The Lowell Sportsmen's Club, Inc.
Come celebrate your Ruger 10/22 on October 22nd (that’s 10/22 – get it?)! This will be a casual and fun event, with competitions for both open sights and scoped rifles. Entrance fee is $20, and prizes will be awarded to the top shooters. Experienced and new shooters welcome – we just want to get out and have fun with our 10/22s.
Get to know the club’s property – and some fellow members – with a scenic walk around the boundary line. Learn our history while being guided and entertained with stories by a long-time member. All members are welcome (kids and dogs too) – and bring your camera!
The Lowell Sportsmen’s Club in North Chelmsford is holding its annual Open House on Saturday, September 24th, from 12pm-4pm. This is a free event with activities for the entire family.
Highlights of the day include a live reptile show, Colonial reenactors, and firearms safety talks. Members the MA National Guard, Chelmsford Police and Fire, and Middlesex County Sheriffs will be on hand to demonstrate their equipment and talk about their role in the community.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to learn about and try a variety of shooting sports, including trap, skeet, blackpowder, high power rifle, and .22 and air gun plinking. Instructors will be available on the archery range and fishing pond to help improve your skills.
Free hamburgers and hotdogs will be served from the snack shack. Stop by the Welcome Tent to reserve your helicopter ride time or for information on membership, firearms safety, and other club information. The Lowell Sportsmen’s Club is located at 50 Swain Road, North Chelmsford, MA 01863.
The Lowell Sportsmen’s Club was formed in 1913 in downtown Lowell, and is one of New England’s oldest! The club is currently located on 70+ acres in North Chelmsford, MA.
Men, women, and junior club members – experienced and novices alike – enjoy participating in a variety of activities available at LSC. The club offers competitive and recreational trap, skeet, archery, pistol, rifle, and blackpowder ranges, fishing ponds, and facilities for camping, canoeing, and hiking. Our social events calendar is always busy – we host many family-friendly functions throughout the year, including events open to the public.
Starting at 1pm on the second Sunday August-October, bring your .22 handgun or rifle to the .22 range to shoot steel!
Public Welcome! May 1st. Free for kids, and every child receives a prize. Read more…
June 11, 11:00 – 4:00, to benefit Alzheimer’s Association. Read more…
LSC is looking for club members who are interested in becoming NRA credentialed as a:
To express interest in an upcoming course please contact training@lowellsc.org
The LSC is looking for a Training Coordinator for the club.
The responsibilities of the Training Committee are to:
1. Conduct regularly scheduled basic firearms training classes
2. Work to continuously improve basic firearms training
3. Identify and present other training events that meet the needs and desires of the membership
The Training Coordinator will plan, coordinate and help run our monthly Home Firearms Safety Course as well as other courses as needed.
To express interest please contact training@lowellsc.org
In case you missed it, the Lowell Sportsmen’s Club was featured on a recent segment of Chronicle on WCVB-TV Channel 5. It’s now available to watch online, after originally airing Monday night, December 14, 2020 at 7:30pm.
The show covers stress-busting during the pandemic, and came to the Lowell Sportsmen’s Club to highlight trap and skeet shooting. As we members know, shooting in general is a great way to relax and have fun with friends, but breaking clays adds extra satisfaction.
2020 has been a long year, and although a vaccine is almost here for all of us, everyone still needs ways to safely get out of the house and get your mind off of things for awhile. Trap shooters are naturally distanced by the shooting stations, outdoors in the fresh air, and smiling more and more with each broken clay.
Members of the club hosted Chronicle producers, explained how trap and skeet are played, and coached them through breaking some targets. Be sure to watch the episode – and get down to the club on Sundays at 1pm or Wednesdays at 10:30am and shoot!
Beginning Monday, December 28, 2020, the Big Bore Range will be closed so construction can continue.
Welch Welding will begin moving the NBS structures into place, and the range will remain closed until the work is completed. We do not have a firm timeframe for how long it will be closed, though we do not expect it to be too long. Much will depend on the arrival of some additional materials, weather, and ground and work conditions.
We will provide updates as soon as we have more information. Thanks to all members for your continued patience and support of this project.
Big Bore Baffles Being Installed!
We got word from Welch Welding that the rubber for our baffles has finally arrived. This is what was holding up the final installation of the baffles. They plan to be on site either today or tomorrow to install the posts and baffles at the range. John A. and John L. went the extra mile last week and plowed the access road to the range clear to make sure they have access.
The work will require of course that the range be closed while the work is getting done. Will update as we know more.
Big Bore Range & Indoor Range Reopened
The weekend’s work on the Big Bore Range, and on the Clubhouse air conditioner, has been completed, and both ranges are again open to members for use. Please watch this page for future changes to range status.
Big Bore Range closure for Sunday, 10/18
Big bore range will be closed again tomorrow as work on the range project continues. Anyone wishing to help out is welcome to show up starting at 8:00AM tomorrow morning. We can always use a few extra helpers, bring a shovel, a steel rake and some work gloves. Our small but highly skilled and enthusiastic crew made significant progress today finishing some of the ground prep, grooming the road for equipment access, and unloading, and staging the large concrete blocks for the side wall. Several loads of blocks have been shuttled down to the range and put in place. This work will continue tomorrow and we are hoping to have that phase of the work completed tomorrow.
Indoor range closure for Sunday, 10/18
Work will be starting tomorrow on the central air conditioning systems for the clubhouse. In order for the contractors to do this work it will be necessary to have the indoor range closed starting 7:00 AM and it will remain closed until the work is completed later in the day. We will post a notice when the range is opened again.
Big Bore Range Closed Saturday, 10/17/20
We will be getting the concrete block delivered this Saturday, 10/17 starting at 9:00 AM. There will be two truckloads delivered. This block will form the protective wall between the range and the pond.
While the blocks are being unloaded, we will need a few people to help with the balance of the prep work for their placement at the range. A few people are needed to walk a small plate compactor around and help with some rake-and-shovel work. We will be gathering at the club for 8AM or so to get set up and started on the work, and await the arrival of the truck.
This will require the range be closed on Saturday, and work may run into Sunday morning as well. When the work is finished, the Range Closed sign at the gate will be removed.
Big Bore Range Closed This Weekend
We will be doing some cleanup work at the backstop berm, retrieving the partially buried target stands and maybe moving the dirt back a bit to get back our 100 yard line. If time allows and we have the details worked out, there is some prep work that we may do for the pond sidewall also.
This will of course require the range be closed for much of Saturday, and a possibility that this work may run into Sunday as well. When the work is finished, the Range Closed sign at the gate will be removed.
Construction Update
For those who haven’t walked down the hill to check, the construction project hit a milestone this week – the footings are complete! The contractors dug holes for each upright support post, inserted tubes into the ground, poured the concrete, and set the connector bases that the steel uprights will rest on.
This is great progress, and things have been going smoothly. When they finished, the contractors also graded the range, and moved all the soil from the 25 yard berm back, to build up the 100 yard berm.
The Big Bore Range is Temporarily Open!
This is all good news for the club, but great news for shooters. It’ll take a couple weeks for the concrete to fully set, and in the meantime, the range will be open for use during normal range hours. The temporary rules are:
As always, thank you for your patience during this project. When the steel baffles are ready to be installed, the range will be closed again to finish construction. Keep and eye out for updates.
The long-awaited construction project on the Big Bore Range is breaking ground this week!
On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, the contractor will begin prepping the site for construction, followed by clearing the space behind the 25 yard berm. As a result, the Big Bore Range will be closed September 9 – 11. It will reopen Saturday, September 12, and remain open through Sunday, September 13.
Starting on Monday, September 14, the range will close again, until further notice as the contractors begin digging the footings for the supports of the new No Blue Sky (NBS) system.
We will be in constant communication with the contractors, and will open the range whenever it is safe to do so. Please check back for updates.
Once completed, our No Blue Sky system will look similar
to this, except with fewer support posts and steel baffles.
Check out the Summer 2020 newsletter for more details on this project.
Photos of range construction will be uploaded to the Club’s flickr page.
