Obscure and defunct shooting ranges

[MeatyMac]

We use to just go down to the bay in Pinole and shoot. We would walk into old town with our guns and ammo and the cops would stop and tell us to be careful.

In the '70's and '80's my buddies and I use to go to the abandoned lime stone quarries above Boundary Oaks Golf Club in Walnut Creek, we'd park in the golf course parking lot and walk up the hill to the quarries; real good quail hunting up there as I remember. Today this area is the Lime Ridge Open Space off Ygnacio Valley Road.

[TS77]

The Optimist range at the end of Davis street in San Leandro. It backed up to the bay.

wait, this one? http://www.slrifle.com

[97F1504RAD]

In the '70's and '80's my buddies and I use to go to the abandoned lime stone quarries above Boundary Oaks Golf Club in Walnut Creek, we'd park in the golf course parking lot and walk up the hill to the quarries; real good quail hunting up there as I remember. Today this area is the Lime Ridge Open Space off Ygnacio Valley Road.

The good ole days for sure.

[71MUSTY]

In the old days we would just shoot in the Santa Ana Wash. As long as you were outside city limits all was cool.

[Mitch]

In the old days we would just shoot in the Santa Ana Wash. As long as you were outside city limits all was cool.

Folks about ten or fifteen years older than me would take their .22 rifles to school in Costa Mesa so they could take them afterwards for plinking and squirrel hunting in the Newport Back Bay.

[MrOrange]

Could it have been part of Camp Stoneman? I know Stoneman was on the outskirts of Pittsburg. While it's not exactly Mt. Diablo...it's real close.

No, the fly-boy shootin' range I read about was to the South or Southwest side of Diablo. It wasn't a set-up with guys on the ground using AA guns, it was for planes to come in and do strafing runs. That area wasn't full of rich folks back then!

Apologies to Gryff for the thread-jack.

Yes, that's where I took my hunter's safety class and test, I'm going to say that was in 1978 or '79.

By any chance do you remember the name, or if it was open to regular-type range shooters? You're the first person I know of who's actually seen the place.

[dozer wright]

May as well make a Combo thread Obscure and Defunct Shooting ranges and Drag strips. Call it missing pieces of America Heritage

[FF90]

In OC how about the trap skeet range by I-5 & 405 interchange, I think people were shooting towards the interstate and all the cars off in the distance... and what about the Issac Walton gun range in east Yorba Linda??

[steelholder]

Hutton Rifle ranch Topanga Ca. Golden Valley Skeet and trap Whiteman airport there now. Aqua Sierra Sportsmans club owned by Roy Rogers Chatsworth, Ca. Centinela Park pistol Range. Wes Thompsons Sand canyon, Ca. Litton Gun Club simi Valley Madera Road. Watson on alameda long beach.

are any of these still open(valley area)

[blasterp7]

Stockton Police Range (Stockton, CA)
Still in use. This range has a special place in my heart because my Dad was an SPD Reserve Officer, and had keys to the range. The best memories of my childhood are either on the baseball field or this range.

That brings back memories - I used to shoot PPC there in the mid to late 70's. Great range!

[rmblaster]

Dont recall name but North End of Jeffries Rd in Tustin, in the OC.

It was south coast gun club

[Gryff]

That brings back memories - I used to shoot PPC there in the mid to late 70's. Great range!

Then you probably shot against my father. He shot for Stockton P.D.

No, the fly-boy shootin' range I read about was to the South or Southwest side of Diablo. It wasn't a set-up with guys on the ground using AA guns, it was for planes to come in and do strafing runs. That area wasn't full of rich folks back then!

Apologies to Gryff for the thread-jack.

No worries. It's an organic thread, so I enjoy seeing some of the stuff that's been posted. The aerial gunnery training range in the Castro Valley hills blew my mind.

[highpower790]

May as well make a Combo thread Obscure and Defunct Shooting ranges and Drag strips. Call it missing pieces of America Heritage

White City,Ore has a drag strip and rifle range side by side.

[pacrat]

It was south coast gun club

That was it. Nice place. Last time I was there to check it out was in the late 90's and it was a commercial nursery.

[pacrat]

White City,Ore has a drag strip and rifle range side by side.

You just jogged loose another brainfart on my part.

Winchester Trap and Skeet was just south of and adjacent to Lion's Drag Strip. On Alameda in Wilmington. Now a Petro Tank Farm.