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/watchitbend]

Nice work man, this is always a solid move and you are 100% right about not treating our privileges with disdain and disregard. I do the same thing after shooting, even though it feels like I'm barely making a dent in the disgraceful mess left behind by so many others. Seriously, the couple of spots I frequent are an absolute wasteland in comparison to what you have shown above, but that means you have the opportunity to keep that spot tidy before it gets completely out of hand. Unpopular opinion, but I think it is a larger portion of our community than just a tiny minority, whether they are on reddit or not, that leave their shit behind. No way it could get as bad as it does, in so many places, if it was just 1% of the shooting community leaving waste behind them. May all the karma come your way, happy shooting!

[u/Florida_Man42069 → u/watchitbend]

There were also two dead deer in the ditch right beside our spot. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence that a mother dear and a youngling were both dead and decomposing next to a spot where people shoot, but it shows what some people could do. Maybe they got lead poisoning idk but I'd say about 20% of the people that come out here will leave garbage behind. Most people I've met take home all their trash, but some don't.

[u/bump1377 → u/Florida_Man42069]

JFC