Shooting ranges in College Station/Bryan TX?
ADvan
Does anyone know of any shooting ranges located in or near the Texas A&M
campus? I have to spend next week there (6/16-6/20) and would appreciate
any info on these ranges (shotgun, rifle or handgun). Thanks
Andrew DeVan
Clay Maugans
Andrew,
there's really 3 places you can go around here.
Arrowhead gun club is located about 20 mins outside town north on
HW 6 (runs both ways you know :) It has rifle and pistol but no shotgun
and costs around $6.50. The rifle range goes out to 100 yds and it's
actually a pretty nice range. I used to go there all the time, but they
started developing a customer-is-the-problem attitude so I don't go much
more these days.
There's a Handgun shooting range located close to town just past the
private airport off of HW 21. It's a pretty decent range. they only go
out to 25 yds so you can shoot .22 rifle and handgun only. They have
action steel set up which is quite fun. Like Arrowhead, they too charge
$6.50 to shoot. They do allow CONTROLLED rapid fire. If you can
keep it all on the paper you can shoot as fast as you want. (Occasionally
there's an ISPC shooter out there who's rather impressive to watch).
As a third option you can go to Sam Houston National Forest which has
some public shooting areas. It's about an hours drive away, so isn't
really
worth it if you're going alone. But it's free and you can do pretty much
what ever you want. It's the only place where you can shoot shotgun.
The range/field goes out about 100+ yds.
There's no benches or target holders though, so bring a cardboard box
and a stapler. Just be sure to clean up after yourself when you're done.
-Clay
p.s. If you're staying on campus itself, you'll need to make arrangements
for
your guns. State law prohibits firearms on campus. (and they do check)
ADvan <AD...@prodigy.net> wrote in article <5nousg$f...@xring.cs.umd.edu>...
# Does anyone know of any shooting ranges located in or near the Texas A&M
# campus? I have to spend next week there (6/16-6/20) and would appreciate
# any info on these ranges (shotgun, rifle or handgun). Thanks
#
# Andrew DeVan
#
#
Edward Smith
In article <5nousg$f...@xring.cs.umd.edu>, AD...@prodigy.net says...
#
#Does anyone know of any shooting ranges located in or near the Texas A&M
#campus? I have to spend next week there (6/16-6/20) and would
appreciate
#any info on these ranges (shotgun, rifle or handgun). Thanks
#
#Andrew DeVan
#
we recommend Wickson creek shooting range, located on highway 21, 4.5
miles east of highway 6, phone 589-1093, area code 409, open to the
public $ 6.50 all day, there are rental guns, and steel targets
-Weisman,M.H.
In article <5nousg$f...@xring.cs.umd.edu>, ADvan <AD...@prodigy.net> wrote:
#Does anyone know of any shooting ranges located in or near the Texas A&M
#campus? I have to spend next week there (6/16-6/20) and would appreciate
#any info on these ranges (shotgun, rifle or handgun). Thanks
#
#Andrew DeVan
#
I don't know Bryan Texas from hunger, but isn't College Station near
Galveston? If so, you can try the municipal range in Texas City.
Texas City is on the mainland near Galveston.