Hey Ronky, sorry man i dont frequent this forum often. I recently had my first taste of NV/IR shooting. It was end of last october but it was in Pittsburgh, PA. My friend in PGH is a member of the Pitcairn-Monroeville Shooting Club. They allow members to bring guests. However the only do night shooting once a year. For all of them they run guns with lights. I have done that to death with my 10 years of airsoft. However I wanted to test a new poorman's NV setup.

 

I sent in my results to The Firearmblog.

http://www.thefirear...n-on-the-cheap/

 

Anyway in terms of finding like minded people and getting range time in the dark is difficult. I recently joined the NWRA (Northern Westchester Rifle Association) cause I live across the North NJ border in NY. In the coming winter months we switch from the outdoor Blue Mountain Shooting Center to the indoor range at Coyne Park.

 

I have expressed my desire to shoot in the dark. I ask them how many of them have shot in the dark and know how to utilize a light with a gun. Most of them do not or have only a couple of times. They are looking into getting range time with Coyne Park to shoot in the dark. I have plenty of lights +40 SureFires to lend if they want to try tactical lights haha. We shall see if it happens. We will definitely be shooting at Coyne Park but whether or not we can rent the range out to shoot in the dark is a different story.

 

If you were able to throw something together over the border (NY state), I'd be down like Chinatown. I had a class this summer where we ran indoor, all blacked out (zero ambient light). Everyone there had at least a single tube (NOD) and most ran IR (quite a few PEQ-15s). It was pretty cool. Basically, that's kinda what I'm looking to duplicate.

 

I had been doing a lot of thinking and it always bothered me that most "practice" shooting we're involved in bears little relevance to the likely circumstances in which we'd have to use our weapons defensively. Admittedly, there are practical shooting matches and the like, and I think that's a huge start. My area of interest has always been gun and military tech, and that's where night shooting comes in. If I'm going to, more likely than not, have to use my rifle after hours, then that's what I want my training to focus on.

 

So I'm def interested in speaking more about this facility. How far over the boarder is it?

Very true about using the gun defensively. Im pushing for dark shooting. Even with just flashlights. IR and NVGs are a bit outside of people's range but they should at least get some range time and experience working with a light and gun.

 

 

Coyne Park Range is in Yonkers.

 

http://www.coyneparkrange.net/index2.php

 

According to their website, they do rent out the range.

 

$400 for 4 hours. Not terrible. Especially if you have a medium group of people. say 8 people split it, that is only $50 a person.

 

I will definitely keep you posted.

 

I recently picked up a cheap DBAL clone from china for $132 shipped. It is green laser and IR laser.