History
In the throes of the Great Depression, a lease from the City Water Dept. was secured with the help of Sam Baxter in 1930 and the Association was founded. The association membership took about five acres of mud flats and ash dumps, and converted them into several shooting ranges, thus providing a safe area for local sportsman to practice their marksmanship skills. Over the course of the past 84 years, association members built a clubhouse, an indoor pistol range with attached meeting room, 2 shotgun ranges for skeet, trap and five-stand, an outdoor pistol range, and a 100-yard rifle range bringing the property to its present configuration. Over these many years we provided range access to the Phila. Police Dept., as well as other local law enforcement groups. Since 1998-99, we provided the Phila. Prisons System with weekday access to the outdoor pistol range, and the indoor range meeting room which they now employ as a classroom.
Specialties
Full service sportsman's and gun club located in NE Philadelphia - featuring rifle, pistol and shotgun (skeet, trap and 5-stand) ranges