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Great Shooting Range Near Bailey, Please Come check it out
Open house at the Buffalo Creek Gun Club/ Camp Fickes shooting range May 7 and 8
for Location check out web site
http://www.bcgc.com/ (http://www.bcgc.com/)
jerrymrc
03-23-2011, 14:59
Great Shooting Range Near Bailey, Please Come check it out
Open house at the Buffalo Creek Gun Club/ Camp Fickes shooting range May 7 and 8
for Location check out web site
http://www.bcgc.com/ (http://www.bcgc.com/)
Used to be a great place. I was a member for 10 years.
ghettodub
03-23-2011, 15:21
Used to be a great place. I was a member for 10 years.
Used to be? What's changed?
Used to be? What's changed?
second?
i shoot there often for high power matches its not the best range, but it has pits and its not that bad in my opinion i have seen worse!
just wondering your input it is out in the middle of no where!
jerrymrc
03-26-2011, 11:26
Here goes. BCGC used to be a private club for 35 years or so. Land was leased from the FS and all was well with the world. around 2001 the FS wanted to shut us down by claiming that we needed to have a lead removal program and other issues. Many rounds with lawyers and such and the fact that the Army had started it first we thought it had settled down.
Then came the notice that they had been undercharging us all these years and wanted a stupid amount for the lease of the land. The FS then started shutting down public areas to shoot claiming that people could go to BCGC.
In the end the FS made BCGC become a concessionaire by raising the lease that we had no other choice. This meant that we could pay like $5000 and be open to the public or pay like $40k and be private. The member fee used to be reasonable.
One of the biggest things that happened once BCGC came under the thumb of the FS is that there was no camping anymore. For most people it is not just a 30 min drive to get there and many of us would camp for a few days at a time.
I was a big promoter of the club for many years spending my own $$ to set up and run the table at the CS shows. I used to run it with Ray until he no longer could make the trip in the 2000's and then I did it alone.
I will say it still is the most beautiful range in the land but the FS took away one of it's most endearing qualities. For many years that was my place to go and unwind. I would spend 3-5 days at a time there shooting, hiking and just relaxing and that is all gone now. That is why I say it used to be a great club to belong to.[Flower]
Don't blame you i would leave too! i just go there for high power matches that about it! i herd about that whole issue with the FS from some still current members but not the whole story. i have camped there for some large matches that they said it was ok, but you can't have any open fires or anything which makes it camping in my opinion! plus the match fee i guess goes towards that so really it's not free.
coop
jerrymrc
03-28-2011, 16:36
Don't blame you i would leave too! i just go there for high power matches that about it! i herd about that whole issue with the FS from some still current members but not the whole story. i have camped there for some large matches that they said it was ok, but you can't have any open fires or anything which makes it camping in my opinion! plus the match fee i guess goes towards that so really it's not free.
coop
As a range it is a nice HP one and we always shot pistol/shotgun on the berm. I still believe that the biggest selling point I always made was this.
For $75 a year one could have there own private campground in the middle of the Pike NF right next to the Colorado trail. Just off the property was an underground spring that ran year round. I used to see 1-2 members during a 5 day week as we only had 175 back then.
I always dry camped with solar and used to take the grand kids up there. It was always great to go hiking and go over the rock and quartz formations. Member Splogan and I even went up and spent a night in the cabin during the winter one time. The range always burnt off but you did need a good 4X4 to get there.
The good old days.
As a range it is a nice HP one and we always shot pistol/shotgun on the berm. I still believe that the biggest selling point I always made was this.
For $75 a year one could have there own private campground in the middle of the Pike NF right next to the Colorado trail. Just off the property was an underground spring that ran year round. I used to see 1-2 members during a 5 day week as we only had 175 back then.
I always dry camped with solar and used to take the grand kids up there. It was always great to go hiking and go over the rock and quartz formations. Member Splogan and I even went up and spent a night in the cabin during the winter one time. The range always burnt off but you did need a good 4X4 to get there.
The good old days.
yeah for the pasted two years i been going up there for the July 4th match and camping in a tent and all the other rifle matches for that matter.
i would say anyone looking for a cool range to go to and shoot a few matches and such might want to look into it! not to many 600 yard or longer ranges in Colorado with Pits.
here is on picture i could find of me shooting on July 4th weekend last year!
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o93/coopoloop68/Bailey.jpg
Do you know that they have newer area with 100yds, 50yds, and I think the last is a 25yds range besides the old 600yds army range.
Do you know that they have newer area with 100yds, 50yds, and I think the last is a 25yds range besides the old 600yds army range.
yes i do recall, as your drive in it is on the right side! i shoot a pistol EIC match using the 50 yard/100 yard ranges last year.
should of stated for others to know its not just for people who shoot long range also has other ranges and firing points to just do some basic plinking when not needing pits or longer firing points. my apologizes!
coop
Metalhed
04-09-2011, 17:29
Yes we do have dedicated Short Range.
We have shooting position from 0 to 100 yards.
I would encourage everyone to check out the web site for Buffalo Creek.
www.bcgc.com (http://www.bcgc.com)
Memebership for the First Year is $240 and 2 work days
each year after that is $50 and 2 work day
A better more beautiful setting can not be found
Who is coming up this weekend?
So how many of you from this web site made it to the open house?
I made it to day 1 and had some fun.
SuperiorDG
05-11-2011, 14:54
I was there Sunday morning and had a good time.
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