Trap
NOTE: All ranges will be closed March 22 and April 19 due to the High School Trap schoot!
The Ikes trap range consists of six trap houses equipped with automatic trap machines. The trap house closest to the road is typically used as the practice trap on league nights and is also the designated Self-Use Trap. Look at the Self-Use Trap page for information on this program. The Ikes sponsor a Summer Trap League, a Fall Trap League, and a Summer Youth Trap League. In addition to this; five of the local high schools use the facility for practice from mid February thru April. Typically about 200 high school shooters practice on our range. The Ikes typically sponsor two area high school trap shoots with more than 300 participants in late March and April.THE SUMMER TRAP LEAGUE
The Summer Trap League is a 17 week league and typically starts in mid April and ends in August. Bill Siedhoff (402)423-5525 is the Ikes member supervising this league. The league is made up of teams sponsored by various businesses or the team can elect to sponsor themselves. A $85.00 sponsorship fee is charged and this money is used for awards at the awards dinner at the end of the shooting season. Both Ikes members and non-Ikes members are invited to shoot. The team roster with up to ten shooters along with the sponsorship fee is required before shooting starts.
Shooting typically starts at 6:30 in the evening and ends at 9:00 or 9:30. The team that shoots at 6:30 one week will shoot at 7:00 the next week. Only the team members on the rooster are allowed to shoot. The first four weeks of shooting are done from the twenty yard line and the team scores during this four week period determines if the team shoots in class AA, class A, class B, class C, class D, or Class E. Two rounds of 25 rocks are shot each night and the teams shoots against another team in their class. One point is awarded to the winning team for each round. During the season the teams are moved back one yard in yardage when they win two games.
Open the attached files for a Team Entry and Registration form.THE FALL LEAGUE
The Fall Trap League is a eight week league and typically starts in late August and ends in October. Bill Siedhoff (402)423-5525 is the Ikes member supervising this league. The league is made up of teams sponsored by various businesses or the team can elect to sponsor themselves. A $40.00 sponsorship fee is charged and this money is used for awards. Both Ikes members and non-Ikes members are invited to shoot. A team rooster and the sponsorship fee are required before shooting starts but shooting is not restricted to team members only. Any one can be brought in to shoot at any time.
The Lewis system of scoring is used and this means that all of the teams shooting are shooting against each other. At the end of the night the total scores for each team are listed and one point is awarded to the first, fifth, tenth team etc. shooting. One half point is awarded to the second, sixth, eleventh etc. team. In this league the teams sign up for a particular time slot on a come as first serve basis and they shoot at the reserved time the whole eight weeks. The first round of rocks is shot from the 16 yard line and the second round is shot from longer yardage. The longer yardage is determined by the points awarded to the team in past weeks of shooting.
Open the attached files for a Team Entry and Registration form.Do you wonder how much it costs to reload a box of shotgun shell and how do I caculate it? Just click on this Shotshell Reloading Cost Calculator