Pennsylvania public shooting ranges are funded through Pennsylvania hunters and shooters dollars. The excise tax placed on firearms, ammunition and archery equipment funds range projects like this all across the state. Please keep this in mind while the ranges. Thank you for being a Pennsylvania Hunter and Shooter!
Find a Shooting Range
Utilize the Pennsylvania Game Commission's GIS Mapping Center to search, discover andlearn about the various public shooting ranges available across the state. In addition, users can print and share customized maps.
Pennsylvania Shooting Range Improvement Program
This Shooting Range Improvement Program (SRIP) grant is designed to provide financial support to Pennsylvania’s aging shooting range infrastructure. Our state is fortunate to be home to more than 800 private clubs and ranges; however, many of these ranges require upgrades to improve safety and accessibility. Learn more
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Expand AllClick here for a more accessible versionShooting Range Permits
For your shooting enjoyment and to make you a better hunter, the Game Commission maintains public shooting ranges across the state. Those who shoot firearms at the Pennsylvania Game Commission's state game lands public shooting ranges must possess and carry with them either an annual $31.97 range use permit or a current Pennsylvania general hunting or furtaker license. Individuals without a range use permit or hunting or furtaker license may be fined. Each licensed hunter or range permit holder may have one guest.
2023 Update to Shooting Range Permits: The Shooting Range Permit was recently updated and is now valid for 365 days from the date of purchase. A permit purchased after April 10, 2023 will have access to PGC shooting ranges for an entire year after the date of purchase.
Permit required for state game lands public shooting range users
Current hunting/furtaker license also provides range privilege
Unlike online hunting and furtaker license purchases, range use permits will be printed at the time of purchase. Consequently, you must have a functioning printer for your personal computer to complete the permitting process. Range permits also can be purchased at any hunting
license issuing agent, the agency’s
Harrisburg Headquarters and all six region offices, and require either a credit or debit card.
Buy a State Game Lands Shooting Range Permit at HuntFishPA.
Historically, hunter and furtaker license dollars have provided most, if not all, of the funding needed to keep the agency’s shooting ranges open to the public. But, in many cases, hunters and furtakers today are outnumbered on state game lands ranges by firearms enthusiasts who do not hunt or trap. The range permit fees ensure everyone who shoots at the agency’s ranges pays for range maintenance and development.
The Game Commission has completed lead remediation and safety upgrade projects at all public shooting ranges. Routine maintenance, including rebuilding target-line stations, cutting grass and other clean-up activities, often required the closure of ranges for several hours every month. More than $200,000 is spent annually on shooting range maintenance. To help keep costs down, and allow these funds to be diverted to other projects and programs, users should:
- Avoid shooting up the framework used to hold the backstop material and
- Clean up spent cases, remove targets from backstops, keep shooting benches clean and dispose of all other litter.
Range Regulations
Each licensed hunter or range permit holder may have one guest.
Unless otherwise posted, ranges are open year-round, from 8 a.m. until sunset, Monday through Saturday, and noon to sunset on Sundays. See the exception for Scotia Range below. Please contact our centralized dispatch center to check the daily status of ranges you wish to visit.
Shooters should show consideration for others waiting for an open bench. It is common, especially leading up to the bear and deer seasons, to find an adult teaching a youngster how to shoot, or to find someone having difficulty sighting-in a rifle. Please be patient in such circumstances, and if it seems appropriate, offer assistance.
Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by someone 18 or older.
Do not collect the brass of shooters while the range is active.
Range permits and hunting or furtaker licenses do not need to be displayed while using a state game lands public shooting range, but must be in possession, as well as a secondary form of identification.
Scotia Range:
Permit, pistol and two auxiliary ranges
Enter the north side of Scotia Range Road from Scotia Road. Between January after the flintlock deer season until around the middle of March (depending on weather conditions), Range Road will be closed (PDF) north of the shooting ranges to Heritage Trail Road. During that time users will need to enter the south side of Scotia Range Road from West Gatesburg Road. This is being done to minimize impacts to the road during freeze/thaw and to reduce vehicle accidents.
Rifle, archery and clay target range
Enter the south side of Scotia Range Road from West Gatesburg Road. The seasonal access gates (PDF) to prevent thru traffic on Scotia Range Road will be closed June 1st.
Shotgun/claybird shooting areas:
- Northcentral Region, SGL 176: The shotgun only area is part of the Scotia Range complex.
- Northeast Region, SGL 300: The shotgun only area is adjacent to the existing public shooting range.
- Southeast Region, SGL 205: The shotgun only area is next to the parking area, 200 yards south of the rifle range along Game Warden Rd. in Lowhill Township.
NEW RANGES IN 2024:
- SGL #77 Archery
- SGL #77 Rifle/Pistol
- SGL #108 Shotgun
- SGL #127 Rifle/Pistol
- SGL #141 Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun
- SGL #159 Rifle/Pistol
- SGL #176 Archery/Shotgun/Rifle/Pistol
- SGL #179 Rifley
- SGL #248 Archery
- SGL #248 Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun
Range Locations
Northwest Region
|
County |
SGL |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Location |
|---|
| Forest | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | - | View Map |
| Clarion | 72 | 6 | 100 | -- | -- |
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Erie
8
AM - Sunset ( Tuesday - Saturday )
Noon - Sunset ( Sunday & Monday )
| 109
| 6 | 100 | 3 | 25 |
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Southwest Region
|
County |
SGL |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Pistol Firing Points |
Pistol Yards |
Location |
|---|
Allegheny
| 203 | 3/5/20 | 25/50/100 | 10/10 | 10/25 |
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Cambria
Temporary Range Closure
| 108 | 2 | 100 | 3 | 25 |
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| Fayette | 51 | 4 | 100 | -- | -- |
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Greene
| 179 | 7 | 300 | -- | -- |
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| Greene | 223 | 5 | 100 | -- | -- |
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Indiana
| 248 | 4 | 100 | 5 | 25 |
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Somerset
| 50 | 8
| 0 | 8 | 15/25 |
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Washington
| 245 | 6 | 0 | -- | -- |
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Westmoreland
| 2 | 6 | 100 | 3 | 25
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| Westmoreland | 42
| 4 | 100
| --
| --
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Archery Range |
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Northcentral Region
Southcentral Region
|
County |
SGL |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Location |
|---|
Cumberland
|
230 |
9 |
300 |
25 |
25 |
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York
| 242 | 8 | 100
| 12 | 50 |
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Archery Range |
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Northeast Region
|
County |
SGL |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Firing Points |
Yards |
Location |
|---|
Carbon
| 141 | 7 | 100/200/300 | 11 | 25/50 |
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Columbia | 58 | 7 | 50/100 | 7 | 10/15/25 |
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Lackawanna
| 300 | 17 | 50/100/200 | 6 | 10/25 |
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Luzerne
| 91 | 10 | 50/100 | -- | -- |
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Luzerne
| 206 | 10 | 50/75/100 | 8 | 25 |
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Monroe
| 127 | 12 | 50/100 | 12 | 10/25 |
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| Pike | 183 | 11 | 100 | 6 | 25/50 |
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Wayne
| 159 | 11 | 50/100 | 12 | 25 |
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Archery Range
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Southeast Region
|
County |
SGL |
Firing Points |
Rifle Yards |
Pistol Firing Points |
Pistol Yards |
Location |
|---|
Berks
| 106 | 6 | 50/100
| -- | -- |
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Chester
| 43
| 12 | 25/50/100 | -- | -- |
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Dauphin
| 211 | 7 | 25/50/100 | -- | -- |
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Lehigh
|
205 | 13
| 25/50/100 | 8
| 7/10
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Archery Range |
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| Montgomery | 234
| 8 | 10/20/30/40 | | |
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Lancaster
| 46
| 12
| 10/20/30/40/50
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Lehigh
| 205 | 12
| 10/20/30/40/50
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| Shotgun Patterning Range | Claybird Range | |
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