Why Your State Fish and Game Agency Needs to Build More Public Shooting Ranges
The surge in gun sales and shooting sports participation in recent years has fueled the need for ever-more places to shoot. Here’s an in-depth look at how state fish-and-game agencies use funds collected from excise taxes paid by gun and ammo buyers to build public shooting ranges.
NRA Reopens Public Range Fund
Established in 2009, the NRA Public Range Fund is a grant matching program that encourages city and county governments, along with state or federal agencies, to work with NRA to build and improve public ranges across the United States.
Shoot Summer Steel for Mid-Range Mastery This Fall
Here are a few drills to do now that will make you confident come fall when that buck of a lifetime is standing 350 yards away and the sun is fading fast.
Join the Hunt: A Good Day at the Range
Taking a new shooter to the range for the first time can be a wonderful experience, if done correctly. Here’s what you should—and shouldn’t—do to ensure range trip No. 2.
Know-How: Shooting Range Fun at Home
If you live in a rural setting that doesn’t include a no-shooting covenant, you may have the makings for a home-based shooting range. Survey your surroundings for safe backstops and consider building your own range that can include options for rifle, handgun and shotgun shooting activities.
Deer in the Long Grass
Pockets of plum hold prairie mule deer and whitetails—a few little ones. For more bucks and big antlers, look in the grass.
Hunter Prep at Gunsite Academy
The famous firearm academy is perhaps best known as a training ground for pistol shooters. But beginners and experts can learn Jeff Cooper’s “Art of the Rifle.”
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