I cannot imagine what it costs to shoot here:
I want an American version with ARs…but nonetheless that truly puts to shame just about anything I’ve seen.:eek:
Every shooting range Ive been to in Europe has been really nice. Not “that” nice as in the video but a lot nicer to anything Ive been to in the states.
That looks awesome! Hmmm…
It is in Ulm, btw.
One of these years I plan on taking the family to Germany on a trip. I will make a point to stop there! I lived in Germany twice, mostly in the south (everywhere between the Rhine and lower Bavaria and up to Wuerzburg area), which is where Ulm is, in the south, and have a lot of friends and acquaintances. I used to go every few years or so until I got married. Now all our trip are to Japan to visit the MIL and SILs. When the kids get a bit older and I can afford it we will hit up Germany again to visit friends etc. And this place.
They had some “action pistol” type shooting in the video…
Drei hundert meter? Sehr gut. Auf geht’s!
I wish we had that here because I think we would appreciate it more to be honest. There shop makes our stores look like a ghetto flea market.
Someone needs to send this to the folks who run Cabelas.
I especially liked the pig shooting on the video screen, with an AAR that shows your shot placement. Very nice.
Reminds me a lot of SGC and the one they built in DC except that they have trap, skeet etc at the one in Germany.
I bet something like that would do well in my area… Looks like a very expensive project though. Its like a country club for shooters… I like it!
It ain’t cheap… Looking at the price list on the website.
I was glancing through their rules:
They do not allow reloaded ammo, yet they offer seminars on reloading according to the video.
I am going to have to read the rules more thoroughly when and if I ever get over that direction to see if mere foreigners can rent and shoot (ie, what sort of permits and stuff you have to show). They do seem to have rental firearms available.
Due to the legal climate there, they don’t seem to have a strong self defense and “social” work mindset to shooting, but do have a very strong and rich hunting and target shooting tradition. This caters to that.
Sheizer!
I am very impressed…makes my range look like I’m shooting at the dump…
My post (Wiesbaden AAF) shared a range with the German mil, and LE.
Their LE seem to stacked deep with guns, and their MIL had some nice stuff. One of their mil snipers had a 300WM AI with a Hensoldt. Whatever their version of the FBI is those guys would show up in some nice car, and with a trunk full of weapons. One of my buddies actually married a girl in the Polizei, and she was “trying out” for their FBI.
They also had range trips (mostly for clay pigeon) through our MWR, and I knew a couple people. One guy lived in Austria, and was big into guns. The other was a female German exchange student who went to my HS, and then I met up with her when I got stationed there. Went to her house for my first Christmas in Germany.
Also after HS I was planning on going to a school in Ferlach, Austria for their gunsmithing school. Didn’t work out but had a lot of fun in that area. Ferlach is basically the gunsmithing capital of Austria… Me and my buddy went over there for 2 months the day after we graduated HS with just a rail pass, and our packs. Overall I gotta say Europeans are the MOST hospitable people Ive ever run into (except for the french who I couldnt care less about). Lots of stories from that trip…
Germany is very restrictive when it comes to firearms. I read some other comments that mentioned something about having to be a member and you must have a hunting permit or a “waffenschein” weapons license.
They seem to require that you have insurance. They can sell you a “day insurance” if you are not insured through your hunting club or due to having a hunting license (which I guess by law also requires you to have insurance).
Compared to us (most parts of the US) they are very restrictive. Compared to some other countries in Europe, not so bad I take it. I was once (like 10 or 12 years ago) walking along a street in Stuttgart and ran into a gun/hunting store and went in and talked with them for a bit. It was very interesting. They were all jealous of the US freedoms of arms that most states enjoy but they seemed to be able to do a lot with firearms compared to some places. I believe you are right – you have to belong to a club and have a weapons permit etc.
Yet if you look at German gunstore websites, they have ARs available (with some minor modifications) and in the video for this place you see a guy shooting some sort of IPSC style handgun shooting with a 1911 type gun.
OMFG! That’s Sehr Uber Badass!
I’m mad… I think they stole my idea. I couldn’t tell, because they never really had any good video angles of them.
But my idea for a range was to post video cameras down by fixed distance targets. IE 100M, 200M, 300M… etc… and then have LCD or Plasma screens at the shooting stands showing your targets.
It is kind of my way to eliminate the spotting scopes. In order to actually see your hits out to 4-500M you would have to spend a crap load of money. With the video camera idea you wouldn’t even need a spotting scope. You could see your hits on the monitor right in front of you.
I lived there for 8 years and to me the laws were ridiculous. I believe that a hunting permit (Jagdschein) costs well over 5K.