Tom Acheson [email protected]
10386 10th St., Lake Elmo, MN 55042
100-yd score & group: 4-24, 5-22, 7-10 , 8-14 The above dates are also open to CBA Military Classes. 

 

Map - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oakdale+Gun+Club/@44.9650859,-92.8977835,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x52b2cd2aac698b83:0x97e4aad180d20881!8m2!3d44.9650859!4d-92.8955948

 

Oakdale Gun Club https://www.oakdalegunclub.org/ is located on the east side of the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. It has grown to be the most diverse shooting facility in a very large area. The club is open weekends in the summer for public use and in the fall we are open daily to the public with most customers conducting deer rifle sight-in efforts. If you are ever in the area and would like to shoot a match, check the Fouling Shot or the match schedules here http://castbulletassoc.org/benchrest-schedule or http://castbulletassoc.org/military-schedule and plan to join us. These are always Monday afternoons. The gate opens at 12:00 noon and we start the warm-up at 1:00.

 

It was formed in 1965 and almost from day one we have been hosting NRA Conventional Pistol/Bullseye/2700 matches. In 1979 IHMSA metallic silhouette matches were started up. Practical Pistol (IPSC) matches are held every Thursday afternoon and an Annual Glock Regional match is hosted. We recently added 2-new trap fields giving us a total of 3. Local high school trap teams have become a major “thing” in our area and OGC is a key venue for these shooters of the future! 

 

In 1997 we started offering CBA benchrest Traditional and eventually Military CB matches. 

 

For the CBA events we shoot at 100-yards. Before shooting we have a short “shooter’s meeting”. We outline the course of fire and then  focus on safety, reminding everyone that all shooters are range officers and request a cease fire any time it is needed. We start off with groups, either 4 5-rounds or 2 10-round. Then we do the typical 4 5-round score targets. In recent years we've added a 10-round 100-yard offhand event, using either a TQ-4 target or a 50-meter chicken silhouette paper target. We usually have 3/4 of our shooters do the offhand event. The firing line has (2) concrete top benches and the rest are wood shooting benches. An effort is underway to replace the wooden benches with concrete topped ones. Several CBA National Records have been set at this range, in the Hunter Rifle event by John Kaufenberg.

 

The firing line capacity is (20) shooters. In the past 30-years there have been three matches where we were full. Usually we have about 15-18 shooters. We do not do multiple relays. 

 

The photo is looking from the targets back to the firing line. The metal structure is an overhead baffle system to keep rounds from leaving the property and remove the “blue sky” view a shooter might see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Reiss - NRA Life Member & PSC Range Member Retired Police Firearms Instructor/Armorer
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