Exploring the Best Pistol, Rifle and Trap
Shooting Ranges in New Jersey
Listed here are our pistol and rifle shooting range recommendations in New Jersey. Features the top facilities for beginners and advanced shooters offering expert training, and a safe environment for all shooting enthusiasts.
The popular shooting ranges and programs in New Jersey for firearm users as well as for people interested in learning how to safely use a firearm in New Jersey.
These venues offer a wide variety of facilities and services from the beginner, including those who have not yet purchased a firearm and who have never fired a shot, to the more advanced firearm user including police officers and security guards.
Northern NJ Rifle, Pistol, and Trap Shooting Ranges
The Bullet Hole
78 Rutgers Street
Belleville, NJ
An indoor range with 10 ports, 23 yards long with electronic target movers. Large selection of range ammo.
They can accommodate
Clove Spring Range
44 Clove Road
Wantage NJ
Open to the public, with member perks.
They feature Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays courses, and Five Stand offering novices and experts alike a unique and safe experience. Located on a 180 acre farm surrounding an original log building clubhouse with a working fireplace and a comfortable clean area to rest and refresh. The clubhouse also houses on-site gun shop with gun accessories, apparel, a variety of firearms to buy from stock and custom orders.
Gun For Hire Headquarters
1267 McBride Ave
Wodland Park, NJ
An indoor shooting with a variety of programs from beginners who have not yet purchased a firearm to the advanced firearm user who regularly shots on their own.Do not have a firearm? Not a problem they will help you get started with everything you need.
Home Defense Site
112 Market St
Clifton, NJ
Offers courses conducted in a classroom and on a shooting range with an Instructor.
They
serve shooters of all skill levels. Women are encouraged to enroll since our mixed classes guarantee that every student is trained to the same standards. Provides classes that will improve your ability to hit targets, whether you are a novice firearm owner or an experienced shooter. They have a variety of programs including one on one, group, and team training. They have a professional that can develop your skills with handguns, shotguns, rifles, as well as pepper spray.
They train students for a lifelong respect for gun use that puts safety first. Their team also teaches the use of pepper spray and handcuffs, alongside their courses for rifles, shotguns, and handguns. At their complete self-defense training center, they can also instruct students in hand-to-hand combat and basic life support.
New Jersey Firearms Academy
174 Danforth Ave.
Jersey City, NJ
They offer a variety of pistol, rifle, and shotgun training programs from beginning shooters to advanced firearm programs including; Police Academy Training, SORA training for all security guard positions, and more. An ideal place for beginning shooters. Beginners take the NRA Basic Pistol, (rifle or shotgun) course to get the fundamental knowledge, skills and proper positive attitude for more advanced training. Private and weekly lessons are available.
Riverdale Police Pistol Team
2 Dalton Drive
Riverdale, NJ
A not-for-profit corporation. Membership is required. The range supports a number of shooting activities year-round. It has twelve 25-yard shooting positions, each equipped with Caswell electronic target carriers adjustable for distance. Firearms are restricted to handguns and .22-rimfire caliber rifles. Handgun caliber carbines may also be used but only with lead or frangible bullets (no jacketed). Magnum calibers are prohibited in any firearm. The second floor of the pistol range houses a 1,000 square foot classroom capable of serving up to 40 students. The room is equipped with chairs, tables, a TV with VCR, projector screen, podium, wipe boards and blackboards. It is carpeted, heated, air-conditioned and has an adjacent rest room. The classroom is available to range members and organizations who wish to host or conduct training seminars or meetings.
Phillipsburg Pistol Club
25 Howard St
Phillipsburg NJ
They are a "members only" club, whose purpose is to promote interest in shooting, sportsmanship, and the safe handling of firearms. They have 8 heated indoor lanes to 50 feet and 14 outdoor lanes to 75 feet and one for shotguns. There is a comfortable lounge and classroom space for training.ُ؛؟ Application for new membership are welcomed
The Chester Game Association
211 Route 206
Chester NJ
A sportsman's club with over 1600 acres of private property in various parts of Northwestern NJ. Members can hunt all the properties during the appropriate, state-established seasons, with the proper equipment, licenses and permits. The CGA also manages over 500 acres for upland hunting with pheasant, quail and partridge released throughout the season. Since this property is classified as semi-wild, the club enjoys extended upland hunting seasons and hunting seven days a week. The public is welcome to shoot trap on our property in Chester Township. There are outdoor tables, chairs, benches, gun racks, shade trees and a parking area. The backdrop of the trap field has trees high behind a grassy layout with paved trap stations going from 16 to 27 yards. The clubhouse has a wood-burning stove to keep shooters warm on cold nights. Shooters are required to bring their own Shotgun, Ammunition, Eye Protection and Ear Protection.
Central NJ Rifle, Pistol, and Trap Shooting Ranges
Central Jersey Rifle and Pistol Club168 South Stump Tavern Rd
Jackson, NJ
Private Club with computer Key card Access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With a huge facility on over 180+ acres, they offer a wide variety of ranges, activities, and organized events, including three outdoor ranges, six multi- purpose ranges, fenced in Archery range and much more. Applications for membership are accepted.
Citizens' Rifle and Revolver Club
Princeton-Hightstown Rd (Route 571)
West Windsor, NJ
An indoor and outdoor shooting area with 6 ranges with programs for Handguns, Rifles, Skeet Shooting and Trap Shooting. They also have archery and Boy Scout Merit Badge programs. They do not rent or sell guns or ammunition. No guns or ammunition are stored at the Club.
The Old Bridge Rifle and Pistol Club
Maple Street off of Route 18
Old Bridge, NJ
Offers an indoor and outdoor range
Operates as a private club however the outdoor competitions are open to the public and there are many types of competitions they sponsor.The Club has monthly scheduled competitions at both ranges. These "Leagues - or Disciplines" are varied and include many different types, or styles of shooting. It encompasses both pistol and rifle and is a wonderful way to improve ones skills and to meet and enjoy of the company of others interesting in the shooting.
Farmers Sportsman's Club
300 Ellis Road,
Milford (Hunterdon County), NJ
A private Memebr Club. Indoor Trapshooting is every Friday Night from February to November.
The range consists of two trap fields. There are two automatic Shooting-Star trap machines with Canterbury Voice Release Systems. The Clubhouse is open for a light dinner at 7:00pm.
Mallard Trap Club
67 Monroe Boulevard
Monroe, NJ
A private club with Memebrship perks.. They are a "Shotgun Only" Club where only competition, target, sporting, hunting type shotguns are permitted/recommended. The Club has two operating regulation automated trap houses with new PAT trap machines, automatic callers, LED Stadium lighting for dusk/evening shooting days. They do not rent firearms or sell ammunition
Applications for membership are welcomed.
Recoil Shooting Range
25 Mott Avenue
Monroe Township, NJ
They offer 15 heated and air-conditioned lanes at 25 yards, each lane features state of the art technology including digital target retrievers.
Their featuire sound dampening throughout the range and shooting booths. They accomodate beginning shooters all the way up to advanced shooters.
Training is available including CCW classes, NRA classes, tactical classes and many more..
They welcome guests 10 years old and up accompanied with a parent/guardian.
Tactical training Center
10A Minneakoning Rd.
Flemington, NJ
They offer several membership levels. The range features
40 yard long firearms ranges and can accommodate a 50 caliber BMG! The 48" wide shooting lanes are outfitted with Mancom's Touch Plus digital target retrieval system, featuring an intuitive touch screen that allows user control over target distance.
Their Gun store offers gun rentals and handguns and long guns sales, and a variety of training with instructors that are either current or retired N.J. police officers possessing Firearms Instructor Certifications.
Southern NJ Rifle, Pistol, and Trap Shooting Ranges
Atlantic County Firearms Training Facility175 Betsy Scull Road
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
The only county run public shooting range in the State of New Jersey. Their range is staffed with a cadre of Instructors and Range Safety Officers certified by the National Rifle Association and/or the New Jersey Police Training Commission, many of whom have years of experience as either military or police firearms instructors.Open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, this facility has a 25 yard, 35 position Pistol Range (lighted) 100 yard Rifle Range 50 yard Archery Range. They offer; Pistol, Rifle, Muzzle loader, Shotgun (limited), Air Pistol/Rifle Shooting, Competition Shooting, "Fun Shoots", IPSC Style Matches, Lady's Day Activities, and annual fun shoots. They also have a variety of training programs with NRA Qualified Instructors and Coaches.
Bob's Little Sport Shop and Indoor Range
316 N Delsea Drive
Glassboro, NJ
An Indoor public pistol shooting range. Open to members and non-members. The nine-lane indoor pistol range is open six days a week.To use Their indoor range you must own your own gun or to rent one of their handguns --- you must have a NJ FID card, be 21 or over.
They also sell firearms and archery equipment with a full range of Handguns, Shotguns, Rifles, and Archery.
Buckshorn Sportsmans Club
209 Hell Neck Rd
Salem, NJ
The club owns 146.5 Acres of wooded land which includes a 42 Target Outdoor Archery Range, and Clubhouse that features a 30 Yard Indoor Archery Range (Equipped with Morrell Target Butts), 10 Meter Indoor Pellet Gun Range (.177 Caliber Rifles or Pistols Welcome), a Kitchen and Restrooms, a 100 Yard Rifle Range & Black Powder Range, 75 Yard Pistol Range and Trap Shooting are some of the other facilities offered by the club.
Delran Junior Marksman Club
North side Taylors Lane
Delran, NJ
GPS:
N40 01.146 - W74 58.806 Degrees
The Delran Junior Marksman Club, in cooperation with the Delran Department of Recreation, is an educational organization whose main purpose is to instruct youth in firearm responsibility, safety, familiarization and marksmanship.
A family oriented outdoor shooting range for pistol, rifle, shotgun, blackpowder, and archery. Membership applications accepted.
Range 129
129 Pleasant Ave
Absecon, NJ
They offer a variety of pistol, rifle, and archery ranges
including 20 indoor pistol lanes at 25 yards, split into 2 bays of 10 each, 9 indoor rifle lanes at 100 yards, and both indoor and ourdoor archery ranges. Their gunshop is a 4,500 sq.ft. showroom with a wide array of shooting firearms for sale. Their training programs feature a variety of instruction from beginners to advanced.
South Jersey Shooting Club
840 Piney Hollow Road
Winslow Township, NJ
They offer family memberships. Thy feature 25, 50, 100 & 300 yard live outdoor firing ranges, Weekly shooting events, and firearms Training by N.R.A. Certified Instructors.
