Are shooters the worst litterers?

[Mikej]

Are shooters the worst litterers?

No

Some of the worst litters are also shooters.

Bruce

GOOD Answer! "People", are pigs!

 

[Duneblaster]

Well, in Gresham and Rockwood it's a certain group of people. I can't say who or I'll get called the big R word.. throwing empty cups on the ground on the Max train platforms, tossing bags of fast food out of their car windows at intersections,.. Gresham has pretty much been taken over but you only see it when you're out walking. Drive through it and you might not notice.

 

[oremike]

If you don''t have a grabber tool and roll of trash bags as part of your regular shooting kit you are part of the problem.

 

[DangerDog]

Trashy people in general are the worst no matter where they are.

 

[JDubDub]

Around my area, shooters are absolutely some of the worst litters - right up there with the major homeless camps. Every possible shooting spot is absolutely littered with shot up trash, old tvs and tires, broken bottles, burned pallets and worse. There have been a few formal cleanup events and several of us cart out truck loads of trash every time we shoot on public land, but it hardly makes a dent in the problem. Some try to blame the homeless camps, but they aren't generally in the same areas.

 

[Jcon268]

If you have the means to take it all the way out there with you, you have the means to take it back when you're done. I see no excuse to ever leave garbage out there. I'm not talking about the stray casing or two. I mean bringing TVs and microwaves out there for target practice or dumping all of your trucks contents on the ground for the next guy to clean up.
These people need to grow the hell up

 

[Old Dog]

This thread's been going on for over a month now.

When I lived in San Diego, our big shooting area was called "Kitchen Creek" and it was straight out I-8 in far East San Diego County. Public land, natural range with a wide area to shoot in out in the desert.

Problem was, people didn't clean up after themselves, hardly ever. The garbage left every weekend was unbelievable. After years of warnings, this great shooting area was shut down permanently.

 

[Index75]

Indeed! Please people, pick up your brass, hulls, wads, targets, packaging, bottles, cans, Frito-Lay bags, toilet paper, etc. And yes, I take an extra contractor bag or two with me. Unfortunately it usually doesn't take too long to fill 'em up, but it's super easy to do. Nothing gives those who want to shut down open target shooting on public lands more ammunition (see what did there?) than leaving trash behind after target shooting.

 

[mabhall]

I must confess that I'm imperfect in this regard. Good ideas on here to reform my errant behavior. I've been talking to my shooting buddies about just making a real kit and I think we oughta just do that, including some litter bags... Pray for us!

 

[oremike]

I must confess that I'm imperfect in this regard. Good ideas on here to reform my errant behavior. I've been talking to my shooting buddies about just making a real kit and I think we oughta just do that, including some litter bags... Pray for us!

A grabber tool is a handy litter getter

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[Rem700..300]

The right trash bag is a big help. We like the Husky Contractor bags in the yellow box. You can over load them and are extremely durable. A little more expensive but well worth it. Trust me we have filled more than a few of them.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Someone should get this for Trash No Lands to take trash out from the woods to proper dumps

 

[Rem700..300]

That would be great. Would need a new long bed truck though. At least for Coffin Butte by us it might pay for itself. I have found that if it is from Benton county and in the back of my truck it is household garbage. Set fee approx $40 ish dollars. Same trash in my trailer it goes by the ton. I admit they have been pretty good to me. Not free but managable. I do show pictures of our work in the forest and have been asked.
Even if it is bagged and left by a gate with a note is a huge improvement than scattered all over the shooting area. I understand the small car, or extreme fixed income. We all can do a little better out there.
Thank you to those that do pick up.

 

[CamoDeafie]

That would be great. Would need a new long bed truck though. At least for Coffin Butte by us it might pay for itself. I have found that if it is from Benton county and in the back of my truck it is household garbage. Set fee approx $40 ish dollars. Same trash in my trailer it goes by the ton. I admit they have been pretty good to me. Not free but managable. I do show pictures of our work in the forest and have been asked.
Even if it is bagged and left by a gate with a note is a huge improvement than scattered all over the shooting area. I understand the small car, or extreme fixed income. We all can do a little better out there.
Thank you to those that do pick up.

I like the Lane County one better than Coffin Butte for the prices, think it was $14, minimum for household/furniture by weight of vehicles?

Edit
Used them to dispose of broken furniture and old mattresses.

 

[gmerkt]

just wait, all it will take is a few media crew to come out and get the ball rolling before they start shutting these spots down as well.

This is already happening in the Green Mountain area east of Granite Falls, WA. Recently a local TV crew went out there with a deputy. They showed piles of trash and shot up trees. The deputy said there was going to be a crackdown coming soon. It's not an area I go to, so I don't know if they followed through. But it was big on the local TV news and in the newspapers at the time it was covered.

The TV news spot showed pictures of those kinds of shooters who take a table and lay out all their hardware at once. Their visual boasting was used to capitalize on the reckless behavior of the area shooters.

Braggart shooters, don't be tempted to display all your hardware and ammo like that. It is bad public relations and LEO's hate it. It might cause one to take a look at you and your gear. In Wash., it's illegal to have a loaded long gun in your vehicle. Some people who go out shooting do place loaded guns back in their vehicle. If an LEO stops to check you out and finds a loaded rifle in your car, you will get a ticket. They may look around for other transgressions.