Are places closed to shooting this weekend? The 6th of oct.

Brewpubeaver · Oct 1, 2012

Looking to go to Browns camp with a few buddies. But have heard it is closed and they are mining the pit. Can anybody confirm or deny this?

I saw someone posted a flyer that said no smoking or fires but didn't say shooting was banned.

Dave

xtratoy · Oct 1, 2012

Target shooting in the woods in Washington is closed due to fire danger. The Rangers and DNR folks were out ticketing people this weekend. No warning either. If you didn't read about it in the paper you were screwed.

Brewpubeaver · Oct 2, 2012

Looks like Oregon is open as long as you have the proper fire suppression stuff

Armchair Operator · Oct 2, 2012

Looking to get out to Browns Camp this weekend as well. Is the pit open?

th0rr · Oct 3, 2012

It was open 2 weeks ago when I was last up there on a Sunday.

jeeves · Oct 3, 2012

OR. dept of Forrestry website says it's open. It has always helped me know in the past...

Oregon Department of Forestry - Tillamook State Forest Target Shooting

...BUT there is some logging going on and the website had some rules about traffic that made no sense to me. here is the map.. I suggest calling during the week.

http://www.oregon.gov/odf/tillamookstateforest/docs/08272012_BeaverDamTrafficPatternMap.pdf

RVTECH · Oct 3, 2012

AND I believe I mentioned this before but do NOT hang targets on live trees - I was with a friend who was camping a few weeks ago and a FS LEO drove up and saw some targets hanging on a tree and chewed our azzes over it as well as checked him for fire suppression stuff (in compliance) and ran his DL and literally spent about a 1/2 hour doing so - the cadet he had with him may have had something to do with the time spent on site but the target hanging on the live tree was the 'big' issue......

Brewpubeaver · Oct 6, 2012

its open

we took 2 44gal trash bags full of stuff out that we did not bring. please pack your stuff out. we lef tthe left over pumpkin jizz as it will return to the earth lol....

Grommit327 · Oct 6, 2012

xtratoy said:
Target shooting in the woods in Washington is closed due to fire danger. The Rangers and DNR folks were out ticketing people this weekend. No warning either. If you didn't read about it in the paper you were screwed.

Hmmm tons of people up shooting today in Snoqualmie forest...including me. I checked the website for closures and didn't see anything recent. Lots of quads/bikes up there too

Cuthbert Allgood · Oct 7, 2012

xtratoy said:
Target shooting in the woods in Washington is closed due to fire danger. The Rangers and DNR folks were out ticketing people this weekend. No warning either. If you didn't read about it in the paper you were screwed.

people still read newspapers?

Truenorth · Oct 8, 2012

No-shooting and no campfire ban is being heavily enforced up here in WA national Forest too.
They're ticketing dirt bikes and quads without USFS approved spark arrestors as well.

Even my regular outdoor gun range is shut down. Think it's been 80 some days now since we had any rain in the area.

DieselScout · Oct 8, 2012

Some advice for shooters going into the woods in Oregon. Since fire restrictions are in place you may want to carry a gallon of water and a shovel in your vehicle. I know when my family cut wood, we were required to at all times and I have heard other who were just in the woods were cited for not having in during the elevated fire danger. I have never been able to get a straight answer on whether or not it's required, so it goes in the truck when I head up even just to drive around.

Brewpubeaver · Oct 11, 2012

We asked the Sherrif that was driving around up there. he was pretty cool, he saw our fire extiguishers and said we were on the the right side of the law

hoody · Oct 12, 2012

I bought a nice camp shovel (8" blade and 26" overall) at Bi-Mart for $15. Perfect size to just leave in truck.

longcolt · Oct 14, 2012

Brewpubeaver said:
We asked the Sherrif that was driving around up there. he was pretty cool, he saw our fire extiguishers and said we were on the the right side of the law

Thats a good idea, to take along a good sized fire extinguisher to handle any problem, plus the shovel. I will add that to my list of stuff to pack in for shooting.