The Shooting Range located on the Sam R. Murphy WMA provides shooting opportunities at distances up to 100 yards. The range is located on property owned by the Murphy Family and leased to the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.
Hours of Operation
The range is open during daylight hours only (except by permit).
Location
The range is located west of Guin, AL (Marion County) in Lamar County. From Guin, travel west on County Road 16 (Henson Springs Road). Turn left on the gravel Western Front Road. Travel down Western Front Road for approximately 1 mile; you will see the sign for the range on the right.
View an aerial image of the range location.
GPS coordinates for the range are: 33.964 N 87.982 W.
License Requirement
- For Alabama residents, a valid hunting, heritage, fishing, or WMA license is required for all range users between the ages of 16-64.
- For nonresidents, a valid WMA license or non-resident hunting license is required for all range users age 16 or older.
Purchasing a license can be done in one of three ways:
1) Online by clicking here
2) By calling 1-888-848-6887
3) Visiting a retail vendor in your community
Range Regulations
- Range is open during daylight hours only (except by permit).
- No alcoholic beverages allowed.
- Any legal firearm and ammunition, except armor-piercing or tracer, may be used on target range.
- Keep all firearms unloaded and muzzles pointed down range when not firing or uncased. Action on uncased guns shall be open when not on the firing line.
- All persons are to remain behind the shooter while firing is taking place. No firing shall be allowed while anyone is down range.
- All firearms (except as noted below in # 7) shall only be fired from designated stations on the concrete shooting line into the embankment at stationary paper targets, self-healing or metal automatic reset targets. Targets must be placed so shots will impact the embankment into the bottom 5’ of the embankment. Only one person may shoot from each designated location at any given time.
- Shotguns with no. 4 shot or smaller may be fired at moving clay targets on designated clay areas only.
- All used targets, brass, shotgun hulls, and other trash shall be placed in a garbage can, or removed from the range.
- It shall be illegal to violate any posted restriction.
