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Posted: 3/3/2005 3:11:51 PM EDT

anybody know good spots reasonably close to san bernardino? i used to shoot 1no9 (manzanita flats) pretty regularly but its all closed up now due to road conditions. im looking for a place i can set up and shoot rifles, pistols, and shotguns without have to move to different ranges. any info is very much appreciated. if you know a good spot, directions would be awesome too hanks!-scott

Posted: 3/3/2005 4:00:46 PM EDT

[#1]

blm land.. im in north OC and it is about 1.5 hrs to get out there.. I shoot along the 15 about 15 miles before barstow(it is a rifle/shotgun area).

get off at hodge rd and make a left.. have fun.

barstow BLM shooting info page

pic of the area from yesterday :-D

Posted: 3/3/2005 4:53:51 PM EDT

[#2]

I've talked with the BLM rangers in Moreno Valley and the ones I talked to had no problem with rifles on in San Bernardino county. They have jursidiction on their land - not the San Bernardino police/sheriffs however, you take your chances. The rangers I talked with had no problem as long as we were cleaning our stuff up - collecting brass and not using glass and trash as targets. Typically I spend ten minutes or so after shooting and collect a large garbage bag full of trash as "payment" for the use of the land. Cleaning up after other shooters junk.

I use the area west of the 15 between Victorville and Barstow. I've heard the area called Iron Mountain.

Posted: 3/3/2005 10:17:12 PM EDT

[#3]

thanks alot guys, appreciate the info

Posted: 3/14/2005 5:10:21 PM EDT

[#4]

I go shooting at the Hodge Road location a bunch of times... be careful though, I have been questioned by CHP while shooting. The issue at hand was if I was shooting within a mile of the freeway. Other than that, its a decent place to shoot. If there are a few other shooters out there, keep driving back into the hills far away from them. Once there was a guy with a full auto machine gun sitting in the back of his truck. I'd rather just not be around when someone comes to check him out.

-d

Posted: 3/15/2005 8:13:53 AM EDT

[#5]

I'm not aware of any law prohibiting shooting within a mile of a freeway. Can you or anyone else elaborate on this?

Quoted:
I go shooting at the Hodge Road location a bunch of times... be careful though, I have been questioned by CHP while shooting. The issue at hand was if I was shooting within a mile of the freeway.
-d

Posted: 3/15/2005 1:35:53 PM EDT

[#6]

yeah it is 150 or 200yds from roads iirc. i go way past that first right birm there is a better place down further I think off to the left. if you found a jeep body/frame your there.

Posted: 3/15/2005 2:06:46 PM EDT

[#7]

I think all you have to be is 500 ft off any road and in a spot where it's open for shooting.

You could always go to Lytle Creek, it's alot closer then going to Hodge Rd.

Posted: 3/15/2005 3:02:01 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I think all you have to be is 500 ft off any road and in a spot where it's open for shooting.

You could always go to Lytle Creek, it's alot closer then going to Hodge Rd.

according to the blm page its 150yds from ANY made made object
www.ca.blm.gov/barstow/recshoot.html

Posted: 3/15/2005 4:19:02 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I think all you have to be is 500 ft off any road and in a spot where it's open for shooting.

You could always go to Lytle Creek, it's alot closer then going to Hodge Rd.

according to the blm page its 150yds from ANY made made object
www.ca.blm.gov/barstow/recshoot.html

A Jeep frame/body is a man made object. No?

Just pulling your chain.

Posted: 3/15/2005 5:31:56 PM EDT

[#10]

I guess I added 50 ft to be safe.

Posted: 3/15/2005 6:00:26 PM EDT

[#11]

i believe Federa Law states you gotta be over 1 mile from a highway/fwy to do any shooting. there are couple signs off hodge rd.. on the other side of the 15fwy.

Posted: 3/15/2005 7:23:55 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
i believe Federa Law states you gotta be over 1 mile from a highway/fwy to do any shooting. there are couple signs off hodge rd.. on the other side of the 15fwy.

That is what I thought too. I know that some of the signs state that need to be a certain distance away from the road, and there are some that say you can't shoot near that cell phone tower. Technically we are trespassing if we shoot near that cell tower. Some company bought the land from the BLM and put that tower up.

-d

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