Applied Ballistics

Always a pleasure to shoot here!

We had a «blast» here on Valentine’s Day. There were four of us and we had to rent everything from firearms to hearing protection, but it still was all very reasonably priced. The lady who worked the counter was very friendly and helpful.
My only slight criticism would be the older guy who answers the phone was a bit abrupt to be interacting with the public.

They are not smart enough to implement some sort of a data base for members or people who have watched the safety video. I’ve seen the video 4 times now. The first time when I bought a membership and 3 more times with others I was shooting with. When I tried to go shoot I somehow managed to lose the business card they give you proving you have seen the video. So they were going to make me watch it for the 5^th time. No thanks! I’ll keep my money and I won’t be back to the range or to purchase anything from the gun shop. They have also raided the rates and charge extra if there is more than 1 shooter per lane.

I went there today with a couple friends. As a first timer you have to watch an 8-​minute «orientation». The staff was friendly and happy to help – I’m a Saudi guy at gun range in Indiana! There’s a good range of pistols. As far as prices go, for half an hour $ 10 for the gun, $ 10 for the lane, $ 16.99 for 50 round, and a dollar for earmuffs.
It’s a great place to kill time when you have nothing to do at Purdue.

My friends from Chicago would drive 2.5 hrs to Lafayette and spend an entire afternoon here. Hands down one of the most interesting local attractions around Purdue campus. They have a decent selection of guns, and the guys in this shop were all extremely knowledgable and patient to first-​time shooters like us.

Being from Chicago, the normal gun laws of Indiana made shooting in the range fun without all the nit-​picky restrictions from over the border. Semi-​auto or automatic, range ammo or bring-​your-​own. It’s all good. It’s all about the education of the shooter. I will be back.

Made a family trip from Noblesville to Lafayette to this shooting range, and we had a great time. So much brighter and cleaner than PopGuns in Indy, and with 15 lanes, there was no waiting for us on a Saturday afternoon! We rented their MP5 automatic and had a lot of fun with it. The staff was friendly and helpful. It was well worth the drive, and I’m sure we’ll be back.

Tim and I were a little bored and need to do something so we started looking for a shooting range and the only place we found in the area was an indoor range.
We found ABSI went inside and were greeted by a couple guys. The guy be hind the counter asked us if we had been there before and explained how they do things there, there is a short 10 minute video on there safety polices and procedures after we were finished with that we got two lanes for a half hour.
This is a Indoor Range with 15 lanes, 5 rated for rifle calibers
All guns must have ECI’s (Empty Chamber Indicator) in them unless your firing them. They have fully automatic machine guns that you can rent and other guns and some guns for sell.
As far as going downstairs to or lanes (rifle) it was pretty small not a lot of room to load your guns or set your guns. One of the lanes was closed because someone had shoot the motor that runs the targets out. We had all of out PPE on, I was shooting my AK-​47 and Tim was shooting one of his hand guns. Every time we fired our guns the sound was way louder then it would have been if we were outside and the empty shells kept ricocheting off the wall and hitting me.
We were just about done and then I let Tim shoot my AK and he hit the string that takes the target out hahaha, so we packed up went upstairs and told them what Tim had pulled off and they said no problem, and thanked us for telling them about it instead of just leaving like the guy that shot the motor did. We had offered to pay for the damage but they declined and were really nice about the whole ordeal.
If your ever in this area and want to shot a gun this is the place to go! The Fully Automatic Machine Guns are about $ 50 to $ 100 an hour. Try it out it’s fun!
They are not open Mondays or Tuesdays.