Welcome to the DPRC

The Durham Pistol and Rifle Club (DPRC) is a private shooting club offering excellent pistol and rifle range facilities. These are open 365 days a year during daylight hours to members and their guests.

Club Facilities

• General Purpose range with 20 covered concrete benches and metal framed targets at 50 and 100 yards.
• Pistol range with 40 covered firing positions and turning targets at 25 and 50 yards
• Pistol pit with moveable target frames up to 15 yards
• Rifle range with 6 covered and 18 uncovered firing positions for targets at 100, 200 and 300 yards
• Meeting Shelter used for air rifle and club gatherings

Web Forum

The club has a web forum where members can exchange messages.
To access the web site, click on the link on the Members Only page.

Organized Events

Currently the club offers several forms of organized competition and training. Other competitions or programs may be setup by any group of club members willing to organize and hold them. Among the current programs are:

• 2700 Aggregate Outdoor Pistol (Bullseye) NRA Approved Matches
• Highpower Rifle NRA Approved Matches
• RBA 50/50 .22 Benchrest Matches
• Youth Marksmanship Training with Air Rifles
• Louis Awerbuck Defensive Shooting Clinics
• Friends of the NRA Dinner

Club History

The Durham Pistol and Rifle Club (DPRC) was organized in 1946 as a private, member-only club to promote sportsmanship, competition, and training in pistol and rifle marksmanship. The first range (located off of Picket Road, Durham, North Carolina) was the home of a small, but enthusiastic group of rifle and pistol shooters. In the first twenty-two years of the DPRC's existence, some ten annual North Carolina State Championship pistol and rifle tournaments were held at the club's range. In 1987 the club membership decided to move the facilities to a less populated area and relocated the club to its current home in Alamance County, south of Mebane.

For more than fifty years the club has sponsored sanctioned competitions. Currently it sponsors NRA sanctioned Bulleye Pistol and High Power Rifle matches and RBA sanctioned Rimfire Benchrest matches and will be sending teams to the National Championships in Camp Perry, Ohio.

With a modern forty-point pistol range, a three-hundred yard rifle range, and a twenty-point IR 50/50-sanctioned benchrest firing line on the general-purpose range, the Durham Pistol & Rifle Club stands ready to serve its membership and the shooting sports community for the next fifty years.

Contact Information

The range is located at 3973 S Jim Minor Road, just south of Mebane, North Carolina

The club phone number is (336) 567-0981