Jesus Christmas. Give it a fucking rest already!

[mall walker]

Those exceedingly loud motorcycles also can stop existing. Congratulations, your deafening-for-blocks form of transportation is insanely scary, or whatever. And we're all impressed the bank approved the loan with your 560 credit score and your "some high school" education.

[bushman]

Prolly fireworks, the 4th of July is a week away. Lighin up Francis.

[stuckathuntermtn]

The Wolf?

Yes. It's your future. I see...a cab ride.

[Bunion 2020]

Prolly fireworks, the 4th of July is a week away. Lighin up Francis.

Yeah, the 4th is still a full week away and I have to put up with that shit every night until then and for a week after. Been going on for the past week sporadically.

I used to like fireworks, now I just find them annoying.

[stfu&gbtw]

They're back at it this afternoon... Hanging onto every last moment until they have to join the parade back to the shithole. Looks like the skies are going to open any minute... Would be a real bummer if they can't bring a heli in to evac whoever wins the lightning lottery.

It's unbelievable to think that for all the open space out here, the situation has become so unsustainable that the FRD is getting ready to close the forest to dispersed shooting.

[char]

This reads like many letters to the editor from many places in the west as east coast and socal refugees move to "beautiful, scenic mountain towns" or "my dream retirement".

"I didn't move here to listen/see/smell <insert annoyance of choice that has been going on in that location for decades> !!!"

The flip side of this of course is the letter to the editor from the person who has lived in the same location for decades and writes about the socal/east coast refugees coming and <insert annoyance of choice>.

[stfu&gbtw]

This reads like many letters to the editor from many places in the west as east coast and socal refugees move to "beautiful, scenic mountain towns" or "my dream retirement".

"I didn't move here to listen/see/smell !!!"

The flip side of this of course is the letter to the editor from the person who has lived in the same location for decades and writes about the socal/east coast refugees coming and .

There certainly is some of that. It's one of the factors that makes enforcement so difficult. The spectrum of behavior is pretty broad. There's a lady who lives several miles from here that managed to draw the local SO out several times a week for shooting complaints until they realized she lives half a mile from a guy who repairs firearms for a living.

To me, "multi-use" is the guiding principle. I'm not a hunter, atv'er, or shooter, but I don't begrudge those people wanting to use the forest. But hiking, camping, and horseback riding are also valid uses, as is living on land that has generally been privately owned since the middle of the nineteenth century.

As an example of where I draw the line, there is a trailhead about a mile from here where USFS posts no OHV/Shooting signs. That sign will routinely get used as a shooting target. To me, that's just fucking obnoxious, and if I could make those people go away, I would. It's obnoxious in that it suggests that the forest is only there to host destructive shooting, because there's a real likelihood of shooting at people using the trail, and because it flies in the face of every basic principle of shooting safety known to man. I have no use or sympathy for people who want to behave that way.

[TBS]

This reads like many letters to the editor from many places in the west as east coast and socal refugees move to "beautiful, scenic mountain towns" or "my dream retirement".

"I didn't move here to listen/see/smell <insert annoyance of choice that has been going on in that location for decades> !!!"

The flip side of this of course is the letter to the editor from the person who has lived in the same location for decades and writes about the socal/east coast refugees coming and <insert annoyance of choice>.

Or the LTE in our little weekly last fall bitching because USFS performed controlled burns on the Friday she came over [from your town BTW] for a three day weekend.

[TBS]

As an example of where I draw the line, there is a trailhead about a mile from here where USFS posts no OHV/Shooting signs. That sign will routinely get used as a shooting target. To me, that's just fucking obnoxious, and if I could make those people go away, I would. It's obnoxious in that it suggests that the forest is only there to host destructive shooting, because there's a real likelihood of shooting at people using the trail, and because it flies in the face of every basic principle of shooting safety known to man. I have no use or sympathy for people who want to behave that way.

Our trail stewardship group had the same problems - we put American flag decals on the signs near roads, problem solved.

[stfu&gbtw]

Our trail stewardship group had the same problems - we put American flag decals on the signs near roads, problem solved.

Dude, that's a fucking incredible idea. Thanks for the heads up.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Do you live in Wasilla, AK?

[stfu&gbtw]

Negative... although you might be inclined to wonder sometimes.

[plugboots]

A couple years ago a bunch of guys set up a shooting target just off a forrest rd. maybe 70 yards from Chikadee trailhead, (the most used TH in the valley), at Sun Mountain in Winthrop, WA, 20 feet from the Yellowjacket trail I was riding with my daughter. On a busy Sunday.

I frankly was scared to tell them to move their Lexus out of there.

I called Sun Mountain.

[stfu&gbtw]

I frankly was scared to tell them to move their Lexus out of there.

We had a couple of clowns turn up last year in a pair of audi SUVs with no less than $10k worth of hand guns who proceeded to start shooting at a 2' berm of dirt, back in the direction of the trail they'd just driven in on. Seems like the topic firearm safety takes the "99% of drivers think they are above average" concept to another level. No one seems inclined to admit they don't know what they're doing - as though they were the next american sniper when they evacuated the womb.

[stuckathuntermtn]

This is why they just have no shooting signs at most of the trailheads and rec zones in the immediate area.

[stfu&gbtw]

This is why they just have no shooting targets at most of the trailheads and rec zones in the immediate area.

fify

[stuckathuntermtn]

Edit: oh I get it. Nah, they aren't really shot up at all. They're basically in town.
The problem is that you live in a shitty neighborhood.

[stfu&gbtw]

What neighborhood? I think you mean I live "within day-trip range of Denver".

[plugboots]

Edit: oh I get it. Nah, they aren't really shot up at all. They're basically in town.
The problem is that you live in a shitty neighborhood.

Dude this is a common sense problem.

Drive up the fucking road to the middle of nowhere. As in nowhere near a trail. Get out of the fucking car and take your lazy ass and walk in the woods a long way. Then shoot your fucking gun.

[stfu&gbtw]

Dude this is a common sense problem.

Drive up the fucking road to the middle of nowhere. As in nowhere near a trail. Get out of the fucking car and take your lazy ass and walk in the woods a long way. Then shoot your fucking gun.

That's the part that just kills me. All these retards are literally 15 minutes away from not having any impact on anyone. But they can't be bothered, and many will indignantly argue that making a nuisance and destroying shit is their right and it's everyone else's responsibility to avoid them if they don't like it. Don't want to get shot? Well then, don't get in the way of my bullets!

[plugboots]

We were fishing down in the creek in that little Valley behind the log there and came out to find this.
My wife said: Well isn't that lovely.

[stfu&gbtw]

Just had someone drive by and shoot at the private property sign at the bottom of my driveway. Currently hanging out hoping they come back.

[Harry]

It was Jer. He could have off'd you if he wanted to. Dude is a pretty good shot from what I hear.

[stfu&gbtw]

No such luck. Fucking cowards. You want to shoot at my house, come on up here. No one's going to call the cops.

[stfu&gbtw]

Here's a donation left this holiday weekend by one of Colorado's fine outdoor enthusiasts... somewhat nicer than the unbagged pile of garbage left a half mile further down the trail which, in case anyone were inclined to think that only poor rednecks engage in this sort of bullshit, was entirely comprised of organic yogurt containers and prepared fruit trays from whole foods.

This sort of thing should be punishable by on the spot execution. The world doesn't need any more people who behave this way.