BigDaddy
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- Feb 7, 2014
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You are going to need $2-$10 million of startup for a quality project.
How can that possible work? $10/ 1/2 hour. $15/rental, 10 hours a day x 365 days x # shooting positions.
You can't move into just any building. It's got to be big enough, it may well require a zoning variance, not to mention a sympathetic landlord. The backstop and it's maintenance and lead disposal will be a major expense. The recent attempted suicide at On Target means that insurance isn't going to be cheap, either.
Range time and lessons isn't going to be enough. You will have to be a retailer too. Nothing wrong with that but the dirty word INVENTORY. $$
All the local gun ranges seem to be prospering. It is a business with an extremely high barrier to entry, meaning you are a local monopoly. However, I doubt they started $10 mil in the hole.