Shooting Sports

The Sprague family is proud to offer Yuma shooters a clean, comfortable safe place to shoot, train and educate. The range facility is dedicated to the memory of George W. Sprague, a diehard shooter, competitor and gun enthusiast... and a great father, mentor and shooting coach to many of us. He would have loved this place.

If you are a young man or woman ages 9-15 who is enrolled in school and would like to get into the Scholastic Clay Target shooting program for shooting shotguns, call head coach H. McNutt at 580-2241. A great program for young people! Check this column next week for a report on one of the Young Guns members who is working very hard toward earning a spot on the USA Junior National Olympic Team with his ultimate goal to represent the United States in the Olympics in international skeet.

Their main interest and motivation is to shoot both high-power rifles and pistols in competition and to carry on the tradition of marksmanship skills dedicated to the upcoming generation of shooters. They have a dedicated Junior Marksmanship program for anyone from the ages of 14 through 20 years old. We provide all equipment, training, and event fees for youth shooters, with funds generated by the club. All adult members pay for an annual membership and pay for all competitive matches they participate in. They hold rifle competitions, both long-range and accross the course. They also have a Vintage Rifle Match held at the 200 yard line every month as well. For more information on joining please contact Jerry Brooker at 858-349-1311 or email brookergerald@att.net.

If you are a youngster or a parent of one who belongs to a 4-H club (or interested in belonging to a group) and interested in the shooting sports, call Stanley Gourley at 344-0740 or the 4-H Extension Office at 726-3904.

Archers of all ages are welcome to shoot the trail of 3D animals at the Foothills Archery Range at 8 a.m. Sundays with adult fees $3, youngsters always free. If you are interested in learning to shoot as well as learning safety procedures in shooting archery, call Jean Wilson at 247-4450 or Kevin Wilson at 726-0953 with questions and directions to the range. We’ll spend some time after shooting this Sunday on a painting party to rejuvenate some of our javelina – we’d be happy to have help with that. Call prior to Sundays to make arrangements for equipment use, also free.

Open trap and skeet 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Adair Range.

Keep practicing 1st and 3rd Saturdays at Adair Park black powder range to be ready for the future rendezvous. There will be free primitive and tin teepee camping with traders welcome with no fee for trader’s row. Shooting events include: rifle paper and gong, trade gun gong and paper, pistol gong and paper, knife and hawk with the fort shoot held at 10 a.m. that Sunday. Side matches $1 fee with 100 percent payback (running buffalo and payback target). Shooting fees are adults $20, family $30 plus a blanket prize per shooter worth $10 or more. The range will open at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. All firing will be completed by 5 p.m. Saturday except for Sunday’s fort shoot. Call Jack Moore at 503-6118 or Glenda Graves at 502-0736 for information.

Begin the week at the Adair Park metallic silhouette range for the Schutzen .22 rifle match at the black powder range at 9 a.m. Tuesday, at the silhouette range at 9 a.m. Wednesday for the informal get-together for fun and plinking off the bench or standing in order to practice your shooting skills, test your ammo for the gun you want to shoot 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 11 am. to 3 p.m. for BPCR or vintage military rifle and cowboy lever rifle shoot and practice 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the long range .22 rimfire silhouette every Friday at 9 a.m. for .22 rifle and pistol silhouette fun matches an information get-together for .22 rimfire rifle or pistol. All matches are open to the public with sign-up at 8:30 a.m. Call Rick Kelley at 502-0736 or Jim Stewart at 342-7392 for further information or email info@chollagunclub.org.

Open matches at the Adair Park small bore range with sign-up at 7:30 a.m. the 1st Saturday each month for the Steel Challenge Match, the 2nd Sunday for IPSC Combat Matches. Cowboy Matches are held the 4th Sunday each month with sign-up at 7:30 a.m. Safety meetings proceed each match being held. Call Bob Wiles at 920-2157 or Joanne Schickle at 502-1298.

Open archery shoots at 8 a.m. Sundays at the Adair Park range with the practice range open all week. For more information please contact Keith C. Parsels at (928) 750-7620 or Zach Sleete at (928) 246-8381.