3. A Culture Clash Over Guns Infiltrates the Backcountry: A fight is playing out in...

A Culture Clash Over Guns Infiltrates the Backcountry: A fight is playing out in national forests from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest between backpackers seeking solitude and gun owners out for target shooting.

This story is very selective in it's details to increase the drama of what's happening. For example, out here in Utah the high school students that took cover were, IMO, ducking from the sound of a ricochet rather than actually taking fire. The sound is very distinct as it's whistle can be heard for a long distance. I mean seriously. Students ducking from target shooting? I've shot at that same area and you shoot exactly the opposite direction from where the students were located.

But this story does have relevance, as does the mention of the students. Because this particular area I speak of is very popular to shoot because of it's back drop. Of course, this safe backdrop also attracts other recreation hobbies like ATF or Jeep riding. Most good shooting spots are almost always the same places I might find an ATF rider. Even going out further west of this area in Sarasota Springs you may think the Five Mile Pass area is a great shooting spot. This happens to also be a no shooting trail riding area. And good luck finding a good map on exactly where the boundaries are for this area. (I've found one, but it took a while to get one that wasn't blurry).

Even other areas I've gone shooting seem to always have trash left behind. Not just for shooting but for some bon fire or little camping site. Leaving target trash behind is terrible, but I'm comfortable guessing that people leave trash behind because of the same reason they chose a certain spot to shoot. It's usually a desolate, non-populated area. And that is entirely the point of this article. Other recreational visitors like the same places as shooters.

As a gun owner and fellow target shooter, I must say it's rather difficult to find a good spot to shoot. Even spots like the one out by Sarasota Springs made me feel uncomfortable just because there were other people shooting. Not that we were shooting each other. But that I'd rather just not be worried about other people shooting around me. If we want safer shooting areas, we need to actually make safer shooting areas available to shooters.

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