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Dave_L
08-24-2015, 19:00
568 acres so far. Out by Parshall. Started by target practice at a shooting range.

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/08/24/wildfire-byers-shooting-range-us-40/32297441/
BigBear
08-24-2015, 19:45
Tracers again or...? Article is kind of lacking.
alan0269
08-24-2015, 19:56
I'd be interested to find out if the fire was started by the act of target shooting, or if someone was smoking and dropped a butt without it being completely out...
Zman
08-25-2015, 03:31
Bummer ... going out there in a few weeks ... I hope the campground South of the river is spared.

Been a slow fire summer for us ... hope the trend continues!

Z
CapLock
08-25-2015, 06:58
Growing up in the desert where everything it dry tinder I find this hard to believe. Maybe if they were shooting gas cans with tracers. Normal shooting I don't think so.
buckshotbarlow
08-25-2015, 07:18
https://www.ar-15.co/threads/150833-Irresponsible-fun-video-of-the-day

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glenncal1
08-25-2015, 07:18
Probably tracers or exploding targets
sniper7
08-25-2015, 07:27
That sucks, hopefully they get it out quick
def90
08-25-2015, 08:29
That's a nice range.. Hope the idiots didn't ruin it. Though i thought the byers range was east of parschall..
Circuits
08-25-2015, 11:02
I've done an awful lot of "target shooting" and never started any fires.

Now, screwing around shooting tracers... I'm two for four. Odds like that are why I have chosen not to do it anymore unless it's raining, or there's good snowcover on the ground.
.455_Hunter
08-26-2015, 12:41
A lot of the vegetation, especially towards the end of summer into fall, can received an inch of rain one day and burn the next.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL! We don't need anymore negative stories about sport shooting in Colorado!
Sawin
08-26-2015, 14:06
I've done an awful lot of "target shooting" and never started any fires.

Now, screwing around shooting tracers... I'm two for four. Odds like that are why I have chosen not to do it anymore unless it's raining, or there's good snowcover on the ground.

Agreed. I've only shot tracers 1 time and it started a ground fire in the middle of a dry field. I was able to stomp it out by myself but it was at least a 3' circle of burnt grass in less than a minute. I immediately put them away and have never shot them since.
ray1970
08-26-2015, 18:33
I drove by there yesterday. Lots of fire fighting activity going on. The worst of it that I could see from the highway was on the north side of 40. The entire gun range was burnt for sure. I was too busy driving and paying attention to the police and fire fighters but since traffic was at a crawl in the canyon just to the east I snapped a picture.

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/26/9ef6303e1a657fa27a5bd39ef0a8e13e.jpg
def90
08-26-2015, 18:38
That sucks.. I work in Steamboat every other week or so so I like to stop at this range on the way home.. I'm usually the only one there during the day. Nice setup for a free, unmanaged public range, the shooting bays are laid out so that you don't have to do a cease fire for the entire range to go downrange and set targets.
roberth
08-26-2015, 19:34
Something similar happened at my range 2 years ago. Some guy shot some tracer at the 500 yard steel plate during a really dry spell, started a grass fire, cost the member and his guest a few thousand bucks paid to the county to put the fire out and to the farmer whose crops they burned - member got booted out of the club never to return