1:1 instruction only (M-F, 11am-9pm), within a stall in our public shooting bay. Static shooting only. Ideal for new shooters or folks wanting to improve on their marksmanship.
It's taken me a while to be able to speak on this. I was so excited to take Julie's women's classes. Saved up and had to plan for months to make the time.
5 min into the class I realized she'd already picked a couple "favorites." No idea what it was about those women that made her favor them, but it was clear. The rest of us were just numbers to her. I'm even the same race and age as the ones she decided to make her buddies, so no idea what the criteria was. She gave those two more attention through the whole classroom part as well as in the range. She even divided us up and made sure her favorites were shooting with her, and gave the rest of us so some random guy we'd never met. He saunters up to me and immediately starts challenging my shooting experience "bet you never shot one of these before." I've never seen the guy before in my life, I'm signed up for a women's class, and this is his first sentence to me? The atmosphere was tense the whole time we shot, I got zero instructions and was ignored by the actual instructor, Julie, while she laughed and had a great time with her two insta-buddies. There were about 10 other women there in the same boat, and the tension was palpable. Julie immediately changed tone when any of us approached her. We were all visibly confused and disappointed.
I even stayed at the end to try and ask some questions and get some kind of instruction on the issues I was running into. Julie clearly didn't want to talk to me and gave me flippant, disinterested answers. "Well that's just how it is sometimes," she replied when I mentioned getting cut in a particular place while shooting.
By the end of the class, her and her two brand new besties were literally making vacation plans together. I am not kidding.
I am a teacher by profession. It pains me to see students who come to learn ANYTHING being treated this way, but especially a class supposedly geared toward women. It hurts to be left out, and it's not appropriate to pick favorites and decide the other students don't have the right "vibe" or "look" to be in your good graces and be treated with equal respect, attention, and interest, if you can't muster genuine camaraderie. It honestly had to be something that she decided on sight, it happened within the first 5 minutes of class like I said.
Anyway, I just want to warn other women that Julie is like this, and strongly encourage the management there to start advertising for another instructor right away. No one should be subjected to this when they come to your classes.
For anyone who doubts me or needs proof this all really happened, I can tell you she makes hearts instead of a dot above the I in her name.
Have been visiting it for about a month with my wife and son. Everyone loved it! With the two spacious bays there were vacant lanes for us even during the most busy hours. A huge selection of guns to rent (and with gold level membership most of them are free). Complementary hearing and eye protection, and you can also buy ammo and target on the spot, if needed. Last, but not least, staff is always helpful and friendly. So, I highly recommend the place to everyone interested in shooting independently on your experience level.