30,000 square foot
Opened 2017
- 26 Indoor Shooting Lanes
- San Antonio’s Only 100-Yard Indoor Range
- Dynamic Virtual Training Simulator
- Shooting and Archery Leagues
- On-Site Full Time Experienced Gunsmith
Mission Ridge
Category Archives: Texas
The Range at Austin
52,000 square foot
Opened in 2016
- 7,000 sq feet of retail space
- Twenty four 25-yard lanes
- Five 100 yard lanes in separated rifle bay
- 25 & 100 yard lanes
- Gunsmithing
The Range at Austin
8301 S IH-35 Frontage Rd.
Austin, TX 78744
737-802-3700
The Range at Austin
Shoot Smart
Best of the West Shooting Sports
opened 2010 – Sept, 2019
400 acres
Liberty Hill, Texas
- 2014 – 2017 Hosted Texas Firearm Festival
- partner of Best of the West Shooting Sports in Liberty Hill, TX
- They were notified that beginning Monday, August 26, 2019, we will not be allowed to have rifles of any kind used on the range
Best of the West Shooting Sports
19500 W. SH 29
Liberty Hill, TX 78642
(512) 366-7700
Sportsman’s Elite
opened in 2008
13,000 sqft
- 5,000 square feet of retail
- 14 indoor shooting lanes – 75 feet
- the only 5 Star Range in West Texas
Store: Sportsman’s Elite
Visit Date: 10-31-2012
Location: El Paso, Texas
Selection: No idea, they were closed
Staff: They were inside, they saw us waiting outside but didn’t open 10 minutes early to let us in
Prices: Since they weren’t interested in opening the doors to let us look around, we went to breakfast instead
Sportsman’s Elite
4520 Doniphan Dr.
El Paso, Texas 79922
http://www.sportsmanseliteep.com
Bracken Rifle and Pistol Recreational Range
opened in 1986
Northeast San Antonio’s Original Shooting Range
- Originally part of the Marbach family homestead
once covered by fields of soybeans, potatoes, and sunflowers - 1960 purchased by W. Paul Vordenbaum, from his grandparents
- 1970’s Mr. Vordenbaum sold gravel, sand, and clay to developers,
resulting in the pit today - 1986, Bracken Rifle Range opened for business
- Fully Handicapped Accessible
Bracken Rifle and Pistol Recreational Range
Shooting range in Comal County, Texas
National Shooting Complex
671 acres
built in 1973
- headquarters for the National Skeet Shooting Association
- headquarters for theNational Sporting Clays Association
- hosts the World Skeet Championships
- hosts the National Sporting Clays Championship
- NSSA – NSCA Museum & Hall of Fame
- November 1961 permanent NSSA library Museum and Hall of Fame created
- 1969 an estimated 10 cubic feet of material had been collected
- 1973 NSSA moved from Dallas to San Antonio on the grounds of the Texas International Gun Club
- 1989 a dedicated facility was required for museum
- 2002 Construction was started on present building
National Shooting Complex
5931 Roft Road
San Antonio, Texas 78253
(210) 688-3371 or (800) 877-5338
Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
100s of Guns
Opened in 1968
Waco, Texas
- Hundreds of Guns in multiple galleries
- A very good firearm museum
- Commemorates 30 Texas Rangers in Hall of Fame
- Open almost every day
- Adults $8.00 / Children $4.00
Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
100 Texas Ranger Trail
Waco, TX 76706
(254) 750-8631
GUNS OF FORT FISHER Booklet
Fort Fisher Museum and Park, Interstate Highway 35 and Lake Brazos, Waco, Texas
8.5″ x 11″, 20 page staple bound booklet, Published by Parks and Recreation Department, City of Waco, Texas, First Edition, copyright 1973
From his youth, Gaines de Graffenried demonstrated an interest in the study and collecting of antique and historic guns and weapons. He devoted the major portion of his life to this pursuit and eventually assembled one of the most extensive and valuable collections in the nation, eventually displaying his collection at the Fort Fisher Museum in Waco. Color photographs of 40 Colt firearms owned by former Texas Rangers. Includes material on Jack Hays, Clint Peoples, Frank Hamer, Ben McCulloch, G. W. Burks, Bill McDonald, and others.
Elm Fork Shooting Sports
467 acres
Opened in mid-1960’s
partnership between the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department and Elm Fork Shooting Sports
- Beginner Trap
- ATA Trap
- Wobble Trap
- American Skeet
- 5-Stand
- 2 (100-target) Championship Sporting Clay Courses
- 1 (50-target) Vintage Sporting Clays Course
- 100-yard Rifle Range
- Large baffled pistol bays
- Tactical Bay
- 50-yard rifle range
- 2 Pro Shops
- Large Clubhouse
- 5,000 square foot Pavilion
host facility for Texans Archery Club
Elm Fork Shooting Sports
10751 Luna Road
Dallas TX 75220
972-556-0103
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
600 on display 1,200+ in collection
1932
Canyon, Texas
- 1921 Panhandle-Plains Historical Society created
- 1932 construction of Pioneer Hall began
- on the campus of what is now West Texas A&M University
– originally 12,500 square-foot
– 75 West Texas cattle brands surrounded the entrance - 1973, West Texas State University donated its former library to the museum
- 1986 museum expanded 75,000 square-foot to connect the existing museum and the former WTSU library
- largest history museum in Texas
- 285,000 square feet
- over two million artifacts
- Winchester Model 1873 owned by legendary Comanche leader Quanah Parker
- pieces going back as far as the Spanish explorers of the 15th century