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The Lodge
Two levels of covered shooting decks, facing straight down the main range.
Hosting
Competition & Guest Instructors
Bring Your Match. Bring Your Class.
Packsaddle is a venue for precision rifle matches and for guest instructors teaching their own courses. You bring the event. We provide the ground, with distance out to roughly 3,750 yards and high-angle terrain; the Lodge as your match HQ or classroom; and rooms and meals for your whole field at Horseshoe Bay Resort, about fifteen minutes away. Our first matches and guest courses are being scheduled for 2027.
Host With UsThe Venue
Stages You Cannot Build on Flat Ground
Most matches in Texas are shot on flat ranges with barricades standing in for terrain. Packsaddle is a mountain. Your stages can use the elevation, the angles and the distance.
Terrain
High-angle positions, rock, slope and natural barricades, ready to set to your course of fire.
Distance
Out to roughly 3,750 yards, with downrange cameras and electronic hit indicators.
After Dark
Suppressed, night vision and thermal work, on the same ground.
Exclusive Use
We close the facility to all other activities when your match needs the mountain to itself.
Range Staff
The team that runs this mountain every week can help plan and support your match or course, as much or as little as you want.
Parking
Ample, well-thought-out parking for competitors.
The Lodge
Your Match HQ or Classroom
About 3,000 square feet with registration, stats, briefings, TVs, live target cameras, showers and air conditioning, plus about 2,500 square feet of covered shooting decks. The Lodge is under construction and opens early 2027.
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The Lounge
Registration, stats and the awards table, with a bar for after the last stage.
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The Team Room
Briefings, classroom sessions and live target cameras on the screens.
Formats
Built for the Matches and Courses You Run
These are the formats the mountain suits best. Running something else? Tell us about it.
Precision rifle
Positional, time-pressured, 300 to 1,200 yards. Barricades, props and natural terrain.
Hunter-style field matches
Cold-bore, field positions, realistic distances and angles. Built for the hunter, not the bench.
Extreme long range
Two-person teams, one rifle, out to roughly 3,750 yards.
Shooting and fitness
Rifle and pistol under physical load. Movement across real ground between stages.
Guest courses and clinics
Bring your curriculum and your students. We provide the ground, the classroom, the stay and the meals. Club matches and practice days too.
Who We Host
Matches, Courses, and Sponsors
Whether you run a match, teach a course, or sponsor one, here is what Packsaddle provides.
Match Directors
Run your match on a mountain, with the Lodge as HQ and a room block for your whole field.
- The Lodge as your match HQ
- Range staff to help plan stages and run the match
- A room block and one booking link for your field
- Catering from lunch at the range to the awards dinner
Guest Instructors
Bring your curriculum and your students. We provide the ground, the classroom, the stay and the meals.
- The Lodge as your classroom
- Flat range to high angle, out to roughly 3,750 yards
- Teach wind, angles and distance on mountain terrain
- Rooms and meals for your students
Sponsors & Vendors
Match weekends bring serious shooters, their families, and the people who equip them onto the mountain for three or four days.
- Space to show, demo and sell
- A full field for the whole weekend
Where Your Field Stays
Horseshoe Bay Resort
Every match and course we host gets a room block at Horseshoe Bay Resort, about fifteen minutes from the range: one rate and one booking link for your field. The resort’s banquet team can handle anything from lunch at the range to an awards dinner for more than five hundred, so your event carries no food and beverage risk.
See the ResortPlanning
Book a Year Out
National calendars are set twelve months ahead, and so are ours. The earlier we talk, the better the dates.
12 Months Out
Hold the dates. We pencil in your weekend and start the room block.
6 Months Out
Open registration. Your competitors or students get one link for entry and one link for rooms.
Final Weeks
We confirm the schedule, staffing, catering and room counts with you.
Event Week
Our staff handles setup, catering, the match HQ and the awards table.
Already Registered?
Plan Your Weekend
For competitors and students coming to a match or course at Packsaddle.
Before You Come
- Every match and course comes with a room block at Horseshoe Bay Resort, about fifteen minutes from the range. Book through the link on your match page to get the group rate.
- Most matches run Friday to Sunday, so we suggest arriving Thursday to check in at the resort. For select events, the range opens ahead of the match so you can check your zero.
- Packsaddle is about an hour from Austin and about twenty minutes from Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport.
At the Range
- Lunch is served at the range every match day; breakfast and dinner are at the resort.
- Ammunition in common rifle and pistol calibers is stocked on site if you run short.
- The match director’s or instructor’s safety brief governs the event; our range officers have final authority on the line.
- Bringing family? The resort has pools, golf, a kids’ club and the lake.
Room Booking Coming Soon
Get in Touch
Host a Match or a Course
Hosting a match, teaching a course or sponsoring: tell us what you have in mind. We'll show you the ground.
Thank You
Thanks. We'll be in touch to walk you through the ground.