Crackdown on exploding targets in Colo. forests

[mtnrider]

http://www.krdo.com/news/crackdown-o...z/-/index.html

I'm sure a full shooting ban is next......

I assume they only have jurisdiction on forest property so private land would still be okay?

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[BREATHER]

I do not have a problem with banning exploding targets in National forests. They are fun and all that shit but go start private property on fire. I spend alot of time in the forests and I would like to see them be around a few more years before the enviromental terrorists let the Pine Beetle destroy more of Colorado woodlands...

[dirtrulz]

To me not using exploding targets when the woods are dry is kind of obvious. If a person is dumb enough to use them on their ow n property and start a fire that leaves their property they should be liable.

[mtnrider]

I agree and I would never think of using a explosive target in the woods. However (and I may be way off and paranoid here) Why not ban all things that cause forest fires? No smoking, no camp fires (that may be banned now?) Propane stoves, etc. etc.

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[cfortune]

You guys realize exploding targets such as tannerite produce no flames right?

[colorider]

Shows how much people know or want to know about tannerite. No flame or heat is produced. Can not start a fire.

[COcz]

I knew a guy who started a fire with tannerite. Up on storm mountain by estes park. He had taken a video of it that he showed me. They were definitely idiots. I don't know if it was private or forest cause it is prett mixed up there. This was a little while before the high park fire.

[dirtrulz]

They have to ban them all, there is no way to know what someone is useing, they could be up there with homemade crap with gunpowder. Basically if they hear an explosion you will get a ticket. If target shooting is so boring that something needs to blow up to make it interesting then maybe its time for a new hobby. I could see it being useful on really long shots so as to not have to walk half a mile to see if it hit.

[WETWRKS]

I don't know about all the exploding targets out there but tannerite does not start fires. I don't know what would happen if you mixed something else with it...might be possible then but it is not supposed to start fires in and of itself.

http://www.tannerite.com/

This strikes me as a knee jerk reaction and a stepping stone towards getting tannerite and shooting in general banned from public areas.

[mtnrider]

shooting in general banned from public areas.

^ That was my concern.

Like I said if there real concern is fire why are they not banning all the other things that cause forest fires?