National clean up day for outside shooting areas.

[Das Pferd]

Do we have one?

In the four wheeling community, we have routine clean up days to keep the anti's off our backs about messing up the environment.

I think, if we do not have one, we should have a national clean up day. I know we all have shooting areas in the woods or deserts that look digusting. Every picture I have seen posted in the outdoors looks the same.

Lets have a national clean up day, get some media out of it, and clean up the areas so out children can use them.

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

Sounds like a good idea Das Pherd. I'm with ya on the cleanup thing. I just do it every time I go to the range or shooting area. My father always taught me to take more out than you brought in (TRASH). It only takes a few extra minutes to quickly sweep the area. In some instances you may need a friend to help with the big stuff like washers and dryers etc. I don't get into moving that big stuff very often although I have done it as a favor to my fellow shooters. I think the people who dump such things are not necessarily shooters but people who know where we go and use it as a dump site, then it gets shot up by us giving the impression that we left it.

 

[George S.]

Sounds like a great idea!! I pretty much quit going to the few local gravel pits and such where there is so much broken glass, shredded metal, and old rusting appliances that you need heavy work boots just to go downrange to set up targets.

There was a really decent place up in the hills where the state Dept of Natural Resources even tried to keep clean, but after awhile there was just too muck junk left there and it got closed off. People (non-shooters) used to bring their weekly garbage up there and dump it.

My range doesn't permit reactive targets so it's pretty hard to have a fun day plinking out in the woods when places get trashed and then closed off.

 

[Das Pferd]

I take it not to many people are interested in this. Thats pretty sad guys.

 

[Obiwan]

Great Idea

I always try to take out more brass than I bring

Along with some garbage

But it is a losing battle

 

[NavajoNPaleFace]

I like the idea of people taking the innitiative of cleaning up a shooting area.

It's far too sad that clean areas generally depend on someone ELSE cleaning rather than the ones doing the trashing.

I'd also like to see an annual "Catch a Trasher" day, mmmmmmmm, lol.

 

[Leatherneck]

When's Earth Day? Maybe we could steal the limelight from the greenextremists.

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