Park County is in a Stage II Fire Bans recreational shooting WHY?

[sniper7]

I started a small fire a year two ago by shooting into a stump. I had fired several rounds into the stump when I noticed a glowing piece of debris arc out of the stump and land in the grass about 50 yards from the stump I was shooting. Next thing...there was smoke and a small grass fire. We put it out quickly but it could've been a real problem had I been alone. It burned about 20 square feet before we could even get to it.

I think someone had been firing tracers into the stump and one of my rounds impacted the tracer round and ignited it. I don't know what else it could've been.

Isn't it obvious....you bought some of those inferno rounds!

if you haven't seen the video, google it. the onion inferno bullets. or the flesh shredding ones!

[Bailey Guns]

I've seen that video...awesome!

[theGinsue]

Ease up on the tin foil, it's f'ing dry out there. All it take's is one idiot with some tracers or some tannerite and we get another wild fire right now.

Its the geology! if you hit certain kinds of rocks very hard, they spark! Even steel targets will spark! It just takes one spark...

+1 this.

I was about to post the same thing but figured I needed to read the entire thread before posting for once.

As much as I believe in our right (and responsibility) to shoot, I also think we need to be responsible and take every precaution to avoid becoming the problem. While most of us would take extra measures to avoid starting a fire with their shooting activities, those folks who never police their targets, brass, shotgun hulls, etc. and who love to shoot up trees versus real targets don't put one thought into the possibility that their actions could spark another raging fire in these particularly dry conditions.

A temporary ban makes sense - just so long as they don't turn it into a permanent shooting ban.

[Bill]

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I agree. Too many people get their gun knowledge from TV and Movies. Non-incendiary rounds do not spark and are no fire danger. Sensible shooters don't cause fires. Idiots with tracers are a different matter.


Non-incendiary rounds can cause fires. Any ammo that has steel core bullets (or steel penetrator tips) can spark when impacting rocks or steel targets. The steel jacketed bullets could be an issue as well.

So do you have a web site for me to check out where a study was done to make this a Fact?

[JlazyH]

That's a bummer. I plan on camping off breakneck pass for the 4th. No campfires and now no shooting! What the hell am I going to do with my time!

Go up and see if you can help someone who has lost everything and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

[The Heretic]

Go up and see if you can help someone who has lost everything and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

No one feeling sorry for themselves here. I was jokingly making a point on how campfires and shooting go hand in hand with camping in Colorado, or at leaste they always have for me and my family. If you noticed a couple posts later I made it a point to say I would never risk starting a fire in my wonderful state. My mother is staying with me because she is on evac herself.

[KevDen2005]

No, I agree, during these high fire danger times it makes sense to limit shooting temporarily (and this is likely the case in Park). However mark my words, the antis are ramping up to use wild fires as a reason to start permanently banning shooting on public lands.

I would also have to agree. I don't mind a limitation while it is so hot and dry and hundreds upon hundreds of more people working in the wilderness with their equipment to try and control them...

However, I again agree that libs and anti-gun people will use whatever they can to limit our rights.

[MrPrena]

Thanks to mother nature, shooting at national forest is a no go for now.

I won't even bring a laptop [battery] that has 0.001% chance of causing a fire at a national forest.

[Irving]

I once saw a fire at the Boulder Rifle Club, INSIDE, during one of the matches. Somehow, a pile of dry leaves caught fire and flared up high and quick! Something must of ricocheted out of the traps.

[gos]

I agree - there's an article on CNN right now with a headline that implies a fire in Utah was started by shooting, but the article never makes the connection. Commenters discredited it pretty quickly.

Except that according to the newspaper, the shooters themselves called 911 when they couldn't put out the fire they'd created.