Island Lake Shooting Range

Love shooting here always have a great time, glow league is awesome too!

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I haven't shot sporting clays ever and it's been a long time since I've had my shotgun out and this was an amazing time. The golf carts made going from station to station quick and the extra storage was nice for all the rounds you'll need. The launchers were all in perfect working order and the staff was great. I would encourage anyone looking for a fun time killing some clays to give this range a try.

We came by the other evening with no prior clay shooting experience and decided to hire James for an hour of sporting clays instruction. He was such a fantastic instructor and made the entire experience so much fun for both my partner and me! We have very different levels of firearm experience (I’m a novice, while my partner is much more advanced) and James did an excellent job adapting the training to both of us. He kept the lesson fun, engaging, and challenging without either of us feeling out of place. We had such a great time and would absolutely recommend James to anyone looking to learn or improve their sporting clays skills!

Over head cover is great. RSOs are friendly and professional. A relaxed range with great supervision for newer shooters. Of note, not a complaint no rapid fire and it is bench shooting no spot for prone. That being said I was pleasantly suprised by the firing lane build.

Love this place and the people that keep it going but since the renovation and range changes its pretty rough now no steel barely can shoot pistols now wood in the way when you stand to shoot used to be my go to now im looking for something else

Updated review 8/21/2026: Unfortunately I’m revising my review of this location to three stars after a frustrating couple of months shooting here. My main reasons for this are broken birds/malfunctioning traps and signage that in no way reflects where the traps are located or trajectory of the birds. Today for example I shot a round of one hundred but easily had >10% no birds or broken birds. That is significant and far exceeds what I experience at other venues. The inaccurate and generally piss poor signage easily cost me half a dozen birds. The last issue I have is with targets. I’m not one to complain about hard targets (and there certainly were more than a few today). But the targets seem to be set as individual targets and pairs. I tried to convey this to one of the owners who was out setting targets one day but I don’t think he understood my point or I was doing a poor job of articulating it. IMO GBHC is the gold standard when it comes to target setting. The targets are generally manageable as individual targets but when shot as pairs off the menu prove a significant challenge. Island Lake doesn’t appear to set targets to be shot as pairs. A red station will have four difficult individual targets and that’s it. There’s no menu as to which targets to shoot, no indication if they are report or true pairs, etc.. Just four targets out there to do whatever you want with. So I can and do make the most of that but it’s atypical of area shooting venues and not what I’ve experienced elsewhere in the country. I know they are certainly more than capable of setting a course to be shot off of a menu. They just don’t seem to have that outside of their registered shoots. Perhaps they could leave those tournament targets set and the menus up afterwards? Anyway all is not bad. They do a good job of setting a variety of targets that will challenge every skill level. They just need to address a couple of things to get back on track.

Went to shoot traps with my daughter. She’d never shot a shotgun before. I brought a son’s old Charles-daily 20 gauge pump. Before we started I warned her about possible jams. The Ranger pro overheard and offered to get her a 20 gauge auto at no charge. He was very helpful giving instructions and before long she was busting birds. We had a great time and I’d recommend it to anyone.

Will be back

Top of the line. Everyone was so pleasant and friendly. Vic who helped on the range was a super individual. Made for a great day!