Our Range
The club's range lies on 40 acres northwest of Mason City,
on the southeast corner of the intersection, of Highway B-20 and Jonquil Avenue in Clear lake, Iowa. Shooting hours are dawn
till dusk Monday through Saturday and 8am till dusk Sundays and holidays.
There are the following ranges:
50 yard training range for pistol and small bore
100 yard running game
100/200 yard bench rest
200/300
yard with 15 positions with pits
Trap
History
Since the club's beginning the RCR&PC has used an outdoor
shooting range that is near the Winnebago River in northern Cerro Gordo County. 30 years ago the Lehigh Portland Cement Company
purchased the property for their then future mining of limestone. During the 1990's Lehigh suggested River City Rifle
and Pistol Club move our outdoor shooting facility to another location due to quarry expansion. River City Rifle and Pistol
Club purchased 40 acres in the spring of 2003 south and west of the current range, the southeast corner of Jonquil and B20.
This property was opened as a functional shooting range in the late Spring of 2005. All features of the range will
be completed as time, money, and volunteer labor are available. The goal of the new range is to be a facility that will suit
our present membership activities with room for modification that will conform to our future shooting needs. The club will
also continue its policy of no hunting on River City Rifle and Pistol Club property, which has been in force since the original
range was founded. Many wildlife species use our shooting ranges as habitat. Though sounding odd, the two do co-exist
quite well.
In January of 2004, River City Rifle and Pistol Club purchased an adjoining 80 acres directly east
of our new location with intentions of using it as a shooting range buffer area along with promoting conservation on
all non-tillable acres (approximately 25).
