exponential the farther you shoot. But I know in places like Utah and Wyoming and the like people just go out to the public desert with some steel, set it up, and fire away. I want that "free-feeling" experience before anti-2A fear mixed with people's uncontrolled baby-making habits over-populate that freedom away. I have been thinking of Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, maybe Texas.
But I also want a job.
Interested in what the community here thinks in terms of "where I should move"?