Hours of Operation:
The range is open 7 days a week; from 9:00 am till
6:00 pm Monday through Saturday,
12:00 noon till 5:00 pm Sunday. When the days get longer, we will remain
open until 7:00 pm. The range is available free of charge to local,
state, and federal agencies who do not have their own range and have requested
the use of our facility. Call the Range for details. 205-744-2600.
Range Tour
This page will take you on a guided tour of the facility. It
is a whole lot easier to show you the range this way than to walk
the 10 acres with the guys who want to see what is here. It is
a hike that I take at least 4 times a day with prospective members
or to keep an eye on the ranges. I hope you enjoy the
tour... it will take a few moments for all the pictures to load.
This is the sign you need to be looking for as you drive north on
Pleasant Grove Rd.. It is on the right side of the road at the
intersection of 1st Street.
As soon as you turn onto 1st Street, you will need to bear to your
left. It hits a "T" intersection. Go right and you
will end up in a church parking lot. Turn left and you will
get to the range.
As you drive down 1st Street, you will see clues that you are on the
right path. The "drive slowly past the homes and down range
roads" signs will lead you to a big banner sign where the range road
starts.
About a half mile down the range road you will find the range.
The bumpy recycled asphalt road becomes a paved road that takes you
to the range parking area. The office where you sign in at the
end of the range road. The big log home is the Range
Master's Quarters.
The big range in front of the office is the Public Range. This is the area that non-member users of the range are restricted to. It is a very nice range... just like the rest of the facility. There are 12 concrete benchrest tables and 9 handgun shooting positions. There are two steel plate racks and a dueling tree in the pistol area. They are for handgun use only. Shooting reactive steel plate targets is a lot of fun (and tends to eat a lot of ammo). There are berms at 12, 50 and 100 yards.
Public Range
Moving clock-wise around the facility, the next ranges are the
Ranges 1 and 2, side by side, that have stationary steel plates,
falling steel plates and target stands for paper targets set up on
them. Range 2 has three steel plate racks, several
pepper poppers and a bunch of falling steel plates set up for your
use. The stationary plates ring very loudly when you hit them.
We hold a Steel Plate match here on the Second Saturday of each
month at 10:00 am. See competition events page for more info about
the match. Members can practice here for the matches. It is also a
great place just to target shoot. I have target stands on each
range for punching holes if you want to shoot paper. This
is a handgun range. No long guns are allowed to be fired on these
two ranges. Rifle and shotgun ammo will damage the steel plates.
Handgun ammo just knocks the paint off. Bring a can of spray paint and you will have new targets all day long.
Range 1
Range 2
A road that runs from the parking lot along the left side of the Range Master's house leads to Range 3. This is a large range with 50 yards availablefor shooting handguns, shotguns and rifles. When Law Enforcement Agencies need a place to qualify their officers, I set them up here. We recently installed a classroom on range 3 and plan further upgrades soon.
Range 3
There is a paved roadway that leads from the lower parking area to
pistol ranges 4, 5, and 6.
This is Range 4. It is at the north side of the lower pistol
ranges. It is a 25 by 40 yard range with a 270 degree field of
fire that we use for the practical shooting matches. Members
who participate in the IPSC and IDPA matches are welcome to use this
area to set up a course of fire and practice for the matches.
Because of the steel targets in this range, it is restricted to
handgun use only. There are props we use in the IPSC and
IDPA matches stored on this range. If you drag them out,
you have to put them away when you are done. You may also do
simple target shooting on this range. I have target stands on
each of the ranges for shooting paper targets. Please don't
shoot the props.
Range 4
Range 5
This is Range 6. This is a good place to shoot paper targets
and bang on the two Action Target Plate Racks. Most shooters
want a place to shoot at 7 to 15 yards and this pistol range is set
up just for that purpose. I have a bank of target stands set
up in front of the berm for shooters to staple or tape their targets
up on. I recently added 4 more falling steel plate racks to
the facility and this range now sports two of them. Falling
steel plates continue to be the most fun things to shoot on the
range.
Range 6
This is the member's Rifle Range. It has 6 concrete benchrest tables and target stands at 33, 50, and 100 yards. This range points north and the shooting benches are in the shade all day long.
Range 7
We recently poured a concrete base under the covered area, improving
this area for members.
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Joining is easy and takes about half an hour to do. There is a
little paperwork to complete and a range safety orientation each
member gets before being allowed to use the facility on their own.
See the Membership Info link above for more.
Come find me, Jon Grigsby, when you get here and I'll help you if I
can.
I hope you have enjoyed the tour. You have just seen about all
there is to offer at the F.O.P. Range. It is a very nice, well
maintained, clean, safe shooting facility. It is
available to anyone who can legally possess a firearm for just a
little bit of money. Some of the above pictures are a little
dated. We have updated the ranges since most of these were
taken. As I get new pics, I'll update this page with them.
If you have any questions after poking around this website, please
call us at the range, 744-2600. Be safe and shoot straight!