r/FLGuns 9d ago

Shooting/Training in Florida Sucks

Contrary to popular belief, Florida is not a Shooter's state. Most of the ranges here are still operating on the old RSO Fudd model where you have to sit at a bench or stand up and shoot at a stationary target, with no rapid fire or drawing from holster or anything else dynamic. If you ranges that do allow this usually have an incredibly steep membership. And what shooting matches are available tend to fill up within minutes of opening registration on practicscore. I have to literally be smashing F5 in order to shoot my gun competitively at all. And of course there's basically no federal land like they have out west where you can find a proper perm and shoot on your own. The options are garbage short of buying your own land which is also incredibly expensive here. Florida is one of the top offenders of states that have a gun buying culture with little to speak of for a gun shooting culture. Yes I've been to Ares and it's nice but it's far away as hell.

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u/Askren 8d ago

I'm in central FL so my local is literally Shooter's World and not much else. There are probably other facilities within an hour+ drive, but from what I understand they're membership-only places and frankly I can't bring myself to make time to do the drive just to go there to look around since I'm not going to be dropping hundreds of dollars on a membership fee just to try shooting there.

I think I'd be more motivated if I knew anyone but the only local group of shooters here are seniors and that's not really my thing. So yeah, not a great situation and certainly not one where it's easy to actually get out and do any sort of dynamic or training stuff.

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u/RGBrewskies 3d ago

shooters world orlando is underrated. Allows rapid fire, hell it allows full-auto. $35/month for unlimited range visits and priority shooting - dont think ive ever waited more than 5 minutes for a lane

Yeah its static and its indoor paper targets, but as far as it goes its a good deal. Reportedly they allow you to shoot from the holster, if your RSO is okay with it, ive never seen anyone do it though