UPDATE: Ghost PLUZ Cleanup Day

[u/Florida_Man42069]

Yesterday, I made a post about my experience at Ghost PLUZ earlier this week. The place was an absolute mess, and I was disgusted to say the least. I posted about how bad the place had gotten and asked if anyone in the Calgary area would like to volunteer to clean up the area, to help keep our spots open and available. I was pleasantly surprised to see the sheer volume of amazing people, willing to volunteer their labour to help clean up.

As a personal side note, I am 21 years old and have only gotten into shooting recently. I was 19 when I bought my first real gun, and since then I have had a ton of fun exploring this hobby. My immediate family doesn’t hunt or shoot, so I’m the first in my household to get into guns. This hobby has the most amazing and respectful community. Almost everyone I have met on public land while shooting, has been a friend to me. They are kind, respectful and eager to welcome the younger generation into this sport. However, day after day, I see our hobby become more of a political scapegoat. I see higher ups in the government, blatantly lying about their actions and intentions, targeting the most law abiding citizens in Canada. This, combined with the horrendous state of public land I witnessed, makes me very fearful for the future of our hobby.

If you are passionate about sport-shooting, hunting or other activities, and want to keep this hobby available to you and future generations, it would be greatly appreciated for you to join us.

If you live in or around the Calgary area, and want to do your part, please comment/upvote a day when you are available. If we can even get a few people out here, it would make a huge difference.

EDIT: How would Saturday, May 23rd work for everyone? Let me know in the comments :)

[u/T-homas-paine]

This feels like a job for one of those commercial riding lawnmowers that have a vacuum for clippings. I used to use one at my job and you could turn the blade off and just use the vac. Idk if brass would end up being too heavy, but it might be worth trying if anyone runs a landscaping crew nearby.

Edit: on second thought, looks a lot of those shells have been there long enough to be stuck in the ground somewhat, so probably not.

[u/elo_itr → u/T-homas-paine]

Any suggestions on how to separate the gravel and shells/casings? I usually rake it into a pile then shovel into a trash bag, but of course end up with taking some gravel.

[u/T-homas-paine → u/elo_itr]

Density, aka shaking/vibrating the container? Probably not practical for your application, but this definitely works, albeit slowly. Most rocks will be more dense than brass, same with sand. You might try putting a shovel full in a 5gal bucket, holding it by the handle and just twisting the shit out of it back and forth with your wrist, if that makes sense. It’s slow work if you have a lot, but I know this methods works as a quick a dirty way of separating things based on density.

[u/Otherwise_Top_5762 → u/elo_itr]

Manure forks work halfway decent for shotgun shells and gravel/sand. Brass takes some finesse depending on size