Kingsbury Shooting Range

$ 4 dollar entrance fee, bring your own equipment and your own stapler/​or tape. very nice when weather is nice. you do lose phone signal when you get out there but fairly simple to get there. Note to other sportsmen, bring your own STAPLER or sticky targets because the range officer is a jackoff about staplers and told me no way in hell he was gonna let me use one, what a nice guy.

Kingsbury is hands down one of the best shooting ranges in the area! While it is a bit difficult to locate and a bit of a drive from Mishawaka, it is totally worth the effort. The range is pretty bare bones and by that I mean they sell nothing… they do have a soda machine. You pretty much get a lane (and there are 25 lanes if I remember correctly) and staple gun to hang up your targets with. If you fancy skeet they have an area and are more than happy to let you use their thrower. The range masters there are strict but are very friendly and more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Spending a a few hours here on the weekend in the fall is a great way to relax. Also, you CANNOT wear your firearm while on the range (you will be yelled at if you do)! All that said, I say check this range out.

Ahh, Kingsbury range. Visiting here from the Chicago area reminds me that nice people still exist. The rules are pretty relaxed (no rapid fire though), and you can avoid the wanton invasion of privacy and red tape you’d face at an Illinois range. It’s extremely cheap and nicely well-​run but stripped-​down — nothing at all to purchase or rent, just staple guns you can use for free to tack up your targets on their posts. Basically, this facility is an adjunct to the surrounding hunting areas, geared toward sportsmen sighting in and practicing with their guns.
The nice lady in the control room offered us hot chocolate for free when we came here on a winter morning in the teens and were the only customers. Seriously??? Living in the urban jungle, I forget about that sort of humanity. In Chicago they just watch you freeze to death.
It’s all outdoors, with 25 yard pistol, 50 and 100 yard rifle, and a clays area with manual spring-​loaded traps pulled by whomever came with you for the day. A restroom and a park bench or two rounds it out. Stray bullets are blocked by concrete barriers, which reflect the blast backward and make it loud, particularly in the rifle area. Not a bad idea to wear muffs over plugs if you have both.
I write this review with a bit of trepidation, because I know that the stringent and stingy policies closer to Chicago are in response to idiotic behavior of irresponsible city folks. During another visit, some hoodlums were shooting dragon’s breath shells in the clays area. This started a large brush fire, requiring me to run to the range master and have him call in the fire department. It took maybe 45 minutes for the fire fighters to put it out. So I urge all readers to behave themselves here. Or soon even this gem may fall prey to stupid rules, heavy-​handed range masters, long waivers, ID checks, sanctions against Illinoisans, etc. That would be a real shame.