Shooting in National Forest

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Under the old interpretation, the USFS, particularly in Colorado’s Boulder Ranger District, had been preventing the public from recreational shooting within 150 yards of any road on the presumption that a road is an “occupied area” under the language of Federal Regulation 36 CFR 261.10. But the memorandum, issued by Joel Holtrop, deputy chief of the National Forest System, clarifies the regulation.

The rest of the story here........

http://www.saf.org/viewpr-new.asp?id=239

[KarlPMann]

We never had that problem here at all. This district allowed us to shoot near the road without any problem as long as we were shooting away from the road, had a backstop, and shot in a safe manner. As anyone in our group knows, both of the locations we use/used for the south shoot have been right next to the forest service road that they are on. It only figures that this sort of problem would arise in BOULDER area. Karl.

[wyzardd]

I do most of my shooting up in Pike, and I've got to say that I don't blame them sometimes. Every fall I bring back a pickup load of crap from the place - Shot up computers, a car seat one time, radios, pop cans and beer bottles, assorted garbage, etc.
Always gotta be a few jerks that screw it up for the rest of us. At least it's fairly localized in my favorite spot so it's easy to clean, but still makes me mad.