im right there with you. when i was younger i was very ignorant and left
garbage behind. as time has gone on i have since found that to be more than
unacceptable and find myself picking up other shooters garbage! last week,
between the 8 inches of snow, i was at my new local shooting range. the
place in question was the norris police department watershed firing range.
if you havent geussed already it, its ran buy the norris police department.
its not much of a range, 200 yard-100 yard-50 yard and a off to the side
25 yard pistol range. the place is very clean and in good shape and
unattended leave the cleaning up to the shooters.
i got there about 230 or so and made friends with the two gents to my
left and had the "wacha got there?" conversation. we head down range and
post up some targets and ease on back to the benches. when we got back
three guys had shown up and were unloading gear and speaking in a louder
voice than normal. we waited and let them get set up, they asked if they
could head out and set up some targets. to mine and the other two gents
horror there targets included and half full 2.5 gallon propane tank
! one
of the "hoods" said that it was going to make one hell of a pop!
the two guys to my left have now started packing everything in
without firing a round, very smart. i stayed due to a up coming alabama trip
and desperatly needed to finish my load work up and i was a bit curious, very
stupid. i did make a coment to them, you know thats not a great idea in fact
that very stupid and dangerous. i got the tipical go to hell look from all three
of them and they went about there buisness as did i. some time passes and
we are all ready to shoot, at least they were. my ear plugs dident even swell
up in time for the lead onslot they gave this tank. three younger than me's
with a glock with a 30 round mag, a big box store shotgun and a ar15 tac'd
out just like the games they play online. yall they gave this thing hell for all
of 15 seconds like a fat man on a taco! thankfuly there was no fireball and no
rat chasing just a psssssssssst! this made them very angry and they took
there frustration on the ground 10 or so feet infront of them!!!
at this point i have takin precautionary messures and was in my truck
calling they locals to inform them of what was going on at there range.
they SAID they would get right on it
but dident ever show. so i
wrote down there tag number and waited for 30 mins for them to finish up.
they packed in there guns and headed out, leaving trash everywhere. coke
cups,empty boxes of bullets, shot up tank and targets and a few empty packs
of cig's. i went about my buisness and dialed in my rifle and tested my loads.
as i was packing it in and fighting off frostbite, i couldent help my self and
cleaned up there mess and dumped it in the trash ben's four feet from where
they were shooting, tank and all.
if that was what i was like when i was younger, i wish someone would
have kicked my ever loving ass for being so disrespectfull. in the end between
4 different ranges i have and do frequent not including public land there are
morons at them all. just dont forget to duck and cover!