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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:04:38 PM EDT

Do you have to have a hunting license to use the Cahaba Wildlife Management area gun range in Helena?

Posted: 8/13/2007 6:33:50 PM EDT

[#1]

yes or a wildlife mgmt lic. and they have been checking a lot lately. Ive been checked the last 2 times I was there

Posted: 8/14/2007 1:52:31 AM EDT

[#2]

I'll just run to wally world and get a hunting license then.

They should make a "blasting and plinking" license.

Posted: 8/14/2007 3:48:34 AM EDT

[#3]

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They should make a "blasting and plinking" license.

They do. Its called a "Wildlife Heritage license" and only costs $10 compared to $24 for a hunting license.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:55:17 AM EDT

[#4]

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Quoted:

They should make a "blasting and plinking" license.

They do. Its called a "Wildlife Heritage license" and only costs $10 compared to $24 for a hunting license.

Really? You can get those instead of HL? Does WM sell them also?

Posted: 8/14/2007 5:00:31 AM EDT

[#5]

you can purchase and print out your license online too.... save the trip to wally world.

eta: link

Posted: 8/14/2007 5:15:35 AM EDT

[#6]

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you can purchase and print out your license online too.... save the trip to wally world.

all you old coots can. I think like 35-40 and under you have to take test but then go for a scheduled "field day" before you can get your license.

Posted: 8/14/2007 5:32:56 AM EDT

[#7]

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you can purchase and print out your license online too.... save the trip to wally world.

all you old coots can. I think like 35-40 and under you have to take test but then go for a scheduled "field day" before you can get your license.

watch it, young'un!

actually, I think it might be younger than that but I haven't looked.

Posted: 8/14/2007 7:31:55 AM EDT

[#8]

There are special rules for WMA's such as no mags over 10 rounds. It was passed because of the AWB of 1994 and should have expired when the AWB did, but since it was a rule rather than law, it may not have expired. But I have not been able to get a definite answer.

Posted: 8/14/2007 7:51:11 AM EDT

[#9]

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There are special rules for WMA's such as no mags over 10 rounds. It was passed because of the AWB of 1994 and should have expired when the AWB did, but since it was a rule rather than law, it may not have expired. But I have not been able to get a definite answer.

I didn't know that. However, nothing has ever been said to me about the 30 round mags for the AR or the 13 round mags for the XD

Posted: 8/14/2007 8:35:31 AM EDT

[#10]

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There are special rules for WMA's such as no mags over 10 rounds. It was passed because of the AWB of 1994 and should have expired when the AWB did, but since it was a rule rather than law, it may not have expired. But I have not been able to get a definite answer.

I dont think thats true. I dont have a rifle mag under 10 rounds. If it is, the officers dont enforce it. Hell they dont even know what a tax stamp for a silencer is

Posted: 8/14/2007 8:38:41 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
There are special rules for WMA's such as no mags over 10 rounds. It was passed because of the AWB of 1994 and should have expired when the AWB did, but since it was a rule rather than law, it may not have expired. But I have not been able to get a definite answer.

I dont think thats true. I dont have a rifle mag under 10 rounds. If it is, the officers dont enforce it. Hell they dont even know what a tax stamp for a silencer is

There you go.... causing trouble... again

Posted: 8/14/2007 10:40:46 AM EDT

[#12]

yea, but at least its silenced trouble

Posted: 8/14/2007 12:15:33 PM EDT

[#13]

There aren't any laws or rules about mag capacity in AL. If there were we'd have long since heard about it and read about it. I've been in AL for 11 years and nobody's ever bothered me about hi cap mags at WMA ranges or anywhere else.

I did hear somewhere that someone was trying to make a rule up in TN saying that only rifles "suitable for hunting" (read Fudd guns) would be allowed on the WMA ranges up there... I never did hear the results of that though. Sort of won't be a surprise if it gets done though, 'cause TN has been overrun by PRK types lately.

BTW... I've gone to the Helena range a lot of times, and have never been asked about my hunting license. Haven't been there in the last few months though.

- edited for spelling

Posted: 8/14/2007 1:57:52 PM EDT

[#14]

Well, to get a Heritage license or any other license you have to have a DL and proof of residency. Since I am staying with my brother and his family until our house sells, I won't have that so...no license.

The DL I can get this week, along with my pistol permit.

I really wonder if it matters that much about the license at the range.....

I'm starving for some shooting action! Back in the late '70s, me and my friends used to ride around in Shelby and Bibb counties and shoot where ever we liked, including in the strip mines. I can remember many a day spent blasting in an abandoned strip mine.

Now things are too urban....

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:21:23 PM EDT

[#15]

watch your ass at that helena range.

it is generally over run with idiots with no self control or respect for firearms.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:24:37 PM EDT

[#16]

whether or not you need the licesense depends on the officer that asks for it. there CAN be some hefty fines and repercussions for NOT having one. you get the prick leo and your screwed.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:33:04 PM EDT

[#17]

Yeah, one bad apple can spoil the day. I have a feeling I will wind up just finding the range so I know where it is for later.

I guess I can go to the regular range instead.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:37:55 PM EDT

[#18]

i AM going to fop this weekend. your welcome to come shoot with me. i think guest fee is 10.00 for the day.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:42:13 PM EDT

[#19]

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watch your ass at that helena range.

it is generally over run with idiots with no self control or respect for firearms.

One of the reason why I don't go there anymore.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:52:19 PM EDT

[#20]

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i AM going to fop this weekend. your welcome to come shoot with me. i think guest fee is 10.00 for the day.

Thanks. Trouble is, the wife is coming into town on Saturday.

So I don't know what kinda mess I'll be in to that day. I'm gonna poke around Friday, and see what happens for Sunday.

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:56:02 PM EDT

[#21]

bring the wife if you can nd she can hangout with mona. there is an outlet mall not far from the range if they get bored.

mike

Posted: 8/14/2007 4:57:42 PM EDT

[#22]

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There are special rules for WMA's such as no mags over 10 rounds. It was passed because of the AWB of 1994 and should have expired when the AWB did, but since it was a rule rather than law, it may not have expired. But I have not been able to get a definite answer.

Can you find this in print somewhere? If it is or was an actual rule, it certainly wasn't/isn't enforced at the ranges I've used, including Swan Creek, Skyline and Owl Creek.

Not doubting your word at all, but I sure would like to read it for myself.

Rick

Posted: 8/14/2007 5:10:22 PM EDT

[#23]

The main reason I don't go there much anymore (other than not working in an area convenient to it anymore) is simply that there are what? 4 tables, total? And only 3 have seats if I remember correctly. It gets too crowded. Especially before and during hunting season. Personally, I haven't run into too many people doing really dangerous things there though. I guess it depends on what you would call dangerous. Everyone has their own comfort level, I guess. About the most "dangerous" thing I've ever seen anyone do there is shoot tannerite targets. There were a couple of other folks there who were looking at the guys with that fudd "that can't be legal" look, but nobody said anything... I guess 'cause it was summer and not hunting season or anything.

Just my .02.

Posted: 8/14/2007 5:11:26 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
There are special rules for WMA's such as no mags over 10 rounds. It was passed because of the AWB of 1994 and should have expired when the AWB did, but since it was a rule rather than law, it may not have expired. But I have not been able to get a definite answer.

Can you find this in print somewhere? If it is or was an actual rule, it certainly wasn't/isn't enforced at the ranges I've used, including Swan Creek, Skyline and Owl Creek.

Not doubting your word at all, but I sure would like to read it for myself.

Rick

Nobody's ever said a word to me at any of those ranges either. I'm calling BS.

Posted: 8/14/2007 5:40:05 PM EDT

[#25]

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Do you have to have a hunting license to use the Cahaba Wildlife Management area gun range in Helena?

I noticed in the other thread that you're gonna be moving to Trussville. If you want to use a public range, there's a much bigger, nicer one up around Gadsden that you'll be able to get to just as quick from Trussville (I live near T'ville and go there sometimes). It's called the Etowah Public Shooting Range, and is a few miles up north of town on Owl's Hollow Road on the left. One other good thing about that range is that it does _not_ require you to have a hunting license because it's not situated in a WMA area. It was formerly a private club. They have 25, 50, 100, and 200 yard covered ranges (used to have 300, but oh well) and a skeet range. Nice place.

Here's the location (center of the map/picture):
maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.084441,-85.932956&spn=0.008797,0.014591&t=h&z=16&om=1

Couple of pix for ya...

The 50 and 100 yard ranges:

The entrance sign... it'll be on the left coming up from gadsden, and in the summer you could possibly miss it if you weren't paying attention. It's about 6 or 7 miles from the beginning of Howl's Hollow Rd in Gadsden.

Posted: 8/14/2007 8:15:01 PM EDT

[#26]

Helena has it days. Some days Ive gone and been the only one the whole time. Other times Ive gone and had to wait on a table.

Posted: 8/15/2007 2:51:43 AM EDT

[#27]

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Helena has it days. Some days Ive gone and been the only one the whole time. Other times Ive gone and had to wait on a table.

yeah, I've been in the same boat and then there's been a time or two that I didn't get a good feeling from some of the individuals there so I just turned around and left.

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