force index range scan vs index full scan through hints?

We have a table that gets created on the fly and quickly accumulates 100's of millions of rows before statistics are collected. Never mind why the table has no statistics (it's a (longish) story). As the table accumulates data, another process hits it with a piece of SQL that has a variable number of predicates of the from "id between :id1 and :id2 OR id between :id2 and id3 OR...". We have an index to support that SQL. Oracle initially chooses to full scan that index instead of range scan it until statistics are collected. Full scan performance is unacceptable. Is there a way to force the index range scan version? We can't use baselines (another story).

We've tried INDEX_RS and INDEX_RS_ASC after observing INDEX hint doesn't get us what we want since index is already being used. INDEX_RS and INDEX_RS_ASC aren't in official documentation so I'm not even sure they are valid hints.

As I write this, it occurs to me that dynamic sampling might help here and will try that but that obviously comes with some overhead. Any other options?

Thanks for any insight.

chris