If you already own firearms, Chabot as mentioned above is a great one and in a very pretty/scenic area for someone visiting from across the pond. My favorite, to which I'm a member, is the Livermore/Pleasanton Rod and Gun Club off of Vasco. LPRG has a very friendly older (retired type) staff that is very knowledgeable. The facilities are new and nicely kept. They also have a trap and archery area if needed.

 

Jackson Arms FTW

 

Do you need to have experience or can newbies go gun clapping too?

 

So Jackson Arms in South city has gone...it's been demolished! apparently they are building a new Lowe's there. Doh!

Thanks for the recomendations.

 

^I thought the new Jackson Arms was up and running already? I was under the impression that they moved to a bigger location.

But yeah, +1 on Jackson Arms. It's the only indoor range that I know of in the Bay Area that allows you to rapid fire all you want (as long as you don't shoot the ceiling).

 

Glen,
They moved to Utah Ave. awhile back. You have the old info when they were on Dubuque. It's right next to the bridge on Utah. I think it's 153 Utah Ave. .

 

Thanks Rob, I'll check it out. My brit buddies are obsessed with guns and ammo..there's something about shooting a dirty harry magnum that they love

 

British blokes with guns remind me of the movie Snatched... particularly this scene:

Bullet Tooth Tony: So, you are obviously the big dick. The men on the side of ya are your *****. There are two types of *****. There are big brave *****, and there are little mincey ***got *****.

Vinny: These are your last words, so make them a prayer.

Bullet Tooth Tony: Now, dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they are not clever. They smell ***** and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good old *****, and have brought your two small mincey ***got ***** along for a good old time. But you've got your parties mangled up. There's no ***** here, just a dose that'll make you wish you were born a woman. Like a *****, you are having second thoughts. You are shrinking, and your two little ***** are shrinking with you. And the fact that you've got "Replica" written down the side of your gun...

[Zoom in on the side of Sol's gun, which indeed has "REPLICA" etched on the side; zoom out, as they sneak peeks at the sides of their guns]

Bullet Tooth Tony: And the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle point five O"...

[Withdraws his gun and puts it on the table]

Bullet Tooth Tony: Written down the side of mine...

[They look, zoom in on the side of his gun, which indeed has "DESERT EAGLE .50" etched on the side]

Bullet Tooth Tony: Should precipitate your ***** into shrinking, along with your presence. Now... **** off!

 

targetmasters doesn't have enough supervision for the idiots that sometimes show up on weekend nights. one time, three guys were fooling around with a semi-automatic handgun w/ a laser sight. They had no muzzle discipline and that laser was pointing in every direction including at the shooters in the other lanes.

 

I'm surprised no-one hasnt got cute and said East Oakland

 

hayward PD private range behind in the hills above moreau (SP?) high school...

 

Whoa, is there seriously a range up there?!
And Moreau Catholic FTW!!

 

Hayward PD's SWAT team leader, Officer Swanson was my firearms instructor. The guy is BAD *** when it comes to shooting... You'd never know it as he is very laid back and really cool, but then he jumps into serious mode and leaves you going

 

Well, that's not a good shooting range cuz the targets shoot back at you!

 

When I take my friends shooting and such, and they use my pistols with laser sighting (great took for teaching), they get all slopping and aim the laser into other peoples lanes... It drives me crazy! But even if the range had more supervision, that's a hard thing to enforce unless they keep doing it. If they do keep doing it, just ask them to stop. It doesn't bother me when someone is distracting me at the range, it just adds more realism to the target practice... You have to be able to ignore all distractions in a real life scenario, so why not at the range too? That's my philosophy. But yeah, I try to be very careful to not aim the laser into other peoples lanes, but sometimes you'll go to turn it off with the finger switch, and it wont turn off, and by that time you've already made a swipe across the lanes. *whoops*. **** happens sometimes, but if they are all doing it and constantly, I could see how that would be annoying as hell.

You can always tell the range master.