History:

The Mohave Sportsman Club was formed to provide safe place for Mohave County residents to shoot. The Club was founded in 1936.  Several ranges have been used in the Kingman area over the years. Movement of the range activities has been dictated by the encroachment of residential developments.

In 1969, the Mohave Sportsman Club and the Arizona Game and Fish Commission began to look for an alternative site which would serve Mohave County Residents well into the future the present range site, consisting of approximately 717 acres on the Oatman Road, west of Kingman, was chosen.  This land was purchased by the Arizona Game and Fish Commission under    Recreational and Public Purposes Agreement from the Bureau of Land Management. The property was then leased to the Mohave Sportsman Club for the purpose of providing a shooting range facility. 

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors agreed to make County equipment available in the construction of the range, and to provide road maintenance. Mohave County provided the surveyors and equipment to do the initial range construction of the rifle, pistol and trap ranges over a period of approximately 10 years. Club personnel provided most of the labor of construction. The County continued to provide road maintenance until 1984. Arizona Game and Fish Commission provided funds for range development (city water line) in the form of matching fund grants.

The Mohave Sportsman Club has continued to develop the range by constructing a trap range with restrooms, a clubhouse with restrooms, rifle and pistol ranges, the 1,000 yard rifle range, septic tank and water facilities at the caretakers’ lot and a new rifle range cover. The Ford Motor Co. constructed the 1,000 yard range and the City of Kingman provided part of the funds for the new rifle range cover. Electric power is available to all of the range facilities.