Depending on how adventurous you feel, there's lots available. In Hoover, there's The Gun Cellar, lots of guns and accessories. (surprise). Mark's Outdoor Sports, just north of there in Vestavia, has lots of new guns, but caters to a much more upscale clientele than TGC. You know, lots of sporting clays guns, deer scents, fishing tackle.
Check out Steel City Sports Shooting Assoc, (now Brock's Gap Training), at
www.scssa.org . A PHENONENAL facility. Check the site for matches that weekend, the gate will be open to the public for competitor and observers.
Oh, never mind...
here:
CMP 22 Sporter - 3 Position Match 9/2/2006 1:00 PM 5:00 PM B Range
USPSA/IPSC Match 9/2/2006 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 6 Stages, 110-175 rounds minium A, B, & C Ranges
The best Chinese food in AL is the Mandarin House in Hoover. There's the usual assortment of TGI O'Chili-bees places in the area. Barbeque joints all have their own cults, you can't pick a bad one. There's a Persian restaurant in Hoover as well, Ali Baba's, unimaginately enough. Great, great food.