Beloit Rifle Club

Rattlers Air Rifle
2025-05-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-30 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-23 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-16 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-14 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-09 14:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | BRC Indoor Range, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States

Monday Night Trap Open Shoot
2025-05-05 17:00 - 22:00 | BRC Trap Range, Beloit, WI, United States
Open Trap Shooting from 5 pm to 10 pm.
Last sign up at 8 pm.
Weekly, on Monday evenings, from May 5, 2025 to October 27, 2025.
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Two dates that there will not be a shoot:

May 26 – Memorial Day
September 1 – Labor Day

Centerfire Benchrest Match
2025-05-03 09:00 - 12:00 | BRC 100/500 Meter Range
Location: 100-500 meter range

Date
Start Time
End Time

May 3, 2025
0900
1200

May 17, 2025
0900
1200

June 21, 2025
0900
1200

July 19, 2025
0900
1200

August 2, 2025
0900
1200

August 16, 2025.
0900
1200

Contact Link

NRL22 May Match
2025-05-03 08:00 - 15:00 | BRC 100/500 Meter Range
5 NRL22 Published stages plus 2 Bonus Stages
Setup @ 8:00, Sight in @ 9:00, Match start @ 10:00.

Rock River Regulator - Cowboy Action Shoot - Match
2025-05-03 07:30 - 14:00, 2025-04-19 07:30 - 14:00 | BRC Cowboy Range, 951 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
We have Cowboy competitions every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month.
We start registration at 7:30 and begin shooting at 9:00.
We shoot 5 fun and exciting stages each match followed lunch. We encourage you to come and see what it is all about.
Remember your eye and ear protection.
BRC members if you are looking for work hours we are looking for help at the shoots.
The West Defensive Range will be shutdown for motor traffic until 2:00PM. If you want to use the Defensive range you will need to carry your gear down to the range.

Date
Start Time
End Time
Special notes

April 5, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

April 19, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

May 3, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

May 17, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

May 31, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Wild Bunch Match

June 21, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

July 5, 2025
7:30 am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

July 19, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

August 2, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

August 16, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

August 30, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Wild Bunch Match

September 6, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

September 20, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

October 6, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

October 18, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

November 1, 2025
7:30am
2:00pm
Cowboy Match

General Work Day
2025-05-03 07:00 - 15:30 | Beloit Rifle Club, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
RANGE CONSTRUCTION
Work Day Schedule 2025

General Work Days

Saturday, April 5

7am – 3:30pm

The first General Work Day at the Beloit Rifle Club for 2025 is scheduled for Saturday April 5th from 7:00 am until 3:30 pm. Scheduled work includes but is not limited to:

Replacing target boards as needed on the Main Range and rear 100M-500M Range

Steel target maintenance on the rear 100M-500M Range

Installing additional clear vinyl sound curtains on the west end on the Main Range

Picking up trash on Philhower Rd

Reinstalling and servicing the wash stations in the Porta-Potties on the Front Range

General range cleanup and other miscellaneous projects

Lunch will be provided for all workers who plan on working all day. As usual, the club will provide all tools necessary for the Work Day, but if you have personal cordless hand tools that you could bring, that would be helpful and appreciated.

No advance signup for the Work Day is necessary. We will have a sign-in sheet in the clubhouse that morning to sign-in.

Any questions, leave a message here or call Brad Mueller – Range Construction Director at 815-218-2944.

Saturday, May 3

7am – 3:30pm

Work Projects for this Work Day are still being compiled as of this submittal, but will probably include some of the following:
* Clean lead from the New Indoor Range.
* Cleaning rain gutters on the Clubhouse and Old Indoor range.
* Salvaging old wood 2×12’s from the old CMP Range backstop.
* Spraying grass killer in front and around the Outdoor Pistol Range as needed.
* Installing a second new parking Bollard near the entrance to the Main Range.
* Sort and stack remaining old used lumber near 100 yard berm on the Main Range.
* Painting and staining tables and work benches around the Range.

Saturday, June 7

7am – 3:30pm

Planned work includes:
1) Painting/staining tables, shooting bench seats and benches on the Defense Range, East Bay Range and the 500M Range.
2) Cleaning out the Storage Shed on the Front Range and sorting and re-stacking all the leftover Action Target Indoor Range components for the eventual second story on the new Indoor Range.
We will need many strong workers to help along with the Skid Steer to restack the materials and to regain considerable storage space in the building. This is for people with strong arms and backs as heavy lifting will be involved.
Workers who can’t provide this type of help can do the painting in item 1 above.
As usual, lunch will be provided for workers who work all day.

Saturday, July 12

7am – 3:30pm

Planned work includes:
Most of the Work scheduled will be on the Back Range and Cowboy Ranges and will be coordinated by Range Construction Assistant Director Bruce Nygren. Please meet at the Clubhouse at 7:00 am to sign in. If you come after 7:15 am, please proceed to the Cowboy Range to meet up with the work crews. There will be some limited work being performed on the Front Range including some small painting jobs, front chain link fence repair and Main Range target repair.
As usual, lunch will be provided for those who work the entire day.

Saturday, August 2

7am – 3:30pm

Planned work includes:
1) Lead clean out of the new indoor range
2) General cleanup and preparation for the August 16th Open House.
3) Trim brush on the 500M Range road (afternoon)
4) Weed whacking the backs of the berms on the Main Range
5) Spraying Roundup around buildings edges and on the Outdoor Pistol Range
6) Improvements on the safety rail near the main entrance to the Main Range
7) Improvements on the handicap entrance to the Main Range
8) Install new target boards on the 25 yd range on the Main Range
We meet in the Clubhouse at 7:00 am. Lunch will be provided for all who work the entire day. No special tools are needed, but personal weed Wackers and brush cutting tools could be help full.
Contact Range Construction Director Brad Mueller with any questions.

Saturday, September 7

7am – 3:30pm

TBD

Saturday, October 4

7am – 3:30pm

TBD

Work items may be changed/updated due to weather and other needs.
Personal tools and equipment are always welcome.
Individual ranges will be closed based on work schedule.

Special Work Days

Indoor Range Lead Cleanout

Friday Feb 21th

9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Remove lead from the original indoor range

Main Range – NRA Youth Sport Fest Set-up

Friday May 9th

9am – 12pm

Setting up tables and chairs, working on the Ranges, placement of temporary ?fences and targets

Main Range – Sight In Days Set-up

Friday, Nov 7th

8am – 2pm

Replacing targets and backboards on Main Range, install numbers for target frames, clean the Clubhouse and set up for Sight In Days

This listing is the main projects set for work days. Each work date will also have a variety of other small projects for everyone.
The 2025 Range Construction Team
(Brad Mueller, Rodney Johnson, Bruce Nygren, Robert Sobucki, Reggie James, Sean Clark, Walt Weber)

Steel Challenge Practice
2025-05-01 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Beloit Rifle Club, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
2 Stages of Steel Challenge practice.

$5/shooter for members
$10/shooter for non-members.
Set up starting at 4:30 pm so we can start shooting about 5:00.
Classes for any pistol, pistol caliber carbine, as well as rimfire pistols and rifles.
Runs on the 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings from April thru October, except July 4th.

Check BRC Steel Challenge Facebook page for schedule updates and weather cancellations.

April 3, 17
May 1, 15, 29
June 19
July 3, 17
Aug 7, 21
Sept 4, 18
Oct 3, 16

Night shoots on July 31 and Oct 30.

Smallbore Silhouette Practice
2025-05-01 16:45 - 18:30 | BRC Silhouette Range, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
NRA Smallbore Rifle Silhouette
1 practice match (40 shots)
Practice is open to club members and public.
Junior shooters need to be accompanied by an adult.
Setup starts approximately 4:45 PM shooting starts approximately 5:00 PM
Shooters will be required to reset targets between animals.
What to bring:
Eye and ear protection
Empty chamber indicator(ECI). A limited number of ECI’s are available at the range.
50+ rounds of ammunition. Please use only 22 short/long or long rifle; no magnum or stinger rounds.
Silhouette Discipline page…

Wednesday Morning Group
2025-04-30 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-23 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-16 09:00 - 13:00 | Beloit Rifle Club, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
2025 CALENDAR

JAN

RIFLE SILOUETE

INDOORS

FEB

PELLET GUN

INDOORS

MAR

PISTOL SILOUETE

INDOORS

APR

OPEN SHOOTING

INDOORS

MAY

TRAP

TRAP RANGE

JUN

TRAP

TRAP RANGE

JUL

TRAP

TRAP RANGE

AUG

TRAP

TRAP RANGE

SEP

TRAP

TRAP RANGE

OCT

TRAP

TRAP RANGE

NOV

OPEN SHOOTING

INDOORS

DEC

OPEN SHOOTING

INDOORS

LARRY ABBOTT WILL RUN THE PELLET GUN COMPETITION IN FEBRUARY
RIFLE SILOUETE TOURNAMENT IN JANUARY
PISTOL SILOUETE TOURNAMENT IN MARCH
MAY THROUGH OCTOBER WE WILL SHOOT TRAP STARTING AT 9:00 AND ENDING 10:30 AM NORMAL TRAP FEES WILL BE COLLECTED.
THERE WILL BE NO ORGANIZED SHOOTING ON THE FOLLOWING ON NOV 19 BECAUSE OF SIGHT IN DAY. ON NEW YEARS DAY AND CHRISTMAS EVE THERE WILL BE NO ORGANIZED SHOOTING.

New Member Orientation Meeting
2025-04-27 12:00 - 16:00 | Beloit Rifle Club, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
All new members MUST attend one of the New Member Orientation meetings at Beloit Rifle Club.
Location: BRC Clubhouse
Dates:
– April 27
– June 1
– July 13
NOTE: This 4 hour session is NOT to be so side red part of your yearly work hour requirement.
More Info

Black Powder - Curt VanderVeens W.M.L.A. Sanctioned Squirrel Shoot
2025-04-27 09:00 - 14:00 | BRC Black Powder Range, 851 E. Philhower Rd., Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
Curt VanderVeens W.M.L.A. Sanctioned Squirrel Shoot
Program “B”
Time 9:00am to 2:00pm
Full Schedule
For more information contact Harley Whitt 608-921-1542 or Charlie Brown 608-290-2978
GPS – 851 E. Philhower Rd., Beloit Wisconsin 53511

BRC Indoor Winter Pistol League
2025-04-24 18:00 - 20:30 | Clubhouse Indoor Range, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
All matches will be held 6pm & 7:30pm
All matches will be held in the indoor range
All matches will be $1.00 a gun
All matches will follow the course of fire of the NRA National gallery course.
All matches will be held the 2nd and 4th thursday of the month from October thru May.

Starts: 10/12/2023
Ends: 5/9/2024

No shoot on 11/23/2023

HANDICAP MATCH: 5/9/2024
END OF LEAGUE DINNER: 5/16/2023
TIME AND PLACE TO BE DETERMINED, GUESTS $10

SPECIAL NOTE: PLEASE CONTACT DON HALPERN IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. CONTACT INFORMATION IS ON THE MEMBERSHIP CARD. SHOOTERS OF ALL EXPERIENCE LEVELS ARE WELCOME.

Small Bore F Class - 22LR Competition
2025-04-20 08:00 - 10:00 | BRC Back 100 yrd Range, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
Small Bore F Class is a fun and challenging 22lr competition.

Sign up starts at 8:00am
Shooting starts about 8:30am at the back 100yd range.

The course is two strings of fire with 20 rounds (40 rounds total) for record with unlimited sighters for each string in twenty minutes.
Small Bore F class is shot on “A-33” targets.
Small Bore is shot from a prone position using a front rest, bi-pod or sling.
Shooters unable to get into prone can. shoot off a bench.
Cost is $5.00 for members and $10.00 for non members.
Young shooters are welcome with the following requirements:

They must have proof of completing a Shooters Safety Course.
Minors must have a parent present to supervise them.

NRA Smallbore Rifle Silhouette Monthly Club Match
2025-04-19 08:30 - 14:00 | BRC Silhouette Range, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
NRA Smallbore Rifle Silhouette
Competition is open to everyone.
Rules: Current NRA Smallbore rifle Silhouette Rules will apply.
Course Of Fire: The Tournaments will be 1 match of 80 (2 x 40) rounds for Standard Rifle Class and 1 match of 80 rounds for Hunter Rifle Class. Squads within your relay will determine target order.
Firing Times: Saturday Tournaments begin promptly at 10:00 AM. Please be present to register before 9:45 AM. *Sighting-In is from 8:30 to 9:45 AM.
Registration: Shooters registration will be done on the match day before the tournamet starts.

Eye and ear protection are mandatory!
Empty chamber indicators (ECI) are also required.
Ammunition: .22LR/Short/Long Standard Velocity or High Velocity only.

!!! IMPORTANT !!!
Please no Hyper-velocity, stinger or any other type of round that may cause damages to the targets!
Silhouette Discipline page…

Range Closure - New Indoor Range - Raven Creek Training - Illinois Concealed Carry
2025-04-13 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Beloit Rifle Club, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
Events:

Dates
Event Type
Location
Description

April 12 & 13
Range Closure for event
New Indoor Range
Time: 9am to 5pm

November 15 & 16
Range Closure for event
New Indoor Range
Time: 9am to 5pm

Raven Creek Training - Illinois Concealed Carry - Pistol Essentials
2025-04-13 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-12 09:00 - 17:00 | Beloit Rifle Club, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
Register on Eventbrite
Events:

Dates
Event Type
Location
Description

April 12 & 13
Illinois Concealed Carry
New Indoor Range
Time: 9am to 5pm
Training and Qualification

June 22
Pistol Essentials Training
West Defensive Pistol Range
Time: 9am to 4pm

August 17
Pistol Essentials Training
West Defensive Pistol Range
Time: 9am to 4pm

October 19
Pistol Essentials Training
West Defensive Pistol Range
Time: 9am to 4pm

November 15 & 16
Illinois Concealed Carry
New Indoor Range
Time: 9am to 5pm
Training and Qualification

Illinois Concealed Carry:
Ready to legally carry in Illinois?
Sign up for our Illinois Concealed Carry License class today!
Come join us for our full 16 hour Illinois Concealed and Carry Course! This in-person event will be held at the Beloit Rifle Club, Our class covers the states requirements and much more. This course requires a deposit only to secure your spot, so don’t miss out!
Total cost of the class:

$175 for Beloit Rifle Club Members
$225 for Non-Members.

Your $75 deposit confirms your seat and is a non-refundable.
The balance is due the first day of class.
Hope to see you all in April or November.
Don’t wait—secure your spot today!
Stay safe, stay prepared!
What to bring:

Notebook and pen
Modern semi auto pistol in a case.
Minimum 50 rounds of ammunition.

Pistol Essentials Training:
This is an 8 hour pistol class for beginners to intermediate shooters who want to focus on the 5 fundamentals of marksmanship and drawing from the holster.
Cost:

$175 for BRC members
$225 for non-members

What to bring:

Modern semi auto pistol.
Minimum 3 magazines
Minimum 500 rounds of ammunition.
Strong side OWB kydex holster.
A detailed list will be sent by email.

Contact info:
Jeffery Drummond
815-922-7923
ravencreektraining@gmail.com

Rimfire Benchrest Pre-season meeting
2025-04-12 09:00 - 11:00 | BRC Clubhouse, 851 E Philhower Road, Beloit, WI, 53511, United States
Pre-season meeting
9am in the Clubhouse
