East End Rod & Gun Club

If you shoot in the Blacksmith building, you have seen these along the left side:

These are target stands for the Cowboy Action event, made from flexible construction rebar, which is easy to bend and weld into useful shapes.  However, the rebar steel is not hardened, like AR500 steel.  The cowboy shoots use low velocity powder with soft lead bullets, which are unlikely to damage the soft steel.  The stands are purchased and built by Cowboy Action members, and are not available for general use.  

That's because modern ammunition, with hardened bullets and higher velocities, will snap these stands like a twig.  These are stored in the open for convenience of Cowboy Action, not general range members.

So this arrangement is a no-no:

Thank you for your cooperation!

300 Bird Event - 150 Targets at Each Club

There be a winter five stand league, taking place over five weekends at both the Walla Walla Gun Club and the East End Rod & Gun Club. There will be the opportunity to shoot 500 targets at each club and only count your best 150 per club toward your league score. The shoot dates at the two clubs are shown below, and have been posted on the club calendar. 

The shoots will be held on both Saturday and Sunday.  This allows those with church commitments an opportunity to get their league targets. 

Both courses will go through some level of change every week so there will be “new” and challenging targets/menus throughout the league shoot calendar. There will also be a Lewis Class money pot which provides for money splits through the shoot roster, not just the top score(s).

The Walla Walla Club Five Stand is open every Sunday at 9 AM for practice until the league calendar kicks in.  It's probably a good idea to burn some powder there and at the East End on January 16th in preparation for a fun competition!

SHOOT DAYS:

Ranges open at 9:00 AM

• Maximum of 100 league targets per shoot day.
• League targets will be first round(s) for the shoot day.
• Non-League targets can be shot and must be declared.
• 150 East End targets will be 75 report-pair and 75 true-pair.
• Potential 500 targets per Club (5 shoot days, 100 targets/day). Only your highest scores will count toward club league score.
• $6.00/ five stand round (25 targets) or a punch on your card at WWGC.
• $30.00 buy-in required for Modified Lewis Class options. Modified Lewis will be divided as follows: 1) 35% of total purse will be paid to top two scores, and will be divided 60-40 percentage. 2) 65% of total purse will be divided into four Lewis Classes, with one money to each class. The third score will lead the first class.
• NSCA Rules

There's a real risk of ground richochets and high shots going from the Action Range into the Rifle Range.  The club has rebuilt the Action Range to mitigate that risk, but members have a role in that mitigation.

Here is the new layout of the Action Range:

As you can see below, part of the impact area from the Action Range, from the two right hand firing positions, includes the 500 and 600 berms on the rifle range:

All targets must be no more than six (6) feet from an impact berm.  This minimizes ground richocets and high shots, which could go into the Rifle Range.  That risk is NOT eliminated, which is why firing on the Action Range ceases when members go past the 200 yard berm.

If you look at the next photo, you can see where members have been shooting well away from the 40 yard berm.  Again, all targets on the Action Range must be no more than 6 feet from any impact berm.

If you want to shoot at targets at less than 40 yards, use the pistol bays, keeping in mind the limits on which firearms are acceptable in that part of the range.  

Here's a close of that location:

 And this how shooters should be alligned on the Action Range:

Club members put a lot of time and money into having a safe shooting range.

Some people don't respect that.  Ecoblocks in the falling plate bays have been damaged by gun fire:

Not only is this destructive, it's dangerous.  Shooting steel plates that are positioned to deflect bullets away from shooters is one thing; shooting a vertical wall of concrete is another thing. 

Both bays have this problem:

This may not be deliberate targeting of the ecoblocks, but a result of placing portable target stands in the falling plate bays.  This is against range rules; the only targets allowed in the falling plate bays are the falling plates themselves.

If you see anyone using portable target stands in the falling plate bays, please ask them to remove them.  If they decline to do so, please let the club leaders know by calling (541) 203-0124.  Note that this is a MESSAGE phone only, please leave a message and someone will get back to you.  An e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is also acceptable. 

Thank you for your cooperation.