Ian
Notorious member
Not shooting into somebody else's property.
Colorado is mostly national forest, i.e. public property. There are regulations of course that vary from forest to forest and time of year, but in many cases you can just pull off the road over there in that safe spot and shoot a few rounds. Our place is in Ouray in the middle of the Grand Mesa, Gunnison, and Uncompahgre forest areas, and these are the regs specific to those areas:
"While we encourage persons participating in target shooting to practice on the Forest’s target ranges, it is possible to target shoot in areas of the Forest (outside of shooting ranges) with some restrictions.
The following are prohibited on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
- Discharging a firearm within 50 yards of an open public road as well as on or across a forest system road.
- Discharging a firearm within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site, or occupied area.
- Discharging a firearm on or across a body of water except when engaged in legal hunting, such as duck hunting.
- Discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle.
- Discharging a firearm into or within a cave.
- Discharging a firearm in a manner or place whereby any person or property is exposed to injury or damage (provide for safe bullet impact area).
- Transporting a loaded long gun in a motor vehicle.
- Possession of a firearm in any Federal building or facility (prohibited even with a state concealed carry permit) {18 USC 930}.
- Littering (remove all trash including targets and spent shell casings)"