Burro Canyon Shooting Park in Azusa California. Open to the public for $10 a day.
I suggest they first go unarmed into the bush, whilst adorned with a festoon of berries, fruits, and nuts for bears; and NY strips and bacon for the wolves and coyotes, and then see how they fare.
If Park Ranger tells you brown bears haven’t killed any hikers, they are liars. It has happened here in Georgia.
Burro Canyon Shooting Park in Azusa California. Open to the public for $10 a day.
You might as well just practice in your back yard with an airsoft rifle.
If there is to be group training of young people, I think the best way to do it would be to set up a range under army rules. That is, very by the numbers, with an emphasis on safety.
It would also help to have a lot of classroom first. It goes a long way beyond basic gun use, into gun lore, customs and courtesies, cleaning and maintenance, and especially common mistakes.
A little bit of this right at the start lasts a lifetime, and makes the gun ownership and use more enjoyable.
It also achieves a broader cultural objective of reintroducing gun culture to families that have lost it over the course of many years. It becomes part of their family heritage, passed down from parents to children.
It would be reasonable to provide a safe location where people can go to shoot.
The alternative is to have people who indiscriminately choose a location that may not be safe to practice.
Good, responsible gun owners are “generally’ good judges of safe shooting sites. It is the novice that really needs guidance and supervision which a State Park location would be of great help.