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/BritBuc-1]

This is one of the things that really pisses me off. The absolute disrespect of the environment, and the rest of the community.

Who do they think cleans up their mess? It’s not the magical brass fairy, oh no, it’s the people who turn up afterwards and don’t want to lose the few places that we have access to.

It’s not hard to clean up after yourself, and the times that I’ve seen 100s of casings laying around, it’s obvious that it wasn’t just one person shooting. But apparently the whole group is a bunch of douche canoes.