Thank you drewp.
This is an amazing gesture for these sites! Thanks Drew!
I'll contact ODF and see if we can make that happen. Who did you hear this from? Was it an actual deputy? Or was it, well this one guy told me that some other guy who has a dog that plays with this other guy's dog....?
Ran into a guy in Cabela's (yeah, I know) and he had been up there on Wednesday. (Made a mistake in the OP on the day). He said there were 2 deputies there and he was informed of it by them. But I've thought it should be posted out front. The ODF office in Forest Grove is the one that controls the quarry and surrounding area. I do not know who controls the Till State Forest website. Its said that the quarry is open(dated 9-1-17) and is never updated that I can tell. I live in Tigard so its helpful to me to be able to check on its being open/closed.
They typically update the blog and post a big red sign at both the quarry and the Hwy when they close it. I'll email ODF anyway and see what they say.
Have never seen a red sign at the highway note board.
Have you been there when it has been closed to shooting? I know for a fact I've personally seen the sign twice. I guess when I say "big" I really mean 8.5" x 11" normal sheet of paper in a plastic cover. But it clearly states that the rock quarry is "CLOSED" to target shooting. Regardless, there is always North Fork Wolf Creek off 26, a spot that we worked hard with Forestry to build for our use year-round. Forestry has been saying for the last several years that the Rock Quarry would eventually be shut down permanently to target shooting. In this instance i think it was just some guy at Cabela's talking out of his butt.
What? A gun guy over embellish something?! I have but the website does say that they can close down at anytime which I do understand. Will hate to see it go away but people sure do trash it out with no regard to it being a privately owned operation.
Just spoke with Tillamook County Sheriff's office. Rock pit is Open for business. In fact, the deputy I spoke with was writing up a report at this moment about some guy who shot himself in the leg yesterday at the rock pit. I will still say, if you haven't been to North Fork Wolf Creek it's a much better place to go.
Thank you for doing this. Good work. Thanks.
It's not because of maliciousness on the part of Forestry. It's because it's main purpose is a rock quarry. There is minimal surface rock left to mine, except for the road/firing line area. After that is mined they will have to start mining down. The guys at the Forest Grove ODF that manage Tillamook keep their personal politics completely out of their jobs and really do passionately believe the forest is for everyone's use. We will hopefully be building 2 more spots near North Fork WC this summer. The benefit to relocating shooting to North of 26 is there is very few other activities that happen up there. As long as we as a community continue to keep the forest clean, Forestry will continue to work with us.
400 yards to 600 yards is what I am interested in finding. Do you know a place or two?
I do not shoot that far so someone else will need to chime in. If you join Tri County Gun Club in Sherwood they have up to 600 yards
