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[Aloha_Shooter]

How many kids are you talking about taking through this? What age range?

You should contact Ben Lomand Gun Club they have a youth shooting area with a classroom right next door.

Yeah, I may be able to help with instruction if you can arrange to have it at BLGC or Frontier. I would think the ammo situation ought to be squared away by next spring -- really no reason for it to be so nuts anymore with all manufacturers going at maximum effort. Are you thinking about the official NRA course or just something similar but without the materials?

[tmjohnson]

Maybe chamber of commerce would let you use Graneros canyon area

[Holger Danske]

pm me. I can hook you up with El Paso county 4H Shooting Sports leadership. We have a portable in door archery range and plenty of bows and have set up at schools before. I'm not sure about 22 and air rifle on school property but I can get your info to the right folks.

[Holger Danske]

Just saw you teach in Rye. Is that Pueblo county? If so, then I know the 4H extension agent and could give her a call to see what they have for shooting sports.

[BigBear]

Just saw you teach in Rye. Is that Pueblo county? If so, then I know the 4H extension agent and could give her a call to see what they have for shooting sports.

Yes, pueblo county.

How many kids are you talking about taking through this? What age range?



Yeah, I may be able to help with instruction if you can arrange to have it at BLGC or Frontier. I would think the ammo situation ought to be squared away by next spring -- really no reason for it to be so nuts anymore with all manufacturers going at maximum effort. Are you thinking about the official NRA course or just something similar but without the materials?

Number of kids is unknown at this time as a lot of it depends on number of volunteers, etc. there would be about 120 going through it, but split up into smaller groups. Age range is middle school, 6-8 grade, 11-14ish year olds.


and everything would be on school grounds. Already have approval for .22lr rifles with proper supervision. We can use the football field for archery... There are some fields with natural backstops for the .22

[esaabye]

Ask the Appleseed folks for rifle help, it is what they are all about.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Well, Rye's a bit of a reach for me but I would guess you'd want to split them up so half are doing archery, half are doing rifle at any given time with mornings for "classwork" time and afternoons for shooting -- or maybe split it up hour-by-hour if you don't lose too much time transitioning from class to range.

Assuming 60 kids per session, I'd advise 8 instructors and a chief RSO on the line -- remember you need an RSO as rangemaster for each range if you split up into different fields. I'd figure on spending the first hour with each group doing the safety talks -- you can probably do this in the auditorium but it'd be better to split them up into classroom sizes because a lot of people just don't pay attention when the group is too big and you definitely want them to get the safety talks.

Don't forget USAS or CMP -- you may be able to work out getting ammunition subsidized for an event like this.