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Posted: 9/17/2004 10:12:12 PM EDT
Today our range burned down! One of the two fires in boulder county today was in the Lefthand canyon range. Caused apparently by a fellow shooter. Sad news. Hopefully this won't affect us long term, since this is one of the ONLY safe places we have.

Dont burn stuff,

NW
Link Posted: 9/17/2004 10:48:44 PM EDT
[#1]
I heard about this.. what exactly does "burned down" mean?

It's a big gutter of trash for the most part.
Link Posted: 9/18/2004 7:56:19 PM EDT
[#2]
shot there Thurs.  bummer!  not good with the other anti-shooting on BLM land ideas floating around!!  it is a dump.  
Link Posted: 9/19/2004 6:12:36 AM EDT
[#3]
Someone on the news last night said "caused by a ricochet, sparking off a rock". Yeah, if he was shooting steel jacketed ammo. More likely a cigarette. Nobody'd be dumb enough to be shooting tracers in the forest, would  they.....?
Link Posted: 9/21/2004 2:13:06 PM EDT
[#4]
Sooo.. is it open for shooting now, or is it closed down?
Link Posted: 9/25/2004 7:17:44 PM EDT
[#5]
i walked up last Monday and saw no fire damage at all.  2 people were shooting there.  the fire damage looks real bad when you get past the greenbriar restaurant and look up to the right.  if this fire leads to a ban, i'll call B.S. on it being a shooter who was at the range.
Link Posted: 9/25/2004 9:56:22 PM EDT
[#6]
Good to know. I havent been up there since the incident. I'm kind of curious how that would happen too. There are quite a few 4x4's up there above us. But it must have been us... right?
Link Posted: 9/29/2004 1:04:37 PM EDT
[#7]
Heard on the news this morning that the guy was shooting exploding targets. And he is being billed for the cost of fighting the fire.
Link Posted: 10/1/2004 10:23:54 AM EDT
[#8]
Tannerite, 60 kilobucks.

Hope he had a helluva fun time.
Link Posted: 10/1/2004 10:26:16 AM EDT
[#9]
tagged... so I can ask
'official" sources on monday
Link Posted: 10/3/2004 5:19:54 PM EDT
[#10]
Yesterday:



No burn. (maybe one would be beneficial)

Minirant: I hate it when the dumb frat jocks bring their girlfriends up and don't bring any hearing or vision protection. Better yet is when they only bring one set. Oh well, I wait til it's the girl's turn to get the protection, then bump 30 rounds off the shoulder.. they get the idea quick.
Link Posted: 10/3/2004 6:39:24 PM EDT
[#11]
Wow, what a mess.
Link Posted: 10/4/2004 4:10:39 AM EDT
[#12]
that's sickening..

when WE go shooting, we always leave it better than when we showed up.  its sucks to see people do this.  no wonder non-shooters have a bias.  not to menition the lack of safety.
Link Posted: 10/15/2004 8:00:52 PM EDT
[#13]
A member of my gun club in Durango burnt down 2 storage bldgs with his FLARE gun!!!  Fired a round off and started a hell of a fire!!
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