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I have lived in the area for about a year and haven't yet found a good place to shoot a handgun. I would like to shoot outdoors if possible but don't have private land to do so. I have been to the Myrtle Beach indoor shooting range by the back gate and don't find it too appealing. I have heard from some friends that live near the back of Carolina Forest that people there shoot in the woods behind the development. I found info on Back Woods Quail Club and Myrtle Grove Gun Club but I believe you can only shoot skeet there. If anyone out there has any advice please either reply here send me a direct message.
Being that Carolina Forest is very residential not sure why anyone would consider shooting there. If you go further out in the country I'm sure there are places. Myrtle Beach and most of Horry County with the exception of far out in Conway, Loris and Longs would be dangerous and annoying to others.
Rapture, don't your next-door neighbors have an outdoor "shooting range"? - Said with tongue firmly in cheek!! Or am I confusing you with someone else?
No, that was me. They moved but there are still some people that shoot around here just not right next to me. I don't get it. Hey, thanks for reminding me! LOL
Rapture- so your rowdy neighbors are gone? That's good news!
To the OP- good luck finding an outdoor shooting facility anywhere in the county. Your best bets are the indoor shooting ranges, one of which you mentioned already. I share your same feelings about The MB Indoor Shooting range. The fella that runs it DEFINITELY has his own mindset.. and he is NOT a people person..
I have a question related to this topic, but not helpful to the OP (sorry). At an indoor shooting range, when you shoot at those paper targets, what is the wall behind the targets (where the bullets end up) made of? Does it absorb the bullets or do they fall harmlessly to the ground? I thought of this while driving by an indoor range here in central PA one day and I wondered if any bullets ever make it through the wall to the outside.
Dawne,
Most indoor ranges have a steel back drop that's slanted. The bullets ricochet into a catch type system. I never heard of a bullet exiting an indoor shooting range.
Shooting range backdrops are expensive. They are designed to stop the bullet and have it drop to a tray at floor level. Shooting is restricted to calibers that will not harm the backdrop. You need not worry about stray bullets.
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- Said with tongue firmly in cheek!! Or am I confusing you with someone else?
