Does Your Club Close For Winter?

We close down for the winter once the parking lott becomes iced up. Safety issue because of the slope on the property. We have a shoot on Boxing Day, after that it's day by day.
 
EOSC in eastern ON is open year round, heated bathrooms, plowed roads, one heated shooting area and a club house to get out of the elements. Worth every cent and there’s no bugs and fewer folks.-10 is my usual limit without the sun being out I’ll go lower if the sun is out as I’m a born optimist.
 
track said:
Where it is written, I don't know. But I know handgun, shotgun, rifle, archery ranges are open. For trap and skeet, I really don't know.
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Since this thread is in the trap/skeet/sporting clays forum, that is what I was referring to, I know that most all discipline clubs are open year round, but some shut down their skeet/trap fields during the winter.
 
Barrie Gun Club is open all year, heated clubhouse and indoor plumbing near the clay fields, and they run a Penguin League monthly through the winter to challenge each other to shoot through the cold weather.
 
Our club is open everyday except Remembrance Day, we have four ranges and members have an option of purchasing a key that gets you past the locked gates that allows access . Membership will be revoked for anyone who violates that rule. Club is monitored by surveillance cameras 24/7.
 
Robert Walker said:
Our club is open everyday except Remembrance Day, we have four ranges and members have an option of purchasing a key that gets you past the locked gates that allows access . Membership will be revoked for anyone who violates that rule. Club is monitored by surveillance cameras 24/7.
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So who runs trap and skeet in winter? Who operates the machines?
 
Silver Willow is open year 'round - but phone ahead if colder than -20. I shot a couple times at -30 - just training for crappy weather possibilities. I'm with Saskatoon Gun Club now, but closed for the winter. ☹️
 
Drumheller, Hanna are both open in winter, think Trochu is too. Never shot skeet or trap in winter at any of them. All have clubhouses. Remember having some hairy times getting in and out of APRA west of Cgy. Hanna actually has a pretty steep entrance, north slope hill too, could be very interesting if it got icy, had a couple of times when I wanted to lock up the truck to get out when it was wet. Drum and Trochu are both good access.
 
Toodoggone said:
We shoot Trap and Skeet all year round. Silver City Trap Club near Trail BC. We do get some good snowfalls, but we have a 48” snowblower on our JD tractor and about an hour and a half’s work and we’re open. Wood stove in the clubhouse helps ward off the chill after a round on the colder days.
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Back when I lived in the West Kootenays I used to stop in here a few times a year. I keep meaning to pack a shotgun when I get back to Trail to visit the inlaws. A dozen years ago when I lived in South Slocan and I would drive out for a shoot the members were very welcoming, as was the woodstove in the clubhouse when it was a chilly day
 
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