Range + Target Activities

The following applies to Troops:

1. Units may go to Commercial ranges and take personal firearms and ammo.  Commercial ranges have been defined as follows:

a.  A commercial firearm range is a supervised facility that offers a controlled environment for safe firearm practice. It will provide shooting lanes, targets, and may offer equipment rentals and training in safe firearm handling and marksmanship. Standard operating procedures are required for each firearm type used on-site.  Scouting’s range and target activities must follow all of Scouting’s range and target activities policies or range standard operating procedures that are equivalently stringent, including no variation from Scouting’s limitations on firearms used. These ranges may be operated by a licensed business, a government entity or non-profit.

b. A makeshift range on personal land is NOT permitted. There is no exception process, or range approvement letter anymore.

2. A new training will be released on 9/1 that can be found on My.scouting.org.  In order for troops to hold a shooting event, they must have at least one person that has taken this training on the range in addition to the other required positions such as an RSO and an Instructor.

3. The Pistol Marksmanship Program has been retired and replaced with the NRA First Steps Pistol program.  This is not a Unit activity.  This may be conducted at an accredited camp program, or a council organized one day event.  This activity is for scouts that are 13 and completed the 8^th grade or 14 and older.