jfrey123
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It was a friendly visit, but does display a commentary on our community.
Friend of mine was out shooting North of Lemmon Valley, at a place where I know many CCW instructors take their students and many other gunners frequent. It's an idea shooting area up there, with a 50ft natural soft berm that is completely void of sage and other plant life. Awesome, safe area.
As my friend and his brother were wrapping it up, a 4x4 from the Sheriff's office came rolling up the trail. Deputy had no problem with them out there, knew it was legal, encouraged them to keep going, etc. A very friendly sheriff. But he took an issue with the brass left by my friend. Sheriff claims he has been dealing with some (insert colorful bash on the liberal non-Nevadan mindset) people who complain that we ruin their trails with spend shells and brass. My buddy jokingly replied that he was just making sure the metals got back to the earth where they started from to which the Sheriff claims the true culpriate of the complaints are shot gunners (since plastic kills, apparently). My friend ended up having to "pick up the shinny ones" since there are literally thousands of shells there. Deputy's reason was at least we can tell those nearby anti's that we're trying.
This made me think about casings. I've honestly never been a clean up sort of guy. I've always made it a point to stick to shooting in places already "messy" with brass there long before I arrive. I don't believe I need to run around and put brass everywhere at random, but I never thought about cleaning up 500+ shells, just cleaning up the targets and other breakables I tend to shoot at.
I'll be cleaning up my brass from now on. I've come up with the idea of laying out a tarp for the brass to fly onto, then using the tarp to funnel the brass into a bucket. Deputy mentioned to my friend it might be best to try and keep it clean or risk losing our close by shooting areas. I'm going to be doing my part from here on out (and also selling once fired brass for a decent price if anyone might be interested :dude:
Just talking out loud. Thank you to any WCSO deputies who might frequent this board for supporting gun rights all along.
It was a friendly visit, but does display a commentary on our community.
Friend of mine was out shooting North of Lemmon Valley, at a place where I know many CCW instructors take their students and many other gunners frequent. It's an idea shooting area up there, with a 50ft natural soft berm that is completely void of sage and other plant life. Awesome, safe area.
As my friend and his brother were wrapping it up, a 4x4 from the Sheriff's office came rolling up the trail. Deputy had no problem with them out there, knew it was legal, encouraged them to keep going, etc. A very friendly sheriff. But he took an issue with the brass left by my friend. Sheriff claims he has been dealing with some (insert colorful bash on the liberal non-Nevadan mindset) people who complain that we ruin their trails with spend shells and brass. My buddy jokingly replied that he was just making sure the metals got back to the earth where they started from to which the Sheriff claims the true culpriate of the complaints are shot gunners (since plastic kills, apparently). My friend ended up having to "pick up the shinny ones" since there are literally thousands of shells there. Deputy's reason was at least we can tell those nearby anti's that we're trying.
This made me think about casings. I've honestly never been a clean up sort of guy. I've always made it a point to stick to shooting in places already "messy" with brass there long before I arrive. I don't believe I need to run around and put brass everywhere at random, but I never thought about cleaning up 500+ shells, just cleaning up the targets and other breakables I tend to shoot at.
I'll be cleaning up my brass from now on. I've come up with the idea of laying out a tarp for the brass to fly onto, then using the tarp to funnel the brass into a bucket. Deputy mentioned to my friend it might be best to try and keep it clean or risk losing our close by shooting areas. I'm going to be doing my part from here on out (and also selling once fired brass for a decent price if anyone might be interested :dude:
Just talking out loud. Thank you to any WCSO deputies who might frequent this board for supporting gun rights all along.
