Category Archives: Nebraska

Heartland Public Shooting Park

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started in 2005

420 acres

  • Part of the World War II Cornhusker Army Ammunition plant property
  • 2005 the park was purchased by Grand Island from Hall County
  • Public Park is operated under the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Grand Island, Nebraska
  • largest, most complete public shooting facility in the Midwest
  • Virgil Eihusen Skeet Fields
  • 10-station sporting clay range
  • six lighted skeet shooting ranges
  • four lighted trap shooting ranges
  • Five Stand Range
  • Olympic Bunker Trap
  • Rifle Ranges 25, 50, 100, 200, 300 and 600-yard
  • Handgun Ranges Out To 50 Yards
  • Archery Range
  • Catch and Release Fishing Lake
  • Shotguns Available for Rent
  • 2012 annual zombie shoot, Zombies in the Heartland
  • 2018  Olympic bunker trap range built
  •  annual National 4-H Shooting Sports Championship

Heartland Public Shooting Park
6788 W. Husker Highway
Alda, NE  68810

(308) 385-5048

https://www.giparks.com/facilities/heartland-public-shooting-park/location

Museum of the Fur Trade

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800 guns on display

1956

Chadron, Nebraska

  • 1837 James Bordeaux’s trading post established
  •  founded by Charles E. Hanson, Jr.
  • 1953 acquired site property
  • 1956 trading post was reconstructed on its original foundation stones
  • 1956 opened to the public
  • Included in the National Register of Historic Places
  • most complete collection of these rare firearms in existence
  • Indian trade guns manufactured between 1640 and 1911 in England, Belgium and the United States