Want to buy a unique Idaho property? You could shoot your shot with a gun range
It’s not every day that a 160-acre property with a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, a three-car garage and 11 gun ranges with a Boise address hits the market. But if you’re keen on unusual properties, this one could be just the thing for you: Mark and Karen Cerchione put their property and business, the Double Tapp Gun Range, up for sale on May 7 for $3.95 million.
“It’s a really really unique piece of property,” said Derek Phinney, who is representing the sale with Coldwell Banker Tomlinson.
The property at 14000 E. Double Tapp Lane sits 17 miles southeast of Boise and is a 15-minute drive from the Boise Airport, according to a marketing flier. The Cerchiones’ business features 11 shooting ranges (nine for active members and two leased by the Meridian Police Department for training) and a 350-yard rifle range with steel targets, covered shooting bays and heavy-duty steel shooting benches.
The site and the nearly 2,200-square foot, 7-year-old manufactured home are west of the Boise Stage Stop off Interstate 84 about halfway between Boise and Mountain Home. It is just west of the 730-acre Mayfield Springs development, where construction has begun and where the developer says about 2,400 homes will be built.
“The growth out here is expected to be pretty considerable over the next few years,” Mark Cerchione said by phone. “It’s a beautiful place to come and live.”
The highlight of the property, Cerchione said, is the gun range that he started with his wife in 2018 after decades in law enforcement and firearms training. “It just took off,” he said.
The private, members-only range has about 320 members.
“We have intentionally kept our membership numbers low … as a small private business with just two people (in their 60s) running the business, we just didn’t want to overextend ourselves and create something bigger than we can handle ourselves,” Cerchione said in a property flier. “This range could easily be taken up to 500, 1,000 or even more members if new owners are able to plan, organize and manage an operation of that size.”
Cerchione said that he hopes whoever buys the property will keep it safe and family-oriented. He said they have some fire pits on the property, and families often come to spend the day, shoot guns and build a fire.
Membership costs $310 per year for one or two people in the same household and $470 for a family, according to the Double Tapp website. Members can bring guests to the range for $15 per guest per day.
Cerchione said a big portion of the business comes from training partners. According to a brochure, these include the Army, Air Force, Meridian and Garden City police departments, several federal agencies and church security groups.
Cerchione said he’s nearly 64 and has watched three of his high school friends die in the last year. He wants to retire from the business to travel the country, fish and camp.
“If I was 35 years old, there’s no way I’d be selling,” he said. “There’s so much more to do … It’s just time to turn it over to somebody young who can continue driving it forward.”
Idaho property near two proposed casinos
The gun range is also roughly two miles away from the site of a casino proposed by the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, based on the Duck Valley Reservation along the Idaho-Nevada state line; and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in North Idaho.
In April, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe bought 561 acres of land to give to the Sho-Pai for the project, according to prior Idaho Statesman reporting.
According to a news release, the resort and casino — the only in southwest Idaho — could generate tens of millions of dollars per year and create thousands of jobs for the area.
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes also bought land in Elmore County in 2024 to build a $311 million resort and casino near Mountain Home. The Sho-Ban Tribes said they remain committed to their plans.
This story was originally published May 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM.
