Island Lake Shooting Range
A Shooting Destination
Island Lake Shooting Range in Brighton is conveniently located off of I-96 between Kensington and Kent Lake roads. Island Lake is a modern facility with a 2,500 sq ft clubhouse and 120 acres of property featuring rolling hills and undulated terrain.
We offer a variety of clay target sports and rifle/pistol shooting. Located within close proximity to Brighton, Novi, South Lyon, Wixom, Hartland, Milford, Ann Arbor, and Farmington Hills.
Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as “golf with a shotgun” because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain. Sporting clays offers a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations, distances, and target sizes. Every course is different. Eye-twisting target presentations as well as the variety of models of clay targets make the sport extremely interesting. Each station presents you with a whole new experience!
Our sporting clays courses operate using a TargetKey counting system, which count how many clays you launch and allows shooters to utilize any combination of the clay target presentations – whether it be singles, reports or true pairs. The system also offers a delay feature for individual shooters.
We have three 7-station sporting clays courses at Island Lake – the red course, the white course, and the blue course. Each course is setup for a round of 50 targets. A full round of 100 targets consists of shooting two of the three courses.
The red, white & blue courses are setup in difficulty so that there is always one easy course, one medium, and one set hard for the tournament-level shooter.
Skeet utilizes two machines for presentations from eight shooting stations. The targets emerge from a high house ten feet above ground on the left and a low house 3-1/2 feet above ground on the right. Targets face one another forty yards apart and pass fifteen feet above a crossing stake set twenty yards from the shooting stations. Shooting stations are arranged around an arc running from one house to the other. A round of skeet consists of twenty-five shots, beginning with a high-house bird at station one, then a low house bird, then a double at one, two, six, and seven.
In trap, the targets are thrown from a single automatic trap quartering away from the shooter at various angles. One to five shooters move through five positions, shooting 5 shots at each – totaling twenty five targets in one round. We recommend trap for beginning shooters and novices. Island Lake Shooting Range has a total of four skeet/trap overlay fields.
5-Stand is very similar to sporting clays in that a wide variety of clay targets are thrown. There are five “stands” or stations to shoot from. There are usually somewhere between six and eight traps that throw the twenty-five targets. Participants shoot in turn at each of the five stands and various combinations of targets are thrown from the traps.
A menu card, with the availability of at least four levels of difficulty, advises the shooter of the sequence of targets. Five-Stand is a great way to get a sporting clays-like experience in a small amount of time and walking distance.
Whether you are sighting in your rifle for opening day or introducing your granddaughter to your old 22 rifle, you’ll feel at home and safe on our rifle and pistol ranges. We are known for having one of the largest, safest and best run public outdoor rifle and pistol shooting ranges in the state of Michigan.
At our rifle and pistol ranges, you’ll find black powder and bench rest enthusiasts, experts and novices alike enjoying their deer rifles and defensive handguns, single shots and the latest modern auto loaders. Trained range personnel are always on hand to assist with problems, to give advice and to make sure that the range and safety rules are strictly enforced for everyone’s safety.
Steel reactive target days are offered on designated steel shooting nights, check our calendar for details. Positions are available at both ranges at 25, 50 and 100 yards. Portable targets are additionally available free of charge to bring targets even closer than 25 yards.