Yucaipa Gun Club

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:12 pm

Yucaipa Gun Club. Anyone know any story behind this?

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:18 pm

I don't know Griff, but I'm ready to move next to it and start repair operations immediately!

Looks like a neat place. Did they mention a general location?

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:26 pm

Yucaipa is located north of I-10 between San Bernardino and Beaumont, CA.

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:55 pm

btt

Old Savage?????

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:12 pm

C. Cash wrote:I don't know Griff, but I'm ready to move next to it and start repair operations immediately! Looks like a neat place. Did they mention a general location?

If it wasn't in Kalifornia, I'd be right there with you. Someone abandoned that beautiful land and range?!?

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:56 pm

That's a plain shame. Makes me wonder what the problem was/is?

BruceB · Post by **BruceB** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:23 am

C. Cash wrote:btt

Old Savage?????

That's quite a ways from Old Savage.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:00 am

One of the guys over on The SASS Wire said he'd shot there once in the '80s. They weren't friendly, and when asked about joining, they told him, "you can't afford it, kid." Sounds like they limited themselves and suffered the consequences. Environmental issues may have reared its ugly head, not to mention the simple increase in property taxes. All can be detrimental to gun range operations.

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:34 am

If those pictures were taken today, there might be one or two that wouldn't have a house or houses in them. Development of that area has increased heavily over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if that property hasn't been sold to developers and perhaps developed itself. Also as stated, the taxes in that area are ferocious.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:30 pm

I matched up the locale on GoogleEarth with the photo in the series, it still looks like it is fairly remote.

MikeS. · Post by **MikeS.** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:39 pm

I spent the summers of '73, 74 & 75 living in Banning, just 5 miles down the road from Beaumont at that time. My Uncle was a member at Yucaipa and almost every day after work we went to shoot.

Work was laying steel on the bridges for the I-10 and I-15 interchange in San Berdoo, it is/was called the Colton interchange.

Anyways it's too bad that another gun club has bit the dust.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:41 am

It is hard enough for me to look at an abandend anything, let alone some place I would like to go. Dadgum sad.