I know how you felt, lol. I grew up in Oak Ridge, so when I left after graduating from high school, I quickly discovered that not every gun club had a thousand yard range like ORSA did, and that actually, almost none did. My only advice to the OP is to keep looking and ask around whenever you encounter other shooters, as there are often good opportunities in East TN that are also not widely advertised.
The "Varmint" of choice when I was kid was wild boar, a different game from Chuck's, but as much fun in its own way.
