Me: Hey, you wanna go shoot stuff?
Gf: I've never shot any thing.
Me: Neither have I, but they got this Living Social Deal.
Gf: okay, let's learn
3 months later...
Me: we need to use our gun living social deal
Gf: I returned mine, i don't wanna go.
Me: Oh.
20 minutes later......well, they wouldn't let me retrun my deal so I went shooting solo...redneck style.
Apparently this place is a good gun haven, it was pretty busy and I had to wait about 30 minutes for a lane to open up...
The Living Social Deal: Hour-Long Range Lane Rental, 9mm
Gun Rental, Box of Ammo, Eye and Ear Protection, and
Three Targets from Caswell's Shooting Range...
Here's the thing, the ear protection they give you is this rinky dink ear plugs which drowns out absolutely nothing. I walked in to the range with those things and almost dropped everything because I thought a bomb exploded. Guns are LOUD....since I'm not from LA, I didn't know this.
Anyways, if you come here on your own fruition, make sure you buy ear protection otherwise be ready to spend some good $$$ on the ear protection they sell here. The money I saved on the living social deal basically went into buying some heavy duty ear safety. Which I can now also use when I go down Mill Ave...drowns out all the homeless people asking for change.
Since I've never actually fired a gun until this day, I was kind of nervous of shooting someone/something by accident. ...."Hey, i've never held a gun before, can you help me figure out how to load this....and then shoot it...and actually how do i even take the gun out of this case?"....if someone asked you that at a shooting range, you would laugh and point, but the gentleman that worked the lanes was super chill and helped me to get all set up. The people here love their guns and want to teach you how to handle them properly. They also have classes here to help beginners.
Once I stopped acting like a N00B, I shot up some targets. I basically hit every part of the body that did not contain vital organs...so rest assured, if you break into my house and I have a gun, you won't die. Overall, I had a good time, learned how to handle a gun and walked out feeling like a complete badass. If you have an hour to spare and are low on testosterone or you are running out of Viagra, go to caswell's.
P.S. they have shooting targets that have aliens on them, so if you wanna pretend you are Will Smith from MIB, pay the extra charge and get them.