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If you want your voice heard, please go to the North Mason High School, 150 North Mason School Road in Belfair, Tuesday 6:30pm. I think this is an excellent opportunity to be heard and let the DNR know we can shoot safely in the forest. I hope that the DNR would allow Mason County or another group (such as a gun club) build and run a rifle range in the forest for the benefit of shooters throughout Mason County and other areas.
I prefer to shoot at an established shooting area instead of out in the woods.
Randy
Target shooting is allowed under certain conditions at Tahuya and other public lands managed by the state Department of Natural Resources. But a growing number of recreational users — from hikers to mountain bikers to off-road vehicle drivers — want gun owners to find a safer place to shoot.
In response, DNR is considering new ways to manage or restrict shooting at Tahuya and three other state forests — Capitol in Thurston County, Harry Osborne in Skagit County and Yacolt Burn near Vancouver.
DNR will host a presentation and open house about target shooting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Tahuya at North Mason High School, 150 North Mason School Road in Belfair.
Target shooters have been channeled to Tahuya as well. Herb Gerhardt, who has hunted and hiked in Tahuya for 40 years, says the closure of the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club in Central Kitsap and new shooting and recreational use limitations on private timberlands has concentrated gun enthusiasts in Tahuya.
Suggestions on where to safely locate target shooting in Tahuya are trickling in from the forest's users, and DNR hopes to gather more ideas at Tuesday's meeting. Milliern said DNR could designate shooting areas and install dirt banks, walls, overhead baffles and other protective structures.
But build too much and shooters might take their guns elsewhere.
If you want your voice heard, please go to the North Mason High School, 150 North Mason School Road in Belfair, Tuesday 6:30pm. I think this is an excellent opportunity to be heard and let the DNR know we can shoot safely in the forest. I hope that the DNR would allow Mason County or another group (such as a gun club) build and run a rifle range in the forest for the benefit of shooters throughout Mason County and other areas.
I prefer to shoot at an established shooting area instead of out in the woods.
Randy