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Elm Fork Shooting Range
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:08 pm
by age_ranger
http://www.elmfork.com/
I attended an IDPA match there Wednesday night. Nice looking place. Anyone shoot there?
Re: Elm Fork Shooting Range
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:28 pm
by txinvestigator
age_ranger wrote:http://www.elmfork.com/
I attended an IDPA match there Wednesday night. Nice looking place. Anyone shoot there?
Elm Fork has been around for years. As a teen in the '70's, my father took me shooting there often. He taught security guard classes on weekends.
The man who ran the place, Charlie Reed, was a great guy. He was stern about safety and was a gruff old man, but he had a heart of gold.
When Charlie died, his son Dennis took over. Lets just say that the place developed a bad reputation for a while, especially among the black rifle shooters.
Dennis recently passed away, and his widow is now running things. She is working hard to improve the image of the place, and she is very black rifle friendly.
If you need a one hundred yard rifle range I recommend it.
There is also a nice shotgun range with Skeet and trap on the other side of Elm Fork; although, it is owned by somene else.
Did this Charlie Reed ever move to Wood County, Texas that you know of?
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:53 pm
by HighVelocity
I wasn't at last nights match but I shoot 1-2 IDPA matches a month at Elm Fork.
The matches are run by DAPS (dallas action pistol shooters)
http://www.dallaspistol.com
There are a lot of improvements in progress at Elm Fork. More berms, and enough bays to have more than one match at a time. With the closing of Colin County Gun Range, DAPS is stepping up by holding more matches per month to take up the slack.
There are also USPSA matches held a couple times a month for those that shoot it.
I didn't know that the owner had passed away. His widow seems to be doing a fine job as far as I can tell though.
Gary
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:55 am
by age_ranger
I'll be there Sunday for the match. Hope to see you guys there.....
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:45 pm
by orionengnr
I stopped there one day at lunch time.
Looked like a decent range, and the one range master on the rifle range that day seemed like a good guy.
Guess I gotta go there and shoot. Sure is closer than Gibson's...
its under water
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:24 am
by mwadibe
too bad elm fork is under water right now from all this rain. anyone have an idead when it will be back open?
Re: its under water
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:32 am
by Wildscar
mwadibe wrote:too bad elm fork is under water right now from all this rain. anyone have an idead when it will be back open?
there is no telling. From what HighVelocity told me. The Core Of enginers keep opening the flood gates from due to Lake Lewisville being 20ft high. In doing that it puts Elm Fork underwater. So its going to have to stop raining for while before it can open again.
Re: its under water
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:33 am
by txinvestigator
mwadibe wrote:too bad elm fork is under water right now from all this rain. anyone have an idead when it will be back open?
A few days after the Corps of Engineers closes the gates upstream.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:35 pm
by age_ranger
I hope they keep them closed for a while.....I'm going through some serious withdrawals!!
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:23 pm
by Greybeard
Well ... there may be a little more awa on the way downstream. Lewisville Lake had backed up to the point that the road (Copper Canyon) between our range and SW Denton has been closed for weeks (under water near Old Alton Bridge).
I drove up to the Corps land that it crosses around noon today. It is now open again - but the area looks like mosquito heaven!
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:44 pm
by mwadibe
they have said that the range will open this month does anyone have any idea on how soon it will open
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:41 am
by txinvestigator
mwadibe wrote:they have said that the range will open this month does anyone have any idea on how soon it will open
New info. Denise, who owned the range, sold it to the people who do the shotgun side.
They are completely rebuilding. They are going to have steel plates, a shoot house and all kinds of cool stuff.
I have not heard their anticipated opening date, but I imagine it will be worth the wait.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:09 am
by Wildscar
txinvestigator wrote:mwadibe wrote:they have said that the range will open this month does anyone have any idea on how soon it will open
New info. Denise, who owned the range, sold it to the people who do the shotgun side.
They are completely rebuilding. They are going to have steel plates, a shoot house and all kinds of cool stuff.
I have not heard their anticipated opening date, but I imagine it will be worth the wait.
Thats great news. Thanks for sharing TXI. Miss shooting out there.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:06 pm
by SC1903A3
I'll keep my fingers crossed for those of us that collect Military rifles (Garands, M1 carbines, Mausers, etc) will be allowed to shoot surplus FMJ ammunition that the rifles were designed to use.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:57 am
by mwadibe
if anyone has any more information please let us know