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                                                                                      Site Updated on Feb 29 2024
Added to Special Club Announcements.

Special Club Announcements


The board of directors will now be meeting quarterly. Please see calendar for dates.

Due to the "range improvements": effective 02/27/204 our shooting schedule for Sundays will be:  Tactical Group on pistol/rifle range will be from 8:00 am to 10:00 am; and trap shooting on the "upper trap" - will only be allowed from /10:30 am - 4:00 pm/ish.  This is due to upgrading our trap bunkers, and only have the upper trap currently in use.

BKS dues renewal period is now July 1st thru June 30 each year. This change was voted on and apporved at the annual meeting.
With our new BKS dues renewal cycle, July 1 - June 30, of each year, all current members will be sent dues renewal packet sometime in May.  Please do not send in any dues renewal payments, applications, etc, before receiving our mailing sometime in May, they will be returned to you.  



1/1/2022 the cost of a round of trap goes up to $4.50, plus a $2.00 dollar daily fee for the first round of trap shot.  Also, the daily range fee at the pistol/rifle range, effective 1/1/2022, will be $3.00 per member/shooter.
                              


The BKS Sportsmen's Club was founded in 1935 as the Brownsmead Athletic Association.  A handful of ranchers, loggers, fishermen and their families.  They gathered regularly at the Brownsmead Grange Hall for one of the three annual turkey shoots, with live turkeys.  Around 1950 the BAA merged with some Svensen, Knappa guys and became the BKS Sportsmen's Club.  Established on land then owned by the county, leased for $1 and developed a 2 acre trap shooting range, soon afterwards built a small one room clubhouse.  A county decision to "trade some land" left the club with new landlords.  The lease continued but the rates climbed.  Finally, through the club's fund raising efforts, the land, (10 acres), was purchased from Boise Cascade, (the 3rd or 4th timber company to pass the lease along).  A second trap shooting range was added in 1968.  A rifle range was developed, (100 yards), and a small pistol bay.  The small clubhouse was expanded in the mid 1980's with added storage and flush toilets.  In 2012(approx), adjacent land, (14.5 acres), was purchased from Hampton Affiliates to complete the current property at 24.5 acres.  BKS is a proud member of the NRA, OASR, ODFW, PITA.

Bks is located at 92411 Abbott Rd, Astoria, OR 97103.

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