Ranging is a great skill since you can attack enemies from a distance, and not have to pay as much as you would if you became a mage. Mages do have a wider variety of attacks and more attacks since the massive amount of money they have to dish out. If you are a member, you can get Ava’s accumulator to get any steel arrows you drop automatically. If you are not a member, you can still walk and get the arrows you used, conserving money. Also, the strong range armour and weapons are much cheaper than what you would have to pay if you were a mage. Karil’s set is only 800k and full black dragonhide is only 55k. Magic bows can be bought for a few thousand. If you want to become powerful while keeping your money in tact, ranging is for you.

1-30
I would start off in the Varrock sewers. There are lots of sewer water creating divisions, so the enemy you are attacking can not fight back. I would start out with the most common enemy, rats. Level 1 rats are incapable of giving damage, so you can just stand in front of them and attack. Once you are a bit stronger, you can attack giant rats behind streams of sewer water. Once you enter the Varrock sewers, there is a stream to the direct left. After you are done, just walk a few seconds around the water and collect your arrows. This should be your main training for a bit.

If you wander down the west most path, you will come across a stream of water and zombies on the other side. Pound away at them with your arrows after you are 15 range, or so. The problem is, you probably won’t get back your arrows, this way. It is a good idea to use cheap arrows on the zombies.

Another place to fight is on the outside of pens or gates. There is a very good training area at lumbridge for low levels. Just go a little north of lumby and a chicken pen awaits you. Collect the feathers to trade in for a little money. Also, get the raw chicken and cook it to eat, if you get hurt somehow. You probably won’t since you are at the outside of a pen. Just across from the chicken pen is the cow pen. You can range cows and grab the leather they drop and sell that off for 100 each. The crafting guild is caged in. Attack the monsters inside while standing outside of the gate. You can’t get your arrows back unless you can go in.

30-40
Bars. Bars. Bars. My motto is if there is a bar there is a way. xD Anyway, at this point, you should find some bars to train in. Let the enemy be on one side of the table/counter/etc. and you on the other side. Kill your opponent, and go to the other side of the table to collect the spoils and your arrows. Also, the barbarian village bar is a good place at this level range.

40-60
I guess you can go around training in the Wizard Tower. It may be for wizards, but you can just beat the in there anyway. Just plow your way through anything in that tower to get a lot of experience.

You should now fight ice giants and moss giants. Try to hide behind anything you can and just fire away.

60-80
Well, you can fight on lesser demons in Karajma, and if you are a member, you can fight fire giants. You can beat most things in the game. If you still want to, you may even try to plow through black knight’s fortress right next to the ice mountain.

80+
Just beat any dragons you feel like. The blue dragons in Tavelry work especially well, but when you are in the 90s, you can even move to the infamous black dragons. Just beat down some dragons to get good drops and good experience.

Note: When training, use the rapid fire option. This gives you experience the fastest. Also, I prefer a shortbow because they fire faster. Always have the highest bow/range weapons you can wield. Also, wear the best range armour you can get because they are cheap. I like keeping dragonhide as they have as they serve as great armour, but are cheap. Arrows can get expensive, so try to use not much more than steel arrows, if you need to. If you are fighting something powerful, then you can switch to higher arrows.