I was just wondering if anyone knows any spots to hunt or just target shoot around San Jose?
I'm across the street from The Ranch golf course in the Silver Creek area...you?"Cone"I'm with ya on the kid aspect yenniedn. I get out every now and then for a hunt but not as much as I would like. Where you at in San Jose?
In CA you are allowed to take all resident small game with an air rifle. You can also shoot starlings, HOSPS and ground squirrels§257. Resident Small Game Defined. "Resident small game" means the following resident game birds: Chinese spotted doves, Eurasian collared-doves, ringed turtle-doves of the family Columbidae, California quail and varieties thereof, Gambel's or desert quail, mountain quail and varieties thereof, sooty grouse and varieties thereof, ruffed grouse, sage grouse (sage hens), white-tailed ptarmigan, Hungarian partridges, red-legged partridges, including the chukar and other varieties, ring-necked pheasants and varieties, and wild turkeys of the order Galliformes; and the following game mammals: jackrabbits and varying hares (genus Lepus), cottontail rabbits, brush rabbits, pigmy rabbits (genus Sylvilagus), and tree squirrels (genus Sciurus and Tamiasciurus)."jay-man"As far as target shooting, the Sunnyvale Rod and Gun Club (sunnyvalegunclub.com) is an awesome place with good people. It's 20min from your place, up Foothill Expy (Stevens Creek from 85). They have five trap houses and a bunch of centerfire/handgun stations, then off to the side, kind of in another room, they have a bunch of rimfire/airgun benches. I think they have at least one or two benches that are theoretically just for airguns, and they have little animal silhouettes too, but that may just be for members...IDK. Public is $20/day/adult, and $5/day/kids.
For hunting, I'm interested to hear more from other members about that, because I've been looking for info on that myself. IDK what you're allowed to take with airguns in CA, but south in the Gilroy area there's some really good hog hunting. Other than that your best bet is probably getting a permission from a landowner. I know there are public lands that people hog hunt on, so maybe you can hunt smaller things there too? I'd definitely call F&G before I went ahead and did that though. Good luck, and looking forward to getting more info!
--jayman
Thanks for posting those links."N2AirJun"Check Region 3, https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=123970&inline.
There's a couple of places listed, https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Lands/Places-to-Visit
Also has links for places to hunt, https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting