Shooting Ranges
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS – SHOOTING RANGES
The following is a list of pertinent Shooting Range projects on which C. VARGAS & ASSOCIATES, LTD. has performed engineering design services. This list is of completed projects similar in scope to projects under consideration previously performed by CVA and references to include owner’s contact person and telephone number. We have described any outstanding accomplishments of CVA that are related to the specific services being sought. Letters of recommendation or awards won, which reflect on the professional accomplishments of CVA are also included.
TIA Firing Range, Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida
Design a 16-man, 2 bay covered, 10 point dynamic firing range.
Construction Cost: $1,500,000
Contact:
Mike Aubuchon, Rañon & Partners, Inc. Architects,
515 W. Bay Street
Suite 200
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 253-3465
Email: m.aubuchon@ranon.com
Cabarrus County Firing Range, Concord, North Carolina
Master plan Cabarrus County Law Enforcement Training Facility. Preliminarily evaluate an undisturbed area of the existing landfill site as a Regional Target Range and Park for Cabarrus County as an economic generation project.
Determine the feasibility and develop a preliminary sketch plan for a regional shooting park that will serve the region and to develop the park as a sheriff’s office operated facility with a strong training component for law enforcement.
Establish state a regional range demand and develop the programmed space requirements for the facilities and development a preliminary sketch plan and a budget there from.
Construction Cost: $7,000,000
Contact: Mike Downs, Cabarrus County, 65 Church Street, Concord, NC 28025
Email: MKDowns@cabarruscounty.us
CAAP Sportsman’s Complex, Grand Island, Nebraska
To design the following ranges in accordance with the Master Plan and Cost Estimate: 1) All purpose plinking rifle range, 30 positions spaces, 6-ft on centers, 25, 50 75 & 100 yard and 50, 75 and 100 meter rail, 2) Centerfire Rifle Range, 20 positions spaced 10-ft on centers, (8) 200, (6) 300 and (6) 600 yard range, 3) Bullseye Pistol Range, 30 position spaced 4-ft on center, 25/50 yards 4) Plinking Pistol Range, 30 positions spaced 4-ft on center, 7/15 yards and 50-ft, 5) Action Pistol Complex, 12 bays, 10 bays – 25 yard, 2 bays, 60 yard.
Construction Cost: $2,200,000
Contact: Steve Paustian, 100 East First Street, Box 1968, Grand Island, NE 68802, (308) 385-5444 Ext. 290
Email: spaustian@grand-island.com
World Shooting Complex, Sparta, Illinois
Develop the master plan design standards and design details for 100 trap fields, 50 skeet overlay fields, 2 sporting clay’s courses, rifle and pistol ranges, 3D archery ranges and ATV trails.
Construction Cost: $30,000,000
Contact: Gary Wilken, Cochran and Wilken, (217) 585-8300
E-mail: gwilken@cochran-wilken.com
Master Plan: Page 3-C
The Grove Shooting Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida
Master Plan and design a 6 square mile sport shooting resort in southwest Florida. Estimated development cost seventy million dollars.
Contact: Stephen Alexander, Auto In-Store, 239-395-9203
E-mail: Salexander@autoinstore.com
Coral Springs Police Shooting Range, Broward County, Florida
Design of firing range improvements and modifications to 50 yard covered pistol and 100 yard rifle range, including pistol and baffle rifle ranges, construction masonry block walls, a bullet trap system, lead removal services, separate controllers for east and west 50 yard ranges target turning system, construction of one-story training facility and construction of water/sewer facilities to sire from off-site sources.
Construction Cost: $1,200,000
Contact: Terry McKnight, Range Officer, (954) 345-2224
Email: tm@coralsprings.org
Butler County JVSD, Butler County, Ohio
Design of a 20-position indoor shooting range with a 50,000 sf building complex. The range will be suitable for static and dynamic training.
Construction cost: $8,000,000
Contact: Bob Bartolt, Steed, Hammond & Paul, 513-863-5441
E-mail: bbartolt@shpinc.com
*Award received in April 2005 from the National School Board Association
South Carolina State Shooting Range Program, Columbia, South Carolina
Design of shooting range program to include the development of a prototypical shooting range design. The site adaptation of the approved definitive drawings at 3 sites around the state, may include rifle, pistol and archery static ranges.
Construction Cost: $300,000
Contact: Tim Ivy, SCDNR, Chief of Wildlife Management (803) 734-4119
Email: Ivey@scdnr.state.sc.us
Tenoroc Shooting Range, Phase II, Polk County, Florida
Design of Phase II small arms outdoor shooting range expansion to 90 acre site including sporting clay range, clay target range with tower, meeting room, restrooms and storage building, ADA archery platforms and water distribution system.
Construction Cost: $500,000
Contact: Cardinal Collins, Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission 850.488.9388
Email: cardinal.collins@fwc.state.fl.us
*Site selected for 2005 Outdoor Sports Competetion
Farragut Shooting Range, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Master Plan and Schematic Design for the Farragut Shooting Range. The comprehensive shooting park that will consider and include: 1.200-yard rifle range, 2.50/100 yard small bore range, 3.25/50 yard pistol range, 4.10 bays for action pistol/cowboy or IPSIC range, 5.500/600 yard range (military qualification and high power events), 6.Shot-gunning opportunity possible including regulation trap & skeet ranges, 7. Sectionalized range design so that some public shooting opportunity can be maintained concurrent with reserved range use for organized events., 8 Archery range., 9. Storage areas to rent to organized user groups on a fee basis., 10 Range building with kitchen/bathroom
facilities to house concession and have sufficient space to be legally occupied by 100 people. This facility will be available for hunter conservation/gun safety education, as an activity center during competitive/organized shooting events, open to the general public shooter, and when the range is closed to other groups for meetings not necessarily related to the primary mission of the range, 11 One RV and one portable cabin hook-up to house seasonal on-site range masters., 12 Perimeter
safety fence, 13. Area with outdoor picnic tables to accommodate range users away from the firing lines., 14. Mounted shooting activities facility.
Construction Cost: $2,000,000
Contact: David White, Idaho Dept. of Parks and Recreation, (208) 769-1511
E-mail: dwhite@idpr.state.id.us
Markham Park Target Range Expansion, Broward County, Florida
Study for expansion and write up. Upgrade of Markham Park Range Construction Cost: $2,200,000
Construction Cost: $2,000,000
Contact: Lee Swain, Dial Cordy, 490 Osceola Ave
Jacksonville Beach, Fl 32250 32082 (904) 241-8821
Email: lswain@dialcordy.com
Del Norte Gun Club, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Design of a Master Plan for a shooting complex. The private club encompasses 640 acres and will feature outdoor ranges for high-powered rifles, pistols, archery, trap and skeet sporting clays, law enforcement facilities, with future plans for indoor ranges. A family club, the facility will also feature a campground, clubhouse, offices and classrooms for various certifications.
Construction Cost: $7,000,000
Contact: David Leestma, Del Norte Gun Club, (505)-897-1779
E-mail: david.j.leestma@worldnet.att.net
Master Plan: Page 10-A
delnortegunclub.com
Horton Sports Shooting Complex, Horton, Kansas
Design of a 50 yard pistol, 100-yard rifle range law enforcement. Berms, backstops and a covered firing line.
Construction Cost: $400,000
Contact: Ross Robbins, Kansas Dept. of Wildlife & Parks,(620) 672-5911
E-mail: rossr@wp.state.ks.us
hortonkansas.org
Blue Mountain Sportsman’s Center, Westchester County, New York
Construct a 25 position Bulls Eye Range with target lines at 15-25-50 yds. A 50 yd 15 position 6 ft oc target Action Pistol Range with a rubber backstop trap. A 25 yd Moving Target Range for law enforcement training range. Rebuilt the Practical Pistol Range only 25 yds deep as opposed to the existing 50 yd range.
The bullet traps will be preconstructed for the 50 yd Action Pistol Range and site-constructed for the other three (3) pistol ranges. In addition to the bullet trap backstops, the design provides an overhead baffle and horizontal bullet catcher to prevent potential skips and overshooting of the bullet traps and are proposed to be installed up range of the back stops.
The Large Bore Range is presently used for high power rifle shooting from a fixed firing line with target lines at 50, 100, 200 and 300 yards. Shooting is done from fixed benchrest positions under a steel reinforced roof, the edge of which is positioned so as to prevent errant shots from being fired at a sufficiently high angle to overshoot the downrange hillside. The improvement of the large bore range consist of rearranging the shooting positions so that 100 yd shooting occurs on the west half of the range and 200 yd shooting occurs at the East half where the 300 yd shooting is being eliminated and 25 yd “sight in” shooting will be permitted at the mid point of the range only.
Range Officers will be required to be on duty at all times when the ranges are open, whose duties include stopping any shooters that are not consistently hitting the backstops; this method of operation will minimize the occurrence of errant shots. Range Officers and bullet traps will reduce the amount of contamination introduced into the environment.
Relocation of the 50 yd target line to 25 yd shooting as shown will essentially eliminate shooting into the wetlands. The backstops and barriers will prevent the distribution of bullets into habitats beyond the range and will allow periodic removal of bullets.
The Small Bore Range was designed for .22 caliber rifle shooting and was formally closed in 1984.
At present, there are four combination trap and skeet fields at the Center. Present operation distributes shotgun pellets over approximately 18.5 acres of lawn and wooded areas downrange.
Physical barrier to shot distribution involves construction of a physical barrier “shot curtain” to intercept shot and keep it out of areas from which routine recovery would be impractical or impossible.
Construction Cost: $5,500,000
Contact: Gene Fisk, Westchester County, White Plains, NY, 914-995-2693
Email: esf1@westchestergov.com
Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office Shooting Range, Palm Beach County, Florida
Design of rehabilitation Sheriff’s Office public shooting range including pistol, rifle, archery, sporting clay ranges and associated improvements. Also included is a range masters office building and shooting range canopies including all mechanical, electrical and structural design as required, associated parking areas, storm drainage system, utilities, site lighting for parking area, soil testing and cost estimating.
Construction Cost: $1,900,000
Contact: Dana Gillette, PE, Crossroads
Engineering & Surveying, Inc. 561-753-9723
E-mail: crossroads-engineering@att.net
Contact 2: Layne Schultetus
Email: layne01gun@aol.com
Gateway Rifle & Pistol Club, Jacksonville, Florida
Site design and permitting of a 7,200 sq. ft. clubhouse with indoor shooting range and roads and drainage range improvements to support clubhouse, storm water design, on-site fire flow storage facility. Drainage design and construction of the club and the re-building higher of all berms at the 22- acre complex; 90,000 cubic yards total fill.
Construction Cost: $1,170,000
Contact: Dennis Glasscock,
Gateway Rifle and Pistol Club,
President 904-389-2782
Email: dglasscock@aol.com
Rowan County Range, Rowan County, North Carolina
Site study and master plan preparation.
Construction Cost: $1,500,000
Contact: Claude Paris, Rowan County Wildlife Association, (704) 279-4049
E-mail cparis@webkorner.com
http://www.rcwanc.com/
Construction Cost: $174,000
Contact: Ross Robbins, Kansas Dept. of Wildlife & Parks, 620- 672-5911
E-mail: rossr@wp.state.ks.us
Tucson Rod and Gun Club, Tucson, Arizona
Schematics sufficient to demonstrate to the USDA Forest Service how the Tucson Rod and Gun Club (TR&GC) plans to comply with the “No Blue Sky” design requirements (No bullets will leave range property either by direct exit or by ricochet) and the noise attenuation methods proposed.
Construction Cost: $2,500,000
Contact: David Hardy, TR&GC, (520) 749-3283
E-mail: dthardy@mindspring.com
Exelon Station Firearms Training Range, Byron, Clinton and Quad City, IL
Exelon Station Firearms Training Range Projects: Design range improvements including “no blue sky” structures for the 300 meter ranges.Construction of overhead baffles, a new 100-yard elevated target platforms, 12 military target carrier and for the 200-yard target line.
Contact: David Stanley (815) 406-3349 David.Standley@exeloncorp.com
Miami College of Policing
Indoor static/dynamic training range design, 75 feet long with 14 lanes capable of handling shotgun, riffle and pistol.
All 14 firing positions are visible from the Range Master Control Room. The communication system allows the Range Master in the Range Master Control Room to call, listen and converse with each shooting lane at the 3,7,15 and 25 yards firing lines respectively and with all shooters in the range.
Range Designing:
14 positions, firing lanes 75-feet by 3.5 feet each
Column free area
Dynamic/static training functionality
Ballistic protection, as required
Acoustical treatments, and sound isolation
PA System
.Bullet trap(lead free)
Construction Cost: $ 2,000,000
Contact: Doug McKenzie, Spillis Candella 800 Douglas Entrance
Coral Gables, FL 33134-3119 (305) 447-3528 Doug.McKenzie@dmjmhn.aecom.com
Construction: February/2006 to August/2006
Owner Contact: Martin Garcia, Martin.Garcia@miami-police.org
Colorado Outdoor Education and Recreation Complex
The Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) selected C. Vargas & Associates, Ltd to lead a team of consultants to provide the professional services for Programming and Master Planning this Outdoor Shooting Range and Educational Park Complex.
The complex will feature a variety of activities for the avid sportsman.
Construction Cost: $ 80,000,000
Contact: Colorado Division of Wildlife, Craig Workman, P.E., Planning / Consultants
6060 Broadway
Denver, CO 80216
(303) 291-7401