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4/1/2005 3:10:20 AM EDT
I am going camping up at Bushnell tanks this weekend. Is it still legal to shoot there? Has anyone been there lately. How is the camping? I was there about 11 years ago. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.
Milhouse
4/1/2005 4:49:23 AM EDT
[#1]
I've shot out there a few times not that long ago. I didn't have any problems.
4/1/2005 4:54:26 AM EDT
[#2]
I was just up there shooting last weekend.  Just look out for airsofters.  They were out in force last weekend.  It is still legal to shoot there.

Scott
4/1/2005 5:43:14 AM EDT
[#3]
K, I've never heard of this place before.  Where is it?  Will you post pics when you get back?
4/1/2005 6:10:42 AM EDT
[#4]
It's right before Sunflower, a little ways past 4 Peaks. It's a nice area.
4/1/2005 6:44:28 AM EDT
[#5]
Take 87 towards payson.  About 40 miles outside of Mesa, you will come up on a turnoff for a general store that never seems to be open.  Just past it, about 1/4 mile, is the turn-off for bushnell.  Great place for riding and shooting.  If you take some bikes up there to ride, then head past the streams to a large open area.  From there you can follow any number of trails to abandoned mines and such.  If you feel like a long off-road trip, one of the trails will dump you out at Roosevelt Lake.

Scott
4/1/2005 7:30:47 AM EDT
[#6]
Awsome, thanks bunches guys.  I might get that ol road trip feeling and see if there is a nice quiet place to fish, camp, and shoot out that way.
4/1/2005 8:23:15 AM EDT
[#7]
I havn't been up there in years!  Now that you all reminded me... I need to go!
4/2/2005 5:11:35 AM EDT
[#8]
Was up there 4 years ago bear hunting  and about 2 o'clock in the morning some aholes were driving up and down the road shooting out their car window. Scared  the hell out of us. We were sleeping on cots in the open about 30 yards off the road along the creek. Haven't camped in the area since.  Its a beautiful area.
4/2/2005 6:41:11 AM EDT
[#9]
Up until a couple of years ago I used to go there alot. It was my favorite hide away. Same thing happened to me. In the early morning I heard cars and then shooting. The neck hair went up and so did the shotgun and 357. A carload of gangbangers came up for some R&R i guess. I also had an HK-91 so I bump fired a mag and they went some where else. I was by myself which I will never do again. Damn the gangers!!!
4/2/2005 2:53:05 PM EDT
[#10]
I just got back this afternoon. It was beautiful up there. We camped about 40 ft from the creek. The only noise we heard at night was the running creek.