Target Shooting at Frenchman Coulee?

[catbirdseat]

A group of people were target shooting in the vicinity of the pond on land that is part of the wildlife preserve. Is this a legal activity? It wouldn't seem likely that shooting is compatible with this land use, not to mention it was annoying to have to listen to it while climbing. The kiosk says that fires and fireworks are forbidden, but there is no mention of fire arms.

 

There were at least three people shooting semi-automatic weapons. Throughout the day they must have fired a thousand rounds. One of the things that they liked to do was load up, and firing together, empty their magazines by squeezing off as many rounds, as fast as possible in a mass fusilade. It sounded like Bagdad out there.

[mtn_mouse]

They were probably just hunting game animals, or snafflehounds. I've noticed each year that hunters need increasingly numerous bullets to hit their game.

[rock-ice]

Last time I was there there were a bunch of podunks firing in the feathers parking lot.

[catbirdseat]

I called Greg Fitzgerald, manager of the Columbia Basin Wildlife Areas, and asked him. It's definitely legal. He said that in some cases, the sherrif has limited shooting to shotguns only for safety reasons, but wasn't aware of any such restrictions in this particular area.

[bigwalling]

Fuck shooting at stuff is funner than climbing a frenchmans! I would totally be the type of guy to be firing off rounds in the parking lot. Damn this weekend I blew through like 1000 rounds of ammo. It is hella fun.

[catbirdseat]

Shooting could hold my interest for all of about 5 minutes. Boring.

[Paul_detrick]

I've taken my shotgun and shot clays there after a day of climbing. It is WDFW land, I thought of taking out a few pigons there, less crap on the handholds, and there open yearround. You could duck or deer hunt the ponds on top, and go climbing fun fun.