[Army Tanker]

Elite Shooting Sports in Manassas, VA, Will Soon No Longer Be a Public Range

On 17 Jan 2023, the owner of Elite Shooting Sports, who is ready to retire, sold his wonderful indoor public shooting range to Prince William County, Virginia. Starting in June 2023, it'll be an advanced, police department-only, indoor shooting range complex. Bummer. Big-time bummer.

Elite Shooting Sport is, by far, the nicest shooting range that I've frequented. Ever. Elite Shooting Sports is such a nice, well-appointed, indoor range complex that some seven years ago, one of the big three national TV channels' morning programs, CBS This Morning, did a TV feature about that range, and called it a "gun-try club," which is a play on the phrase, country club. The YouTube video of that TV feature is shown above.

By this summer, I'll need to find a different indoor range at which to shoot. The NRA range complex is near me as well. I wonder how the NRA range complex compares to the Elite Shooting Sports range complex.

The Elite Shooting Sports owner used to manage the NRA range complex for a number of years. Then the guy struck out on his own, and took all of the really great characteristics of the NRA range complex and expanded upon them when he built the Elite Shooting Sports range complex.

I'm going to plink some paper targets at the Elite Shooting Sports range complex this upcoming Saturday 21 Jan 2023. I'm thinking about shooting one hundred or two hundred rounds of .40 caliber ammo down range with my Smith & Wesson M&P 40 Compact.

Lately, my favorite target is the left side image of a black, extended cab, Chevy 2500 pick-up truck printed in landscape orientation on a 8.5 inch by 11 inch printer paper. I set that target back 15 feet from the firing line, and I use the image of the driver's side door window as my bullseye target aim point. When that target print-out is set back 15 feet from the firing line, the 1 inch by 1 inch diagonal window image makes for a damned small bullseye target.

Lately, I've had issues "pulling" the trigger down and to the left rather than smoothly "squeezing" the trigger straight back. Still, I've been able to put rounds through that 1 inch by 1 inch diagonal window image when that target was set back 15 feet from the firing line.

I prefer a Modified Weaver shooting stance.

One of the services that Elite Shooting Sports offers its customers is weapons cleaning by its armorer for a nominal fee. It's been a long time since I last cleaned my weapon despite having gone to the shooting range numerous times. I know, I know... Shame on me. So... I think after I'm done shooting this upcoming Saturday, I likely will turn-in my weapon to the armorer to have it deep-cleaned.

I'm going to miss shooting at the Elite Shooting Sports range complex in Manassas, VA, when it finally closes its doors to public this upcoming summertime. It's a great acquisition for the Prince William County Police Department, but it sucks for the shooting public who will be displaced to other ranges.

Elite Shooting Sports, LLC | Prince William County, Virginia

 

[nakota7]

That sucks. My favorite range in NOVA. My son lives less than a mile away so we go all the time!

 

[wvrider1]

The local range for me closed at the end of the year last year. A nice state of the art 16 lane range with primo ventilation. Large selection of handguns and rifles. Apparently who ever was in charge of the purse strings wasn't repaying investors.

 

[Army Tanker]

Shot up my favorite shooting target again today, which is the left side image of a black, extended cab, Chevy 2500 pick-up truck printed on an 8.5 inch by 11 inch paper in landscape orientation. I set the target back 15 feet from the firing line and use the image of the small, 1 inch by 1 inch diagonal, driver's side door window as my bullseye target. At 15 feet back from the firing line, that's a damned small bullseye target.

I only shot roughly 65 rounds today, rather than the 100 or 200 rounds that I thought about shooting. For part of my hour of range time, I spent some time shooting two of my buddy's Mossberg shotguns, which was fun. That was my first time shooting a shotgun.

I turned-in my weapon to the armorer to have it cleaned. It's been a long time since I personally cleaned my own weapon, with lots and lots of range time without cleaning my own weapon. So today I decide to pay for the armorer to do the deep-cleaning. When I get my weapon back from the armorer sometime next week, I will resume the good practice of cleaning my own weapon after each day of shooting.

 

[jimboishere]

Elite Shooting Sports in Manassas, VA, Will Soon No Longer Be a Public Range

On 17 Jan 2023, the owner of Elite Shooting Sports, who is ready to retire, sold his wonderful indoor public shooting range to Prince William County, Virginia. Starting in June 2023, it'll be an advanced, police department-only, indoor shooting range complex. Bummer. Big-time bummer.

Elite Shooting Sport is, by far, the nicest shooting range that I've frequented. Ever. Elite Shooting Sports is such a nice, well-appointed, indoor range complex that some seven years ago, one of the big three national TV channels' morning programs, CBS This Morning, did a TV feature about that range, and called it a "gun-try club," which is a play on the phrase, country club. The YouTube video of that TV feature is shown above.

By this summer, I'll need to find a different indoor range at which to shoot. The NRA range complex is near me as well. I wonder how the NRA range complex compares to the Elite Shooting Sports range complex.

The Elite Shooting Sports owner used to manage the NRA range complex for a number of years. Then the guy struck out on his own, and took all of the really great characteristics of the NRA range complex and expanded upon them when he built the Elite Shooting Sports range complex.

I'm going to plink some paper targets at the Elite Shooting Sports range complex this upcoming Saturday 21 Jan 2023. I'm thinking about shooting one hundred or two hundred rounds of .40 caliber ammo down range with my Smith & Wesson M&P 40 Compact.

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Lately, my favorite target is the left side image of a black, extended cab, Chevy 2500 pick-up truck printed in landscape orientation on a 8.5 inch by 11 inch printer paper. I set that target back 15 feet from the firing line, and I use the image of the driver's side door window as my bullseye target aim point. When that target print-out is set back 15 feet from the firing line, the 1 inch by 1 inch diagonal window image makes for a damned small bullseye target.

Lately, I've had issues "pulling" the trigger down and to the left rather than smoothly "squeezing" the trigger straight back. Still, I've been able to put rounds through that 1 inch by 1 inch diagonal window image when that target was set back 15 feet from the firing line.

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I prefer a Modified Weaver shooting stance.

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One of the services that Elite Shooting Sports offers its customers is weapons cleaning by its armorer for a nominal fee. It's been a long time since I last cleaned my weapon despite having gone to the shooting range numerous times. I know, I know... Shame on me. So... I think after I'm done shooting this upcoming Saturday, I likely will turn-in my weapon to the armorer to have it deep-cleaned.

I'm going to miss shooting at the Elite Shooting Sports range complex in Manassas, VA, when it finally closes its doors to public this upcoming summertime. It's a great acquisition for the Prince William County Police Department, but it sucks for the shooting public who will be displaced to other ranges.

Elite Shooting Sports, LLC | Prince William County, Virginia


Man, only $60 for a rifle clean? Wish I lived there... Or wish my local range would offer those(considering how much stuff I'm buying from 'em, probably like 3-4 boxes of rifle ammo Rifle Ammunition - GritrSports.com and that's every month... Not even speaking of handgun ammo )

Man, that sucks. At least you have NRA range to sub out... I gotta drive like 30+ minutes to my new indoor range ever since old on closed down due to COVID. Definitely shooting much less those days compared to pre-2020(used to go every weekend, now I'm lucky if I manage to go once every 2-3 weeks).