Here's a bunch of photos I took. The day started off a bit rainy, but that passed pretty quickly. There were actually a fair number of people who basically just showed up at the wrong time to go shooting at the pit, but they decided to stay and help, and I'm hoping we get a bunch of newly signed up members out of it. The clean up took about three hours, but there were lots of hands to make the work go quickly. We could have easily used 2-3 more wheelbarrows to move all the bags of trash, but the young bucks got them moved out to the main road where the county will pick them up during the week.
Congratulations to Matt for putting this together, this kind of stewardship of our shooting spots is what's necessary to keep them open. He brought together a very diverse group of folks, recruited others on the fly, and shepherded folks who showed up later on into doing the right thing. It was a very inclusive affair, at least from my point of view and I'm glad (if tired), that I was able to take part.
We really need to put a "cleaned by WaGuns" sign, although to be fair easily more than half the people there were not from WaGuns (hopefully they sign up).
This guy worked his ass off moving trash from the site to the road, but he had several others as company to keep the bags moving in the right direction.
Out at about the 130 yard mark or so, these guys did a really nice job getting lots of trash out of the bushes as well as the clean ground.
Here's the view looking back toward the road, there were still plenty of bags to be moved.
Notice the drone. Hopefully we'll get the video as the drone pilot was one of the guys we Shanghaied into helping.
Looking pretty clean, huh?
This is the shotgun-only area that's to the left of the main pit.
This is the pile we packed out (or I should say, mostly the young bucks packed out). That's Matt on the right with the gloves, and his dad, Greg in the foreground. You raised a good kid Greg, well done.
The DNR guy taking down names and handing out receipts for hours worked. His first sign up sheet got completely smeared in the rain even though he tried to keep it under a plastic bag.
The Belle of the Ball I think, my custom Mosin Nagant was a big hit. Most everyone took a round at shooting it, and gong at the 130yard mark took a beating (thanks Shanghaied group for bring all the nice targets!).
She didn't want to shoot it at first because she was afraid of the recoil, but I convinced her to try one shot. Then she asked to shoot more...
The Uzi was nearly as popular as the Mosin, maybe more so.
After shooting the Mosin, he was fairly convinced that there might be one in his future, and he's never owned a firearm...yet.