Dragonmans, a shooting range east of Colorado Springs and home to a military museum with countless historic artifacts, is expanding.

While there are no official plans yet, owners said the ranges will likely be lengthened to about 600 yards, up from the current 220 yards, but hinted at there being space for a lot more.

In a video shared to Facebook, owner of Dragonmans Mel Bernstein tours the land he said the company bought on Friday last week. Bernstein has run the range — which he calls “Dragon land” — for nearly 40 years. Bernstein got the name “Dragonman” while popping wheelies on a Harley Davidson motorcycle that he modified to feature a fire-breathing dragon’s head.

Bernstein and his daughter Melissa Flanell trekked over their new land in a vintage jeep, complete with a (presumably loaded) .50-caliber machine gun mounted in the back and an American flag proudly flapping in the wind. Bernstein and Flanell said they wanted to preserve the open land and bought it in competition with a California home builder that they did not name.

Part of the land purchased runs along the back of a shooting range and the rear of the military museum

“Look at all this land, holy moly,” Bernstein said, his arms outstretched. “We’re probably going to move the berm back and make the shooting ranges a little longer, and I don’t know what I’m going to do with the rest of the property.”

Dragonmans will be adding at least 70 acres, according to data from the El Paso County Assessor’s Office. The office lists three plots to the west of Dragonmans, one of which is a home and the other two listed as animal grazing areas, though one of those two has a home built on it.

It is not immediately clear exactly how much land Bernstein acquired, and employees at Dragonmans declined to comment ahead of this story.

Bernstein said Dragonmans was the choice for new ownership over a housing developer, given that some of the homes built would have been situated near the shooting range.

The purchase comes as Dragonmans prepares for a Fourth of July celebration, which will include machine-gun rentals between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday. Participants can select from modern and historical firearms, including the German STG-44 and the Soviet PPSH-41, but also large military machine guns like the M60, MG-42 and even an M134 minigun.

Dragonmans is one of roughly 10 shooting ranges in and around Colorado Springs.

Dragonmans will be the second owner of the property in 150 years, Flanell said in the video. The original landowners came to the area in the gold rush in Cripple Creek and Victor and essentially were given the land by President  Benjamin Harrison.

“Back then, they homesteaded it so they didn’t pay anything for it,” she said. “The patent on this land was signed by President Harrison in the 1890s, so very, very cool stuff. This was lived on by four generations of a family, and now we own the property.”

Flanell noted it will take a lot of work to get the land ready for expansion, prompting Bernstein to quip that “work” is his middle name.

Regarding expansion, Bernstein mentioned adding more dirt-bike track space and asked his 437,000 Facebook followers to suggest what they would want to see. One commenter suggested a private airfield for vintage warplanes, complementing Bernstein’s collection of vintage military vehicles, which includes a Cold War-era Soviet tank.

“There’s a lot of possibilities,” he said.