The Mount Isa range is located 15km from Mount Isa on the Mount Isa-Cloncurry Road (15300m from the overlander hotel).
Access to the range is restricted to organised shoots, these are normally on Wednesday morning, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon or for booked shoots (see the Booking the Range Page).
Opening and closing the range.
This document explains the opening and closing procedures
Safety
For registered shoots there must be a qualified range officer in attendance, for shoots outside of this a licensed person can be the nominated range officer.
The range officer must be licensed for each category to be fired and must be familiar with and enforce range standing orders.
A minimum of 2 people must be present for any shoot.
There is a first aid kit at the range.
Dress appropriately, COVERED FOOTWEAR, be sun smart.
There is no water at the range so shooters are to bring their own.
Limited Telstra coverage at the gate but none at the range.
No alcohol is to be consumed at the rage whilst the range is operational (Flags are up)
The front gate is to remain locked and flags (or red lights) displayed.
Range Standing Orders
Types of shooting
The range is 300m and can accommodate most shooting disciplines (not shotgun)
Steel targets cannot be used but soft targets (milk bottles, juice containers) are fine just clean up after yourself.
It is the responsibility of the range officer to ensure the practice is safe and in line with range standing orders.
Maintenance
Every so often there will be a working bee at the range, the more members that attend the better. As well as reducing the work on those that do attend it increases the club type atmosphere.
The facilities are owned by the members and paid for out of membership fees. Reckless behaviour such as shooting things other than targets or driving on closed roads not only costs the club financially but ruins the reputation of the club and gun owners in general. There is no shortage of organisations that like to portray gun owners as irresponsible minorities, behaviour like this does nothing to improve this image.
