my community service

Well it's that time of year again. I had a few hours to kill between work and a pickup so I decided to head up to one of our local shooting areas to start cleaning up. While it's a little early ( still 80% covered in snow) gotta start sometime because it is usually takes a few days to haul off all the trash and another few to pick up as many shells as possible "Before" NH fish and game and the town come through and decide to keep the place open or not. It has been on the town docket for a few years to shut the place down due to people trashing the place and rightfully so. Now I won't let this happen without trying to stop it. My grandfather learned to shoot here taught my dad and uncles to shoot here, I learned to shoot here and hopefully in a year or two I would like to teach my son to shoot here. Met a local old timer there on his way X country skiing and happened to be a good friend of my late grandfathers and was ecstatic I was picking up the place. Same rants I had It's a shame, how could people.. all that.

This year I saw the worst thing seen to date. Three crt tv's shot to hell! well that's not to uncommon, whats worse is the SOB's decided to light the pile of tv's on fire after they got done shooting it. WHAT THE F------... Insert long list of ranting here.
I was unprepared for this as I didn't have my shovel with me so that is being grabbed next time. The main focus of the first pickup is trash, bottles, cardboard, skis you name it. But took a little time to grab some metal figured I post some picks of the goodies for you guys.:)

Presort
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What little metal and pcb's I could get outta the frozen ground
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after sorting
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My "Bonus" And copper casings!!
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One for the OMG it's gold bucketTM
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Heading back Sunday for round two!

Nice work sir...I hope they keep it open due to your hard work. Pity others have no respect for the place.

Nice findings! Would have never thought to check out a shooting range..

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Originally Posted by PickerBenny

Nice findings! Would have never thought to check out a shooting range..

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Ranges are a good place too look and most have them in 5 gallon buckets (sweep up shells rule).
These are spots in the National forest where it's deemed safe to shoot. this one is the most easily accessible in my area...that's why it's the most trashed.
These are your woods too:D

Thank you for the cleanup. My father was out doing the same thing where he lives today. Otherwise the woods would be a giant pile of plastic bottles by now.

I was raised "that if you brought it, then take it back with you". It's a shame how little people respect, what belongs to all of us! Good job NHscrapeman.

Yep I was raised with the "Pack it in, Pack it out" way of thinking. Go shooting? Pick up your casings. Camping? Take out your trash, all of it don't just burn it. Etc. Etc.

Having been to NH, an family from there, I for one say thank you. It's a beautiful State, I'd like it to stay that way, as more an more is vanishing. Mt.Washington I think it is? I've visited..big ass mountain. lol.

Sirscrapalot - He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates

We have alot of coast line around here and people treat it the same way. Once or twice a year we have what they call "coastal cleanup" Volintares pick up tons of trash that they find washed up or left along the shore line. It's not just your area, it's a nation wide problem. People have no respect for mother nature.

Happyscraper the ocean has become the "dump". Santa Monica Bay is where most people in the Los Angeles area go to the beach at. If you were to draw a line from Point Dume (just north of Malibu) to Palos Verdes everything to the east of that line, would be Santa Monica Bay. Now take a boat from Marina Del Rey and go straight west to that imaginary line, you will find what I call "The Scum Line". Not a pretty post card!

Day 2 postponed due to rain
Went today but was smart this time and grabbed a couple rifles and a friend.
Took another couple bags of trash. One full bucket of shells/metal, and scooped up as much of those tv's as I could.
Can't do much more now until it melts off and can be raked. At least it looks a lot better... and that ain't sayin much:&

So are you still a "dead eye" shooter?

Ehh.. I was a little rusty, but I grabbed the savage which has to be the best out of the box shooter I have ever owned. I won lunch with the shoot off:)
I have it on high authority the town is "gunning" for this spot again this year...:(

Slowly getting there
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