Would anyone be down for a Rampart Cleanup?

[Fal Grunt]

I think I drove up there once. You go into the garden of the gods, up the dirt road on the right, a couple switch backs and past the commo tower? Steel benches etc?

I didn't get to shoot last time I was there. Just scouted and picked up some brass. 300-400 pieces of .223, about 50 pieces each of 7mm and 8mm mauser once fired commercial brass, about 100 pieces of .30-06', and a 1/2 gallon ziplock of other types.

One of my favorite ranges and I haven't even shot there yet!

-myers

[theGinsue]

Fal - I recommend that you always have someone else there with you if/when you do decide to go. Typically there are some spooky individuals that go there (no range etiquette, openly staring too long at your firearms, etc).

Chief - you and your unit are the greatest for getting this thing coordinated and especially for the hauling part.

I'm going to try to be there but in case I can't can someone else who plans to be there GPS the coordinates for the place and pass it on in this thread?

For those who plan to go and have never been there, be advised that the road up there is almost always washboarded. No attempting to mix TNT during the drive and I recommend that you watch your speed on the turns as the washboarding can push you across the road fairly quickly - often with someone coming towards you driving down the middle of the road.

[Chief_of_Scouts]

Good advice about the washboard Thomas. The last time I was up there, I watched two guys in a SUV doing 40+ mph t-bone a guy in a car with his kids coming the other direction at the curve by the 25m range.

There is a possibility of wintery weather Thursday night and Friday morning. I am going to make a weather Go/No-Go decision tomorrow. If we postpone, I will post the next scheduled time for a cleanup in a new post. I don't want to postpone, but there is no point trying to clean the range in snow and freezing rain as is predicted.

[Chief_of_Scouts]

The cleanup is officially postponed due to the winter weather conditions expected.

We will reschedule and post the new date and time in a new thread. We are already looking at the 27th of March, but will not know until next week. Thank you for your support and apologies for the inconvenience.

[theGinsue]

Thanks for the heads up on that. I was really dreading the idea of going up there in bad weather and was trying to think of a way to beg off without looking (too much) like a loser.

The 27th of March is perfect for me. I'm off every-other Friday and tomorrow and the 27th are those days.

Thank you again for all of your efforts on this. The shooting community as a whole will be better off for it.

[Armed Springs]

So I went up this morning anyway with my friend. We got up there at 9am, only a quarter inch of snow. It cleared up by 10:30, we were the only people shooting for 4 hours. I do not think I can help next week so we took 8 bags of trash today, mostly plastic since it can not break down. If you need some heavy duty plastic bags donated let me know. I work in foodservice and have a lot.

[Chief_of_Scouts]

It seems like the weather didn't get as bad as the meteorologists had briefed.