The town organization I belong to arranges several outings per year.

 

Come spring I was thinking of how best to organize for a group of 15-20 people to go shooting .

 

We typical schedule events to be 2-3 hour. I was thinking of doing an hours safty / basic overview followed by a range session.

 

For most it would be their first time shooting a gun. Especially if we included handguns, which I would like to include.

 

I would like to do it at Cherry Ridge... We could all hang outside and then bring one or two at a time to the shooting port"s" to safely try A sampling of guns.

 

I am a life member at Cherry Ridge, NRA Instructor/RSO... Is there any way for me to host such and event there? I believe there is a two guest limit...

 

Allowing me to bring 20 new shooters to get introduced to the sport at THEIR range sounds like a win-win??

 

Any thought possible issues with hosting this as described?.

 

You may want some additional experienced help. Preferably firearms instructors. In my experience small groups work better. The number of people you are talking about would be very difficult to manage by yourself.

This would be mostly a social event... It mainly just need to be safe first then fun/interesting. That said I agree I would try to make sure more the. Just one experienced person is there to keep everyone safely engaged..

 

 

I think you only need the number of experienced people there for the same number of "beginners" that would have a loaded gun in their hand. 20 person event with only one shooting at a time, easy to moderate. 20 person event with 4 or 5 weapons in hands, a dangerous idea. Most basic pistol/rifle classes have multiple people with only one instructor, but there is only one gun used at a time.

 

Just think about it this way, at any shooting competition with veteran shooters STILL only one weapon is loaded in the entire place!

Does anyone know if it is possible for me to bring 20 people to cherry ridge? Do they have some kind of group or club membership that would allow everyone to shoot

Contact Cherry Ridge's board/leadership/whatever and see.

It's a hell of a hike if cherry ridge is close, but CJRPC does an all gun day open to the public. All the heavy lifting is already done. It's in the spring sometime forget when exactly. I ran the USPSA booth there one year.

I've helped to run plenty of these large group shoots.

 

Easiest way is to get permission from the club you want to use (CR) so that it can be put into the club's calendar. And have several Instructors, preferably at least one for every type of firearm. Cherry Ridge runs an Open House for Kids in May and for the Ladies in October (?) I think. They might want to have a say in the planning of this endeavor........

 

What ever you do, don't try to "sneak it in" with BS Guesting from other CR members, since all you'll do is get caught and PO the Board.

 

As to member clubs using the range, yes the ANJRPC Board does allow member clubs to make use of the facilities--on a scheduled basis! Do the right thing and go through the correct channels!

 

Dave

first time shooters?

wear your bullet proof vest.