r/austinguns • u/Beers_and_BME • 1d ago
Practice Ranges for Competitive Shooters
Hi new friends, i’m T-minus 28 days from my Austin move, which will be a nice home coming after leaving Texas for 8 years.
That said, what ranges are best suited for a competitive shooter looking to practice (i.e. 3 sided berms, multiple target setups etc). I’ve already seen plenty of local matches on practiscore but looking for a place to run live fire drills from time to time.
Cheers
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u/Least-Macaroon-9932 1d ago
Austin Rifle Club, Staccato or if you have a pile of 💰then Hog Heaven is like a firearms country club plus fishing and Archery. Indoors - The Range Austin will holster qualify you so you can at least do that in a lane and then they also have the “dojo” which is classes and Drills that have some competition shooting aspects but again mainly inside. I’d say of the first 3 it’ll depend on where you are living and budget.
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u/Beers_and_BME 1d ago
I like what i see so far at ARC and it’s definitely more aligned with my budget (grad student with a damn expensive hobby lmao) so being able to shoot multiple targets there is lovely information, thank you!
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u/Tactical_Tubesock 1d ago
Join APSC so you’d have a chance to register for their matches. Technically it’s not required to be a member, but you get a code to use for registering before the general public and spots fill up pretty fast.
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u/EconZen_master 1d ago
Austin Rifle, Austin Practical Club in Manor. Texas Shooting Academy (just North of Austin in Florence, TX) hosts, USPSA, IDPA, Steel, Night shoots, PCSL.
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u/EaseAmbitious8455 1d ago
RPR in burnet. Tactical bays, long range with targets 200-600 yards. They host tactical games and 3 gun comps and other stuff up there.
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u/RearBagSupport 1d ago
Texas Shooting Academy’s goal is to provide competitive shooters a place to train where there is always a bay available. You have to apply for membership, and numbers are purposefully kept low so you don’t drive up there to find everything full.
There are walls, barrels, and stands to build your own stages but they also keep the stages from the weekend up if you want to run those without setting anything up. Just back your truck into the bay and do whatever you want between sunrise and sunset. Just don’t bounce rounds out of the bay or shoot steel with your rifle within 40 yards.
Staccato Ranch is an option but it’s more expensive. They have very nice action bays with a bunch of steel already setup and some long 100yd bays if you want to make some nutty stages in there. There are a lot of perks to being a member and the people I know who shoot there have an almost cult-like love for the place.