So the proper name for the "stickers" that I am referring to is apparently burweed.
Herbicide for Rifle Range
- Thread starter Campguy308
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Bottom pic is goatheads, and that's a painful scene.
Are we talking applicators license stuff or regular people stuff? Cheaper or more $$? Results follow the same. Tall shreddable grass weeds or brush like huisache, mesquite and rosehedge.
Use old school Remedy for brush, will kill everything else too $$. Sendero might be the new formula for it.
Glyphosate burn down in late summer/ fall. Might put some 24d with it. Turn the soil and put down Atrazine (little bottle from feed store) for broadleafs. Has residual to last a few months activates by rain. Re-assess in February/March if needed again.
maybe plant some rye grass for winter and Bermuda in spring if soil wash outs are a concern for rolling terrain. Depends where your located.
Treat it kind of like a row crop or hay field for good visibility. Otherwise it can seem like a never ending battle against a jungle.
Use old school Remedy for brush, will kill everything else too $$. Sendero might be the new formula for it.
Glyphosate burn down in late summer/ fall. Might put some 24d with it. Turn the soil and put down Atrazine (little bottle from feed store) for broadleafs. Has residual to last a few months activates by rain. Re-assess in February/March if needed again.
maybe plant some rye grass for winter and Bermuda in spring if soil wash outs are a concern for rolling terrain. Depends where your located.
Treat it kind of like a row crop or hay field for good visibility. Otherwise it can seem like a never ending battle against a jungle.
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You do not want zero growth unless you want a very differently shaped area very shortly. Rain will erode it, badly, right away. Oh, also dust, which will often enough blow back at you, etc, etc. etc. Dirt is a terrible and transient surface.
Lowest maintenance is to get some grass (ask the local grass store) that is happy with minimal care (no water!) in your region, and doesn't grow too high. Think how unruly an unmowed yard is vs probably the field of grass you are annoyed with. 18" vs 5 ft tall, right?
By "happy" we mean so good at growing that it chokes out most other plants, so you have an unruly but consistent field of grass only that tall and no taller so it's easy enough to walk through, and out of your way. If still annoying to you, a walking lane can be mowed with a normal household push mower, and you can do that when you walk downrange to shoot the first time on a day it looks like it's tall. Start it back up and double the width on the uprange walk.
If you have no big mower, pay a neighbor (in kind maybe, if you have one who wants to use the range, let livestock graze over every once in a while, or whatever) to mow it at least annually. The quickest solution is the mowing really. Most of the warm season you only need to mow about monthly to keep terrible random grasses in check.
Grass getting in the eyeline for prone or something: Raise the firing point and targets. Dead serious, most places I shoot do this even when they have staff so weekly mowers. Because it also makes them drain fast (within hours of a multi-day downpour), and nothing drains onto them so no surprise runoff mud doom.
