“We won’t know the cost until we get the survey and design completed.” “We are encouraging folks to be patient,” Jeffries said Wednesday. The project will be included in the conservation department’s 2024 fiscal year budget, but there’s still no timeline for when work will begin or when target shooters can access the new range, according to Aaron Jeffries, MDC deputy director of outreach and policy. Story continues belowĪ key part of the project will be an environmental cleanup of the closed range to collect lead, copper and other metal fragments that were fired into the berms and keep them from migrating into nearby Bear Creek.Ĭleaned soil from the berms will be used as material to build the new berms on the north-facing range. The design also includes construction of a vehicle bridge over Bear Creek to access the new range. Pleasant Hope Conservation Area is 30 minutes north of Springfield. Some of the multi-use trails on the conservation area’s north side will need to be relocated to the south and west, away from the direction of range gunfire. Each shooting lane will have two or three shooting benches located beneath covered pavilions. The range will have 100-yard and 25-yard shooting lanes and tall berms downrange to stop bullets. MDC now plans to demolish the existing south-facing range and build a new one oriented to the north, facing away from most of the area’s rural homes. The existing target range, a popular spot for many Springfield shooters because it was free and relatively close to town, was closed last summer while MDC staff reviewed safety issues at the range and continued residential growth encroached near the conservation area. After more than a year of review, the Missouri Department of Conservation has decided to build a new unstaffed public shooting range at the Pleasant Hope Conservation Area, 30 minutes north of Springfield.
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