mljdeckard
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I have this idea that keeps coming back, but I'm not sure if anyone else has tried it.
Utah has LOTS of empty space. Unfortunately, it's not as easy to find somewhere to shoot as you would think. I always wind up driving over an hour to find a nice deserted piece of wilderness. When I was a kid in a very small town, a guy I knew welded a piece of plate steel to a rim and hung it out in the desert at 200 yards from a known point. He taught me to shoot an AR before I went to basic, so that I could ding that thing with boring consistency.
What I would LIKE to do is find a spot way out in the desert, and hang plate targets at 200, 300, 400, etc out to at least 800, maybe 1000. Just to practice known-distance shooting. I would do it, and I wouldn't care if other people used them, but is there any way on this planet that it won't wind up a bunch of vandalized abandoned junk? Would it help if I put up a little sign that said; "Go ahead and use, but please don't abuse." or will that just wind up full of holes too?
Utah has LOTS of empty space. Unfortunately, it's not as easy to find somewhere to shoot as you would think. I always wind up driving over an hour to find a nice deserted piece of wilderness. When I was a kid in a very small town, a guy I knew welded a piece of plate steel to a rim and hung it out in the desert at 200 yards from a known point. He taught me to shoot an AR before I went to basic, so that I could ding that thing with boring consistency.
What I would LIKE to do is find a spot way out in the desert, and hang plate targets at 200, 300, 400, etc out to at least 800, maybe 1000. Just to practice known-distance shooting. I would do it, and I wouldn't care if other people used them, but is there any way on this planet that it won't wind up a bunch of vandalized abandoned junk? Would it help if I put up a little sign that said; "Go ahead and use, but please don't abuse." or will that just wind up full of holes too?