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Any Group Activities in Tri-Cities?

911bad

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I recently moved into the Tri-Cities. I've been peeking in on the forum fora long time now and this is my first post. Is there any activities planned in the near future for my area? I would love to do a lunch-in or something. We need to make sure the police in this area are up to speed on our growing group and the laws that protect our interests.
 

Riverdog

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I don't know about activities, per se, but I'm always up for grabbing some lunch.

In my limited experiences with the police in the Tri-Cities, I've never had a cop give me a second look while OC.
 

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This may be an overgeneralization, but with a few exceptions (Ellensburg) I wouldn't expect much trouble with the police for OCing east of the mountains.
 

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I got a membership for an outdoor range in Prosser, and I can bring guests, for free of course. (LEO have priority use Mon-Wed:cry:)
 

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If anyone is interested in PR I believe there is a local farm where the owner lets people shoot but folks have left a mess behind. I saw it on a online news story but bugger if I can find it now. We could go meet and do a cleanup. I even know a newscaster who might cover it.

Anyone's Google-fu better then mine?

I *think* it was B&B ranch/farm
 

just_a_car

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Tekman wrote:
If anyone is interested in PR I believe there is a local farm where the owner lets people shoot but folks have left a mess behind. I saw it on a online news story but bugger if I can find it now. We could go meet and do a cleanup. I even know a newscaster who might cover it.

Anyone's Google-fu better then mine?

I *think* it was B&B ranch/farm
You probably saw your fellow OCDO'ers Dave the Welder, steelcoreap, and myself (in the background on one shot) in the story referenced here back in mid-June: http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/view_topic.php?id=12015

;)
 

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Well, if we coordinate it with Dave, we could probably make it part of the 2009 Summer Shootout he holds. We could also probably get the journalist that filmed us to come out and either do the story or participate (or both, like last time)... and, of course, having cute girls shoot guns is always a bonus. :cool:

And as for making it look really good, that just ain't gunna happen. I'm not sure you realize how immense that area is. Take a look at the pictures and videos of the range I took when out there: http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c260/just_a_car/Shootout2008/ and realize that that's only one of a couple/few areas that are littered with stuff.

steelcoreap (seen in the photos there and shooting alongside Dave in the news video) laser-rangefinder'd a 3'x3' white piece of something halfway up that hill from where we were and it came in as 432 yards. That large dark thing halfway between the firing line and the hill in the third picture is an overturned car; a caddy or similar, if I remember correctly.

Also, there's A LOT of broken glass out there with the shotgun shells, brass cases, steel cases, and random junk. I know, I had my camo BDU pants ruined by sitting on some and having a large tear in the backside of them.

edit: typo.

2nd edit: Forgot to mention, at the end of the last day of our 2008 Summer Shootout, we went through the areas we shot and picked up all the brass cases we could find, since Dave and steelcoreap reload and we felt it was the responsible thing to do. We packed out at least 50% more brass than we shot, even though we didn't find all the brass we shot.
 

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Tekman wrote:
Yeah I'm familiar with the area. In fact I live about 5 miles away. Best we can do is one area at a time.
Yup. The only way that car is getting out of there is to either get a flatbed (expensive) or a torch and take it out in parts. I also forgot to mention the many tires out there. *chuckle*

Honestly, if we took all the brass, steel and rubber to a recycling/scrap-metal plant, we could probably make quite a pretty penny. ;)
 

Tekman

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Pacific Salvage is in fact on the road (397) headed out that way. Hell I turned in some trashed aluminum doors and got $40.
 
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