I looked for a place to shoot rifle and pistol and found Cherry Creek Family Shooting on the national shooting sports foundation's website. I went there, paid the $9 park-fee, paid $15.50 for the range, then began the wait. They told me it would be about 15min to get on either the rifle or pistol range, but I guess I got unlucky and had to wait over 45min.

The rifle range came first, and you wait until a ceasefire (every 30min) until they have you protocol-uncase your rifle on the bench. Very strict, but that's what safety demands with the general public, I suppose. I must say that every single RO was courteous and patient with me. One of the RO's really went out of his way to help me either trouble-shoot my ACR (the little rubber o-ring was keeping the bolt-pin from going all the way into the BCG-block, which prevented the BCG from going into the upper receiver.. quite a bit embarrassing as I've never had that happen before), to letting me borrow a front-site-tool to help me zero the rifle.

The strictness and the rigid staticness of the range makes it that I wouldn't really go back unless I had to zero a rifle. You can't keep a pistol holstered (concrete floors, they reasoned; fair enough). Every cease-fire they remind people that only 1-shot per second is allowed, and the rifle section is basically a small hole in the wall that requires you to sit on a bench-seat at an angle. Which means no prone, and no standing. Off-handed while sitting is awkward because of the construction of the "bench". The ranges for rifle were 50 and 100 yds, nothing inbetween or before. For pistol, it seemed to be about 15 yards? At least with those, the bench was open so you could either sit or stand.

Clean facility, the price wasn't too bad, the wait-times were not a nightmare but it sure wasn't fun, either (then again it was a sunday, I bet this was typical of any public range). I found the staff to be very agreeable (just doing their jobs) but maybe they were in a good mood that day with fewer than average idiots to piss them off. They were all over the place and I really didn't see any instances of people muzzling each other (and at other ranges I've had guns pointed at me as people try to rack the slide, holding the pistol against their hip with one hand for leverage) . I'll try another place before I go back, simply because all you can do is point at one or two distances and pull the trigger once.

Oh yeah, and it was very family friendly. I'd say it was 65% men 35% females and many kids inbetween.