Quote Originally Posted by SA Friday View Post
I suspect this will end when the forest service decides to designate a couple of locations for shooting and hires some people to run them. Other states I've lived in have done this and then had a $25 dollar annual permit to shoot at these locations. The guy that ran the one I shot at regularly wasn't always out there, but the area was open from sun up to sun down 7 days a week. He was almost always there during peak shooting hours, but was pretty liberal about the shooting. It was a win for everyone. Shooters respected the area and cleaned their trash or got their card pulled. Conversely, if you didn't act like an idiot he left you alone. He also had direct access to call for medical or LE if they were needed for injury or altercation.

Until accomidations are made by both sides of this issue, it will continue on an adversarial circle; forest service will continue to close areas like this due to complaints and shooters will continue to find new areas to shoot. It's stupid and eventually the forest service will have to address it as the number of shooters in the front range are large enough to force the issue.

great post!

I would love to see everyone be respectful, clean up their trash and not act like idiots, unfortunately in every category or sports or entertainment out there, idiots make the headlines and cause the problems. I like the idea of a designated ranger for specific shooting locations, I am not entirely against paying a small fee (similar to the $25 each year to run a OHV) even though taxes from gun sales are being used to support the FS, as well as state and federal funds, DOW funds from license sales etc.
unfortunately the anti's want nothing more than to strip away all areas and turn them into flowery playgrounds resembling toyota prius commercials