shooter444
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Buggydave,... I think most complaints are actually concern for safety,... at least it was for me.
Desert shooting spot closest to north Phoenix
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Buggydave said:What's kind of ironic is to hear people complain about 2nd Amendment rights and that ANYONE should be allowed to buy guns if they want, then complain about these "Assholes" going out into the desert to shoot them! …... ...and favorite about 80 miles West of Phx, then 15 miles down a dirt road. Never anyone there! That's usually a weekend trip, and bowling ball mortor shooting spot!
These are not a mutually exclusive issues, one negating the other. "Universal Background checks" have little law enforcement value, lead to additional violations of existing federal law, and ultimately will lead to confiscation even if only one individual at a time under "red flag laws"
The big issues here are safety and turning shooting locations into garbage dumps. I'm curious, who goes out to locate and retrieve the bowling balls you launch out in the desert?
Hopefully you can see there is no irony in the discussion.
storage_man
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YNOTAZ said:
Normally its the shooter of bowling balls that retrieve their "Projectiles". You just can't run down to a LGS and buy a box of bowling ball ammo !
I’m certain they retrieve them. I will keep my eyes open for some guy walking several hundred yards cross country in the desert carrying four 16# bowling balls. 
If you recall, from the original site, we had a member who ran a bowling alley and they disposed of badly scarred house balls. I never needed balls but my interest was in their old bowling pins. One time, he stacked up about 40 cases out back of the alley and gave a first come first serve call to pick up as many as we wanted. That was several years ago.
I took a truck load of pins and I think we still have about 3 unused cases, out on Pistol Pete’s private property, where we can shoot and splinter them up all we want without trashing up the desert.
If you recall, from the original site, we had a member who ran a bowling alley and they disposed of badly scarred house balls. I never needed balls but my interest was in their old bowling pins. One time, he stacked up about 40 cases out back of the alley and gave a first come first serve call to pick up as many as we wanted. That was several years ago.
I took a truck load of pins and I think we still have about 3 unused cases, out on Pistol Pete’s private property, where we can shoot and splinter them up all we want without trashing up the desert.
yeah, i grabbed a few cases also, but had a couple from years gone by i'd purchased. and we used to set them up and have little contests on distance shooting with pistol, and will probably still do, they sure can take a beating for sure.
fun to shoot
yep, desert shooting is the best, probably oughta enjoy it while you can, the slobs who leave their trash and casings will destroy it for the responsible ones. kinda a bummer, hate them fools
Rj happy to be here
fun to shoot
yep, desert shooting is the best, probably oughta enjoy it while you can, the slobs who leave their trash and casings will destroy it for the responsible ones. kinda a bummer, hate them fools
Rj happy to be here
Crippledtrigger
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madmike said:
Libtards.
redj
Member
Crippledtrigger said:
It's obvious you know nothing about Marana.
Crippledtrigger
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Marana, mostly in phuktard county Az with a small part in pinal county. The relevant part of this discussion is who is administering the land in the area. Libtards. You are limited in shooting locations based on expansion of various gov managed or controlled entities illegals and drug mules.
I'm sure there used to be lots of places to shoot, all of which are under attack by the items I listed above. Or by the piss poor stewardship of shooters.
The worst thing you can do is pass on shooting sites to people you dont know online. Sorry, but at this point they should have to at least be vouched for before they get that info. Were loosing too fast. I'm an AZ native and still shoot in AZ a dozen times a year and will be back living full time in a couple years. Weve lost too much to retards and selfish yahoos who care not about the damage they do.
I'm sure there used to be lots of places to shoot, all of which are under attack by the items I listed above. Or by the piss poor stewardship of shooters.
The worst thing you can do is pass on shooting sites to people you dont know online. Sorry, but at this point they should have to at least be vouched for before they get that info. Were loosing too fast. I'm an AZ native and still shoot in AZ a dozen times a year and will be back living full time in a couple years. Weve lost too much to retards and selfish yahoos who care not about the damage they do.
redj
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Like I said crippled knows nothing about Marana.
Just because it is in Pima County does not mean it is by any means liberal.
As far as shooting goes. You can go in just about any direction and in 30 - 45 minutes or less find a place to shoot.
The same goes for Tucson as far as finding a place to shoot.
Just because it is in Pima County does not mean it is by any means liberal.
As far as shooting goes. You can go in just about any direction and in 30 - 45 minutes or less find a place to shoot.
The same goes for Tucson as far as finding a place to shoot.
Crippledtrigger
Member
It means the people managing the land are. Which is the point. Dont make it easy for them by handing out directions to people you dont know.
redj
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The same people that manage the land here are the same ones that manage it anywhere in the state.
Unless it is private land you have BLM , State land and Forest land.
Do you think because it is in Marana or Pima County that different rules apply ?
Unless it is private land you have BLM , State land and Forest land.
Do you think because it is in Marana or Pima County that different rules apply ?
Crippledtrigger said:
I've visited most of the sites within 50 miles North and East of PHX that have been mentioned online, and they are all dumps. Glass and other target fragments left everywhere, enough empty shotgun shells to make a trap shooter blush and the poorest of poor safety practices. At this point I'll only shoot in the desert if the road is too rough for a passenger vehicle and I do try to clean up more than I left.
I think one of the most effective things you can do to clean up is buy a cheap shop magnet (the kind that has a long handle and is a foot wide for cleaning up screws, metal shavings, etc) and a 5 gal pail - the majority of empties I see are steel, and it's real easy to fill the pail that way.
Ballistic Therapy
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Jack Dupp said:
Harbor Freight
yip, that magnet is a must ifn' you shoot any where in desert, our group generally spends an hour or more cleaning up after others, don't want to, but it is what it is, and one day, they will shut it all down, idigits who don't pack it out when they pack it in, oughta have their freaking hands chopped off.
but hey thats me
but hey thats me
Crippledtrigger
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While buying your magnet like roofers use to clean up yards and such at harbor freight get a stack of cheap tarps. Put one under the shooting table and one under the targets. Grab 4 corners tie and take.
