I recently moved to the Forest Grove area west of Portland. I have wanted to move to Oregon for a long time as my job had me living in Los Angeles, CA. I wanted the freedom that Oregon had to offer, both in firearm law and open country. I got one of those, the other not so much.
I moved here in February of 2015 and have been searching for suitable places to shoot, within a sane driving distance, with up to 1000 yards range. I thought with all the clear cut areas it would be a cinch to find a suitable spot and I wouldn't have to compete with trash leaving and dangerous idiots. What I have found is that most of the clear cut land is private property, I.E. John Smith or a lumber company owns it and doesn't want us washing machine killers and fire starters on their property. The other clear cut land is in small patches in the state forest and on BLM land. These clear cuts tend to be smaller and only located on the tops of hills, rendering them useless as a shooting range. I have found one semi suitable place to shoot in the Tillamook Sate Forest, Wolf Creek, but it's basically on top of a hill and there is no way to place targets at distance. The people that shoot there are shooting at stumps and rocks.
The other option was to find a club or, last choice, a public shooting range. From my research, the only range with 1000 yard capability is Douglas Ridge. The bad thing is that in their policy only opens the 1000 yard range on Thursday mornings. This would be fine if I were retired, but I'm not. I have to go to work everyday, just like everyone else.
The frustrating thing is that I left the pinnacle of a shooting range down in California. Burbank Rifle and Revolver Club had 1000 yards with pits at 2,3 and 600 yards. They also had steel targets at various distances down the range. A road that ran down the middle of the range made it very convenient to move and check targets with ease.
So, what I got when I moved was more freedom concerning firearms and no place to shoot them!
I'm pleading to the community to help with this issue. Someone please tell me where I can safely shoot up to 1000 yards with the ability to drive to my targets.
The other option is to open a private shooting club by leasing land from one of the government agencies, just like Burbank Rifle and Revolver Club in SoCal. If anyone has any idea how to start this venture, please contact me.
Thanks for your time and safe shooting,
Ryan
I moved here in February of 2015 and have been searching for suitable places to shoot, within a sane driving distance, with up to 1000 yards range. I thought with all the clear cut areas it would be a cinch to find a suitable spot and I wouldn't have to compete with trash leaving and dangerous idiots. What I have found is that most of the clear cut land is private property, I.E. John Smith or a lumber company owns it and doesn't want us washing machine killers and fire starters on their property. The other clear cut land is in small patches in the state forest and on BLM land. These clear cuts tend to be smaller and only located on the tops of hills, rendering them useless as a shooting range. I have found one semi suitable place to shoot in the Tillamook Sate Forest, Wolf Creek, but it's basically on top of a hill and there is no way to place targets at distance. The people that shoot there are shooting at stumps and rocks.
The other option was to find a club or, last choice, a public shooting range. From my research, the only range with 1000 yard capability is Douglas Ridge. The bad thing is that in their policy only opens the 1000 yard range on Thursday mornings. This would be fine if I were retired, but I'm not. I have to go to work everyday, just like everyone else.
The frustrating thing is that I left the pinnacle of a shooting range down in California. Burbank Rifle and Revolver Club had 1000 yards with pits at 2,3 and 600 yards. They also had steel targets at various distances down the range. A road that ran down the middle of the range made it very convenient to move and check targets with ease.
So, what I got when I moved was more freedom concerning firearms and no place to shoot them!
I'm pleading to the community to help with this issue. Someone please tell me where I can safely shoot up to 1000 yards with the ability to drive to my targets.
The other option is to open a private shooting club by leasing land from one of the government agencies, just like Burbank Rifle and Revolver Club in SoCal. If anyone has any idea how to start this venture, please contact me.
Thanks for your time and safe shooting,
Ryan
lived here all my life, years ago the progressives called us conservatives a bunch of mossbacks for not wanting to turn the state liberal. Now they have turned it into a commie state in which elections are done by mail in ballots that who knows where they came from. So today they give you gun registration and tomorrow they steal your guns...
