Mt Herman Road (Pike Natl Forest) Closed to Shooting

[DaBull]

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/psicc/...TELPRDB5374116

http://articles.outtherecolorado.com...reas-road.html

[bobbyfairbanks]

Good, nothing but morons shooting up the area any ways. If you do not know how to clean up after your self you will lose it for all of us. I am sick of looking at shooters crap and destruction. Close it down.

[Colorado Osprey]

As they keep closing all the free public ranges, it just pushes these shooters to a new area to shoot in the forest. What these bureaucrats don't understand is that by closing these locations they just create these same problem in a new location.

The answer is a municipal range like what has been proposed and being built on Ft Carson.
The problem with the Ft Carson range being built is it is on the south end of C. Springs and will charge shooters. Many shooters come to the Springs area from as far away as Denver/Castle Rock. But what they fail to understand is that with the available access to the forest many will still go to the forest and this problem will go on and on.

Another free range like Rampart is the only solution. A very low cost range might work but the proposed fees for Ft Carson will still drive people to shoot in the forest.

In years past when the population in the Springs area was lower I would frequent both Mt Herman and Rampart. I doubt I will ever use the Ft Carson facility. Even ranges like Isaak Walton fees are too high for many.

A low cost range similar to the city owned Elm Fork Shooting Sports Center in Dallas,TX is an excellent example of how it is done correctly; where range fees are lower than the drive costs to shoot on public lands. This will drive people to use the range instead of avoid it's costs.

[HoneyBadger]

As they keep closing all the free public ranges, it just pushes these shooters to a new area to shoot in the forest. What these bureaucrats don't understand is that by closing these locations they just create these same problem in a new location.

The answer is a municipal range like what has been proposed and being built on Ft Carson.
The problem with the Ft Carson range being built is it is on the south end of C. Springs and will charge shooters. Many shooters come to the Springs area from as far away as Denver/Castle Rock. But what they fail to understand is that with the available access to the forest many will still go to the forest and this problem will go on and on.

Another free range like Rampart is the only solution. A very low cost range might work but the proposed fees for Ft Carson will still drive people to shoot in the forest.

In years past when the population in the Springs area was lower I would frequent both Mt Herman and Rampart. I doubt I will ever use the Ft Carson facility. Even ranges like Isaak Walton fees are too high for many.

A low cost range similar to the city owned Elm Fork Shooting Sports Center in Dallas,TX is an excellent example of how it is done correctly; where range fees are lower than the drive costs to shoot on public lands. This will drive people to use the range instead of avoid it's costs.

+1 I stopped going up Mt Herman about 3 months ago when I got sick of hearing ricochets and stray bullets from other shooters buzzing past. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people doing unsafe/sketchy things up there... In March I saw some guy park next to my car and watch me shoot for a few minutes before leaving. Kind of looked like he was sizing me up. That's when I decided I didn't want to go there alone any more. But honestly, that's not a place that I would want to take anyone else shooting either.

Colorado Osprey, I think you have the right idea. An affordable public range would be an ideal solution, but it seems like that is a pretty steep uphill battle.

[DaBull]

I shot there back in 2009 and again a few months ago. I couldn't believe the change: shot up trees and garbage everywhere. By that time, they had already fenced off some other areas further up the road. It was only a matter of time.

[rocktot]

Ok, but you can shoot anywhere just about in National Forest. So this means, like Katrina, the garbage will just be dispersed to a wider area. At least these shooting areas funneled the morons. Now, watch your back, literally.

[brutal]

We quit going up there when the mental midgets f*cked up the north end of Beaver Creek Rd and got it closed. Sad.