Where do you practice with your handgun?

[howl]

Where do you practice with your handgun? Inside or out? Do you practice drawing and firing a loaded gun? Most people live in urban areas and do all their practice at indoor ranges, or so I guess. Drawing, etc. has to be practiced with an empty gun and not on a firing line. This practice skips over a critical section of defensive handgun use. Roksliders are not most people. What do y'all do?

 

[TomAZ]

I hate indoor ranges. I practice in the desert.


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[kharb22]

I use a combination of both. I do some dry fire in the house practicing my draw and reloads, and I go outdoors for actual live fire.

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[elkstabber]

I live on a farm. I practice about 20 yards from the end of my garage. I work in a city but can't even imagine having to live in one.

 

[Apollo117]

I've got several homemade dirt berms that I shoot into. My setup allows me to simulate multiple targets.

I hate indoor ranges. I only spend enough time in them to qualify for my LTC.

Not sure if my answer applies since it's possible that not everyone has the space I do and neighbors like mine that tolerate (and often join in) my shooting.

 

[Oldffemt]

Outdoor range (no holsters allowed but it’s an unsupervised range)
Or at our farm. I have rifle targets out to 500yds and while letting the rifle cool I can practice drawing and shooting pistols.

 

[davsco]

99% of my handgun 'practice' is doing a bunch of uspsa, idpa, 2 & 3 gun matches.

 

[JWP58]

I use my employers range(multiple decks, pneumatic targets, steel, etc) but cant imagine being limited to some indoor place I couldn't work from a holster. Even back home in Texas I shot at Tacpro, and it was a free for all.

A handgun is useless without a quality holster. It's also useless if you dont train with both (gun/holster)...preferably with external stressors.

 

[*zap*]

95% of handgun I work from the holster and move. Range in KCK has a room you can rent by the hour and do what you want to do, within reason....only pistol calibers but I have a sub 2000 in 9 for long gun moving while shooting at that range.

Stationary shooting at a stationary target is pretty worthless for self defense preparation.

 

[elkguide]

At my back yard range.

Rifle targets to 600.
Pistol as far as I want to try and from any position selected.

 

[manitou1]

Back yard. Rifle to 800 yds. I have a few metal targets and a burm with a target butt too. I consider myself lucky and don't miss the days of going to the range.

 

[Fatcamp]

In the house to practice drawing, moving, and mag changes. USPSA for live fire.

 

[Rockymtn-Marc]

I mixture of both however I am partial to the outdoor range. I go to the indoor range only for convenience. Joining IDPA or USPSA is one of the best ways to train in my opinion.

 

[Jskaanland]

I shoot at an outdoor range with pistol bays, that are only open for ROs and sanctioned shoots. I started volunteering as a RO, just to get access to the pistol bays.

 

[jmden]

Thankfully, a local private range has a standard style 'front' range (no drawing from holster, no more than 1 shot per second, very rigid rules) and a 'back range' with multiple pistol bays that allows you to draw from holster and move and shoot. To gain access to the back range requires a safety class. Passing that allows you to take part in one of several shooting disciplines (I only do the 'Concealed Carry' discipline and barely have time for that.) by actually going through several competitions with the director of that particular discipline who watches you and is taking notes...if you pass that phase, there's an interview with the Chief Range Officer of the club and the discipline director and then you get pretty much unfettered access to the back range and that is pretty cool. Can set up pretty much what you want keeping certain safety rules in mind, of course. Realistic practice is really what that allows--worth it's weight in gold.

 

[Bigsquatch10]

I hate indoor ranges. I practice in the desert.


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Same here

 

[Relentless]

Where do you practice with your handgun? Inside or out? Do you practice drawing and firing a loaded gun? Most people live in urban areas and do all their practice at indoor ranges, or so I guess. Drawing, etc. has to be practiced with an empty gun and not on a firing line. This practice skips over a critical section of defensive handgun use. Roksliders are not most people. What do y'all do?

Outdoor range

 

[hwy1strat]

I shoot in national forest

 

[BadDogPSD]

Outdoors in the desert.