I went to Florida last week and did some shooting practice with my Glock 48 CCW gun.  So much easier and cheaper to practice on the mainland so I make it a habit to do so on my travels.

First stop was Sportsmans Warehouse.


$10.99 a box of 9mm.  Never heard of the brand but it's factory new made in the USA.  Bought 3 boxes.


Local indoor gun range in Jacksonville.  Signed the waiver, paid $14 range fee and 3 targets for $1.50 each.


Nice clean and cool indoor 15 yard range. 


With 150 rounds I practiced my concealed draw times, one handed shooting left & right, rapid fires, flashlight drills, and turn and shoot drills.  Spent an hour at the range.
After shooting I realized this was a 3/4 scale target.  Up that difficulty factor.


Total cost:
$33      150 rounds ammo: 
$14      Range fee
$4.50   3 targets
----------------------
$51.50  Total

Same thing at xring would be
$50     Membership fee
$20    Range fee
$90     150 rounds ammo
$25    Holster draw fee
$25    Rapid fire fee
$6?     3 targets
--------------------
$216  Total

808GC
$34   Range Fee x2 (30min ea)
$90  150 rounds ammo
$6     3 targets
---------------------
$130  Total

And on a separate note, finally got my Underwood full power 10mm ammo!  Hard cast 200gr at 1250fps for bears.  Got it straight from Underwood delivered to my hotel for $28 a box +$20 shipping.  Could never find the stuff here but now Firearms International has it for $48 a box.  Something you can do on the mainland for the hard to find ammo or buying ammo for a class or hunting trip there.

Looks like Imgur banned gun images last year.  TIme to find another image host.

Looks like Imgur banned gun images last year.  TIme to find another image host.

....
And youtube banned my video on cast bullets.

Social media!....making people stupider one day at a time!

Looks like Imgur banned gun images last year.  TIme to find another image host.

That's weird. All the gun images I post here are on IMGUR.

I don't make them public, so they aren't posted to the live feed for everyone on IMGUR to see.  Maybe that's a factor?

UPDATE:  I read through the Terms of Service, and there's nothing about firearms.  So, if you're making your images public, and someone else is reporting it as a violation (see below), then the images may or may not be removed.

If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload
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All the ranges I've been to in Vegas are the same, bring your own ammo. Holster draw, mad dump, etc... no problem.

My last shooting trip was to Ohio, just outside of Cleveland and similar range experience and cost. Only unique policy was a deposit on the plastic and cardboard target holder and if you shot above a certain line, you bought it. Wasn’t bad, I think was $5-7. I bought ammo from Cabela’s and was able to take my own ammo. Targets were super cheap, like 25 cents each for the larger and less for smaller.

There are also ranges that while allow more freedom, you have to really watch. Most are pretty good about self checks. But I’ve seen many cases of unsafe acts. From students who were supposed to only be loading mags, also handling their AR and pistols, including practicing loading… while their instructor was down range setting up targets. They weren’t supposed to and the instructor was 😳😮   

Make Gun Ranges(in Hawaii) Great Again

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Aha found a good image hoster.  It's much easier too as you can upload in batches and autoresize pics and do it without a login.  It has the typical "Images that are threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourage violence or crime." clause so we'll see how long this lasts.  https://postimages.org/


And the original post:

I went to Florida last week and did some shooting practice with my Glock 48 CCW gun.  So much easier and cheaper to practice on the mainland so I make it a habit to do so on my travels.

First stop was Sportsmans Warehouse.


$10.99 a box of 9mm.  Never heard of the brand but it's factory new made in the USA.  Bought 3 boxes.


Local indoor gun range in Jacksonville.  Signed the waiver, paid $14 range fee and 3 targets for $1.50 each.


Nice clean and cool indoor 15 yard range. 


With 150 rounds I practiced my concealed draw times, one handed shooting left & right, rapid fires, flashlight drills, and turn and shoot drills.  Spent an hour at the range.
After shooting I realized this was a 3/4 scale target.  Up that difficulty factor.

Total cost:
$33      150 rounds ammo: 
$14      Range fee
$4.50   3 targets
----------------------
$51.50  Total

Same thing at xring would be
$50     Membership fee
$20    Range fee
$90     150 rounds ammo
$25    Holster draw fee
$25    Rapid fire fee
$6?     3 targets
--------------------
$216  Total

808GC
$34   Range Fee x2 (30min ea)
$90  150 rounds ammo
$6     3 targets
---------------------
$130  Total

And on a separate note, finally got my Underwood full power 10mm ammo!  Hard cast 200gr at 1250fps for bears.  Got it straight from Underwood delivered to my hotel for $28 a box +$20 shipping.  Could never find the stuff here but now Firearms International has it for $48 a box.  Something you can do on the mainland for the hard to find ammo or buying ammo for a class or hunting trip there.