New West Houston Shooting Range

[howdy]

I am a resident of Katy and this is going in about 2 miles from my home...yee haw

Tactical Firearms has a new store with lots of added facilities. See below.


In preparation of the opening of our new store our last day of business at our current location is Friday October 21, 2011. Tactical Firearms wants to thank our loyal and valued customers for your continued support. Because of you we are able to open our new facility at 1200 S Mason (behind Auto Zone, 2 blocks south of our current location). The new store will open Saturday October 29, 2011 at 10am! There will be live broadcasts and giveaways throughout the day as well as unbelievable discounts on merchandise. Our new gun store will carry 10 times the amount of in-stock inventory that we currently carry. We will continue to offer CHL classes at $89.

This facility will be state of the art and nothing like it is available in the United States. We will make the shooting range construction accessible for customer viewing so you can keep up with the exciting progress. The 25 lane indoor range is tentatively scheduled to be open December 2nd. Ammo up to 50 BMG, hollow point and FMJ allowed, rapid fire and full auto is welcome!

We are also building a 19,000 sq ft shoot town- yes that's right! Not a shoot house, a shoot TOWN comprised of a road down the center with 3 houses on one side and a commercial building on the other. This means we will be able to offer training to approach your home or business from the outside and how to clear the location from room to room in the event of an intruder.

In the near future we will be able to implement our shooting simulation that we have had at our current location but using live fire! Also, we are teaming up with Breiley to build an indoor trap & skeet, 5 stand, and sporting clays air conditioned facility.

Tactical Firearms has gone GREEN and we are proud to announce that we are doing our part to help the environment as all of our lighting, inside and outside, are LED, as well as recycling all of our paper packing supplies.

Please forward this email and spread the word to all of your friends and family to share in the exciting changes that are coming and to join us at the Grand Opening of our new gun store on October 29, 2011 at 10am at our new location-

1200 S Mason Rd
Katy, TX 77450

Store hours will remain 10am-7pm Monday-Saturday

Tactical Firearms
281-693-4867

[TEX]

Howdy,

I see you are a Katy resident. So am I. Have you ever thought about shooting IDPA. There is a club (WHIDPA) that has weekly and a monthly match at a private range about 15 miles north of Brookshire. If you are interested, check out their web sight http://www.whidpa.com I noticed the new sign when I was at Autozone and at first thought they were just advertsing for the original location. Then I drove by the building in the back and could see that a lot of contruction was going on inside. I hope they are able to put it all together. Its about time Katy had a nice indoor range. It looks like they will have enough bays and facilities to even pull off an indoor IDPA match from tim eto time, but it would take a club that would be interested in doing it and the cost would have to be reasonable.

[Skiprr]

An above-ground indoor range that allows .50 BMG? Wow. Seriously?

I admit I haven't seen that before. Did use a LEO range in another state where all lanes were underground and that allowed .50 BMG rounds...but I'm very happy to say I never shot next to someone throwin' that kind of metal downrange. The cost of bullet traps capable of handling .50 BMG must be absolutely astronomical. And I ain't fond of standing near a .50 BMG when it's fired outdoors; can't imagine the effect indoors. Talk about something that could throw you off your trigger control in the adjacent lane...

From the satellite image, the whole building at 1200 S. Mason looks to be almost exactly 50 meters long. Looks to be an undeveloped lot about 150 meters long immediately south of the existing building, and I'll bet that's where some new development is planned.

But you can bet I'm marking my calendar to be there for the 29th grand opening. I definitely wanna see the new place.

[Skiprr]

I just had a nice chat with Jeremy, one of the partners with Tactical Firearms, and he confirmed the info about the grand opening on October 29, the new range (complete with .50 BMG capability; yep, really...some new state-of-the-art bullet-trap system), the "shoot town," the indoor trap & skeet and sporting clays, the whole nine yards. I was correct that they also bought that 150-meter-long stretch of land to the south of the existing building, and that's where the next stages of development will occur.

The simulators they use now will also move over to the new location with 350 different available scenarios, so you'll be able to shoot laser-sim or live-fire. For the "shoot town" and two-story shoot house(s), once they qualify you for it, Simunition force-on-force classes and supervised scenarios will also be run. I bet this will be interesting to some CHLers since you normally can't get hold of Simunition rounds unless you're LEO or military, and even if you can the conversion kits and gear are expensive. I get the impression that Tactical Firearms is going to rent converted firearms, safety equipment, and sell the Simunition ammo for on-premises use. The "shoot town" will also be used for live fire drills like structure clearing (not force-on-force, in other words).

Jeremy says that, to the best of his knowledge, this will be an indoor facility unequaled in the U.S. when it's finished. He mentioned a total dollar investment number that I won't repeat--let's just say it's a very hefty amount--and to have all the stuff he described, I don't doubt it will cost every bit of it.

Now I'm all amped to see this new location open, get the new lanes operating, and see all the other additions over the coming months!

Amped, too, that it sounds like Texas will be able to lay claim to the most extensive public indoor range in the nation.

[n5wd]

Hmmm... sounds like a good place for an in-state staycation next summer!

[Kirk]

I'm looking forward to the range with it being 2 miles from the house. I have to wonder with a state of the art range if the price going to be unequaled in the U.S. also.

Has a bad experience in the store at their current location so I hoping the range is better.

[Heyward Shepherd]

I bought a nice pistol on their opening day even after being ignored for some time. The treatment was even worse on the next visit even though I was now a returning customer. The place is too far from my home anyway and definitely not worth the drive. Beside that the owner is planning of charging 25 bucks for the privilege to shooting there when the pistol range opens anyway.

[Lugnut]

Have heard conflicting reviews thus far. From the sounds of it, when complete, Tactical will have a pretty maxed out setup....which is encouraging. I have only been to their store once, and it was just after the new location opened. I was picking up an EBR, and was in and out in no time. They were friendly to me, but I have heard a lot of mixed reviews. I live really close by, so I am staying optimistic that when they do open their range(s), that it will be a positive experience. For whatever reason, I have generally found that the overall/average service levels at gun stores to be somewhat lacking if you don't have a relationship with them.

[ghentry]

Update - I just called to see if their range was open and their recording says it is scheduled to open in March of 2012. Looks like things got pushed back a bit from the December timeframe they mentioned earlier.

[boomerd35]

Their website says they are at 1200 S Mason. Is that the new location? I still wish there was a range in Sugar Land area.

[Kirk]

Their website says they are at 1200 S Mason. Is that the new location? I still wish there was a range in Sugar Land area.

Its now in Katy, once it opens

[RECIT]

I have visited the showroom only. The entry way of the store was a mess with boxes and packaging everywhere, multiple employees sitting around eating lunch. The showroom looks very nice with a state of the art feel to it. It reminded me of the movie Commando w/ Arnold when he breaks in the sporting goods store and goes to the hidden back room with all the awesome weapons.

The folks were nice, but I did stand around for a while before I got any service. I think all the employees were eating up front. No biggie, no one was rude or anything. They did not have what I was looking for and I knew if I stayed and kicked tires any longer something might follow me home, and that was not what I was there for.

I do know what other members have said about you not getting a warm fuzzy feeling from local gun shops unless you are a big spender or one of the good ole boys that hangs out in there ALL day with no intention of spending any money. I did not get that feeling at Tactical Firearms.

They do advertise on the radio as the states largest class 3 dealer. I don't know if that is number of sales or actual store size. I would be interested to know.

[Lugnut]

As I previously posted, I bought an AR15 there a few months back....and had an overall net positive experience. Nothing to write home about, but nothing negative, which in my book, for any gun dealer, that is pretty good.

Went there again last weekend because I was looking to solve a particular scope ring problem I was having with my new deer rifle. After hitting most of my usual haunts, and a few of the box stores, I wound up heading to Tactical because they are close to my house. Now the specialize more in zombie hunting rifles, not deer hunting rifles, and so I didn't have very high expectations. Turns out, I wound up leaving there empty handed, but I was actually blown away by the level of service I got while I was there. They dug through that whole store to find something that would work, and when they couldn't find it, they spent another 10 minutes talking to me about other options, and who might have what I need.

No sale that day, but I think they are on the right track, and I will be back again. As far as the range, sounds like the pricing might be on the "premium" side, but I for one don't mind paying more for a quality facility there are not the safety issues I have witnessed at other nearby ranges....

[KWalk313000]

The folks were nice, but I did stand around for a while before I got any service.

This seems to be the case every time I go in there, I live close and work at a restaurant on Mason rd so I've stopped in several times but it usually takes forever to get some help even if the place is empty. I look quite young for my age so maybe thats why but they're friendly when they get to you. I'd still recommend buying from AJC Guns in between Fry and Westgreen on the i10 service rd if you're in Katy, really nice people over there. Looking forward to the range at TF though. Wondering what kind of pricing they will have.

[egonpax]

The indoor range sounds quite interesting and I didn't know about this place until now. Since it's close to work I'll have to check it out sometime during lunch.

Also I can attest to AJCs in Katy, they are nice and helpful. I've bought a few firearms from them at the gun shows and one from their store, which was actually a bad idea since I would have saved money on it if I just waited to buy from them at the show instead. When I bought my firearm from them at the store, the girl who helped me out seemed a little rude but I think it was more of the fact she wasn't a socialble person by nature.

Howdy,

I see you are a Katy resident. So am I. Have you ever thought about shooting IDPA. There is a club (WHIDPA) that has weekly and a monthly match at a private range about 15 miles north of Brookshire. If you are interested, check out their web sight http://www.whidpa.com...

Is there any way to just watch these matches? I would like to check out a couple of these matches and the private range. How does one join the private range?