La Puente Firing Range — Attraction in La Puente

I want to give this place a 5 star, and it has potential for it. But some things need to change here first. For one thing the place is always very warm. They need to add some air conditioning or fans behind the firing line. Ammo prices and rentals are a little steep, as is range time. But they do have some nice options for targets and they even have pretty clean bathrooms the 4 times I went. The guys working the counter are always humble and polite in my experience, save for the owner.

I don't think it's because he means to come off as rude. He's just a very matter of fact type of guy from a different country and generation. I think he could use some pointers from his employees, not to say he's bad or mean but he can come off the wrong way to some people. I've had 2 conversations with him in the past. One time was very friendly but the other time was a little insensitive and came off a little arrogant blurting out some things about some races of people.

I'm white, so he didn't target my race. But my wife is latina and he DID target her's as well as people of... African decent we'll say. He seems to have a lot of thoughts on race and violent crime and poverty and why those two things exist in some races and less so in others. His ideas as to why and his certainty of his generalizations aren't accurate...but he's pretty old and a foreigner so I throw him a bone and chalk it up to misinformed ignorance. He's by no means a stupid man, just lacking in..."certain graces" we'll say. But as I said before, his younger staffers are all very nice. The heftier, large gent is always fun to talk to. A true gun enthusiast and super humble. He's a credit to the...

After we check in and had all of our targets approved and began shooting, the range master sent and employee to tell us we couldn't use one set of targets because they were two inches too short in one direction. Okay, so we switched a different set to pre-approved targets. A few minutes later the range master sent the same employee to say we couldn't use the color changing targets either. Now they aren't prohibited by the published range rules, were also approved by the employee when we came in, and they sell the exact same targets for use on the range. We are pretty irritated at this point, but switch to a 3rd set of plain black and white full sized zombie targets. The employee comes back and says the range master says we can't use those either. He can't give us a reason or even look us in the eyes. We buy some targets and are finally allowed to shoot in peace, but as we do we notice that there are bullet holes in ALL of the walls, the ceiling, and the range dividers. We should have listened to the federal officer who told us not to use this range because of the range master. He came in because he was offered a discount for law enforcement, but when he went to check out he was told that he was the wrong kind of law enforcement officer and didn't qualify of the discount. Apparently the range master was very disrespectful to him. Today the range master won't speak to us at all and just kept sending that same poor employee to pick his pointless fight for him. The only way we would ever return is if they replace the range master and guarantee that no one will be shooting in any direction other...

Ill NEVER come back to this place. Overpriced and too many "restrictions" and by restrictions i mean they scam you to make you spend more money on their overpriced gear. I brought all my own gear to save me some money (my own gun, 2 boxes of .38 ammo; a box of Federal and a box of Winchester, some eyes, ears, and targets) I felt like I was being interrogated as this guy was rifling through by shooting bag and telling me "you cant bring in this, or that, or this".... (Dude, its my shooting bag and of course I'm going to have random calibers of ammo in there. Hello... ITS A SHOOTING BAG!!! I happened to have old box's of leftover 12 gauge slugs and 30-06's in my bag.. Because its my shooting bag and that's just the sh** I have in there... Besides I'm only here to shoot my .38... What the hell am I going to do?) Just ridiculous!!! I was told I couldn't use my Federal box of ammo because they didn't allow it. Meanwhile they sell that same exact brand for the same exact caliber, hmmmm. I can understand an ammo restriction if you're shooting with one of their rentals but this was with my OWN gun. And I couldn't use my own targets because there was a dimension requirement. Also, they sell reloads at a higher price than the name brands.

This place is VERY overpriced, courtesy towards customers is none existent. Save yourself the hassle and the money and go...