Hello!
Some friends and I (3-5 friends, all experienced shooters, but not past 600 yards) want to conduct a "shooting expedition".
Let me back up... We live in North Western California, in the redwoods, with no flat ground and no local shooting ranges over 200 yards within many hours drive.
We'd like to take our rifles, and gear, and targets, and if necessary, camping gear... and go do some shooting, spotting, coaching, zero'ing, and load testing from 300 to as far as we can hit a steel plate.
Ideally, perhaps, not on an organized range where we're beholden to range hours, having to be members, having to share the range, limited hours, etc. Not that any of those things are BAD, we're just looking for a more independent setting where we can stop and think, test, tune, shoot, record, etc at our own pace for 2-3 days. Camping out if necessary, driving our gear to the nearest town for a hotel works too. We're open to any organized range facility that would be happy to host non-local, non-member 'foreigners' using their range also!
We'd love to find some wide open BLM land or other SAFE area with 4wd truck access where we can set up, anywhere from the coast of California to western Nevada, and from the Oregon border (or even north of that) to about Sacramento on the south end. ideally with a mountain as a backstop, with the ability to set up target stands/steel plates 600-800-1000 or so yards away with a safe backstop and good visibility for range safety.
This isn't for an immediate trip... it's likely it'll be next year before we get our act together (two of us are still building rifles for this sort of thing, and I just moved so my reloading bench is still in boxes).
Suggestions for a place, or a range where some experienced shooters who pick up their trash and don't cause trouble, could go to get some hands on experience at ranges we've never had opportunity to shoot at - would be appreciated!
Paul F.
Eureka, CA
Some friends and I (3-5 friends, all experienced shooters, but not past 600 yards) want to conduct a "shooting expedition".
Let me back up... We live in North Western California, in the redwoods, with no flat ground and no local shooting ranges over 200 yards within many hours drive.
We'd like to take our rifles, and gear, and targets, and if necessary, camping gear... and go do some shooting, spotting, coaching, zero'ing, and load testing from 300 to as far as we can hit a steel plate.
Ideally, perhaps, not on an organized range where we're beholden to range hours, having to be members, having to share the range, limited hours, etc. Not that any of those things are BAD, we're just looking for a more independent setting where we can stop and think, test, tune, shoot, record, etc at our own pace for 2-3 days. Camping out if necessary, driving our gear to the nearest town for a hotel works too. We're open to any organized range facility that would be happy to host non-local, non-member 'foreigners' using their range also!
We'd love to find some wide open BLM land or other SAFE area with 4wd truck access where we can set up, anywhere from the coast of California to western Nevada, and from the Oregon border (or even north of that) to about Sacramento on the south end. ideally with a mountain as a backstop, with the ability to set up target stands/steel plates 600-800-1000 or so yards away with a safe backstop and good visibility for range safety.
This isn't for an immediate trip... it's likely it'll be next year before we get our act together (two of us are still building rifles for this sort of thing, and I just moved so my reloading bench is still in boxes).
Suggestions for a place, or a range where some experienced shooters who pick up their trash and don't cause trouble, could go to get some hands on experience at ranges we've never had opportunity to shoot at - would be appreciated!
Paul F.
Eureka, CA
