Welcome to the Itasca Gun Club web site!

Our Hunter Sight In Days is a two-week event, open to the public, and runs for the two weeks preceding deer opener.  More information is available on the Sight In Days page.  The sign up sheet for volunteers already has some full days, and can be viewed on the Sight In page.  To select your date/shift, drop an email to Steve at igcsightin@yahoo.com    

Sight In Days Slideshow

Itasca Action Pistol Slideshow

Service Rifle Slideshow

The third Tuesday of every month until winter, the range is closed afternoons for two Service Rifle matches and a 100 Year Old Rifle match.  

The club's monthly meetings are held at 7:00 PM the third Tuesday of each month at the clubhouse.  

Range News!

Itasca Gun Club's Sight In Days is coming up soon, and we need to get the range ready.  This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and we need your help to make it successful.  There are three things you can do to help.

1.       Help us in a work party on Saturday, October 6^th, to get the outdoor range refurbished and set up to handle hundreds of shooters sighting in firearms over a two-week period.

2.       Sign up for a four or five hour shift, either using our spotting scopes to help hunters sight in firearms, or working in the office selling shooting tickets, raffle tickets or reclaimed lead and brass.  There’s coffee, cookies and donuts to be had.  Sight In begins Saturday October 20^th, and ends Friday November 2^nd.  Check the IGC Sight In Page to see a slideshow to get a feel for what it’s like, and to see the schedule and sign up instructions.

3.       Sell your book of $2.00 raffle tickets, and either drop them off at the range during Sight In Days, or get them to TJ Russell @ realteeber@gmail.com  If you didn’t get a book of tickets, or you’ve been successful at selling yours, TJ has more books of tickets.  You can also consider just buying your own book of tickets for $20!  There’s a Thompson Center 30-06, a Ruger 9mm, a Ruger .22, a Burris 3x9 scope and a Buck folding knife available to be won.

Outdoor range work needed, typically done as small crews:

·         Repair wood target frames.  This requires a little carpentry skill and hand tools.  Materials are ready to go.

·         Install mill felt in the ceiling of the firing line.  This job needs a few people with stepladders, cordless drills and basic hand tools, screwing a large sheet of cloth to the ceiling joists for noise abatement.

·         Clean up the area around the firing line.  There are small piles of construction materials that need to be moved/organized so they’re out of the way and the place looks nice.

·         Organize the equipment/materials in the shooting shack, office and trailer.  It’s like any garage cleaning – organize and move things into the new Conex container at the range.

·         Install a few road signs.  Arbo township donated a stop sign, some speed limit and curvy road signs.  We have the signs, bolts, posts and a post driver ready.  We just need some thoughtful sign placement and some muscle.

·         Slide the firing line structure on the pistol range out of the way, so a concrete pad can be poured.

·         Spread wood chips on walkways down in the range area.  If you have an ATV and a trailer, that could help speed things up.

·         Cordless drills, hand tools, rakes, shovels and stepladders would be handy things to bring.

·         Coffee, cookies and donuts will be available.

If you’re considering signing up for a shift or two at Sight In Days, the schedule and instructions are on the Sight In Page.  We really need some people on October 20 and 21, the first weekend of Sight In.

Indoor shooting programs will be starting soon.  These events require a small fee, and are open to members and the public.

• Wednesday morning Pistols and Coffee begins November 7th, and runs every week until spring.  8:30 AM - 1:00 PM. 
• Monday night Open Shooting begins TBD, and will now run for three hours, 5:00 - 8:00 PM.
• .45 Caliber Bullseye TBD
• .22 Caliber Bullseye TBD
• Arrowhead .22 Rifle League TBD
  

The existing clubhouse and indoor range will remain open and operational until the spring of 2019. IGC has been in discussions with the MN DNR to extend the club’s lease at that property into 2019, allowing us to continue using the indoor facilities this winter. In the spring, we will move the clubhouse over to the new range on Prairie Lake Road and begin site clean-up at the old location.

The clay facing has been added to the pistol range berms.

This fall, there are three things that will be accomplished at the new range.

1. The 50 yard pistol range firing line structure will be set in place, leveled and prepared for concrete. A contractor will then complete the north side berm past the firing line location to make it safe to use. This work will require the range to be shut down for three days in late August or September, we will schedule it to avoid conflicts with the Action Pistol league. Conley Janssen has the lead on this work.

2. Contractors will complete needed underground plumbing work and pour the concrete building slab for the classroom relocation. The concrete for the pistol range firing line will be poured at the same time. This work will likely happen in October. Mike Twite will be the IGC contact person for this work.

3. IGC Volunteers will need to clear enough timber this fall so that the building mover can get the clubhouse/classroom out to the new site. This means clearing everything out eight feet from the sides of the existing entrance road and maybe a bit more in some areas. We need the roadway cleared at least 30’ wide to move that 25’ wide building. This will also make snow removal much easier.  Joel Adamson is the lead for this work.

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