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seamusTX wrote:If you won the jackpot you wouldn't have to commute downtown, would you?

You could live on 20 acres in the Hill Country and shoot off your back porch.

I suspect for the cost of building your own range in a suburban area you could afford lifetime membership in a really nice club. Then you would also have access to long-distance rifle ranges, shotgun facilities, etc.

- Jim

Yeah, but the "tacti-cool" factor is not nearly the same

WildBill wrote:

Katygunnut wrote:I will likely be looking for another house in the next 3-5 years, and possibly much sooner (depending on a few factors that are currently being decided).

Have you thought about a house with a basement? Do they have these around Houston?

I don't think so. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where basements are standard features of houses (or at least they used to be). I haven't seen many basements since moving to Texas 3 1/2 years ago.

For sake of this discussion, assume that the house is being built from the ground up, so an underground facility is entirely possible.

I will likely be looking for another house in the next 3-5 years, and possibly much sooner (depending on a few factors that are currently being decided).

I am interested in designing some custom features into the house, like reinforced interior walls and steel framed doors for the bedrooms, a vault room in place of (or maybe in addition to) my walk-in closet, etc.

One thing that would be really cool is to have a private shooting range. It would really only need to be wide enough for 2 shooters, and I'm thinking 25 yards long. Well lit and ventilated, etc.

Does anyone have any idea of how much this would cost to build something that is safe and is also sufficiently soundproof? I'm thinking that I want it to be about as soundproof to the rest of the house as a typical indoor range is when you are in the shop area. Would definitely want it to be very soundproof to anyone outside the house so I don't need to worry about neighbors, etc.

Also, is it even feasible from a permit perspective if I want to still be somewhat close to a city (say within a 45 minute commute from downtown Houston)? I would not have the range open to the public, it would just be for my personal use, and I could buy some land for the house if needed.