PIERRE, S.D. The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission this week established fees for the Pete Lien and Sons Shooting Sports Complex being built just north of Rapid City in Meade County.
Specifically, these fees would be:
- Individual day permit, twenty dollars;
- Individual annual permit, one hundred dollars;
- Family annual permit, one hundred and fifty dollars;
- Annual club permit, five hundred dollars;
- Competitive event permit, twenty dollars per competitor; and
- Non-competitive events cost five hundred dollars per-shooting bay for two days and two hundred dollars for each additional day.
G.F. & P. spokesman John Kantan says the Pete Lien and Sons Shooting Sports Complex will always be available to the public throughout normal range hours, and there will always be free opportunities to shoot at the complex. There will be no charge to use the 50, 100, 300 yard bays and archery range on the south end of the complex. Overall, 140 of the 160 total pistol and rifle shooting positions, as well as the archery range, will be free on the south range.
The shotgun areas, long range, and north end of the range will feature more limited access. These modest fees for those areas will generate revenue that can be used to leverage federal funding to use for maintenance and operation of the complex. Revenue generated will help offset the costs for materials such as clay targets that will be offered at the complex.
Kanta says the Department is committed to providing a shooting sports opportunity in western South Dakota, while responsibly managing the facility and the associated fees and licenses from hunters, trappers, anglers, and other recreational shooters.
The shooting complex is expected to open in October.
