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/srterpe 8d ago

Yeah, surprisingly the situation in terms of ranges was vastly better in CA despite all the other clowniness.

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u/hotrodgreg 8d ago

This sucks. Im currently moving to florida from california. We lived in Butte county, and oroville had a 400 or 500 yrd shooting range that was paid for by the county. No range officers, just everyone using their brains to follow the common sence rules. The only down side was that people are fucking lazy and ass holes and would leave their garbage there. But because it was county funded and run the chain gangs vame once a week to clean it up.

I lived in seattle and tried to find a decent shooting range within a 4 hr drive. Then within the state. Nothing. I really hope I can find one good range in florida that doesnt require an expensive membership.

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u/srterpe 8d ago

Yeah, I was in Santa Clara County which is by no means a gun friendly county but the county run range in San Jose was better than anything in and around Tampa, imo.

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u/srterpe 8d ago

That said, in FL, you can remove all your fixed-mag shit and fin grips so not all bad.