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/Mar1744]

Doesn’t surprise me at all. About a month and a half ago the family and I were visiting the in laws  and we went out to an area of crown land I had never been to before, it was fairly isolated but was apparently well known to the local community as a popular place to recreational shoot and ride quads and other off road toys. Lone behold there was quite a few shells laying around. People have no respect for anything that isn’t their own property and will try to get away with anything if they can.