Went by there today whilst out on patrol. Not bad looking still. Lotta shotgun shells and some brass but no piles of trash and the shooting tables and the one prone platform all still look nice.

Smelled like piss around the area, but meh.

Where is this located?

South Forrest County on New York road. 2.5 miles east of the Ashe Nursery Rd and New York Rd intersection. It's on a dirt road that's maintained fairly well. After a rain you can expect the typical dirt road problems.

There are signs once you get on old 49 S, Yeaton Spur Rd, and New York Rd near the Ashe Lake recreation area.

I dragged alot of the trash from down range to the trashcans a few weeks ago.  USDA/NFS was collecting trash that day (had already done one run). It was really trashed in January.

Some assholes dumped a few deer carcasses along the edge of the parking lot last month too.

Thanks bullet.

This is why we can't have nice things...

Thank you @stolenheron. One day we may need to schedule a local meet and greet there. I have a dueling tree we can enjoy as well as a large steel silhouette on a wooden a-frame.

I'd be down.  Send me a PM when you feel like going.

Been shooting there since the early 1990s. The conditions fluctuate. Sometimes it looks pretty nice and sometimes I haul out a whole truckload of garbage.

Still, it's free and pretty close to Hattiesburg, so I used it a lot when I still lived in the area. I miss it a lot. I also miss the little "gravel pit range" that used to be right beside the Longleaf Trace in Epley. That's where my avatar pic was taken.

The ranges in the Dallas area are nicer by an order of magnitude, but they're insanely expensive to use, and literally covered in fees, rules, prohibitions, surcharges, taxes and endless horse shit that basically sucks all the fun out of shooting.

Be thankful y'all have public ranges to use at all. Everything is on a pay-as-you-go basis in Dallas, and getting more expensive all the time.

Y'all ever see the "Brass Vulture" around anymore? He used to come out and smoke a dog turd cigar while greedily watching every single piece of brass that came out of your ejection port. Sometimes, he'd even be up on the firing line, gathering brass out from under shooters. He did that with me one time, and I told him I reloaded, so get lost. He was a character.

Plum Nearly Road is the last right turn off the road before you get to the range, as I recall, unless they changed the name.

Looks like the range was cleaned recently. Went out there yesterday and the trash that had been piling up for almost a year had been cleared out.  They also removed the wooden stakes which marked the 25y and 50y distances at the range.