Montgomery County Shooting Complex

Sunday I visited the Shelton Ferry Wildlife Management Area located on the outskirts of Clarksville, Tennessee. While there I had the opportunity to do some shooting at the Montgomery County Shooting Complex. This first class facility has been open for about a year and is the brainchild of Jereme Odom from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Steve Shelton, is the complex operations manager.

The complex, which is still under construction, now offers outside pistol ranges, rifle ranges, trap shooting and an archery range. When completed the complex will have 42 100-yard range stations, 10 400-yard range stations with some special shotgun stations as well as many different types of sporting clays and archery shooting such as walk-thrus. In addition, there will be inside shooting ranges for both pistol and rifle.

I enjoyed the day at the range; the hospitality and the weather were great! The sun was shinning, and it was about 90 degrees with very little wind. The RSOs (range safety officer) at the pistol range, Tommy and Roger were knowledgeable and very helpful.

After a day of shooting I was hungry and had the taste for some “real” southern barbeque. Steve Shelton made a phone call and a ½ mile later I was enjoying the best-barbecued ribs ever in Southside, TN at Lila’s Southside Store.


- Jeff