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Shooters World

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Built in 1988

  • 24 air conditioned lanes
  • over 100 handguns and rifles for rent
  • Club Facilities and Member’s Lounge
  • two large classrooms
  • Largest Indoor range in Arizona ?
  • Once the largest indoor range in the Southwest USA

3828 North 28th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ  85017

Phone: 602.266.2600
Fax: 602.230.8620

2nd location located at:

Shooters World
8966 West Cactus Road
Peoria, AZ 85381 623-776-7200

Titan II Missile Museum

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1 (one) 9 Megaton Titan II Thermonuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

May 21, 1986

Sahuarita, AZ

  • Air Force Facility Missile Site 8
  • Titan II ICBM Site 571-7
  • 571st Strategic Missile Squadron (SMS)
  • 390th Strategic Missile Wing (SMW)
  • 1963 – became operational
  • November 11, 1982 – 571-7 came off alert
  • February of 1983 – concept of museum began
  • 1984 – deactivated 
  • September 1985 – Silo given to Pima County for a Museum
  • May 21, 1986 – Titan Missile Museum opened to the public run by the nonprofit Arizona Aerospace Foundation
  • 1994 – declared a National Historic Landmark

Titan Missile Museum
1580 W. Duval Mine Rd.
Sahuarita, Arizona 85629

Phone
520-625-7736

Email
info@titanmissilemuseum.org

Pima Air Space Museum

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350+ aircraft

Tucson, AZ

May 8, 1976

  • September 11, 1968 -320 acres of BLM Land given to Pima County for the museum for $800
  • March 22, 1969 – Republic of India retired the last operational Consolidated B-24 Liberator and gave it to the museum
  • April 27, 1969, thirty-one days and 11,000 miles after leaving India
  • approximately 30 acres of the new park for the initial museum site
  •  August 1973 – acquired the last of the World War II barracks buildings at Davis-Monthan
  • Opened to the public in May 8, 1976
  • Opened with 48 aircraft on display
  • World’s largest non-government funded aerospace museum
  • 127 acres
  • 1982 first hangar built
  • November 11, 1982 – Titan silo was deactivated
  • 1984 – 390th Memorial Museum opened
  • May 8, 1986 – Titan Missile Museum opened to the public 
  • 1987 second hangar built for  administrative offices, library, archives, collections storage and a small exhibit gallery for the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
  • 1990 – restoration hangar built
  • 1992 – name of the museum was changed to “Pima Air & Space Museum”
  • 1992 third hangar built – World War II aircraft & B-24J Liberator
  • 1994 fourth hangar built
  • 1995 – name of the foundation was changed to “The Arizona Aerospace Foundation.”
  • 1999 – Space Gallery opened
  • 2006 – Hangar 1 Expanded
  • 2010 – Hangar 1 expanded again (20,000sq feet)
  • 2015 given the second Boeing 787 aircraft to be built
  • 2016 given the first McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital
  • 2020 – 350+ aircraft
    100,000 square feet of indoor display space

Gunsite Academy

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3,000-acre

founded in 1976 

  • 1976–1992 American Pistol Institute
    “Orange Gunsite”
  • September 1976 First Class
  • 1992 Cooper sold the American Pistol Institute
  • 1992–1999 Gunsite Training Center 
    “Grey Gunsite”
  • December 10, 1999 bought by Buz Mills
    renamed “Gunsite Academy
  • 2003 Buz Mills retired

Owning a piano does not make one a pianist any more than owning a handgun makes one a good shooter.

Lt. Col. Cooper

Gunsite Academy
2900 W. Gunsite Rd.
Paulden, AZ.  86334

928-636-4565

Cowtown Range

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built in 1973

  • built by Hollywood stuntman, Ron Nix
  • movie studio and general entertainment and shooting facility
  • 200 movies and television episodes have been filmed at Cowtown
    – Knight Rider 2010
    – Billy Jack
    – Dead Man
  • Cowboy Action shooters
  • Single Action Shooting Society (SASS)

Cowtown Range
10402 W Old Carefree Hwy
Peoria, AZ 85383

 623 398 7543

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Ben Avery Shooting Facility

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1,650 acres

Opened in 1960

  • Originally named the Black Canyon Shooting Range
  • 1961-2009 run by Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association
  • 1970 host of the ISSF World Shooting Championships
  • 1992 renamed Ben Avery Range
  • 1995 AZGFD took over operation of the range
  • 1996 renamed Ben Avery Shooting Facility
  • 67 positions at distances from 5 yards to 200 yards
  • 6 Clay Target Centers w/ trap and skeet, sporting clays & five-stand
  • Indoor airgun and archery building firing positions for 40 Air Guns OR Archery
  • Smallbore Range –  lighting for night shooting 25 – 100 yards
  • High Power Range 100 – 1,000 yards
  • Rifle Silhouette Range
  • DPS – Uncovered 100 yard range
  • Benchrest Range – 300 yards
  • 6 Practical Pistol Bays
  • Pistol Silhouette Range – A covered cement shooting pad featuring silhouette animals at varying distances out to 200 meters
  • Cowboy Mounted Shooting arena

Ben Avery Shooting Facility
4044 W. Black Canyon Blvd.
Phoenix, Arizona 85086
623 582-8313

https://www.azgfd.com/shooting/basf/

Three Points Public Shooting Range

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created in 1896

  • 1896 Tucson Rifle Club was first organized
  • 1919 chartered by the National Rifle Association
  • Originally on a tract of land that is now the site of Pima College West
  • 1967 Three Points Public Shooting Range
  • 1968  held the first State High Power Rifle Silhouette Championships
  •  held the first National High Power Rifle Silhouette Championships
  • held the first National Championships for Pistol Silhouette
  • April 12, 1969 Three Points Public Shooting Range was officially dedicated
  • 1969 Milt Hood received the NRA’s National Service Award in recognition of his work in building the Three Points Public Shooting Range
  • Tucson Rifle Club

Tucson Rifle Club, Inc.
Three Points Public Shooting Range
18300 West Ajo Highway
Tucson, AZ 85735-9729

http://www.tucsonrifleclub.org/