St Louis Skeet and Trap Club

Had a great time shooting skeet and trap in the safe, orderly atmosphere of St. Louis Skeet and Trap Club. Great ranges, quality rentals and very helpful staff that are ready to go out of their way to ensure their patrons are comfortable. Also, we really appreciated the loaner goggles and the cooler of ice cold waters.
An extra special shout out to Dale for taking the time to work personally with every member of our large and terribly novice group. We left feeling confident with the firearms and we can’t wait to come back.

This was a great time yesterday, I look forward to many more visits out to shoot some skeet. the staff is very friendly and willing to take the time to show a new shooter the ropes and explaining everything.

This is a very, very nice scatter gun range — based solely on amenities, it’s nicer than all the ranges I’ve been to in the Chicago area. I’ve been several times, and this review pretty much holds true for every visit.
First off, they have 8 trap/​skeet fields. All the fields appear to be usable for both trap and for skeet, although I doubt they have all three required launchers in place at each station at all times. We are always told which are set up for which. All the fields are well maintained, with voice activated throwers. Almost never a broken bird, although the flight trajectory on field 8 is a little flat — I feel like I’m shooting right at the house half the time, which I’m sure is frowned on. It’s interesting to note that there is NEVER any kind of wait, and nor is there ever any formal trap. They just tell you to go out on a field and have fun. They track birds thrown with a little electronic counter box, which I’ve only seen at this location… it seems a bit unreliable, or maybe I’m just dumb. But I think it manages to overcharge me every time. Oh well.
I think there are two more 5-​stand fields, but I’ve never seen them in operation.
Their clays course is very nice — 12 stations. All have two launchers, so you can choose a (sometimes extraordinarily difficult) true pair or report pair on each station — never just two birds from the same launcher. Difficulty was medium. I recently shot near my personal best, percentage wise, so I’m not going to say it was hard. One highlight is a scaffold shooting platform — it’s fun to shoot down on the birds instead of up at them. And there was a single rabbit, for variety, but no mini or midi clays that I saw. The entire course is in the open, kind of brushy fields, some shaded by woods, but no stations under cover of trees.
There’s a paintball range just behind (up range) of parts of the clays course, and it’s hard not feel super awesome when you consider those kids aren’t even using live ammo, and they think they’re cool.
The reason I only have 4 stars marked here is because the staff are kind of jerks. I’m pretty understanding of you being nervous with random people showing up and discharging firearms on your property. But there’s no need to be a total jerk to me — if I do something unsafe, then by all means, come down on me and correct the unsafe behavior. But the hostile attitude we always get the moment we walk in the door is a bit uncalled for. Even trying to strike up conversation with the range master got us clipped, smart-​alec responses… I guess if he wants people to dislike him, he’s getting his wish. I’ve been several times, and it’s always the same.
But, if you can ignore the staff (well, not ignore… just don’t take them personally, or expect any friendliness) then this is a spectacular range.