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This thread is for the general discussion of the outdoor shooting area North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes. Please add to the discussion here.
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this looks great, nice work.
how will the impact area hold up to the torrential deluge of winter rains? Will there be standing water or does the design include runoff?
good thoughts. I will pass it on to themas long as its graded even slightly downhill but my two thoughts were the sides and back washing out and standing water. Standing water will discourage cleanup.
I'm not an engineer though, just my amateur thoughts. The work looks nice and will be a nice place to shoot and a major improvement and I'm thankful for those working to make it happen.
Pictures are really not doing the lanes justice. First words out of my mouth when walking up to the bottom lane, or site 3, was "this is awesome". Only having @bolus pictures to go off of before heading out this afternoon, I didn't know what to expect.
Anyways, I spent a few hours discussing the progress with Jason and Randy at DOF.
One major and very good thing has been accomplished, these lanes are very fire safe. This has been the main objective in improving these lanes as well as future lanes. They also are very obvious. When you look at them in person, plus the added rock and jersey barriers that are coming, these locations will be very "user friendly". If your a gun owner and can't figure out how to properly use these lanes and in which direction your supposed to be firing in, you likely can't be helped.
I'm super excited about this progress and direction. This is going to be a great safe place to shoot. I can't wait till this location proves itself and we can continue the momentum to improve more sites.
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as long as its graded even slightly downhill but my two thoughts were the sides and back washing out and standing water. Standing water will discourage cleanup.
I'm not an engineer though, just my amateur thoughts. The work looks nice and will be a nice place to shoot and a major improvement and I'm thankful for those working to make it happen.
Not really. Though closed, it doesn't stop anyone from rightfully walking in and shooting when down for improvement. Though common sense would hopefully stop 90% of shooters.terrible news. If some folks cant respect a site closure to construct improvements for the very activity they are out to do, what will they do once construction is finished and the site reopened?
is there any kind of plan to somehow enforce the locations are being used safely and lawfully?
Not really. Though closed, it doesn't stop anyone from rightfully walking in and shooting when down for improvement.
that interesting, I thought the Forest Dept had the right to temporarily close locations to activities. You mentioned they also moved the barricaids aside so they could drive up I would think ould be illegal.
I was out on Salmonberry yesterday until evening, wish I would have stopped to check on Wolf Creek...