The Hammond Cove Shooting Range in Hartland, Vermont will open on April 3, at 10:00 a.m.

The range operates under rules set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. Range users must sign in with an onsite range safety officer and have a valid Vermont hunting or fishing license or be the guest of someone who does.

Hammond Cove Shooting Range in Hartland is open to the public and features: six rifle positions out to 100-yards, three pistol positions, and two shotgun patterning positions out to 50-yards.

Location:

The Hammond Cove Shooting Range is located at the end of Ferry Road in Hartland

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Hours of Operation:

April 1 - December 14
Monday and Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Thursday and Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

CLOSED
December 15 – March 31
All Tuesdays and Wednesdays
All State and Federal Holiday

Range Rules:

• A Vermont hunting or fishing license is required for users 15 years and older.
• License holders can bring one guest, but after three visits that guest must purchase a license.
• Shooters and spectators are required to wear hearing and eye protection.
• Children (aged 16 years or younger) must be accompanied by an adult.
• Do not handle or shoot any firearms while anyone is beyond or in front of the firing line, shooting benches or otherwise down range.
• Before going down range, you must communicate to all shooters to cease shooting.
• Loaded firearms must remain pointed in a safe direction at all times.
• All shooters must fire from, or next to, the shooting benches.
• Shooters must be on the firing line before capping and priming muzzleloaders.
• All firearms must remain unloaded, with actions open, until the shooter is ready to fire at the firing line.
• All objects, trash, targets and spent cartridge hulls must be removed or placed in trash receptacles by users before leaving the range.
• Only paper targets secured to target frames are allowed (e.g. no cans, bottles, or other items).
• Do not shoot at any target frames, vegetation, trash, range equipment or facilities.

The Following are Prohibited:

• Using the shooting range at any other time than the posted range hours.
• Firing more than one round per second.
• Shooting long rifles or shotguns from the pistol bench is prohibited, as is shooting pistols from the rifle benches.
• Shooting from the hip or any other shooting position in which the shooter cannot properly utilize the sights.
• The use of tracer, armor piercing or steel core ammunition.
• Using any fireworks, pyrotechnics, or any other explosive targets, including tannerite.
• The shooting of any airborne or thrown objects (e.g. clay pigeons).
• The use of cigarettes, pipes, drugs or alcohol.
• Any person who is under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
• The presence of any domestic animal or pets except bona fide Service and Assistance Animals.

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To ensure, these rules are followed, a range officer will be present when the range is open.