The right range for me?

[Metalhed]

$9 to get into the park then have to pay to shoot, then put up with jerk ROs pass

[JackImpact]

Greetings I will jump in here and put in a plug for the club I belong to and am a Board Member of-- Buffalo Creek Gun Club www.bcgc.com

We have a short range 0-100 yards for pistols and sighting in, then we have another range 200 to 600 yards.

We are a High-Power club, shooting Service Rifles, but that does not mean you have to shoot that to join or just shoot with us.

We have openings to join or you can shoot as a recreational shooter.
Joining cost $240 for the first year, along with 2 workbond days and then every year after that is $50 and 2 workbond days. If you just wanted to come up and shoot it is $15 for one person or $20 for a family. We are open 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Located 11 miles south of Bailey. About an hour from the west end of Lakewood to the Range.

PM me with questions

I may have to check this out if some of the leadership is a forum member! Thanks! And Ill check out Golden Gun Club as well!

[n8tive97]

$9 to get into the park then have to pay to shoot, then put up with jerk ROs pass

Dont forget that you have to wait and hope you dont get passed up on the waiting list!

[USMC88-93]

Colorado Rifle Club is an hour east of town north of Byers. While it is a drive to get out there it sounds like the isolated club you are looking for. Its worth a look. (what are you intending to shoot?)

http://crci.org/

[Storm]

Since you've changed your requirements, I'll second Golden Gun Club. I've been a member out there for 6 years and it's a good place to shoot with one of the only 500 yard ranges in the area. No gangbanger types. I've never seen any flagrant rule or safety violations. While they run a tight ship, you are pretty free to shoot as you please unlike Cherry Creek. Membership information is here. Range specifications, images and a google map of the range are here.

An alternative is Clear Creek County Sportsman's Club in Dumont, west of Idaho Springs. The nice thing is they have separate bays so you can be isolated from most of the other shooters on the range. The downside is, I believe that they max range is 100 yds.

There is also Aurora Gun Club, which has a 200 yard rifle range and 7 pistol ranges.

There are a few others in the area, I believe Ben Lomand was mentioned. A place called Lead Valley that I don't know much about (google it they have a website) and Boulder Rifle Club (they have a cap on membership which equates to a 6 to 10 year wait).

Hope This Helps,
Storm

[JackImpact]

Thanks Storm! Your responses are always very thorough haha

I like the look of Golden Gun Club the best. Will have to get a membership after Christmas for 2012. Thanks guys!

[StagLefty]

SUCKS!!!!!!!!!! Too expensive and too many assholes running the place!
Go out to Golden Gun Club in Watkins! Check it out!

$9 to get into the park then have to pay to shoot, then put up with jerk ROs pass

Some of you folks may be interested to know that some of our forum members actually work there !!

[Metalhed]

I will fess up, and explain my comment. A number of years ago, (under the old management) we went out there to shoot and there was a RO in a wheelchair. That dude was a ****. You could not even fart without getting some flack from the dude. He was worse on the pistol side vs the rifle side, but he was everywhere, dispensing his rules.

All it takes is one bad experience and it will taint any future experiences.

If my comment offended someone-- sorry, but I had the experience and that is the filter I will use, until such time as I ever go there again and see something different.

[race4hills]

Im sitting right now at the corner of Adams, Jefferson and Denver County. So the Arvada/Lakeside/Berkley/Wheat Ridge area.

Im looking to join a range, thats not gonna be filled with a bunch of gangbanger idiots waving guns around to impress their girlfriends, but also is not 10 hours away and does not cost 300 dollars a year to be a part of.

Does anyone know of the right range for me?

Thanks guys!

You must live very close! If I go out of my backyard, I leave Denver and go into Jeffco, but will have wet feet though.

So when was the change of mangement at Golden Gun Club? Last time I shot there was about 25 years ago, did some trap no problems for me. Some years ago my boss and his father shot a sight in day there and said they would never go back. That is the big reason I havn't thought about join there. I too have been looking for a range to shoot rifles and Golden might get on my map now.

[USMC88-93]

Some of you folks may be interested to know that some of our forum members actually work there !!

I may have taken your comment to mean "some members work there so don't bad mouth your experience" as a result the following comment. If not meant that way I apologize in advance.

Completely irreverent to the conversation though good to know, If an experience anywhere elicits a poor impression information about it is just as welcome as a positive experience. In a word the range nazi idiocy of Cherry Creek in particular while necessary for some of the less experienced crowd should not be hap haphazardly thrown around in a one size fits all sort of way. It is not worth the price of admission, and while some are friendly and jovial the general atmosphere and lack of facilities sucks.