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I’m glad this thread got posted - we just moved to Stratham and I need a place to shoot.
Thank you for the offer to visit.
I am currently traveling to NY to test a vacuum reflow oven every week so I only have weekends available.
I’ll let you know if I get to stay home one week and we’ll see we can get together.
I was thinking of a family membership that included my wife but the loooong orientation would drive her nuts.
She is a college professor, dosen’t like wasting time, wants to get to the conclusion quickly.
I consider it a bit of a mixed bag, but I'm also coming from the Pemi fish and game which is awesome in my opinion.
The good -
- Location is good, especially for where I live (10 minutes away)
- They have recently started hosting action shooting and steel matches
- Range is kept pretty clean and there's always a target stand available to use when I've gone there (I never go on weekends as I'm typically working or doing family stuff)
- Can shoot clay targets on range as long as you clean up (there is no trap range)
- Can renew membership online and print your own membership card.
The bad -
- Orientation was 6 EFFING HOURS!!! I went through it almost 2 years ago and it still bothers me to this day. They had us show up at 6:30 during the regular monthly meeting, go through some orientation stuff and we were there until 10pm. THEN we had to go back on Sunday morning for 2 more hours to walk us down to the range and go through all the range rules and procedures we went through during the orientation/ meeting the other night. I probably would of been more OK with it had we been told to expect something like that prior to showing up, but we obviously weren't.
- Can't draw from a holster/ Can't shoot steel (matches are exception)
- There's some infighting going on between the FUDD's who don't like the action shooting and the members who want action shooting.
I've never been there and had to wait to shoot. Few time's I've been the only one there, but I'm also a 2 o'clock on a Tuesday kinda shooter cause that's when I can get the time. I've definitely felt very welcomed by everyone I've come across at the club. Wide range of member's here, literally 5 minutes apart from each other I've had one person tell me my silencers are illegal and then another guy walks in with his cans.
Basically it's a serviceable small place to shoot that's close and convenient. I'm more than happy to bring anyone as a guest if they want to check out the facilities before getting on the wait list. Oh yeah, there's a wait list.
They did just install cameras unfortunately due to some recent incidents of people acting like retards. One instance I heard about was someone found a pool of blood on the short side with a blood trail leading out and up the ramp to the parking lot.