r/canadaguns • u/coolwooley • Apr 13 '26

Misc Quick PSA for crown land shooters

With summer approaching, many of us are going to head out and start shooting on crown land again.

If you are going to your crown land spot, please clean up after yourselves. Don’t leave a mess behind.

Remember that it’s public land. We’re not the only ones who use it. The last thing we need is more complaints about the mess from shooters. That’s how no-shoot zones start.

You should always leave the spot in a better state than when you found it. Be respectful, and your shooting spot will stay open for longer.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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u/EnvironmentalBox6688 Apr 14 '26

On an entrance road to a very popular national park basically every turnoff is absolutely littered with casings, hulls, and garbage people bring out to shoot at.

If you litter on crown land you are objectively a bad person that gives the whole hobby a bad look.

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u/HappyCan7250 Apr 14 '26

Yep, one of the last non gated spots near me just got cut down to weekend access only and s gate installed because people have been dumping stolen cars, and living out in the bush, and drug activity. It was the only spot I could go shoot off some rounds after work but now it's getting locked and open only on weekends. There's a reason a lot of areas started getting blocked/deactivated, and as much as I hate it, it's hard to blame the province or forestry companies for it when people trash the land. Hunters and shooters should be looking after the land as it helps us all for it to be clean and accessible.