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Offline Sourdough

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My private range got found
« on: July 05, 2009, 09:24:49 AM »
Darn:  Went out to the river bed where I shoot at long distances yesterday.  The Alaska Machine Gunners were setting up there.  The only place in the Fairbanks area they feel they can safely shoot at 1000 yards or more.  Seems one of their members while flying along the river had seen someone out there shooting at long ranges.  Reported it to other members and they drove out and checked it out.  Found it to be perfect for their purpose.  Now, half the people in Fairbanks knows about it.  Aggggggggggggggggggg!

They had a big meet out there yesterday where they showed off their machine guns, light artillery, and all kinds of fully automatic weapons.  They even had explosives where they were blowing up things.  No drift log was safe.   

It's 1000 yards from the end of one of the breakwater dikes, to a bank along the high water mark.  750 yards from the dike to a small stand of brush in front of another bank.  480 yards to a sand bank along a dry feeder slough.  There is no water any where along the bullet paths.  It is a very good location for shooting at long ranges.  I have been using this location for the last five years, and have not seen more than 10 people out there.  They were just curious about what was out at the end of the dike.

Doubt I will be alone from now on.  Will wait and see.  My fear now is that the 4-wheelers will think it is a good location for running their rigs in the soft sand and river silt.  Could be hazardous if they are out there in a low spot, then someone came up and started shooting without checking to see if anyone was out there.  I always check since I drive my Sammi, or snow machine out there to set up my targets.  I never left any target stands out there, since i did not want anyone knowing I was shooting out there.  Wonder how badly they trashed the area.
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 09:37:46 AM »
That sucks
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2009, 10:56:41 AM »
On the bright side.maybe they willleave  you lots of brass
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2009, 03:04:23 PM »

 I doubt they will leave any brass Sourdough can use, Less he gathers it up sell for scrap!
 It stinks Sourdough, Marv.
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2009, 11:42:12 PM »
Things change.
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2009, 01:59:50 AM »
Blame it on "O" he is for change !
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2009, 06:16:06 AM »
Sry to hear that Sourdough.  If my 'secret place' was ever discovered I would not be happy.  I don't go to shoot, just think, but I would hate to have to share it.

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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2009, 08:43:35 AM »
This is one of the worst things that can happen. It's hard to keep such places a secret for long.

One thing I discovered while fishing is that there are always vultures (fishermen) looking for a spot to use. My most amusing experience was when I started using marker floats to mark the beginning and end of a stretch of lake I was trolling. Those floats attract people like honey attracts flies. For a while, I'd put a float out in the part of the lake least likely to have fish in it. It attracted up to six boats at one time (on a like with only about 10 boats on it.)

Maybe you want to set up some targets on that famous Alaska mud and see whether anybody tries to land on it.
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2009, 01:07:31 PM »
I went out this morning at 4AM.  Found the place deserted, and not any litter left behind.  In fact they cleaned up pretty well.  Anything that could be picked up by hand was gone.  Can't complain there.

Sometime in the past someone dumped off and old freezer, and a couple of cars.  Those two items are sitting out in shallow water in the river.  Those made good targets, both are so bullet riddled they will be gone after next years flood.  Once they make it to the main channel, they will be so totally ground up by boulders rolling down the river there will be nothing left.  Yes, even Mother Nature recycles.
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2009, 05:19:03 PM »
Quote from: Sourdough on July 06, 2009, 01:07:31 PM
I went out this morning at 4AM.  Found the place deserted, and not any litter left behind.  In fact they cleaned up pretty well.  Anything that could be picked up by hand was gone.  Can't complain there.

Sometime in the past someone dumped off and old freezer, and a couple of cars.  Those two items are sitting out in shallow water in the river.  Those made good targets, both are so bullet riddled they will be gone after next years flood.  Once they make it to the main channel, they will be so totally ground up by boulders rolling down the river there will be nothing left.  Yes, even Mother Nature recycles.
If you are lucky they are trying to keep it a secret also. :o It is better to share it with one group trying to keep it quite than them telling everyone they know about it. Either way it still sucks you have to share it. I just hope not everyone in a 100 mile range of you learns of it. Dale
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2009, 08:11:50 PM »
Dale they ran adds in the paper, and on the radio about the location.  There were lots of people out there Saturday, between two and three hundred.
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2009, 08:01:26 AM »
They may not be out there often. When you pull the trigger on a machine gun you are dropping some serous bucks!
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2009, 08:05:43 AM »
well there was a guy i used to dove hunt with that kept some empty beer cans in his car . my first hunt with him we showed up at his favorite field and it was crowded . He said watch this he whipps the car out into the field kicks a few cans out as he exits the vehicle shoots up in the air takes a drink of water from a beer can , by then the field was starting to clear .
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Re: My private range got found
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2009, 12:57:38 PM »
Quote from: Sourdough on July 06, 2009, 08:11:50 PM
Dale they ran adds in the paper, and on the radio about the location.  There were lots of people out there Saturday, between two and three hundred.
HOLY CRAP THAT SUCKS
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