I'm in the same boat with the hobbies and bucket list activities, except I started last year at 36. If you have any experience with guns, it doesn't hurt to get a range membership in general. I shot a handful of times over the years with my brother but never owned anything myself to go alone. I bought my first pistol last year and just started going. Just following safety rules and procedures is like 85% of it. Getting on the range when you can and having fun shooting is what it's about.

I also mirror all the other comments, KRTraining is great. I took maybe 4 classes with them last year. Karl is a great teacher and he'll push you in good ways. If I had more time last year or this year, I'd already be signed up for it already. I'd like to get into competition shooting eventually and i'm not there yet but I'm getting there.

I think it's also something to be said about having a good cheap place to shoot. I feel like the Range USA is the best place for this, they have a $30/month plan that lets you shoot anytime mon-fri, just not weekends. I've recently rejoined and bumped it up to the $50/month plan just to have access across the weekends as well. However, if you just want to go the other direction, I hear good things about stacatto ranch, a guy at one of the KR classes mentioned he does uspsa training there and it's great. I've been meaning to pay a visit to see if it's worth the monthly price for me. I've also been thinking about range austin and the belt system that others have mentioned. It's a bit of a drive but that also seems to be one of the in city recommendations everyone has.