As most here may know, I spent a good deal of my life as a small arms instructor for the Air Force. While I never got into hunting much, I do love shooting. My problem has been finding a place to shoot. These days in Colorado, nearly every scrap of land is owned by somebody and the available places to shoot are few and far between. Even when you find a place, its either insanely expensive, and/or packed to the gills with every arm chair wanna-be soldier under the Sun. Most of which have little to no weapons safety training, niether formal nor informal.
However, up near our place in Torrington WY, I've found the Goshen County Sportsmans Club, and I got a chance to go out there this weekend to do some shooting. The price to join was only $65 for the whole family for the year, granted, in my case the family is just me and Jo, but still it's a great deal.
Sporting Clays,
18 Trap and skeet ranges,
An archery range,
A rifle range with target lines every 50 yards out to 300 yards.
2 25 yard open bay pistol ranges.
And a 25 yard small bore rifle range for teaching the kids, Boy Scouts, and other groups.
I had a new rifle barrel to break in and did some shooting on the rifle range, but there are no targets or frames for the other ranges. So I dropped about $5 on some 1X2 Furring Strips and got some free card board and used some 2X4 cutoffs I had laying around and built a pair of target frams, one shown in the background here:
