templar223
Plinker
- Jul 20, 2010
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The DeWitt Co. Sportsmen's Club is located 6 miles east of the Clinton, IL city limit on Rt. 10.
The facility has two ranges - one is a 100 yard rifle range (soon to be the "pistol" line) and a second range which is currently available out to about 50 yards and will soon be the new 100+ yard rifle line. It's 40 yards wide!
I'm not posting a photo of the entrance for security reasons (problems with unauthorized people entering and/or driving around the gated area), but I will post a photo I took very recently near the entrance, showing the sign and Old Glory at the entrance.
Parking will handle about 40 vehicles without parking on the grass, but there's plenty of extra space on the grass for cars. We had about 120 people show up this spring for a Disaster Preparedness Expo at this club and there was abundant parking left over (but we weren't shooting that day).
Dues are $50 per year and they (actually "we" as I'm on the board of directors) have about 15 memberships available (capped at 200 now). Two work days are required but we're pretty easy going on satisfying those. A half-day working there counts as a work day. Each un-worked work day is $25 before you can renew the following year.
What did I shoot/bring to shoot?
I brought a gaggle of instructors with GSL Defense Training along with 19 students on Saturday and 21 on Sunday (two carry-overs from our previous class) for GSL Defense Training's NRA Personal Protection in the Home course.
Guns ranged the gamut from a Hi-Point to Glocks to a GP-100. Horsed around with a 7.62x51 Springfield M1A carbine as well, along with a Mossberg 590 shotgun used for the "comparison" of handgun vs. shotgun energy demonstration.
Photos? Oh yeah. We got photos.
Entrance first:
The facility has two ranges - one is a 100 yard rifle range (soon to be the "pistol" line) and a second range which is currently available out to about 50 yards and will soon be the new 100+ yard rifle line. It's 40 yards wide!
I'm not posting a photo of the entrance for security reasons (problems with unauthorized people entering and/or driving around the gated area), but I will post a photo I took very recently near the entrance, showing the sign and Old Glory at the entrance.
Parking will handle about 40 vehicles without parking on the grass, but there's plenty of extra space on the grass for cars. We had about 120 people show up this spring for a Disaster Preparedness Expo at this club and there was abundant parking left over (but we weren't shooting that day).
Dues are $50 per year and they (actually "we" as I'm on the board of directors) have about 15 memberships available (capped at 200 now). Two work days are required but we're pretty easy going on satisfying those. A half-day working there counts as a work day. Each un-worked work day is $25 before you can renew the following year.
What did I shoot/bring to shoot?
I brought a gaggle of instructors with GSL Defense Training along with 19 students on Saturday and 21 on Sunday (two carry-overs from our previous class) for GSL Defense Training's NRA Personal Protection in the Home course.
Guns ranged the gamut from a Hi-Point to Glocks to a GP-100. Horsed around with a 7.62x51 Springfield M1A carbine as well, along with a Mossberg 590 shotgun used for the "comparison" of handgun vs. shotgun energy demonstration.
Photos? Oh yeah. We got photos.
Entrance first:
