Hunting & Fishing Maybe My Oxygen's Low and Trash Gives Me a Rash

[mforsch]

With all the activist groups who dislike hunting---and guns in general---why not entertain the ridiculous a bit farther---(or, it was really only a nightmare).

You're with your friends----you've found a pristine shooting spot and you're road testing your GPS /Laser Guided / FLIR capable rifle, along with your friends, who have similar weapons of mass destruction. After firing several cubic feet of ammunition, the Warden (of the National Lumber association) approaches; telling your group that you must now pay for the tree that you shot full of holes, because you hung your target there. After some brief work on the calculator, he arrives at a figure of $7.23 a board foot multiplied by the number of shots fired, then cites you for not having a hardwood tag in your possession. The bill for the Oak comes out to 115 board feet @ $7.23 per foot and you have to take the tree to the lumber mill for disposal. (Don't tell Congress--they might try that next).-----------OK, now that the parody is over------I have noticed that everywhere I go to shoot (even in remote areas)----I find that everything standing is riddled with bullet holes. Vacant property looks like a Swiss cheese and there's trash everywhere---maybe that's why shooters aren't welcome in a lot of places anymore. In our group, if you bring it, you take it home (and a few other pieces of crap too)-----too bad it isn't catching on.

 

[DeadSilence]

The world, the great outdoors, the beach, the ocean it all seems to be trash filled these days. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

 

[dk17hmr]

I set up a nice little 2500 yard range on BLM a couple years ago, I put up a 30" steel plate, some plywood to staple targets onto, and built a portable shooting bench from construction site scraps. It took about a year for the neck beards to find the target butt and shoot all the 4x4 post full of holes, leave trash everywhere, burn my shooting bench, and ruin the two track going into the area.....wish I wouldn't have set it up. I spend more time cleaning it back up than I do shooting when I go out there.

 

[mforsch]

Have a friend in Worland------been hunting with him a few times in Pinedale/ Bridger entrance/ Teton area-----lovely place---great people---
wouldn't really expect to see that in WY.

 

[dk17hmr]

Have a friend in Worland------been hunting with him a few times in Pinedale/ Bridger entrance/ Teton area-----lovely place---great people---
wouldn't really expect to see that in WY.

I'm not "from here"...I have lived in Wyoming for 6 years and absolutely love everything about it...EXCEPT some peoples disregard for the land. I grew up in Mid-Michigan and expect to see it there. Less than a month ago I found a new trash pile in the desert near an area I shoot and hunt often. I took pictures and emailed them directly to the Sheriff, pictures included license plates, mail, social security card, drivers license, and a CDL card....all with the same name on it. The Sheriff contacted me shortly after that to get more information and I ended up taking a deputy to the spot where he took more pictures, I made an official statement, he took all my contact info, and gps coordinates from the pile....its not the first time I have called in stuff like this and I will continue doing so because I have a new born son and dont want him growing up in filth.....the desert around SW Wyoming might not be a thing of beauty but it is our home and it really does grown on you....I left back east for a reason.