North location

[jtav]

I want to take the family to shoot (wife and daughter). Wanted to go to the club shoot last weekend but they dont want to shoot in front of anyone. Is the north location a good place to try on a no shoot weekend? Or is it usually crowded. Dont want to pay the high range fees for 3 of us at a range plus they may not want to shoot after I pay.
Thanks in advance Jason

[Marlin]

Depends on whe You go. Early on a Sat. around 9 or so there isn't a great chance that anybody will be there. If You can do it during the week, You won't see anybody, not even the Po Po's Had the chance to go up there a couple of times between jobs and it was very quiet.

[Pistol Packing Preacher]

Marlin is correct...

During the week...

You have the place pretty much to yourself...

[2ndChildhood]

On the weekend, Pawnee 88&61 has a better than 50% chance you'll have it to yourself.
-2C

[jtav]

I did take my wife and daughter Sat. only two other guys shooting they were real friendly. Had a visit from the forest ranger as we were leaving wanted to stress pack out what you pack in but we had already done that so he was really nice as well. Says people are turning the area into a dump, tv's, household goods microwaves all kinds of junk is being left behind and if it continues they will shut down that location. Plus he said last year there was a fire from a group of shooters using exploding targets or tracer rounds so the town of pine wants the area off limits aswell.

Jason

[Mista Bukit]

I took my wife there this morning,there was a guy with his familiy there and another couple.


About 11:00 a ranger showed up and gave the guy with his family a warning ticket for shooting "non-biodegradeable targets" (frisbees and clay pidgens). Since we were farther from the road and we had a stand with paper targets he did not bother us. I was also shooting plastic bottles filled with water but he must not have seen that.
There was a lot of trash there, we hauled an old ironing board, a box full of empty ammo boxes and some other trash out when we left. I would not be surprised if they shut the site down because some morons won't clean up after themselves.

[rondog]

I took my wife there this morning,there was a guy with his familiy there and another couple.


About 11:00 a ranger showed up and gave the guy with his family a warning ticket for shooting "non-biodegradeable targets" (frisbees and clay pidgens). Since we were farther from the road and we had a stand with paper targets he did not bother us. I was also shooting plastic bottles filled with water but he must not have seen that.
There was a lot of trash there, we hauled an old ironing board, a box full of empty ammo boxes and some other trash out when we left. I would not be surprised if they shut the site down because some morons won't clean up after themselves.

Is it OK to shoot plastic jugs full of water? That's my preferred target, and I'll always haul off the carcasses. I like water-filled soda cans too.

[Merl]

anything you can remove all of the target is fine to shoot at in my book.

as far as the rangers, tin cans have been a plinking target since they existed. not a hard stretch to expand to plastic bottles.

strange the guy got a ticket for clays. was he shooting at the frizebees with a shotgun? (good way to lose & leave)

[Mista Bukit]

anything you can remove all of the target is fine to shoot at in my book.

as far as the rangers, tin cans have been a plinking target since they existed. not a hard stretch to expand to plastic bottles.

strange the guy got a ticket for clays. was he shooting at the frizebees with a shotgun? (good way to lose & leave)

No, he set the frizbees on the berm and was shooting them with rifles and pistols.

[shrapmetal]

i thought clays were biodegradable. i have shot a few hundred in my front yard and after a few weeks there is no trace of them. i ever buy ones that are safe for animals to eat so they wont poison my horses.