Rifle Shooting Pictures

After shooting a round, Scouts go out to the targets and swap them out and find out if they qualified for their requirements.

Director Mike Arles looks on as Scouts eye up their targets.

Scouts wait patiently to shoot as they receive safety instruction at the Rifle Range.

Frazer 176 Soutmaster Erv Meyer in the late ’60s.

Scouts retrieve their targets after shooting at the Rifle Range in the ’70s. The backstop was rotated 90 degrees when the Rifle Range was replaced some years later.

Scouts chill on mats at the rifle range in the ’70s. Shooting was done from the prone position on mats prior to today’s shooting benches.

At the rifle range, several counselors are there. Who are they?

Five .22 shells in blocks ready for distribution to Scouts at the Rifle Range. Who are the counselors? Is that Steve D’Antonio standing in the doorway?

Rifle counselor Doug Clark watches over the Scouts practicing target shooting at the Horseshoe Rifle Range in the early 1980’s.

Scouts line up the target from the prone position at the old Rifle Range.

Scouts take aim at targets using the .22 rifles at the Horseshoe Rifle Range.

The old Rifle Range.

Looking down range at the target while sighting the rifle, this is the vantage point you’ll have.

The rifle range in the mid-90s, where picnic tables were used before individual stations were built.

Pete Filkosky shows rifle safety.

A highlight for many scouts is the chance to fire 22s at the Horseshoe Rifle Range.

Staff member “Topher” Roberts helps a Scout sight and load his rifle.

Scouts from Devon 50 watch from just outside the Rifle Range perimeter.

The Cusick Rifle Range was the name chosen for the Horseshoe Rifle Range in 2023.

In 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, a number of volunteers and donors made this project come together in less than 24 hours. Truly a remarkable feat!

For the 2020 season, the Rifle Range was renamed in honor of longtime volunteer Karl “Moose” Winsch.