Stuff for Scouts to do in Loveland / Greeley

[JohnnyEgo]

Eagle Scout and former Assistant Scoutmaster in Florida. I'll join the stick-in-the-mud crowd and say too much work, too little time, and too much risk to accommodate a shoot. It would be one thing for a group of boys who were close friends and also scouts. It is another thing entirely for a scout troop under the guise of a scouting related trip. Whatever you may know about one boy's family, you don't know about all of them. And even if nothing goes wrong, kids being kids and bragging to other kids, it's very easy to be sanctioned by the organization for these sorts of well intentioned activities. Nothing sucks more than getting kicked out of a troop or losing a good Scout Master over an hour's range time with fun but not Scouting approved firearms.

Nebraska, from what I remember of it, is mostly flat. Take them out to Devil's Backbone, the Horsetooth Reservoir, or other outdoor functions, and let them run around like the idiot pre-teens and teens they are, until they are exhausted and the parental supervision can get a decent night's sleep. If you feel compelled to do indoor activities due to the heat or weather, take them to that laser tag place in Loveland and let them pretend to shoot one another.