Thunder Ranch is for sale…

[T3Pros]

Anyone know why it's for sale?

If we look to see what the other old range officers from early Gunsite are doing today:

Chuck Taylor: RIP
Pat Rogers: RIP
Louis Awerbuck: RIP
Ken Hackathorn: retired
Bill Jeans: retired
Clint Smith: probably wanting to retire.

[Spyder]

Anyone know why it's for sale?

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2021/08/23/thunder-ranchs-oregon-facility-officially-on-the-market/

[M76]

Should we make it a sovereign nation?

Sovereign State!

[Vinnie Boombatz]

If we look to see what the other old range officers from early Gunsite are doing today:

Chuck Taylor: RIP
Pat Rogers: RIP
Louis Awerbuck: RIP
Ken Hackathorn: retired
Bill Jeans: retired
Clint Smith: probably wanting to retire.

Figured as much I guess. At first I didn't think Thunder Ranch had been around that long, but it has been 27-28 years, so makes sense.

[sigstroker]

If we look to see what the other old range officers from early Gunsite are doing today:

Chuck Taylor: RIP
Pat Rogers: RIP
Louis Awerbuck: RIP
Ken Hackathorn: retired
Bill Jeans: retired
Clint Smith: probably wanting to retire.

My buddy, who I won't name but was an RO there, is still working in Phoenix.

[sigstroker]

It looks like Thunder Ranch is changing to be like a lot of other training outfits, where they come to your range and put on classes there. You won't get their great facilities but you won't have to travel to OR either. Personally, I would never take a class there. Too far to drive and I'm not going to drag all my guns and ammo through airports. I like the idea of traveling instructors. Lots of good east coast instructors that I would never travel to, and I'm sure lots of east coasters say the same about Thunder Ranch.

[HKBigboy]

The gun laws are changing in Oregon. Clint mentioned it in one of the videos when they moved there in the 1990s gun laws were the same as Texas. Also his wife mother was there and now deceased. Bet he’s moving to Nevada, which is why more and more classes have been in Nevada.

[Robert1234]

Nevada is leaning further and further left every election cycle, not sure why he'd move there when Texas, Florida, Arizona (don't get me started on the latest Senate elections), South Dakota, and Wyoming are all pretty stable with regards to gun laws.

[sigstroker]

NV already sucks with kali-style registration and waiting periods. Might not affect him much though. I would think he'd like UT better, maybe get another place in the mountains.

[Robert1234]

NV already sucks with kali-style registration and waiting periods. Might not affect him much though. I would think he'd like UT better, maybe get another place in the mountains.

Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota all seem like placed where one could get a ton of land pretty cheap and make another haven. Proximity to an airport might be an issue though.

[morrcarr67]

I was going to buy it, but he doesn't know what kind of trout are in the ponds.

[Robert1234]

I was going to buy it, but he doesn't know what kind of trout are in the ponds.

Yeah, and the main house only has ten foot ceilings. How very pedestrian...

[L84CABO]

If we look to see what the other old range officers from early Gunsite are doing today:

Chuck Taylor: RIP
Pat Rogers: RIP
Louis Awerbuck: RIP
Ken Hackathorn: retired
Bill Jeans: retired
Clint Smith: probably wanting to retire.

Clint strikes me as the type of guy that will never retire. Maybe he's looking to dial things back a little and not having to maintain a facility and 877 acres will take a fair amount off his plate. But I just don't see him as the kind to sit in a rocking chair on the porch all day. He's way too feisty for that.

I may be wrong of course.

[SVT-40]

If we look to see what the other old range officers from early Gunsite are doing today:

Chuck Taylor: RIP
Pat Rogers: RIP
Louis Awerbuck: RIP
Ken Hackathorn: retired
Bill Jeans: retired
Clint Smith: probably wanting to retire.

Interestingly I ran into Cory Trapp from Gunsite today while getting some propane tanks filled at our local Ford dealer.

I hadn't seen him in over 30 years.

He's the guy on Gun Stories who shoots all the guns. He has very gray hair and beard.

Nice guy.

[cgseanp1]

65 cal gunners come up with 100k each??