Your Input Is Needed - Shooting Spots

[Ranger]

So, I've been thinking about this for a while and decided to put together a website for camping/shooting spots. I've got my own ideas but wanted to see what you all would like to see on just such a site. The idea behind this is that I wanted a database of good places to shoot, places to camp that are off the grid and places where you can do both.

Each spot (camping/shooting/both) will have several pieces of information:

• Area Name
• Site Name
• GPS Coordinates
• How busy is the site
• USFS managed
• Site Resources (i.e., water, access to firewood, etc)

People can then log in, comment on the site if they have been there and give it a rating. The site and/or area will then get an overall rating - one for it's camping quality and one for being a good place to shoot.

The domain is registered, the site framework is in place and I'm ready to start development.

I'm curious what you all would like to see as far as attributes that would help you to decide if it is a place you want to go to. For example:

• Is there a good natural backstop
• Flat spot to set up camp
• Is there a good firepit
• Proximity to other camp/shooting sites
• Safety of site

The idea goes a bit beyond this. It's my intention to also use this as a means to identify trouble areas and keep them clean (cleaning up peoples targets, trash, casings, etc) and then find a target date and put together a team of people to go up there and camp out, do some shooting and then clean up the site. I hope that the cleanups will yield enough resell-able material to even perhaps run some campaigns to raise awareness of cleaning up after yourself and keeping a site open for sport shooting and camping for years to come.

Most importantly, though, I wanted a resource to find interesting new places to camp out and plink around. I'm starting this weekend by going up to Guenella Pass and mapping out the various spots there to seed the database.

Comments and suggestions welcome!

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Suggestions So Far
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Ease of access
Recommend vehicle for access
Appropriate calibers (distance)
Short range distance (good for pistols)
Long range distance (good for rifles)
RV/Camper accessibility
Photos of the sight from people who have been there
Cleanliness of the site
County of the site
Area fire bans (perhaps linking to USFS sites...)
Personal experience of other campers respectfulness