Shooting Facility Expands
By Neema Vedadi
Rattlesnake Mountain Range
Benton County, Washington
Demand by gun owners has triggered the expansion of [a local] shooting facility as more people look for a safe place to practice shooting.
The shooting range markets itself as a safe, clean, family-friendly place. They now have 3,000 members and last year 18,000 visitors came out to shoot; 2000 more than the year before.
Tim Thompson started shooting about a year ago.
"I just feel as a dad and as a husband that it's my duty to protect my family," he said.
Rattlesnake has a calendar full of competitions and six areas for different types of shooting - from long-range shooting up to 1,000 yards, to cowboy action pistol ranges and metal target plinking for rim-fire rifles. And they're adding more, including a youth hunting training range set to open this summer, and a metal target plinking range for center fire handguns.
"We want to grow as we see a need and we've seen that need," said Dotty Rickards, President of the Tri-Cities Shooting Association, a non-profit group that runs the facility.
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