ROMPER
Amateur
Went down to East Texas last November. Paul Howe has quite the facility, from a bunk house for week long classes that definitely save on hotel expenses with classroom, pro shop and area to sit back and exchange ideas with other students.
The range facility itself is pretty well laid out, with several ranges of different uses.
As soon as you drive out into the range facility your first range is 24 lanes wide and 100 yards long, complete with covered 100 yard shooting position and a side covered building for classroom.
Next to this is the vehicle range, with parked cars with steel plates out in front appears to be between 50-75 yards long and about 25 yards wide.
Next is a small 4-6 lane steel shooting area.
The next range is 16 lanes (if memory serves) and 50 yards long, pistol range on pea gravel.
Nest to this is a 100 yard rifle range with steel plates. Also an enclosed area to keep the rain off at the 100 yard line.
I did not go inside the shoot house but that would be the last range on this portion.
After to shoot house was a road back to the long distance range, also the location of the scrambler course. Paul's long distance course has hanging steel out to 800 yards and sits atop a nice hill with a view of the pates out to the 800 yard line.
The scrambler is a side course that takes you around the course by engaging targets at varying distances while you are moving around from the outside of the range itself and back to the top. It is an ass kicker and kind of humbling especially since it was designed by one of the runners of the Mogadishu Mile.
I will get pics up of the range later. But great facility and Paul is a class act.
R
The range facility itself is pretty well laid out, with several ranges of different uses.
As soon as you drive out into the range facility your first range is 24 lanes wide and 100 yards long, complete with covered 100 yard shooting position and a side covered building for classroom.
Next to this is the vehicle range, with parked cars with steel plates out in front appears to be between 50-75 yards long and about 25 yards wide.
Next is a small 4-6 lane steel shooting area.
The next range is 16 lanes (if memory serves) and 50 yards long, pistol range on pea gravel.
Nest to this is a 100 yard rifle range with steel plates. Also an enclosed area to keep the rain off at the 100 yard line.
I did not go inside the shoot house but that would be the last range on this portion.
After to shoot house was a road back to the long distance range, also the location of the scrambler course. Paul's long distance course has hanging steel out to 800 yards and sits atop a nice hill with a view of the pates out to the 800 yard line.
The scrambler is a side course that takes you around the course by engaging targets at varying distances while you are moving around from the outside of the range itself and back to the top. It is an ass kicker and kind of humbling especially since it was designed by one of the runners of the Mogadishu Mile.
I will get pics up of the range later. But great facility and Paul is a class act.
R