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I think there is a place in bufflo grove, but it is rifle only, I here it's a big giant pit ( summer time only ) with bench rest and the pit is 300 to 400 feet away.
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I believe you must be thinking of Buffalo Rock range in Ottawa. I lived in the Northern part of Illinois for a long time and never heard of any ranges in the area of Buffalo Grove, especially "rifle only" shooting pits which would make no sense at all for a gun range in anti-gun Illinois. I don't think all the shooters I knew and including myself could not know there was a "rifle only" pit in Buffalo Grove or any range for that matter. Unless there was some privately owned range on some farm or something where the owner only let his friends on.
Buffalo Rock had to be the most "free" as far as how the operators treated the shooters as aside from basic safety rules and a restiction of metal and glass targets, they weren't all over your back, didn't tell you what kind of gun you could shoot and didn't check you for any FOID cards. One of the coolest ranges I been to. Almost felt like you were in another state.
I lived in Elgin and the only shooting plinking area I knew of was Buffalo Range. Then you had Sycamore Sportmans Club which you could shoot from benches at 100 yards which was open to the public on certain days. Otherwise all the other ranges were trap/skeet clubs or snotty and expensive sportsman's clubs. The ISRA was all the way down towards Kankakee and too far for me to drive and pay the expensive membership fee.
Bristol Shooting Range was across the border in Wisconsin which has a nice 250 yard range, but has this one round in the rifle at a time rule.
Gun World in Bensenville is a small 75 ft indoor range, but they allow centerfire rifles. No steel tipped ammo allowed such as Wolf, but otherwise was a place to shoot your ARs and stuff during the winter. There is another indoor one too that allowed rifles. Maxons, I think in Des Plaines.