Routine maintenance, including rebuilding target-line stations, cutting grass and other clean-up activities, often required the closure of ranges for several hours every month. To help keep costs down, and allow these funds to be diverted to other projects and programs, users should:. Unless otherwise posted, ranges are open year-round, from 8 a.
See the exception for Scotia Range below. Please contact the appropriate Region Office to check the daily status of ranges you wish to visit.
Shooters should show consideration for others waiting for an open bench. It is common, especially leading up to the bear and deer seasons, to find an adult teaching a youngster how to shoot, or to find someone having difficulty sighting-in a rifle. Please be patient in such circumstances, and if it seems appropriate, offer assistance.
Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by someone 18 or older. Range permits and hunting or furtaker licenses do not need to be displayed while using a state game lands public shooting range, but must be in possession, as well as a secondary form of identification.
All ranges both inside and outside the security fence at Scotia Range are open Monday through Sunday from 8 a. The building and facilities will not be open unless the two metal gates leading to the building, inside of the security fence are open. There is a gate on Scotia Range Road in front of the range complex and another inside the security fence that are open two weeks before and through hunting seasons from the beginning of archery deer season to the end of the extended deer seasons in January plus Spring Gobbler season.
Outside of hunting seasons, both gates are closed; use the information below to access the range of your choice. If you happen to enter Scotia Range Road from the side of the gate opposite your range of choice, you will have to walk approximately yards from the gate to the range.
Between January after the flintlock deer season until around the middle of March depending on weather conditions , Range Road will be closed PDF north of the shooting ranges to Heritage Trail Road.
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Range regulations, permits, locations, and information. The Game Commission continues to provide resources for shooters — hunters and non-hunters alike — by maintaining shooting ranges on State Game Lands across the Commonwealth.
To find a range near you. More than miles of roads are open seasonally on state game lands. Seasonal openings are based on hunting seasons, road conditions and safety. To find the locations of season roads on game lands, please visit our Mapping Center. Hunters and trappers with disabilities can find additional information on the Permits for Hunters with Disabilities page. Permitted persons can access state game lands using ATVs on these designated routes.
Note: This information is in the process of being updated. Please reach out to the region directly if no routes are listed. Designated routes for snowmobile use on State Game Lands are open, provided there is sufficient snow, from the third Sunday in January through April 1. Riders may only use snowmobiles that are registered and display valid registration decal.
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