The Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society

Range Information

Map, Area Lodging

The Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society shoots on the fourth Saturday of the month and will hold its inaugural shoot Saturday, September 22nd, 2007. We will be shooting four or five stages, a rifle woods walk, and a long range rifle match in the afternoon.

Our posse will do our shooting on the Thunder Creek Long Rifle shooting range that has been in existence since the early 1970’s.
The range boasts two shooting areas, a lower range that has modern camping (no RV hookups) for modern tents or campers, and an upper range for primitive camping and long range rifle shooting.

A safety meeting will be held at 9:00am with shooting to start promptly at 9:30am. Lunch and soft drinks will be provided.

Shooting fees per event are as follows:
SMVS Posse Members………………….…$10.00
Non SMVS Posse, NCOWS members…..$12.00
Non NCOWS Members………..…………...$15.00


To get to the range take Indiana Hwy 37 from Indianapolis south to Martinsville Indiana. Go to the fourth stop light which is Mahalasville road. Turn left (if coming from the north) Go approximately six miles to Bear Wallow road, turn right, go approximately 2.2 miles. Range is on left hand side of road and is marked. Don't be too apprehensive about the steep hills, the area we will use is flat and easy walking.

Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society Contacts:
Bill Proctor e-mail, bill@surf-ici.com Phone # 317-797-8444, or Dave Hollandsworth e-mail, lawdawg319@att.net.

Map to the Thunder Creek Range

A larger and higher resolution map

For  a Google map and driving directions to the range click here.

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Area Lodging

Here are the phone numbers of several motels in the area of our shooting range in the city of Martinsville.

The first three are located on SR 37 and the intersection of Mahallasville road (the main road to the range), approximately 8.2 miles from the range. The fourth motel is on the west side of Martinsville on SR 67 and it adds about four miles to the drive to the range.

Best Western Motel 765-342-1842
Super 8 Motel 765-349-2222
Hill View Motel 765-342-6272
Royal Motel 765-342-6671

About 15 miles south of Martinsville is Bloomington, Indiana, where you can get a much better grade motel such as Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn or Marriott Hotel.

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Related Links- National Congress of Old West Shootists,
Rattlesnake Jack's Old West Clip Art Parlor (The Riflemen at the top of this page and the drawing of the Train on the Start page are from the extensive collection of Clip Art on Rattlesnake Jack's site. Thank you Jack!)


Home, Membership Info, Schedule, Range Information, Results Page
Posse Member Photos, Range Photos, Links, History of the Scarlet Mask Society
Inaugural Shoot, 2007-8 NCOWS Tally Book

The Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society would be happy to hear from you.
Please contact us with any questions, or comments, at:

bill@surf-ici.com

Created August 30, 2007, by Greg Limbach for the Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society.
Updated March 30, 2008.