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Kirk
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Aug 07, 2014

Shooting range near Hot Springs, SD

We are campground hosts in a park near Hot Springs, SD for the summer and have been visiting with some folks who live here about RV volunteers. They are members of a shooting club who operate a range that is a few miles out of Hot Springs and are seeking information about what they need to do in order to attract RV volunteers to spend time at their range. If you might be interested in doing something of this sort in the future, you can help the folks a lot by contacting them and letting them know what you would need in order to be willing to stay at the range. I will post the information for the club below.
Sec. Owen Meadows wrote:
Shooting Complex. We as a club partnered with the Wildlife Div. of the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department. They spent a considerable amount of money in the construction of the range and we provided labor and other facilities. The club wanted to monitor the range on the five public days (Wed. - Sun.) to lesson any misuse the of range. Mon. and Tues. are member only days. The range is open 9 a.m. - one hour before sunset every day.
As can be suspected, it is more difficult as time goes by to fill those five days a week when the range is open to anyone. (our first day was Oct. 25, 2013)
At this time we do not have power or water.
What we do offer is.
A beautiful setting
No congestion as in camp grounds (no other units would be present)
Opportunity to shoot every day.
Cover expenses for generator operation and dumping fees.

Kirk, you may pass on my e mail address and cell # 605 890 0181
The club web site is fallrivergunclub.org

Thank you very much. Hope to meet you soon.

Sec. Owen Meadows
  • If you could provide their email address it might be easier to contact them.

    I think it would be tough to get any one wanting to volunteer long-term there w/out water or electricity. Even the reimbursement for dump and generator usage doesn't seem like much to offer unless you are already in that area and just REALLY, REALLY, love to spend time at a range all the time (and I enjoy shooting sports and the outdoors).

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