Club Stuff: TGC Early History – Sheriff’s Reserve Range in October

Greetings TGC Members,

Longtime club member Dennis Shirk gave me some newspaper clippings and wrote a terrific article on TGC History a while back, longer than I would like to admit, and I want to apologize for taking so long to get this posted but here is Part 1. Please check it out when you have a few moments. Part 2 and 3 will follow shortly.


The Bowie County Sheriff’s Office has reserved the range for qualifications.  Dates will be October 21-24.  They will have a morning session starting at 8 AM and an afternoon session starting at 1 PM each of those days. They will use Pistol Bay #4, and will use the 200-yard rifle range for about 25 minutes in each session (for rifle qualifications). Your cooperation with this TGC community service will be greatly appreciated.  The range will show as reserved from 08:00 until 17:00 each day for this event, please plan accordingly!