Opening an Indoor Shooting range

[1911whore]

What does it take/cost to open an indoor range. Ive tossed the idea around for a LONG time and finally there are two opening locally. What is entailed in actually opening one?
How does a person find financing / venture capitalists to do this?

[skosh69]

That's a good question! A buddy of mine and I have been tossing around the same idea...

[BajaJames83]

Interesting, I actually started a post on the steps required to open a range. I got some good feedback. The owner of island view recently opened a range and offered me a tour of his place and any help.

[Bangzoom]

The Green Zone opened in Chatsworth recently...it was in the papers

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"Tragar invested more than $30,000 to remodel a 7,000-square-foot industrial building and spent nine months going through the permitting process for the facility. The Green Zone opened in April."

link

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_21027132/firing-away-without-guilt-at-green-shooting-range?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com

and the best advice i can give is...half off for calguns.net members....just sayin

[Ubermcoupe]

There are numerous threads that have been started asking the same question(s) so if you have some good google fu limit your search to your parameters + “calguns.net” and that should help you out.

The most common advice is to get in touch with the NRA as they typically have the cheapest insurance plans/rates for ranges and do this sort of thing.

The three main components are:

• Building $ + materials
• Permits
• Insurance

Depending on your planned location some of these can be more difficult to get the others.

Best of luck and keep us posted

[Bangzoom]

30,000??? i would have guessed (uneducated) that it'd be a couple million to open a decent shooting range.

Im sure that since they only fire frangible that the lining of the range would not have to be as substantial

[Synergy]

What does it take/cost to open an indoor range. Ive tossed the idea around for a LONG time and finally there are two opening locally. What is entailed in actually opening one?
How does a person find financing / venture capitalists to do this?

I know about the private club in Roseville, where else?