Thread: Auckland Shooting Range Shooting

also keen to know what guarantees your lifetime membership? what if worse case the land is sold to a new owner that hates shooting? or the range is closed for other reasons?

shit happens.. just keen to know what safe guards they/you have for your 15k investment?

I was actually thinking the same thing - I had a lifetime gym membership and the gym went bankrupt. This can happen to any business so a very valid question!

Originally Posted by Glycerine

also keen to know what guarantees your lifetime membership? what if worse case the land is sold to a new owner that hates shooting? or the range is closed for other reasons?

shit happens.. just keen to know what safe guards they/you have for your 15k investment?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I work it out to be $30.00 per week. $525.00 for the cheap sub, which I agree, works out to be $10.00 per week,+ a further $20.00 booking/ range fee, which makes it $30.00 and that's if you catch the special or else it will cost $32.60 per week to shoot.
Total cost $1565.00 per year, if you catch the opening special, other wise $5.00 off $1700.00.
Don't get me wrong its probably a fair price, you just got my attention at $10.00 a week.

Originally Posted by Paul

Correct me if I am wrong, but I work it out to be $30.00 per week. $525.00 for the cheap sub, which I agree, works out to be $10.00 per week,+ a further $20.00 booking/ range fee, which makes it $30.00 and that's if you catch the special or else it will cost $32.60 per week to shoot.
Total cost $1565.00 per year, if you catch the opening special, other wise $5.00 off $1700.00.
Don't get me wrong its probably a fair price, you just got my attention at $10.00 a week.

I'm hoping they have a casual day rate of say $80ish, regardless of how good the facilities are most people are going to be lucky to go once a month I know I certainly would be struggling to find time to go anymore often than that, probably more like once ever 2 or 3 months.

If it is like initially said only open weekends then hardly any reason to sign up for a whole year.
Why would you want to sign up for a years membership and only have access two days a week, which will be packed out in the summer months.

To shoot in Auckland is not hard! You have three clubs with ranges out to 1000 yards in close proximity as stated early in the thread by Dogmatix and Dermaster. They are ClevedonClevedon Rifle Club - Home, Akarana-Cityhttps://www.sporty.co.nz/akaranacity/ and Franklinhttps://www.franklinrifleclub.co.nz/.
All of these clubs are wanting to meet you and make you feel welcome. They all cater for visitors and are a wealth of knowledge about wind, weather, and getting the most out of your firearm.
These clubs all use electronic targets so collecting data about your shoot is as easy as connecting to the target server and saving your shoots for later reference.
If any of you really want to shoot, instead of staying home dreaming your dreams, then contact one or all three of these clubs. The contact numbers are on their webpages. Some use facebook as well.
There is no need to bemoan the lack of rifle ranges in Auckland and try to re-invent the wheel, when you have three on your doorstep

Originally Posted by JWB

To shoot in Auckland is not hard! You have three clubs with ranges out to 1000 yards in close proximity as stated early in the thread by Dogmatix and Dermaster. They are ClevedonClevedon Rifle Club - Home, Akarana-Cityhttps://www.sporty.co.nz/akaranacity/ and Franklinhttps://www.franklinrifleclub.co.nz/.
All of these clubs are wanting to meet you and make you feel welcome. They all cater for visitors and are a wealth of knowledge about wind, weather, and getting the most out of your firearm.
These clubs all use electronic targets so collecting data about your shoot is as easy as connecting to the target server and saving your shoots for later reference.
If any of you really want to shoot, instead of staying home dreaming your dreams, then contact one or all three of these clubs. The contact numbers are on their webpages. Some use facebook as well.
There is no need to bemoan the lack of rifle ranges in Auckland and try to re-invent the wheel, when you have three on your doorstep

Yeah great if you want to shoot NRA style shoots, but no joy if you want to shoot steel targets or have a PRS/field shoot.

Originally Posted by JWB

To shoot in Auckland is not hard! You have three clubs with ranges out to 1000 yards in close proximity as stated early in the thread by Dogmatix and Dermaster. They are ClevedonClevedon Rifle Club - Home, Akarana-Cityhttps://www.sporty.co.nz/akaranacity/ and Franklinhttps://www.franklinrifleclub.co.nz/.
All of these clubs are wanting to meet you and make you feel welcome. They all cater for visitors and are a wealth of knowledge about wind, weather, and getting the most out of your firearm.
These clubs all use electronic targets so collecting data about your shoot is as easy as connecting to the target server and saving your shoots for later reference.
If any of you really want to shoot, instead of staying home dreaming your dreams, then contact one or all three of these clubs. The contact numbers are on their webpages. Some use facebook as well.
There is no need to bemoan the lack of rifle ranges in Auckland and try to re-invent the wheel, when you have three on your doorstep

Out of interest do these clubs only shoot target rifles? It's a shame because if they do it must be a small portion of the shooting community.

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

Out of interest do these clubs only shoot target rifles? It's a shame because if they do it must be a small portion of the shooting community.

These clubs will welcome you with just about any type of rifle. NRANZ holds competitions for Target rifles chambered in .308 and .223 shot with open sights, Target rifles in the same calibres but with telescopic sights shot off a bipod and rear bag, Any other rifle under 8mm in calibre with any sights shot off a front rest and rear bag, as well as a hunter class for factory hunting rifles as sold as package deals by sports retailers, with a max power scope of 10x shot over a day-pack or hunting bipod.
As you can see, most stuff is catered for except the .338 mag and .50 cal. monsters.
Clevedon range is also the home range of the Auckland Service Rifle Association with the variety of firearms that they use.
There are keen groups of black powder shooters, vintage rifle enthusiasts and .303 rifle fans who also use these ranges.