SA Friday
06-11-2009, 10:17
I appologize, I should have posted this sooner, but I'm a dumb ass...
Ben Lomand Gun Club will be having their annual Open House this Saturdy, 13 Jun 09. It's an opportunity for everyone to come out and chech the facilities out, use the facilities, and find out all the different shooting clubs that utilize the BLGC as their home.
I'm a member, and a board member of the USPSA club at BLGC, High Plains Practical Shooters. I'll be out there with a few others of my ilk. We will have a basic USPSA stage set up for people to shoot. We can make pretty much any pistol work, but a semi 9mm to 45 cal or revolver 38 to 45 cal (no magnums) will pretty much work. A box of ammo, three mags, mag pouches and a decent holster and you are off to the races. We used to bring loaner guns out with us, but with the ammo/primer shortages this isn't possible this year.
There is also typically reps from the other clubs for black powder rifle shooting, cowboy shooting, and sporting clays at the event. If one of these areas is more your cup of tea, bring your gear and do it. If you just want to shoot some guns at a kick ass range, well, we have 11 berms of which two are set up for 100 yd rifle of any caliber. The other nine are set up for pistol. There is also a 25 to 600yd range, covered, any caliber up to 50 bmg. There is a .22lr silhouette range and a sporting clays range.
I have been shooting competitively off and on since I was 11yo in multiple diciplines. I've been to a ton of ranges across the US, and very very few rank as high on my list as BLGC. The facilities are huge, there are no neighbors to bitch about anything, and the place is just ran correctly. The Range Officers for the facilities are all regular shooters, and not a bunch of trumped up retirees looking for something to power-trip over (seen this pretty regularly across the US). Very little hassle out there as long as one doesn't do anything that qualifies as stupid. It also one of the few ranges that doesn't have a waiting list for membership. That's right, no waiting list. Aurora Gun Club's waiting list is 12 years (and a testicle) last I heard. Clear Creek up in Dumont also has a waiting list, and I think so does Pueblo West but I could be misinformed on that one. Trust me, the drive is worth it.
Ben Lomand Gun Club will be having their annual Open House this Saturdy, 13 Jun 09. It's an opportunity for everyone to come out and chech the facilities out, use the facilities, and find out all the different shooting clubs that utilize the BLGC as their home.
I'm a member, and a board member of the USPSA club at BLGC, High Plains Practical Shooters. I'll be out there with a few others of my ilk. We will have a basic USPSA stage set up for people to shoot. We can make pretty much any pistol work, but a semi 9mm to 45 cal or revolver 38 to 45 cal (no magnums) will pretty much work. A box of ammo, three mags, mag pouches and a decent holster and you are off to the races. We used to bring loaner guns out with us, but with the ammo/primer shortages this isn't possible this year.
There is also typically reps from the other clubs for black powder rifle shooting, cowboy shooting, and sporting clays at the event. If one of these areas is more your cup of tea, bring your gear and do it. If you just want to shoot some guns at a kick ass range, well, we have 11 berms of which two are set up for 100 yd rifle of any caliber. The other nine are set up for pistol. There is also a 25 to 600yd range, covered, any caliber up to 50 bmg. There is a .22lr silhouette range and a sporting clays range.
I have been shooting competitively off and on since I was 11yo in multiple diciplines. I've been to a ton of ranges across the US, and very very few rank as high on my list as BLGC. The facilities are huge, there are no neighbors to bitch about anything, and the place is just ran correctly. The Range Officers for the facilities are all regular shooters, and not a bunch of trumped up retirees looking for something to power-trip over (seen this pretty regularly across the US). Very little hassle out there as long as one doesn't do anything that qualifies as stupid. It also one of the few ranges that doesn't have a waiting list for membership. That's right, no waiting list. Aurora Gun Club's waiting list is 12 years (and a testicle) last I heard. Clear Creek up in Dumont also has a waiting list, and I think so does Pueblo West but I could be misinformed on that one. Trust me, the drive is worth it.