Earlier this year I joined the Putnam Fish and Game Club.

 

I never really gave it much thought before but, it was getting harder to find places to shoot legally unless you own a lot of land. So I decided to join, I really like to shoot and with this years hunt to Maine coming I figured it would be a good idea.

The club was established in 1939  and the club house sits on 47 acres. It has a furnished game room complete with pool table and a television area where you can sit and relax, it is also open 24 hours a day to members. Adjacent to that there is a spacious meeting room where they hold their monthly meeting on the 2nd. Tuesday of every month. Upstairs there is a very large hall that members can rent for for family gatherings or whatever at a small fee and they can also rent the adjoining kitchen.

Outside there is an outdoor gun range that is stetup to shoot 25 yards, 50 yards and 100 yards. They have a newly built indoor range where you can shoot handguns out to 25 yards and on the other side you can shoot rifles out to 50 yards. They also have archery targets, horse shoe pits, bbq area and a boat launch w/boats for members to use.

There is pheasant stocking and trout stocking and they like to hold turkey shoots and on opening day if fishing season they hold a fisherman’s breakfast. They also hod a game dinner usually in January each year.

Here our just a few pictures of what the club offers,

Club House

    

 

Indoor Range,

 

Outdoor Range,

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