An unfortunate circumstance

[u/Florida_Man42069]

I went to one of my favourite shooting spots yesterday and was sad to see the sheer amount of garbage left at the spot. There were literally thousands of shells on the ground. There was a car door in the field riddled with bullet holes, wooden and paper targets left in the field and endless brass. I know the vast majority of people on this subreddit are the people who clean up their brass at the end of their session, but please next time you go out shooting bring a garbage bag. Me and my friend only shot about 30 shells and a 150 .22 rounds, but I took home probably 500 shells in a garbage bag and that didn’t even cover 1/10 of the place. There is a spot nearby here that was shut down recently due to unsafe firearms use, and people leaving garbage behind. I have only been shooting for about a year and a half and I would hate to see my hobby go down the drain because people don’t want to take 10 minutes to clean up. About 45 minutes before we left, 2 other people came to our spot to shoot and saw that we were cleaning up other people’s shells. One guy thanked us and said it’s a good thing we were doing that. We already have a government who wants to target our hobby, don’t give them a reason to do so.

[u/KalashnikovParty]

Yeah, it’s sad to see some people in this hobby not showing respect to it and the land we shoot on, which reflects badly on all of us. On behalf of all of thanks for cleaning up the mess that you didn’t even make

[u/Florida_Man42069 → u/KalashnikovParty]

I’ve cleaned up shells the past two times I went shooting. I’ve also found a bunch of steel targets that people have just left to rust in the dirt and I’ve repurposed them. Don’t get me wrong though, almost every single person I’ve met out there has been kind, respectful, and safe when it comes to their shooting. It’s a very small fraction of people that do this.

[u/KalashnikovParty → u/Florida_Man42069]

Yeah, which is what’s frustrating because the small fraction of irresponsible reflect badly on all of us, and there isn’t much we can do about them other than try to convince them to change which doesn’t always work

[u/hafetysazard → u/KalashnikovParty]

It is really tough to convince some people when the common shooting spot in the bush looks like the floor in the matrix lobby shootout scene.  It is brutal, I stopped going to places like that.  Like imagine people did that for decades, how many spent cases would be lying around?  Plus they become garbage dumps too.  I guess the only silver lining could possibly be that it is contained in a small area, but still…

I feel bad for doing that in the past, and it is never too late to stop being a pig.