I was on the rifle team briefly my freshman year of high school, Shadle Park HS, Spokane, WA, in the late '70's. The shooting range was in one of the maintenance/utilities tunnels in the basement. One of my classmates' dad was an English teacher and he was the team coach.
School Shooting Range?
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ACP230
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We didn't have one in the school. The JROTC team used the range in the National Guard Armory that was about a block from the high school.
We shot Winchester and Remington target rifles, 52s and 40Xs, I think.
Great rifles. I never shot up to their capabilities but learned stuff I still use.
We shot Winchester and Remington target rifles, 52s and 40Xs, I think.
Great rifles. I never shot up to their capabilities but learned stuff I still use.
Cooter Brown
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Was this Decatur, Georgia? If so, you shot on the same range my father did. Back then it was Decatur Boy's High. He was Captain of the team there and coach of the Decatur Girl's High team. He said most of the girls were excellent shooters.
You may have even shot some of the same guns--he still speaks very fondly of the M22s.
Some time in late '43 Uncle Sam decided he needed Dad more than Decatur Boy's High did. He finished HS after the war.
jrm53
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We had an article in Sundays Arkansas Democrat Gazette about the Huntsville Ar high school trap shooting team, it seems a lot of High Schools are fielding a trap shooting team with competion other schools, this can only help our firearms cause. Jeff
Absolutely, St John's Military Academy, 1965-69. It had an excellent underground/indoor range. We had a small bore rifle team, issue weapon was Anschutz, but I used my Winchester 52 and generally outshot the other guys. My 52 was made in 1939, and was my uncle's gun, also on the SJMA rifle team. He used it when he won the 1943 National Championship, along with the Team National Championship. That rifle is one of my most treasured possessions. The range is still there, and still in use, although I believe a switch to air rifles was made due to EPA concerns over the ventilation system. I returned in 2009 (could 40 years have passed so quickly?) and did shoot an air rifle on the range, it was quite nostalgic. Wish I could have used the 52.
JM4151
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High School Shooting Ranges
I went to Collingdale, Pa HS. We did not have a shooting range. We did have a hunting club at the school. I belonged to a gun club called the Delaware County Field & Stream, still do! They had an arrangement with a neighboring school for their Jr members to shoot our 22 rifles in the school cafeteria, ever Wednesday night in the winter. This was in the late 1950 or early 1960's. It was a 50 feet range. Can you imagine shooting so close to where food was served, today. My rifle was a Winchester 75, that I still have today. Many of the schools in Delaware County did have ranges. Even Swarthmore College had a range in the late 50's, it was on the second floor of one of their buildings and my father had access to it. The building has since been torn down.
I went to Collingdale, Pa HS. We did not have a shooting range. We did have a hunting club at the school. I belonged to a gun club called the Delaware County Field & Stream, still do! They had an arrangement with a neighboring school for their Jr members to shoot our 22 rifles in the school cafeteria, ever Wednesday night in the winter. This was in the late 1950 or early 1960's. It was a 50 feet range. Can you imagine shooting so close to where food was served, today. My rifle was a Winchester 75, that I still have today. Many of the schools in Delaware County did have ranges. Even Swarthmore College had a range in the late 50's, it was on the second floor of one of their buildings and my father had access to it. The building has since been torn down.
Erich
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Had a nice one in the student union at college, but not at high school. Had a planetarium at high school, tho! 
Biginge
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Byrd High school, Shreveport,La. Did have a rifle range affiliated with ROTC program. I kept my 870 Remington in the trunk of my car. Duck hunted a lot in those days before and after school. Mr. Graves who patrolled the parking lot on grounds was 100 % aware of this .. NO rules against guns on campus in 1956-1960. Whoa am I that old?
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Bill
Regards
Bill
captorquewrench
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We didn't have a shooting range, but we did have a smoking area.
Cooter Brown
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That's really neat. I'll tell the Dad.
He said the ROTC and rifle training helped get him through the war...
noslolo
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Sure did.......Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro VA. Go figure...It was an Army JROTC school.
Straightshooter2
US Veteran
Just out of curiosity, what model Springfield? I have an old Springfield Model 50 (Springfield Jr.) from around 1930. Pretty sure it used to be one of the R.E. Lee team guns but was sold by the school when they upgraded to newer .22s.
CW
Texas1941
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Jesse Jones High School in Houston had a 50' range in the ROTC building. I think most of the high schools in Houston did at that time.
My junior year, I was coach of the girls rifle team. I recall it being a very good year indeed. The girls used 513Ts and the boys team used 40Xs.
My junior year, I was coach of the girls rifle team. I recall it being a very good year indeed. The girls used 513Ts and the boys team used 40Xs.
CAJUNLAWYER
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Yea...it was called the hallway
captorquewrench
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Yea...it was called the hallway
I think I used to work there.
tomf52
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Abraham Clark High School, Roselle NJ. Had a fifty foot indoor range in the basement. Many a morning I stood outside waiting for the doors to the school to open with my Stevens 414 Armory slung on my shoulder. Still have that gun. Imagine standing outside a high school today with a firearm in plain sight?
westcoast362
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In Southern California no less. There was an ROTC range under the auditorium. I think they had Winchester M-52's. It was a brand new school in 1959.
Cooter Brown
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Slightly off topic, but I went to Chattanooga a couple of weeks ago to shoot some sporting clays--when we got there the parking lot was overflowing.
There were 2 or 3 local high school teams there having a skeet competition--girls and boys on the same teams as far as I could tell.
And those kids could shoot.
There were 2 or 3 local high school teams there having a skeet competition--girls and boys on the same teams as far as I could tell.
And those kids could shoot.
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