I pulled most of this information from the following sources; check the links within them for more information on these ranges. Public Shooting Ranges in West Virginia (http://www.wvdnr.gov/Hunting/SRanges.shtm)
Wikipedia - List of West Virginia wildlife management areas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_wildlife_management_areas)
| (WMA) RANGE | WV County | Max yd | Benches | Camping | WMA District | verified? |
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| Stonewall Jackson Lake | Lewis | 300 yd | 10 c | | 3 | |
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| Chief Cornstalk | Mason | 200 yd | 8 c | yes ? | 5 | |
| Frozen Camp | Jackson | 200 yd | 8 c | yes ? | 6 | |
| Pleasant Creek | Barbour | 200 yd | 8 c | | 1 | Spanner |
| R.D. Bailey Lake | Mingo | 200 yd | 6 c | | 4 | |
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| Elk River - Airport | Braxton | 175 yd | 8 c | | 3 | |
| Plum Orchard Lake | Fayette | 175 yd | 6 c | 38 | 4 | |
| Conaway Run Lake | Tyler | 150 yd | 3 c | yes ? | 6 | |
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| Beech Fork Lake | Cabell | 100 yd | 6 c | | 5 | |
| Big Ugly | Lincoln | 100 yd | none | | 5 | |
| Bluestone Lake | Summers | 100 yd | 6 c | 330 | 4 | |
| Elk River - Spruce Fork | Braxton | 100 yd | 8 c | | 3 | |
| Hillcrest | Hancock | 100 yd | 7 c | | 1 | |
| Lewis Wetzel | Wetzel | 100 yd | 6 c | | 1 | |
| McClintic | Mason | 100 yd | 8 c | yes ? | 5 | |
| Panther | McDowell | 100 yd | 5 c | 8 | 4 | |
| Pedlar | Monongalia | 100 yd | 8 c | | 1 | Spanner |
| Wallback | Clay | 100 yd | 8 c | | 3 | |
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| White Horse Center | Barbour | 100 yd | 10 c | | 1 | |
| Brandywine | Pendleton | 100 yd | 8 c | | 2 | |
| Montgomery | Fayette | 100 yd | 8 c | | 4 | |
| Kanawha State Forest | Kanawha | 100 yd | 11 c | | 5 | |
| Elizabeth | Wirt | 100 yd | 5 c | | 6 | |
| Glenville | Gilmer | 100 yd | 7 c | | 6 | |
| Mountwood County Park | Wood | 100 yd | 4 c | | 6 | |
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| Sleepy Creek | Berkeley | closed ? | | | 2 | |
If you get a chance to visit any of these ranges, post to this thread with your findings & I'll update.Sticky? :~
This idea has been floated in the past, I'm glad you resurrected it. Spanner, you know the AS protocol: Whosoever starts a project, "owns" it. ;)
If you could find out the following, I think it would be a good place to figure where this is heading:
1. Who is the authority that oversees and makes decisions about these "wildlife management areas"?
2. What is the process for us to gain consideration about holding AS events at these ranges?
3. What are liability implications? Will our "portable" insurance suffice?
4. Would we even be able to hold a "fee based" event at these locations?
Before we launch into serious consideration about using these facilities, I think a little preliminary investigation is in order. It's an idea worth pursuing, IMO. :)
DNR claims/has jurisdiction over all the public ranges, i.e. like Pedlar.
Quote from: The Machine on November 25, 2009, 03:52:34 PM
This idea has been floated in the past, I'm glad you resurrected it. Spanner, you know the AS protocol: Whosoever starts a project, "owns" it. ;)
If you could find out the following, I think it would be a good place to figure where this is heading:
1. Who is the authority that oversees and makes decisions about these "wildlife management areas"?
2. What is the process for us to gain consideration about holding AS events at these ranges?
3. What are liability implications? Will our "portable" insurance suffice?
4. Would we even be able to hold a "fee based" event at these locations?
Before we launch into serious consideration about using these facilities, I think a little preliminary investigation is in order. It's an idea worth pursuing, IMO. :)
1) Not Applicable :)
2) Not Applicable ;)
3) Not Applicable ::)
4) Not Applicable :(
These are places that WV people can go to meet each other, practice, talk to locals, etc.... @@)
I said nothing about having Appleseed shoots at them. <:)
That's all good, but how about some locations to hold ASs? That's what we need desperately right now with 2010 approaching. As it stands, we only have 1 location that is all ready to go.
Quote from: The Machine on November 25, 2009, 07:43:08 PM
That's all good, but how about some locations to hold ASs? That's what we need desperately right now with 2010 approaching. As it stands, we only have 1 location that is all ready to go.
I think that's a different thread. @&)
OK, wise guy...I believe you're referring to the one that has no activity or replies to it. We're doing a bang-up job on that one. &)
http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=10208.0
http://www.wvdnr.gov/Hunting/SRanges.shtm
link to the DNR controlled public shooting ranges in WV, by district and county with addresses and info on range facilities and distances.
As discussed above, probably can't do Appleseeds there but probably could leave samples of targets with nice groups along with a few "new" targets to allow folks to try their own hand/rifle on and with a contact name/e-mail address on the shot target for them to contact if interested.
Have fun shooting...
Thanks OD, nice resource. The only beef I have with these type of public ranges is safety. I've personally witnessed, and have been told some horror stories, about acts of ignorance that could have led to injury. I'm sure some facilities are probably worse than others, but due diligence needs to be exercised, nonetheless. All the more reason to get the public to an AS. ;)
Hancock used to have a nice range, shooters blasted away at the frames too many times and the DER quit replacing them. There are decent benches and a roof over them last time I looked.