Bass Pro Shops Shooting Academy

 4,600 acres 

built in 2014

  • 1920s area was bought and homes built
  • 1947 sold and Devil’s Pool Guest Ranch was added
  • 1958, the White River was dammed to form 43,000-acre Table Rock Lake
  • 1987 Bass Pro Shops’ founder, Johnny Morris, purchased the property
  • Bass Pro Shops Shooting Academy at Big Cedar Lodge

“#1 Resort in the Midwest”

  • ATA Trap
  • Wobble Trap
  • American Skeet
  • Sporting Clays
  • 5 Stand
  • Air Rifle 
  • Event Space up to 600 people

Bass Pro Shops Shooting Academy
1901 MO-86
Ridgedale, MO 65739
1-800-225-6343

https://bigcedar.com/attractions/shooting-academy/

Bass Pro Pyramid

535,000-square-foot pyramid

opened May 1, 2015

  • previously a 20,000-plus seat arena 
  • 535,000-square-foot pyramid
  • 28-Story Freestanding Elevator & Glass Observation Deck
  • Beretta Fine Gun Center
    – located on level two of the Pyramid
    – 1250 square feet
  • Uncle Buck’s Fishbowl and Grill 
  • Archery Range
  • Pistol Range 25-yard live fire pistol 
  • Ducks Unlimited Waterfowling Heritage Center 
  • Aquarium and Fish Feeding
  • Big Cypress Lodge
    103-room wilderness hotel the Pyramid
    first hotel inside any Bass Pro Shop

Bass Pro Pyramid
1 Bass Pro Dr
Memphis, TN 38105

(901) 291-8200

https://stores.basspro.com/us/tn/memphis/1-bass-pro-dr.html

Range 355

3,750 SF

opened February 15, 2016

  • Range 1
    – 8 lanes
    – Action Target Mancom Touch Plus system
  • Range 2
    – 8 lanes ?
  • 2nd floor is The Academy at 355


the Range at 355
9003 Murphy Rd,
Bolingbrook, IL 60440

(630) 739-9000

Cody Firearms Experience

Opened in 2015

Shoot REAL guns of the old west, just outside Yellowstone’s famous East Gate

Millions, yes millions of tourists from all over the world experience Yellowstone each year, during a few months in the summer

2.5 to 3 Million of those visitors will use the famous Eastgate to Yellowstone

And every single one of those visitors, will see their sign, their storefront, and their sweet black van with the words “Shoot Guns”

The Cody Firearms Experience been in business for the last 3 years, letting all those visitors (close to 10 million at this point) know about firearms and see that a gun shop is present in Cody, Wyoming. And its a gun shop they are free to visit and pull triggers

And not only is the store in the best location possible for those tourists, but it’s also very nice inside. It’s welcoming, clean, large and not too crowded, so many people will feel comfortable in there, even when it’s busy

The staff was extremely friendly, helpful and interesting to talk to

 

Cody Firearms Experience
142 W. Yellowstone Ave.
Cody, Wyoming, USA 82414
(307)586-4287

Home

There are aware of their opportunity to be the ambassador’s of firearms for those international tourists, and people visiting from states where they don’t experience gun shops or shooting ranges

The map on the wall has a pin to indicate each place a visitor has traveled from. It looks like a pincushion, you can barely see the map underneath on some continents. And each continent is represented, they’ve had people from all over the world experience Firearms just outside Yellowstone

This was one of the high points of Cody, Wyoming for me

And this is one of the reasons we do the Gun Show Loophole Tour, to share the experience and efforts of gun shops like this one

It goes without saying, if you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming .. check out the Cody Firearms experience for yourself

They are a full service gun shop too, and there’s an old time shooting gallery available as well

#ShootGuns
#WyomingGunShop
#ShootAGatlingGun
#ShootingRange
#GunShowLoopholeTour
#VanLife
@CodyFirearmsExperience

https://www.instagram.com/p/BorYRgHHkXK/

Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Training Center

33.8 acres

Built in 2014

Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office

26,000-square-foot training center.

$1.3 million in bonds to purchase 33.8 acres of land at 6094 E. 66th St. North from the U.S. Shooting Academy. The sale included a basic range with 30 positions as well as a computerized range where targets can be raised and lowered remotely.

estimated to cost $1.2 million to $1.6 million, includes renovating and outfitting a 1,632-square-foot range house and an urban tactical training village, among other amenities.

financed through proceeds from investigations, such as a recent synthetic marijuana raid the Sheriff’s Office assisted federal agencies with, as well as fees paid to the agency on Self-Defense Act handgun licenses and for serving municipal warrants.

A one-mile law enforcement driver training track designed to simulate highway and urban driving as well as a skid pad to practice rainy and wet conditions will also be installed.

equipped with a new shooting simulator, which plays interactive scenarios on a wall-sized projection screen.

 

the Site

129-acres

re-opened in 2014

training center only

  • Formerly Blackwater North training facility
  • 2014 reopened as The Site
  • Jim Kauber – Navy SEAL Master Chief, President/Director of Training
  • 7 flat ranges
  • 600 yard range Known Distance (KD) Range
  • 2700 sq. ft. live-fire shoot house
  • two story configurable simulation shoot house
  • 3 Classrooms
  • Unknown Distance Range
  • Climbing/Rappelling/Shooting Tower
  • Pro Shop

  • 40 clients can stay at THE SITE
  • lodge
  • four private cabins
  • freshly prepared meals from our accomplished chefs.

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