ACTION SHOTGUN

Action shotgun is a face-paced discipline involving speed-reloads, short barreled shotguns, fast reloads and a whole heck of a lot of steel to knock down! Are you up for the challenge? Targets are generally placed within close distance, and are engaged with lead target load. The Barrie Gun Club hosts a club level Action Shotgun Match Monthly from Spring to Fall. Members are certified in-house.

IPSC

International Practical Shooting Confederation or ‘IPSC’ is a discipline recognized and shot all over the world – all matches, regardless of geographic location following the same set of rules, with shooters moving through each ‘stage’ engaging targets within the allowable area. IPSC includes pistol, rifle and shotgun variants, so there’s something for everyone. We offer an IPSC practice for members each Wednesday, and various level matches for pistol and shotgun throughout the year. In order to participate BGC members must hold their “black badge”.

CLAY SPORTS

The Barrie Gun Club offers its clay shooters a chance to enjoy it all… American Skeet, American Trap, Wobble Trap, Black Powder Trap and 5-Stand, under our newly constructed year-round, fully covered 5-Stand structure. Our Clay Fields are open to our members Wednesdays afternoons, along with Saturdays and Sundays. We often host Ontario Skeet Shooting Association (OSSA) Sanctioned Tournaments. During the winter months we have a booming ‘Penguin’ House League, often seeing over 50 members compete in friendly competition in the span of one weekend.

JUNIOR PROGRAMS

The Barrie Gun Club is proud to invest in the next generations education in the shooting sports. We offer junior air rifle and .22LR, skeet and archery programs to our junior members under 16 years of age. Our junior members learn that safety always takes priority and our taught to hold a great respect for firearms and firearm safe handling, while learning marksmanship hand in hand with good sportsmanship.

PRECISION RIFLE SERIES (PRS/NRL22)

We are excited to be offering NRL22 Practices and matches, year round, for those looking to push their rifle skills to the limit. PRS involves engaging steel targets, from various distances, off of various barricades, all within a time limit! Precision and speed are the name of the game and for those who are looking to add some excitement to their rifle shooting, PRS may be for you.

IDPA

The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) is the governing body of a shooting sport that simulates self-defense scenarios and real life encounters.
IDPA offers an exciting forum for practical shooters in which truly practical equipment, techniques and courses of fire are mandated. Prior to IDPA, there was no place to compete with common service pistols.
When you come to an IDPA match, you can not only use your standard service pistol, you can be completely competitive with it! Other shooting sports have become equipment races; IDPA will not.

Black Powder

Black Powder shooting is a target sport for historical muzzle loading firearms loaded with traditional black powder. Black powder practices and matches fall into many disciplines including clay target competitions, matchlock, flintlock and percussion pistols, revolvers, muskets, rifles and shotguns. Pistol and revolver matches are commenced at 25 and 50m, rifle matches are shot at distances from 50m to 150m. The firearms are divided between the classes by age and technical specifications. Our club hosts the Maple Leaf International Muzzle Loading Association, which includes shooters who travel globally to compete in this challenging sport. For 2026 the MLIMLA is sending a team to Austria this summer for the World Championships.

BENCHREST RIFLE

Benchrest rifle is all about precision. We have a very active rimfire benchrest league at the club, including monthly matches that always see a great turnout – and what’s better – a great improvement in scores from those who attend regularly! The distance varies match by match and can be anything from 25 Metres indoors, to 150 Metres outdoors, including many distances in between. Benchrest involves shooting from a seated position, with your rifle on a rest – a bag, a bi pod, its the shooters choice. This event is great for all ages and requires no formal certification.

BULLSEYE PISTOL

Bullseye Pistol is all about accuracy. Your breathing, core strength, stance, grip, sighting and trigger pull all need to come together for that precise shot. Bullseye is shot from 25-50 Metres, typically, and is shot one-handed! There are different timed stages in which a shooter has to engage their target – hoping for all 10’s. We have a very active bullseye league that is also integrated with other local clubs, giving our members the opportunity to compete at other facilities, meet new people and expand their skill level. We host rimfire, centrefire and now air pistol matches monthly.

ARCHERY

When we don’t have snow on the ground our beautiful archery range comes alive! The club provides a variety of 3D targets at varying distances from 5 Metres out to 40 Metres for all types of bows with their field tips. We also host multiple ‘Learn to shoot archery’ events for our adult members, alongside our junior archery program that runs in the Summer months.

COWBOY ACTION

The Barrie Gun Club is a SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) affiliated club and the Bar-E Ranch adheres to the rules and principles of SASS. Through our affiliation with SASS we are able to take advantage of being part of a global society with approximately 100,000 members.

The Bar-E Ranch is a dedicated group of like-minded shooters who are smitten by the fantasy and true grit of the “old west. Cowboy Action Shooting is a multi-faceted shooting sport in which contestants compete with firearms typical of those used in the taming of the Old West: single action revolvers, pistol caliber lever action rifles, and old time shotguns. The shooting competition is staged in a unique, characterized, “Old West” style. It is a timed sport in which shooters compete for prestige on a course of different shooting stages.

As the game of Cowboy Action Shooting has evolved, our members have developed and adopted an attitude towards their participation called “The Spirit of the Game.” It is a code by which we live. Competing in “The Spirit of the Game” means you fully participate in what the competition asks. You try your best to dress the part, use the appropriate competition tools, and respect the traditions of the Old West. Some folks would call it nothing more than good sportsmanship. We call it “Spirit of the Game.”

So if you want to try something unique, put a new spin on an old lifestyle and share great times with new friends, then come out and join an ever-growing group of people.

We hold practice matches every second and fourth Saturday of each month throughout the year.