About Us
Learn more about the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center.
The Folsom Shooting Club is a nonprofit shooting organization with roots dating back to 1952. For more than seven decades, the club has served recreational shooters, hunters, competitors, and affiliated shooting clubs throughout the Sacramento region and Northern California.
Home of the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center
The club’s home facility is the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center — known to most as Sac Valley — located on over 860 acres in Sloughhouse, just east of Sacramento in the Northern California foothills. The Folsom Shooting Club has operated at this location since 1991, after relocating from its earlier range property closer to the city of Folsom.
The site was chosen for its scale, geography, and distance from residential development — conditions that allow for a genuinely broad range of shooting disciplines to operate safely in one place.
A Range Built for Every Discipline
Sac Valley is built for variety. Public and member-only ranges span rifle, pistol, shotgun, rimfire, and archery, with distances from 25 yards out to 1,000 yards. Independent firearms instructors host training courses throughout the year, and over 30 affiliated shooting clubs operate on-site — running regular matches, leagues, and events across nearly every major shooting discipline.
Whether you’re sighting in before hunting season, training for competition, introducing a new shooter to the fundamentals, or picking up a new discipline, the facility is designed to accommodate shooters at every experience level.
NRA Gold Medal Range Recognition
The Sacramento Valley Shooting Center has achieved NRA Gold Medal Range status multiple times. This recognition reflects range quality, safety standards, facility upkeep, and service to the shooting sports community — a distinction held by a small number of ranges nationwide.
Mission
The Folsom Shooting Club exists to provide a safe, accessible, and professionally operated home for the shooting sports in Northern California — supporting both individual shooters and the affiliated clubs that keep competitive and recreational disciplines alive in the region.
Our History
The Folsom Shooting Club has a long history of providing shooters with a safe, welcoming facility — a place where people of all ages and experience levels can develop their skills, compete, and enjoy the shooting sports. From a small range in Folsom in the 1950s to the 860-acre Sacramento Valley Shooting Center today, the club has grown alongside the community it serves. The milestones below trace that journey.
1952
The Foundation
The Folsom Shooting Club is established in Folsom, California. In its early years, the club operated a range near Sibley Street — a site remembered by longtime members as a place where local Boy Scout troops earned marksmanship merit badges and community shooters gathered regularly.
Sacramento Valley Shooting Center Opens
The club completes its move to 15501 Meiss Road and the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center opens. The expansive new property allows the club to build dedicated ranges for rifle, pistol, shotgun, and more — a scale that would not have been possible within Folsom city limits.
1991
1992
USPSA Comes to Sac Valley
The Northern California Practical Shooters (NCPS) is founded at SVSC, establishing the facility as a destination for USPSA competition in the region. Monthly practical pistol matches begin and continue to this day.
Defensive Pistol & IDPA Take Root
Ed Vernon and Leon Williamson start an informal defensive pistol club at SVSC, building match stages focused on realistic, practical shooting scenarios. This effort becomes the Sacramento Defensive Pistol Shooters (SDPS), which holds its first sanctioned IDPA match in March 1999 and grows into one of the largest IDPA clubs in the country.
1996
2006
Diamond Dick's Cowboy Town
Diamond Dick's Cowboy Town is built at SVSC, giving cowboy action shooters a dedicated home on the property. The range becomes a destination for SASS-affiliated clubs and has since hosted major events including the California State Wild Bunch Championship.
NRA Gold Medal Range
The Sacramento Valley Shooting Center first achieves NRA Gold Medal Range status for the first time — a recognition of range quality, safety, and service to the shooting sports community. The facility earns the distinction multiple times in subsequent years.
2009
2010
The Folsom Shotgun League
The Folsom Shotgun League launches its first session with just nine participants. It has since grown into a multi-discipline program covering trap, skeet, and 5-stand, and was formally affiliated with the Folsom Shooting Club in 2013.
A Destination Facility
With 13 ranges, over 400 firing positions, and more than 30 affiliated shooting clubs, the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center is one of the largest and most complete privately held shooting facilities in the western United States. From local youth safety programs to regional and national championships, the facility continues to serve the mission that started it all — providing a place to shoot, learn, and compete.
Today
Board of Directors
The Sacramento Valley Shooting Center is owned and operated by the Folsom Shooting Club, Inc. The facility, its ranges, and its staff are overseen by an elected Board of Directors, club officers, and standing committee chairs — all of whom serve as volunteers.
The Board of Directors is responsible for facility operations, safety standards, range improvements, financial oversight, and long-term planning. Day-to-day operations are managed by a dedicated staff of range safety officers and administrative personnel who keep the facility running safely and efficiently for members, guests, and the public.
Standing committees support the Board across key areas including range infrastructure, shooting disciplines and NRA relations, and club communications. This structure ensures that decisions affecting the facility are made by people who are invested in it — members who shoot here, maintain the ranges, and care about the future of the sport.
Board Meetings
Monthly Board of Directors meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month, beginning promptly at 6:30 PM, at Round Table Pizza, 9500 Greenback Lane, Folsom, CA. All Folsom Shooting Club members are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Board of Directors & Leadership
The Folsom Shooting Club is led by a dedicated group of volunteers who donate their time to keep the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center running at its best. Board members, officers, and committee chairs work together to maintain the facility, plan improvements, manage finances, and support the many clubs and disciplines that call Sac Valley home.