Posted in the wrong thread earlier, so reposting here. Sorry for the duplicate posts.
We went back yesterday, and did a clean up of Lane 2. Worked about 4 hours and then did some shooting. Stashed 4 bags behind the sign. There's still some work to be done at Lane 2, but we got most of it. There are 4 bags stashed behind the wooden sign. I marked them as NWFA cleanup, so that nobody mistakes them for dumped trash.
Graffiti on the back of the wooden sign, as well as on the back of the concrete barrier. Some 22 size holes in the sign. Some of the info signs have weathered to the point of being unreadable, especially the smaller text. You can see that if you zoom in on my pic.
One recent fire remnant at Lane 2, right at the entry between two big rocks. I scattered all wood and obscured the worst of it. It occurs to me that collecting and removing downed wood from the area might be one way to reduce the fires.
Got one photo that was noteworthy to me as it has such a wide gamut of trash in it -- casings from shotgun, rifle, pistol & 22LR, a candy wrapper, a cigarillo butt, a piece of glass, a piece of plastic, and the peel of a fruit, which I thought was a balloon at first.
It was "show off your big toys day at the range" day. At least two different lanes had the telltale birdsong of fully automatic birds. Someone was dumping quite a bit of $$$ at Lane 1. One of the guns at Lane 1 sounded like a pretty big caliber for full auto. Very impressive.
Not as big as the one that showed up at Lane 2 just as we were packing up, though! When two guys drove up and asked if we were leaving, I invited them to park and start setting up as we finished up our pack out. Glad I did, because those 2 were super nice and invited us to watch the inaugural shooting of their brand new $12,000 Barrett 50 BMG. Really nice father and son duo. We stuck around for an extra half hour just hanging out with them chatting and experiencing the incredible noise and pressure wave that comes off a round that large -- new to us. WOW!
Guy at Lane 1 fired off a mighty burst in response to the Barrett's first shot. LOL!
Really nice that we got to enjoy a bit of community out there, as we were all alone most of the day. One of the two guys made a similar comment about us, which was very much appreciated!
Didn't get a chance to look at Lane 1 or drive up past Lane 2 yesterday. I wanted to go take a look up at the road past the range, but it was 2pm and we were starving, so didn't get to do that either.
Got some more cleanup pics for ODF.
Photos of the Barrett and owner posted with his permission. Got a cool slo-mo video of it firing, but will need to figure out how to get that uploaded.
We went back yesterday, and did a clean up of Lane 2. Worked about 4 hours and then did some shooting. Stashed 4 bags behind the sign. There's still some work to be done at Lane 2, but we got most of it. There are 4 bags stashed behind the wooden sign. I marked them as NWFA cleanup, so that nobody mistakes them for dumped trash.
Graffiti on the back of the wooden sign, as well as on the back of the concrete barrier. Some 22 size holes in the sign. Some of the info signs have weathered to the point of being unreadable, especially the smaller text. You can see that if you zoom in on my pic.
One recent fire remnant at Lane 2, right at the entry between two big rocks. I scattered all wood and obscured the worst of it. It occurs to me that collecting and removing downed wood from the area might be one way to reduce the fires.
Got one photo that was noteworthy to me as it has such a wide gamut of trash in it -- casings from shotgun, rifle, pistol & 22LR, a candy wrapper, a cigarillo butt, a piece of glass, a piece of plastic, and the peel of a fruit, which I thought was a balloon at first.
It was "show off your big toys day at the range" day. At least two different lanes had the telltale birdsong of fully automatic birds. Someone was dumping quite a bit of $$$ at Lane 1. One of the guns at Lane 1 sounded like a pretty big caliber for full auto. Very impressive.
Not as big as the one that showed up at Lane 2 just as we were packing up, though! When two guys drove up and asked if we were leaving, I invited them to park and start setting up as we finished up our pack out. Glad I did, because those 2 were super nice and invited us to watch the inaugural shooting of their brand new $12,000 Barrett 50 BMG. Really nice father and son duo. We stuck around for an extra half hour just hanging out with them chatting and experiencing the incredible noise and pressure wave that comes off a round that large -- new to us. WOW!
Guy at Lane 1 fired off a mighty burst in response to the Barrett's first shot. LOL!
Really nice that we got to enjoy a bit of community out there, as we were all alone most of the day. One of the two guys made a similar comment about us, which was very much appreciated!
Didn't get a chance to look at Lane 1 or drive up past Lane 2 yesterday. I wanted to go take a look up at the road past the range, but it was 2pm and we were starving, so didn't get to do that either.
Got some more cleanup pics for ODF.
Photos of the Barrett and owner posted with his permission. Got a cool slo-mo video of it firing, but will need to figure out how to get that uploaded.
