Long Range Locations

[apearson]

What is yout favorite place to shoot? I just got into long range shooting but can't find anywhere to go that is over 100yds and doesnt require a membership. Does anyone have any good BLM locations?

[Hoser]

What is yout favorite place to shoot? I just got into long range shooting but can't find anywhere to go that is over 100yds and doesnt require a membership. Does anyone have any good BLM locations?

Define long range.

[MBsnow]

I have been looking for something like blm to go set up my gongs. Haven't had much luck finding anyplace close to the springs. All that prairie land out east and its all private property. Wish I new someone who would let me shoot my steel. I typically go to Cheyenne mountain shooting complex but it gets boring shooting at the same steel targets all the time. I would be happy with anything out to 800.

[sako55]

The Chafee county range at Buena Vista isnnice. Steel from about 200 to a 1000 and its free. Bit of a drive though.

[BlasterBob]

The NRA Whittington down in Raton has a nice 1,000 yard range. May be quite a drive for some of you guys in the Denver/Springs areas but should be worth the drive to find a range where even .50 BMG's are welcome.

[XC700116]

The NRA Whittington down in Raton has a nice 1,000 yard range. May be quite a drive for some of you guys in the Denver/Springs areas but should be worth the drive to find a range where even .50 BMG's are welcome.

As info the 1K range down there is closed right now for renovation. But the high-power silhouette range is still open and you can run any non-magnum that's not 22 centerfire there.

[BlasterBob]

As info the 1K range down there is closed right now for renovation. But the high-power silhouette range is still open and you can run any non-magnum that's not 22 centerfire there.

XC7, glad you mentioned the 1,000 range being currently closed as I was thinking of heading down there to fire off a few .50 BMG rounds next week.

[XC700116]

XC7, glad you mentioned the 1,000 range being currently closed as I was thinking of heading down there to fire off a few .50 BMG rounds next week.

Looks like they are making some nice enhancements to the range so while short term painful, I think it will be a nice update when it's done.

[Irving]

Membership to the Raton range only costs an annual colonic.

[HoneyBadger]

Frontier Sportsman's Club just south of Colorado Springs has the land and has the firing berm built, but it looks like it is going to be a few more years before the 1k range gets finished. They do have ranges up to 300yds (with dozens of shooting lanes), 100+ pistol lanes, and a 50yd x 50yd and a 50yd by 100yd "informal shooting area" with high berms on 3 sides for whatever you wish to do - great for training.

Here is their website: http://frontiersportsman.org/home/

[BlasterBob]

Membership to the Raton range only costs an annual colonic.

Need some help here. " Colonic" is not in Mr. Webster's big book. What the hell is an annual colonic???

[Hoser]

but it looks like it is going to be a few more years before the 1k range gets finished.

Frontier has been saying that for the past umpteen years. I am a member there but rarely shoot at the south range and do not/will not shoot at the north range.

Hopefully one day they will actually do something. Its only been 10-15 years.

[HoneyBadger]

Frontier has been saying that for the past umpteen years. I am a member there but rarely shoot at the south range and do not/will not shoot at the north range.

Hopefully one day they will actually do something. Its only been 10-15 years.
What's it going to take to make it happen? Do we just need more money or what? Increasing the membership to 1500 should be bringing in a lot more membership money every year.

[Hoser]

What's it going to take to make it happen? Do we just need more money or what? Increasing the membership to 1500 should be bringing in a lot more membership money every year.

I poked, prodded, begged for years. Then gave up.

It takes a lot of $$$ to put up berms at 600 and 1,000 yards. The flooding the past couple years also took a lot of funds to repair. I fear anything past 300 yards will never happen.

The south range is an awesome site, hopefully one day it will be better.

That said, people that shoot past 200-300 yards are maybe 5-10% of the membership. Spending all that money for a huge minority is not going to make the board any fans.

[Irving]

Need some help here. " Colonic" is not in Mr. Webster's big book. What the hell is an annual colonic???

I was trying to refer to New Mexico cops doing anal cavity searches. I didn't come across well. Carry on.

[HoneyBadger]

I poked, prodded, begged for years. Then gave up.

It takes a lot of $$$ to put up berms at 600 and 1,000 yards. The flooding the past couple years also took a lot of funds to repair. I fear anything past 300 yards will never happen.

The south range is an awesome site, hopefully one day it will be better.

That said, people that shoot past 200-300 yards are maybe 5-10% of the membership. Spending all that money for a huge minority is not going to make the board any fans.
Bummer about the lack of progress over the years :( I would think that completing the 1k yd range would attract a ton of new members, but it's a complicated equation and I'm frequently wrong about this sort of thing.

[Colorado Osprey]

Dead thread resurrection-
Went shooting at Cheyenne Mountain Shooting Complex this morning... just like a hundred other folks had the same idea
Most were shooting paper at 100-300 yards and only range 3 was open. At 8am they had almost an hour wait for a table.
At 9:30 they opened range 1 and range 2. My son and I were on range one tagging the grapefruit size steel balls and plate at 619 yards when a cease fire was called as some pronghorn wandered onto the range. I tried poking out to 1000 yards, but man that is FAR!! Took a few rounds to walk them in on the steel plates. Never hit the steel but I was "This close"
Overall a great morning!

[ChickNorris]

I shot a prs match there last December on that range. Great match.

Looking forward to it again this year.