The snow and cold weather has delayed the projects that will be providing us our fill dirt for building the berm. Things are at a standstill while we wait for this dirt. Our best estimation at this point is that dirt will start arriving this week as the weather warms up. We will probably have enough progress to do some work to do for next weekend (April 21st).
The 21st is our spring range cleanup day. Please come help us with the spring cleanup! We hope to have enough people show up that we can easily knock out the few needed tasks on the existing ranges and then put in some work on the new range. Several of us are planning to hang around and work on the new action range a little bit after the other work is completed. Please join us!
Once again a HUGE amount of progress was made on the new Action Shooting Range. Thank you for another great day of donated time with heavy machinery. Thank you to our volunteers who worked in a bit of light showers with shovels as well. The combination of the backhoe and a handfull of guys with shovels allowed us to install two large tiles with a significant amount of fall into the ravine.
We were also lucky enough to get all of the unusable sticks and wood chips that were north of the concession stand moved over into the unused area in the ravine.
We are now ready to have loads of dirt and concrete rip-rap piled up to create our berm. Hopefully that will start here shortly. It sounds like we will be gaining another crew of volunteers to assist with the trenching and pouring of the footings for our safety walls. More info and dates on that work as soon as I get the info.
As always, here are the pictures of today’s work:
(click on the pictures to see larger versions)
About 50% of the people who pledged money for the action shooting range have paid up. Thank YOU! to everyone who has sent in their money.
Unfortunatly this leaves us about $6400 short of what we need for construction. We plan to continue on construction and assume that people will pay us the money they pledged before the bills come in.
If we run out of $$ before construction is complete we will halt construction until we do have the funds. We won’t be leaving any bills unpaid.
If you pledged funds for the Action Shooting Range project and haven’t yet paid up, please send in you funds.
If you have a friend that pledged and hasn’t paid yet a little bit of peer pressure wouldn’t hurt to help us get this thing finished before prime shooting season is here.
Thank you again for everyone that has donated money and time to this project. Be sure to continue checking out this section of our website for future updates and volunteer opportunities.
| March 31, 2007 |
| 11:00 am | to | 1:00 pm |
We will be working this Saturday at 11:00 AM to install drainage tile on the site for the new action shooting range. We need as many volunteers as possible! If you have shovels, spades and the like please bring them.
If you have a bobcat or trenching machine please call Bob Godlove and let him know! Heavy machinery would make the job go considerably faster.
If we have a frog strangling rain on Saturday we will postpone till 1:00 PM on Sunday April 1st for doing the work. This is not an April fools!
(added on March 31st)
There was not enough rain today to stop us. No need to show up tomorow at 1:00
We had a handfull of volunteers (thank you all!) and a fairly large bobcat onsite this morning to remove the stumps and generally prepare the area for our new Action Range. Looks like things are fairly well graded and the berm has started to grow!
Pictures are worth a thousand words so here’s about 9000 words worth:
(click on the pictures for larger versions)
| March 24, 2007 |
| 8:00 am | to | 10:00 am |
Weather permitting we will have the 1st run with heavy equipment to remove stumps, relocate rip-rap concrete, and lots of dirt moving. There will also be an opportunity for quite a bit of manual labor to relocate the recently cut wood and generally assist in the moving of dirt and concrete. If you have shovels, pry bars, chain saws, etc they might prove useful. Strong backs and willing hands will definitely be useful!
Some additional information on recent recommendations for the Action Range:
- Each of 4 positions will need equipment tables 5′ long, 18″deep and 30″ high. If you have a good design for these tables please let Bob Godlove know.
- We will want to have restroom facilities closer to this area (we expect to have a lot of traffic here) and it will likely involve a 4′ x 8′ slab and some newer facilities.
Early ground work completed!
Now we need heavy equipment to clear the site of tree stumps and some concrete to prepare for the main side walls, drainage under the backstop and the backstop itself.
Contact Bob Godlove @ 378-9857 if you can help with this need.
When the heavy equipment is done we need to install the right and left drain tubes (12″) that will go under the backstop and protect/support them with left over trees/debris and gravel so that the dump trucks and bobcats can start their work.
Thank you to the volunteers that have contributed so far!
As discussed at the meeting on March 15th please email the following to actionrange@izaak-walton.org
Name:
Date:
Hours Worked:
Work Completed:
Thank you!
The first organized (maybe it was purposly disorganized 
) meeting was held on March 15th to discuss construction plans and needs with as many interested donating members that we could get together.
Items discussed:
- Likely going to go with Concrete walls for the downrange safety walls
- This will either be professionally poured walls or professionally constructed pre-stressed concrete (likely the poured solution)
- The cement walls wil be textured as is possible by the contractors to break up the acoustics and cause less sound reflection to our neighbors
- buttresses will be needed on the outside of these walls for wind load support
- Baffles will need to be constructed and hung from trusses every 15 - 20 feet to assist with the wind loading and to prevent any projectiles from the possibility of leaving our property
- A steel building will be constructed for the shooting area. This building will prevent any projectiles from leaving he shooting area and will provide security via our current ID badge system so that only certified users may enter this range
- the south end of the range will be a 16 foot tall earthen berm
- drainage will need to be installed before the berm is placed
- A committee will be formed to set the certification requirements and rules for use of the range. The Ikes board will have oversight to ensure that safety precautions are met
- lots of people who pledged money still need to pay
- The aggressive goal of completed constructin in May was set forth
- We will need as many volunteers as we can get
- Updates on work schedules will be posted on this website
- Time invested working should be reported to actionrange@izaak-walton.org please include: Date, Work Completed, Name, Hours invested
| March 17, 2007 |
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
We will be meeting shortly after 5:30 on March 17th down at the location for the new action shooting range to explain what trees to remove and where to place the wood after it is cut up. See you there!
Remember, if you are cutting down the marked trees please cut them at the height of the mark so that we have plenty of stump left to engage with our dozer. If you cut them off flush with the ground we will have to hire a $$ stump grinder to get them out.
Thank you.
