Welcome to the Itasca Gun Club web site!

For updates on range closures, please check the Calendar.  Updates to the calendar occur at night, so checking mornings is the best bet. 

The Annual Meeting of the Itasca Gun Club is coming up quickly.  The social hour, dinner and meeting will be held at Sugar Lake Lodge, on Saturday January 18^th.  The social hour begins at 4:30 PM, dinner at 5:30 and the business meeting at 6:30. 

We have to make a commitment on the number of attendees, so we need your reservation by Monday January 13^th.  We cannot accept walk-ins; you must make a reservation.  After making a reservation, you can pay at the door.  Each seat is $27.00.  Contact TJ Russell by Monday at realteeber@gmail.com, or (218) 256-5779.  

The buffet dinner will include fresh pasta with Marinara and Alfredo sauces, homemade lasagna and chicken Parmesan. 

There will be door prizes and a silent auction for a portable bench rest and spotting scope.  This year’s annual raffle will include 3 firearms:

• Savage Axis II SP bolt action rifle in .308 Win, stainless steel with scope
• Ruger American Pistol, semi-automatic in .45 ACP
• Ruger EC9 semi-automatic pistol in 9 mm Luger

Each firearm will have a box for raffle tickets.  The raffle tickets are $5 each.  Buy as many tickets as you want, and drop them in the boxes for the firearms you’re interested in.  If you win, you can take your firearm home Saturday by filling out the form 4473 paperwork and passing a NICS check.

We hope you can make it!  Please contact TJ as soon as possible to get your reservation in!

Sight In Days are over

The annual Itasca Gun Club Sight In Days ended November 1.  23 volunteer members put in a day of preparing the range for Sight In, cleaning up the range and buildings, and preparing all the target frames and targets.  Their work presented a quality, professional range to the public.  Over 70 volunteers helped hunters sight in 1,100 rifles, so the club earned $3,300 on the event.  In addition, members sold around 4,500 raffle tickets.

Grand Rapids Chapter of The Well Armed Woman

There's a new chapter of The Well Armed Woman forming in Grand Rapids.  The group is open to interested women, and will meet monthly for discussions, instruction, training and shooting.  There's an article about the chapter in the Grand Rapids Herald Review   The Well Armed Woman Brochure

2019 Range Work Slideshow

Range News

The existing indoor range will remain open and operational until the spring of 2021. IGC has been in discussions with the MN DNR to extend the club’s lease at that property, allowing us to continue using the indoor facilities for the foreseeable future. We will eventually move the clubhouse over to the new range on Prairie Lake Road and begin site clean-up at the old location.  The indoor range at the old location will remain open as long as possible.

1. The concrete has been poured for the 50 yard pistol range firing line.  The shooting structure has been moved into place and bolted down to the concrete, so there's now overhead cover.  No more shooting in the rain!

2. Contractors have completed the underground plumbing work, and the concrete building slab for the classroom/clubhouse relocation has been poured. 

3. IGC Volunteers have cleared enough timber along the entrance road so that the building mover can get the clubhouse/classroom out to the new site

Other Information

Handgun carry permit classes are taught twice a month by Certified Itasca Gun Club instructors.  Check the Calendar for dates and information.  

You can join Itasca Gun Club for only $30 a year, $18 for seniors, as a family membership.

There are multiple slide shows of range construction efforts on the "Range Relocation" tab above.  There's a new slide show as of Oct 17 2016 here.

While the range is open to members, please check the club calendar before you head out to make sure that the range is not temporarily closed for construction, training or scheduled shooting events.

Want to Join or Renew Your Membership?

Information on joining or renewing is on our Membership Page

Looking for a Pistol Carry Permit Class?

Certified Itasca Gun Club Instructors teach Minnesota Carry Permit Classes at least once a month at our indoor range and classroom. The cost is typically $75 for a one day class that meets all the requirements of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.  Check our Calendar for class dates and times.  Information about carry permits is on the same page as the classes.  Here's more information on Minnesota and Florida Carry Permits.

Looking for Fun Long Range Shooting?

We have built and placed the new 300 yard steel gong. It is 28” across and constructed of AR500 armor grade steel.  It will easily withstand 30-06 armor piercing at 50 yards so it should last a long time at 300 yard line! Conley Janssen and Grant Janssen built and assembled it, with Grant doing some of the final welding so he earned first “GONG”!  He put two shots in a 2 inch spotter with his custom 300RUM Remington 700 and Burris F class scope.  It rings very nice!  Gong Slideshow