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I happened to find myself driving by South Plains Gun Club and they had "visitors welcome" on their sign.

CedarElm7 wrote:Thanks, LarGriff!

Wow, as a city of a quarter of a million residents in West Texas, you'd think demand for a comprehensive outdoor range in Lubbock would be substantial.

There is a lot of interest, problem is Rustic Range filled the demand (and did it well ) until they suddenly closed about a year and a half ago. That kind of put everyone in a tailspin although the owner had been "trying to sell it" for years. He finally did and I think it caught everyone by suprise.

There has been some ramblings by a few people to open another range but I hear the cost and insurance (and EPA regs?) is astronomical. Sharp Shooters (a local gun store) keeps saying they are trying to open a range but I haven't heard much of anything else.

There is also the fact that a lot of folks have found friends with "ranges" out in the country. Couple that with the limited supply of ammo and the demand has been tempered, for now.

Some of us just moved to the country so we could set up our own ranges.

There are a couple of private clubs but I don't know anything about them. Llano gun club and South Plains gun club if I remember correctly.