Casual Outdoor Shooting - Outside of Metro Atlanta

[SinFin01]

Hi,

I am a casual shooter and I live in the North Fulton area.

While I do regularly shoot at ranges in the area, I much prefer to shoot outdoors where there is little/no restriction on firearm types or ammunition used.

My real preference is to shoot on private land with suitable distance and safe backdrops (berms or gullies) that allow for rifles. I also take comfort in knowing any/all neighbors around don't have a problem with the owner shooting on his/her land.

With all that said, does anyone here have or know of private land - Outside of the Metro Atlanta - and owners who would be willing to allow me (and perhaps a friend or two) to come and shoot occasionally?

I would certainly provide for the owners to shoot if they wanted to, or consider some sort of compensation that is agreeable to all of us.

This is for a piece of private land - not an established range.

Thanks for any feedback or suggestions.

 

[biker_bill]

I wish you the best of luck and I mean it, because it has gotten more and more difficult over the years to find a piece of property to shoot on.

Here in Forsyth county, which use to be the sticks in 77, it's about impossible to find a place with any distance.

I gave up and joined an established outdoor range and I've never regretted it.

Good luck in your search!

 

[YOTESHOOTER]

Enjoy your hunt for property, the dump/landfill in FORSYTH COUNTY, lets a very few in to shoot on in off business hours, but that is very limited access also. Good luck in your quest...

 

[biker_bill]

Enjoy your hunt for property, the dump/landfill in FORSYTH COUNTY, lets a very few in to shoot on in off business hours, but that is very limited access also. Good luck in your quest...

and right around the corner from there is River Bend Gun club, but it doesn't smell, lol.....

 

[YOTESHOOTER]

You are certainly correct, used to be a member there 80'S- 1998, bench rest, moved further east and 2.5 hr one way we let our membership go. Mr. REIBER, used to live on the property, and was RO, he was a hard guy on the line however he was always fair..

Miss RBGC, however just to far to go now...

 

[biker_bill]

You are certainly correct, used to be a member there 80'S- 1998, bench rest, moved further east and 2.5 hr one way we let our membership go. Mr. REIBER, used to live on the property, and was RO, he was a hard guy on the line however he was always fair..

Miss RBGC, however just to far to go now...

Yea Mr. Rieber passed a few years back.
He never had a problem with me, but I always wear my Marine cover, so he knew I'd been around.

I heard another member say he saw him shoot 25 in a row twice, at age 95 on skeet and he make it look easy.
I spoke very little with him. He was a college professor and a very intelligent guy, I understand.
His son Bobby (not a young man himself) still lives on the property.
I'm there often, just 15 minutes away.....

 

[StuP]

I've contemplated buying some land, (or with a SMALL group), for a modest range east - south east of Snellville, I need to do some more research.

 

[Flashover16]

Many people just don't allow strangers /friends to shoot on their property due to liability.
all it takes is one bad accident and you lose your land and your butt at the same time.
best to join a club.

 

[freedom]

The biweekly, I want to shoot on your property for free thread. Good times.

 

[cmshoot]

I carry $1.3 million in professional liability insurance that covers me, my Instructors, and our students on any property I'm on. If I were going to allow a stranger to shoot on my property, I'd require something similar, at a minimum.