Long Range Locations

[Irving]

Need some help here. " Colonic" is not in Mr. Webster's big book. What the hell is an annual colonic???

I was trying to refer to New Mexico cops doing anal cavity searches. I didn't come across well. Carry on.

[HoneyBadger]

Frontier Sportsman's Club just south of Colorado Springs has the land and has the firing berm built, but it looks like it is going to be a few more years before the 1k range gets finished. They do have ranges up to 300yds (with dozens of shooting lanes), 100+ pistol lanes, and a 50yd x 50yd and a 50yd by 100yd "informal shooting area" with high berms on 3 sides for whatever you wish to do - great for training.

Here is their website: http://frontiersportsman.org/home/

[Hoser]

but it looks like it is going to be a few more years before the 1k range gets finished.

Frontier has been saying that for the past umpteen years. I am a member there but rarely shoot at the south range and do not/will not shoot at the north range.

Hopefully one day they will actually do something. Its only been 10-15 years.

[HoneyBadger]

Frontier has been saying that for the past umpteen years. I am a member there but rarely shoot at the south range and do not/will not shoot at the north range.

Hopefully one day they will actually do something. Its only been 10-15 years.

What's it going to take to make it happen? Do we just need more money or what? Increasing the membership to 1500 should be bringing in a lot more membership money every year.

[Hoser]

What's it going to take to make it happen? Do we just need more money or what? Increasing the membership to 1500 should be bringing in a lot more membership money every year.

I poked, prodded, begged for years. Then gave up.

It takes a lot of $$$ to put up berms at 600 and 1,000 yards. The flooding the past couple years also took a lot of funds to repair. I fear anything past 300 yards will never happen.

The south range is an awesome site, hopefully one day it will be better.

That said, people that shoot past 200-300 yards are maybe 5-10% of the membership. Spending all that money for a huge minority is not going to make the board any fans.

[HoneyBadger]

I poked, prodded, begged for years. Then gave up.

It takes a lot of $$$ to put up berms at 600 and 1,000 yards. The flooding the past couple years also took a lot of funds to repair. I fear anything past 300 yards will never happen.

The south range is an awesome site, hopefully one day it will be better.

That said, people that shoot past 200-300 yards are maybe 5-10% of the membership. Spending all that money for a huge minority is not going to make the board any fans.

Bummer about the lack of progress over the years I would think that completing the 1k yd range would attract a ton of new members, but it's a complicated equation and I'm frequently wrong about this sort of thing.

[Colorado Osprey]

Dead thread resurrection-
Went shooting at Cheyenne Mountain Shooting Complex this morning... just like a hundred other folks had the same idea
Most were shooting paper at 100-300 yards and only range 3 was open. At 8am they had almost an hour wait for a table.
At 9:30 they opened range 1 and range 2. My son and I were on range one tagging the grapefruit size steel balls and plate at 619 yards when a cease fire was called as some pronghorn wandered onto the range. I tried poking out to 1000 yards, but man that is FAR!! Took a few rounds to walk them in on the steel plates. Never hit the steel but I was "This close"
Overall a great morning!

[ChickNorris]

I shot a prs match there last December on that range. Great match.

Looking forward to it again this year.