The old camping adage was to, “Leave the campsite better than you found it“. I want to say “today’s generation” doesn’t get that. That may or may not be true, I’ll look into it more. Its also the motto of the shooting club I belong to. This picture shows a lot if you know what you’re looking for. The broom on the ground should be hung on its nail so as not to be a tripping hazard. Why its on the ground is beyond me, as you can see all the spent brass is still on the concrete (you’re supposed to sweep the brass into a bucket), so its clear they’re not using the broom. You can see the giant hole in the cardboard on the pistol target was shot out by a shotgun.

Are you going to want to be the next person to use this spot? You’d have to clean up the other person’s mess before you started. What amazes me about it is that the club has cameras recording this spot and all of them. They don’t do anything to correct the slackers. So what ends up happening is 5% end up degrading the place for everyone. Most shooters are “color between the lines” people. In the gun world if you’re sloppy, if you don’t follow the rules, bad things happen. The other thing it does is create a climate of “we don’t need to cleanup”. Other people start getting lazy.

The picture is of the 7 yard pistol position (see, pistols are supposed to be shot there, not rifles and shotguns). So every Friday and Saturday night these assholes show up, blast a hole in the pistol stop with a shotgun, leave 9 mm aluminum all around, and .223 (a rifle round that should be  at a rifle position) brass all about. Oh, and if you have to “pattern” your shotgun, go to Walmart, buy a cardboard box, and you have 3 sides to shoot. They’re pigs. They do this because they can. There’s no consequences.