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The outdoor shooting pits and ranges (e.g. KRRC) are two different things but they boil down to one thing... responsibility.
KRRC has members invested and responsible for it's function while the open pits are at the mercy of DNR and the shooters that use it.
Don't get me wrong. Even at ranges it's a mess. People are simply slobs. Be it members or not.
When it is a membership or dedicated group - those folks are vested in the interests of keeping that range open not just for their lifetime but for the next and next and next generations.
Public shooting pits are used sporadically by many and used as a dump site (aka targets) and therefore unless others clean up after them... get to a point it becomes a health hazard.
What's the solution? Make those that use these open pits responsible... how? Someone has to make it their life's mission. Clean it up... is one thing but it's a short term solution as it keeps getting piled up with junk.
We have to police ourselves... the shooting community has to make others fall in line.
1) Take pictures of those that dump and use trash as targets.
2) Ask other shooters to clean up their trash
3) Clean up more than we take
4) Organize group cleaning
5) Make it public - make officials and the public aware that a group is taking this on
Many of these are hard. It takes effort and organization. It takes a core few to get it started and to keep it going.
I have seen many things here from one person and another but collectively it just hasn't taken. There are a few that have organized and taken on this issue but it needs to be overseen and planned by a larger organization. All our efforts are individual but as a group, as a community we can do more.
I guess what I haven't seen is someone to take the lead and on a regional level organize all the efforts and "advertise" the efforts to the public.