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Places to shoot near Colo Springs ?
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.
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I don't think they have done anything with that yet? I was in and out of gate 20 today (where the site is supposed to be) and saw the sign that said "Future home of shooting range". Didn't look like anything has been done yet?Originally Posted by Zundfolge
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When the armory on carson was doing their safety/gun registration day thing they were still on the old small arms ranges and they didn't mention when the new one would actually open.
Ugghhh ... I was looking for that forum, but didn't see it. Must have kept scrolling right past it.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.
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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They have moved a bunch of dirt and it looks like most of the heavy lifting stuff is done.
I am guessing all that is left is some buildings, parking areas and backstop work. Being a govt project, I am betting 3-5 more years...
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