The only place that I'm familiar with is the "south shoot area" outside of Woodland Park. Not sure if that is currently an option, but even if it is I'd like to find someplace closer to the Springs.
Any suggestions would be apprecited ...
Thanks.
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The only place that I'm familiar with is the "south shoot area" outside of Woodland Park. Not sure if that is currently an option, but even if it is I'd like to find someplace closer to the Springs.
Any suggestions would be apprecited ...
Thanks.
A quick search under 'Places to Shoot' section would reveal http://www.ar-15.co/threads/14787-Co...-Map-need-help
Click on the map. Plenty of places in the Pike Nat Forest - take a leisure drive in the weekend - you'll 'hear' the shooting ranges. :)
Well there's Dragonman's out east of town (I don't like shooting there and it's not free but it is open to the public).
There are a few members only places in the area. I'm a member at Frontier which has a range out by Falcon and one down by Fountain. They're cheap ($75/yr with no per-day fees) but there's a waiting list to become a member and membership doesn't open up until February but overall its a nice club.
Up north of town is Ben Lomond Gun club. Don't know anything about them other than what's on their web site.
Pikes Peak Gun Club is apparently a good place for trap and clays (although I believe they have other ranges too) but they're a member's only range.
Whispering Pines is the only indoor range in the area (but it's a member's only place too)
The free range up Rampart Range Road has been closed for a while now (and even if the range hadn't been shut down it would be closed right now because of the Waldo Canyon Fire).
The county is planning on opening a public range as a joint venture with Fort Carson (it's past the end of October and I don't think it's open yet but I don't know).
There really is a dearth of places to shoot around The Springs that are open to the public.
If you do use any of the National Forest "ranges" please. please, pick up after yourself. Some of those areas have become nothing more then a big trash dump now and if that keeps up we are going to lose it all.
Everytime i go up I always bring out every thing I shoot and all my spent brass. I also fill up a garbage bag or bucket full of everybody else's shit that they left laying around. It's really disgusting that people can't pick up after themselves. Some areas literaly have thousands and thousands of empty shotgun shells littering the ground, it looks really bad.
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I can't say enough good things about Ben Lomond Gun Club.
And I can't say enough bad things about Dragonman....
Pikes Peak GC has rifle and pistol ranges too.
PPGC is open to the public too, it's pay per use. Members get a discounted rate according to their website. http://pikespeakgunclub.org/MembershipFees.html
So I'm still wondering ... is the south shoot site (outside of woodland park) still open, or not ?
Since when I go to shoot, I shoot full auto, I mostly wind up at Dragonman's unless some friends and I are up to head out into the national forest.
BLGC has nice facilities, but at 90 minutes drive each way, it's just too far.
PPGC doesn't allow full auto.
Frontier only allows auto at the south site, not the closer (to me) falcon site, and has a waiting list anyway.
The Ft. Carson/El Paso County range was supposed to be done at the end of October, as was stated before, but it isn't done yet, for whatever reason. To locate it, if you are about to enter gate 20, you would turn left (South) just before getting to the security checkpoint. There is a white and red "bar" gate that will be the entrance to the road. It is about 600-700 meters down the road. The idea is that you won't have to enter Ft. Carson to get to the range and thus, won't have to register your firearms on post. I drove by and checked it out the other day and they had just sprayed the green "topsoil-holder-in-place-stuff" all over it.
If by "open," you mean shooting is allowed, then yes, it is open. I was out there in late November and it was the same old same old. If by "open," you mean drivable, I have no idea. Given the weather we've had in the Springs, I'd guess there's 6" of snow or more out there right now. I really have no idea though.
Take a 4wd and thermal socks. You'll be fine.
Read in the paper the other day that they now plan to open the new shooting range south of gate twenty, Jan 23 , 2013. We will see.
Here's the updated article on the Fort Carson/El Paso County range -
County target shooting range nears completion
The new Fort Carson range is great news. It is about time shooters in Colorado had a public facility as good, or better, than the City of Phoenix's Ben Avery range.
Carson Range Homepage:
http://www.elpasoco.com/CMSC/Pages/default.aspx
Cheyenne Mountain Shooting Complex Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/CheyenneMou...omplex?fref=pb
They open 24 Jan after the "ribbon shooting" and will have free shooting from 1:30-4.