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Idiots in the Woods
grumpygy
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Last night and this morning on he news they keep talking about people using the national Forest for a rifle range.
Normally I would * about the news, but they were right. Fools hanging things in the tree and shooting. No Backstop at all, you can see from where they are shooting to the targets and the homes down below.
Trash was everywhere, of course some environmentalist found this and is saying what a hazard it is trash and the bullets we are using.
One place they were shooting less than 50 feet from them was a busy road. Directly behind them.
Normally I would * about the news, but they were right. Fools hanging things in the tree and shooting. No Backstop at all, you can see from where they are shooting to the targets and the homes down below.
Trash was everywhere, of course some environmentalist found this and is saying what a hazard it is trash and the bullets we are using.
One place they were shooting less than 50 feet from them was a busy road. Directly behind them.
Comments
There are some IDIOTS out there, that are helping their cause.
The same thing is going on close to where I live. There's a tiny section of NF that has been used for years to shoot. Finally, within the last year or so, someone thoughtfully dropped off an old, wooden, painted shooting bench, even took the time to level it.
This spot has been basically garbage free for a long time. After the bench (which has "Please no shooting glass" plainly written on it) showed up, the place is a borderline dump. Every time I go up there to shoot, I spend more time picking up garbage, glass, shotshells, and targets than I spend shooting. The way I see it, the cleaner it stays, the longer people will be able to shoot there.
Recently, I left a little note on the bench, it read: "It takes no more time to clean up your mess than it does to create it in the first place".
The next day, I go back to try some new loads in my M1, and a bunch of snot-nosed, arrogant teenagers show up while I'm setting up my rests. One tears the note off of the bench, looks at me, and says, and I quote, "Who the dumb *%&$ who left this junk letter here? Who does this *&%$@#&* think he is?"
To which I respond "Look, kid, I don't know you or your friends, and judging by your lack of respect for what this place is, I don't want to know you." "To you, this place means nothing but a place to screw off and destroy." "Me, I come up here to relax and shoot. I pick up after people such as yourself here, and maybe someday down the line, the right person might see me cleaning up a mess at this range that more than likely isn't mine, and they might think, hey someone does care, maybe we should keep this place open to people such as this that respect it."
On the way back to their car to leave, I tell them "By the way, I left that note yesterday, if you don't like it, don't come back."
On the plus side, I fill a 5 gallon bucket once every few weeks with misc. brass that everyone else leaves.[:D]
thanks i didnt know that. i havent been to that range since i was proble 7 years old. sad part about that is its entirely to possible. people not obeying the basic rules of firearm safety shooting in any which direction. given the world we live in today if i lived real close to a firerang like that i would proble complain about it too. i was over in paughnut forest hinting with my mom dad and brother when i was 15 or so and the owner of the farm on the north side was walking down the road with a loaded 44 mag revolver under his coat. story went he was cutting firewood in paughnut with the permits the state issues, was deer season so he had on a orange vest and hat along with standing over a running woodsplitter and someone put a slug a few feet over his head in a tree. thats how he told it anyway