Target club fees - how much do you pay?

[Blu]

Here's a better pic of the clubhouse, click to enlarge.

[Mezzer]

Indoor club with 2 x 25m ranges comprising 8 lanes total. Lounge area with tea/coffee/soft drinks machines etc. Use of club rifles if needed and ammunition can be purchased.

Regular outdoor shooting days at Altcar and Sealand @ 100, 200, 600 & 1000 yds.

All this for the princely sum of £50 pa and £2 range fees for each visit. It'll do for me!

Facilities as above with exception of soft drinks machines.
65 quid a year and no green fees unless at Altcar.

As Les rightly says, it'll do for me

Mezzer

[Mezzer]

Indoor club with 2 x 25m ranges comprising 8 lanes total. Lounge area with tea/coffee/soft drinks machines etc. Use of club rifles if needed and ammunition can be purchased.

Regular outdoor shooting days at Altcar and Sealand @ 100, 200, 600 & 1000 yds.

All this for the princely sum of £50 pa and £2 range fees for each visit. It'll do for me!

Facilities as above with exception of soft drinks machines.
65 quid a year and no green fees unless at Altcar.

As Les rightly says, it'll do for me

Mezzer

[sidawson]

Indoor club with 2 x 25m ranges comprising 8 lanes total. Lounge area with tea/coffee/sofct drinks machines etc. Use of club rifles if needed and ammunition can be purchased.

Regular outdoor shooting days at Altcar and Sealand @ 100, 200, 600 & 1000 yds.

All this for the princely sum of £50 pa and £2 range fees for each visit. It'll do for me!

Same as above but now 60 a year

[Rooster]

Hi

2 x 25yd outdoor Ranges, 1 x 50yd outdoor range, Shotgun Pit, 15yd Air Rifle Range and a Field Target Range, excellent Canteen, Armory and Shop. 7 days a week shooting, trips abroad, 300+ active members.

Membership Type / Annual Fee
Full Adult £124
Senior (65+) £100
Full Junior £30
Full Family £180
Airgun Adult £64
Airgun Junior £32
Sunday Airgun Adult £32
Sunday Airgun Junior £16

Notes
Family Membership covers up to 2 adults and 2 children residing at the same address.
Junior Membership applies to those under 18 years of age or under 25 years in full time education.
Seniors are those over 65 years on the 1st of June.



Rooster

[Blackstuff]

Okay I have to ask, what's with the range fees on top of the membership cost? I'd have thought that the cost of the membership would give one access to the ranges without being charged again, especially those being charged in excess of 50 quid a year.

I understand if it's a club using a range that doesn't belong to them, but are you still paying the fees for a clubs on site range?

Just curious is all.

Don't know to be honest as one of my clubs has 2 or 3 levels of annual membership I think, with the top level you have access to the ranges 362 days a year between 10am and 5pm with no extra per visit, the next level down you pay a lower fee but then pay £2 per visit and I think the level after that it is lower still but then is £5 per visit.
Sometimes you are lucky and find some courses of fire setup either from a previous comp or other members and other times there's nothing set up at all, nothing else included, targets and patches extra.

My old club just has one set annual fee (£300) and no extra per visit but you need to book lanes in advance by the hour and opening times are quite restrictive.

This is a good idea as it caters for people who might not/cannot necessarily use the range that much

Blu - As above. Say the actual yearly membership fee would be £100, a club may instead elect to charge a £50 'members fee' and then £2 per visit which covers you for a week. Therefore you only pay for how much you're using the club. I think St Giles operated like that when i was a member. Wish Mayfair did TBH as i only go to the indoor part of the club 5-6 times per year, usually just to sight in/test a new gun or when i've changed sights but i'm paying the full whack.

I suppose the counter argument is that you've paid for it so you might as well use it.

[Blu]

Okay I have to ask, what's with the range fees on top of the membership cost? I'd have thought that the cost of the membership would give one access to the ranges without being charged again, especially those being charged in excess of 50 quid a year.

I understand if it's a club using a range that doesn't belong to them, but are you still paying the fees for a clubs on site range?

Just curious is all.

Don't know to be honest as one of my clubs has 2 or 3 levels of annual membership I think, with the top level you have access to the ranges 362 days a year between 10am and 5pm with no extra per visit, the next level down you pay a lower fee but then pay £2 per visit and I think the level after that it is lower still but then is £5 per visit.
Sometimes you are lucky and find some courses of fire setup either from a previous comp or other members and other times there's nothing set up at all, nothing else included, targets and patches extra.

My old club just has one set annual fee (£300) and no extra per visit but you need to book lanes in advance by the hour and opening times are quite restrictive.

This is a good idea as it caters for people who might not/cannot necessarily use the range that much

Blu - As above. Say the actual yearly membership fee would be £100, a club may instead elect to charge a £50 'members fee' and then £2 per visit which covers you for a week. Therefore you only pay for how much you're using the club. I think St Giles operated like that when i was a member. Wish Mayfair did TBH as i only go to the indoor part of the club 5-6 times per year, usually just to sight in/test a new gun or when i've changed sights but i'm paying the full whack.

I suppose the counter argument is that you've paid for it so you might as well use it.

Hi Mark, yeah I see where you are coming from mate, Like I said I was just curious was all. Over here all the clubs I have been a member of or still a member of charge $50 a year for individual membership regardless of how much one uses the club. Saying that though and in all fairness I suspect club membership numbers here are larger than the UK given that shooting is a lot more popular here, hell just about every city, town and village has it's own club in one form or another.

[subvers10n]

Club House.jpg

I love the bear in the glass case Blu - very impressive! :)

[Blu]

Club House.jpg

I love the bear in the glass case Blu - very impressive! :)

Yeah it's a fair size bear and more impressive close up.

[Chapuis]

"Say the actual yearly membership fee would be £100, a club may instead elect to charge a £50 'members fee' and then £2 per visit which covers you for a week. Therefore you only pay for how much you're using the club. I think St Giles operated like that when i was a member. Wish Mayfair did TBH as i only go to the indoor part of the club 5-6 times per year, usually just to sight in/test a new gun or when i've changed sights but i'm paying the full whack.

I suppose the counter argument is that you've paid for it so you might as well use it."

Great idea as far as I am concerned I wish we could operate such a system at our club. I would only attend when and if I felt like it then. The only problem is who would open up the range though when I don't feel the whim to attend as at the present I open up every Friday night, some Wednesdays and for the Sunday shoots. Not only that but often I don't get the chance to shoot myself.