Before I babble on like a desperado to unite with like-minded Shooters and share my shooting experience, I would like to clarify that my intention of this post is to find a shooting range in Lucknow
I picked up my first firearm when i was in 4rth Standard. Twaz an air pistol (obviously borrowed) which gave the look of a country-made firearm commonly seen in d-grade soap operas
. The Shooter instinct was inculcated into me by the taunts of Hillbillies who were pretty good at scaring Monkeys with that contraption. Being provoked I started practicing for hours with box full of pellets after school and In no time i was "Billy the kid" of the colony breaking match-sticks, needles and also used to squash flies in one shot. i joined a local 50 mts target rifle range at Allahabad in 1993.I was hardly 8 years old by that time. What i loved about that range was that we used to get 0.22 caliber greasy indian ord bullets for 1 rupee each and czek made 0.22 rifle to experiment upon. The rifle was in real bad shape and the error-correction for its sight used to baffle the target even. Got accustomed with it soon as we used to buy almost two white boxes everytime (100 bullets). Rarely a Politician used to show up there who had a magnificent 9 shot Lemat or H & R revolver (Vaguely do i remember the make). I used to take a couple of shots with it and still fancy its accuracy. Later i tried my hand at Webley, S & W, Colts, Remington, Beretta, sports level anschutz, feinwerkbau etc.
The dream ended and my Dad got transferred to Varanasi and i was left Vagabond for 6 years before i joined the District Rifle Club at Varanasi. There again I was left to survive on grossly raped 0.22 caliber czek
bitches to get accustomed with. In no-time again i was kicking some ass there and stood third at inter-state competition held at bareilly (2001, open sight 50 mts) without any sports gear (jacket, support, blinders, etc). The Rat-race for Education ate up the years of my life till i rediscovered myself at Las Vegas, Nevada in 2008.
The Shooting Range was open for tourists and hell there was some real Bad-ass action. I could feel the Adrenaline gushing through my veins when i tried my hand at Firearms which are prohibited in India. 
..... Man I miss that music of bullet cases falling on ground and sniffing on the gun smoke.. I spent a part of my Life in it
I put up at Lucknow now and find people give that alien look when i talk about rifle club..Sup I wanna join the birds with similar feathers and start some serious shooting again...Gotta reload myself....
In fact Those 0.22 czek rifles are superb but @ Alld and Vns clubs they were subjected to all pretentious novices. They screwed up the rear sight with a screwdriver so much that it was almost in a free-floating form. At times they stubbed out their smoking pot on front sight sooting it to avoid errors due to light-reflection. 
That time I was in school sup couldn't buy personal stuff.
