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Location Info New Itasca Gun Club Range.pdf
2024 Hunter Sight In Days
The outdoor range is located at 28716 Prairie Lake Road, Grand Rapids MN 55744.
Slideshow of the workday from 10/14/23.
Summary of results from the 2023 Sight In event
If You're Sighting In
Our Hunter Sight In Days is a two-week event, open to the public. Hunters may sight in rifles / hunting handguns / slug guns while our volunteers help spot your shots, adjust your sights or scope and maintain safe conditions at and behind the firing line. $3 per firearm. You may sight in more than one firearm, and you are allowed to shoot enough to safely get sighted in.
Distance options in yards: 25, 50, 100, 200, 300
There are raffle tickets available for $2 each for chances to win firearms and hunting items. Only $2 for a chance to win:
First Prize - Mossberg Patriot Predator bolt action rifle in 7mm PRC (Itasca Gun Club and L&M Fleet Supply)
Second Prize - Ruger 10/22 Compact semi auto rifle, 16" barrel in .22 long rifle (IGC and L&M Fleet Supply)
Third Prize - Ruger Super Wrangler Revolver in both .22 long rifle and .22 mag (IGC and L&M Fleet Supply)
Fourth Prize - Sig Sauer Buckmaster 3x12 rifle scope (Janssen Fabricating)
Fifth Prize - Sig Sauer Buckmaster 1500 laser rangefinder (Janssen Fabrication)
Sixth Prize - Mossy Oak hunting knife and sheath (Joe Oliver)
Seventh Prize - Revasri laser rangefinder (Itasca Gun Club)
What do we Offer?
Very basic scope mounting/repair services are available for free. Fired brass is available for purchase by the pound, sorted by caliber. $2 per pound.
Saturday Oct 26: 9:00 - 5:00
Sunday Oct 27: 9:00 5:00
Monday - Friday Oct 28 through Nov 1: 12:00 - 5:00
Saturday - Nov 2 - Friday Nov 8: 9:00 - 5:00
Nov 9 - you should be out hunting! It's opener!
There will be an office on site for purchasing shooting tickets, raffle tickets for firearms, and fired brass. If it's really cold out, the office is available for warming up. There will be an ADA accessible portable toilet (Porta-Potty), but you have to warm that yourself.
Shooting will stop at 5:00 PM, period. Please get there as early as you can on the last couple of days before deer opener, as there can be quite a crowd. Itasca Gun Club provides 9 bench rests, chairs, sandbags, targets and a volunteer with a spotting scope to help you spot your shots on the targets.
"Sight In Days" is an important part of IGC's annual fundraising. Everyone out there helping is a volunteer. If you're already a member, and don't feel you should have to pay $3.00 to sight in, then sight in a few weeks early before all those volunteers show up and give their time to the club.
Volunteers
Those who volunteer to help hunters sight in should plan to sign up for four - hour shifts, 9:00 - 1:00 and 1:00 - 5:00. For the period of Oct 28 through Nov 1, please plan for five - hour shifts, from 12:00 - 5:00.
To sign up for a shift, please call Tom on the gun club cell phone at (218) 256-9431 or send an email to Steve at igcsightin@yahoo.com The jobs are listed in the description links below. Work inside selling tickets and memberships, spotting shots for shooters, or inspecting each firearm as new shooters arrive.
Duties of Sight In Volunteers Reading the detailed description will also help guests get a feel for the procedures for sighting in.
Membership in the Itasca Gun Club
Please consider joining the Itasca Gun Club while you're here! We've built great new rifle and pistol ranges, and our membership fees are very low compared to other ranges. Membership fees can help with continuing construction of a planned small bore range and indoor range. The Itasca Gun Club is a 501(c)4 non-profit, and we have members from many counties across the state, and a number of other states. You can have a lot of year-round shooting opportunities for $40 a year, which is about the cost for an hour or two of shooting at a metro range. Regular family memberships are $40/year, and the same membership is $28 if you're over 60 years old. Family means a spouse or children under 18 years.
We host a variety of competitive, casual and just fun indoor and outdoor shooting opportunities. They're open to the public, and we're family oriented. We have a 100, 200, and 300 yard range for rifle and pistol, and will be building a 1,000 yard range as we move forward. We have a completed outdoor pistol range and are planning for an outdoor smallbore yard range and a new indoor range. Check the Indoor Shooting and Outdoor Shooting tabs above for more information.
We put on regular classes, as noted on our calendar. We have certified trainers for pistol carry permits, DNR youth firearm safety and DNR adult firearm safety (sometimes needed for hunting in other states.) For DNR firearm safety, we hold both the traditional 16 hour classroom/field classes, and the new web/field day classes.
