[wizrd]

If you would like to see what goes into building a 'no blue sky' range, Trenton fish & game Club just completed a 200 yard rifle range a while back. A nice slide show of the construction can be found at their web page.

Check it out at Trenton Fish & Game Club

 

[3324]

Helluva job. Any idea what all that cost?

Trenton is a nice club. I shot my first NRA Action Pistol match there many, many years ago.

 

[DrgnFly]

Cool

 

[Embree Smith]

Incredible ...

personally, I would have spent the money on Litigation

 

[cress]

Maybe that is why its $100 to join as a new member.

 

[wizrd]

Helluva job. Any idea what all that cost?

Trenton is a nice club. I shot my first NRA Action Pistol match there many, many years ago.

Cost were in the area of $175,000.00 -- That is with a lot of donated time & equipment, and using steel that was scavenged from a bridge under demolition. REMEMBER - this project was necessary for the club to remain OPEN at all - due to the supposed 'damaging' of downrange property
by errant rifle bullets supposedley coming from the club's range. Be sure of your target & what is beyond.

 

[Embree Smith]

what evidence was produced that showed the Club as the proximate cause of damage ..??

 

[Jeremy]

i don't feel like going into details but they should have never voluntarily shut that range down. They would have won had they taken to court...I heard that there is no possible way with the trajectory of that bullet, that it could have came from that range. It is what it is though.

 

[Embree Smith]

the more troubling issue here, is without litigation, the Town will proceed to further damage the Clubs position
just read the new Zoning proposal

 

[3324]

I haven't been to Trenton since the early-mid '90's. I had no idea they had had this kind of trouble.

And $100 for the first year is not all that bad. A couple clubs around here are more than that. And a club near my nephew in NC has a $600 one-time fee and about $100 a year after that.

I hope the guys who did all that work got lifetime memberships for their efforts. Geez, what a project.