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Green Top Sporting Goods is expanding into a new venture — operating an indoor shooting range that’s about 2.5 miles from its store in Hanover County.

The outdoors retailer’s top executive said that taking over operations of the Winding Brook Indoor Shooting Range not only will be complementary to Green Top’s business, but it will add sales and services.

“We believe we can take it to a new level,” said Blaine Altaffer, Green Top’s president and CEO.

The company, Virginia’s largest independent outdoor retailer and firearms dealer, signed a deal last week to take over the Winding Brook Indoor Shooting Range operations as well as having a long-term lease for its 23,000-square-foot space at 11547 Lakeridge Parkway.

Green Top officially will assume ownership and day-to-day operations on Nov. 6 when the space will be rebranded as Green Top Shooting Range.

Terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed.

The shooting range, which is across Lakeridge Parkway from the Bass Pro Shops, has 24 indoor 25-yard lanes across three 8-lane bays. It opened in 2016 as Blue Ridge Arsenal, but the landlord took over the space a year later and has been operating it ever since as Winding Brook Indoor Shooting Range.