People who use the shooting area in the Cibola National Forest next to our community are generally responsible people. The shooting area is cleaner than it used to be. Many left their junk in the area such as old television sets and the like.
There are some in our Whispering Cedars community who want the shooting area shut down. The reason is that stray bullets have entered the community.
The photo above, Nandoh Munoz is shooting his Henry lever-action rifle. In the photo is a telephone pole at right. There is evidence of people using it as a target or mounting their targets on it.
The community is directly in the line-of-fire behind the pole and some stray bullets have hit some homes or narrowly missed people who were outside. Thankfully, this has been a rare occurrence. It boggles the mind how some people have a definite lack of common sense or are just plain stupid. There is a hill beyond the shooting area that allows for safe shooting.
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| Above, the hill beyond the targets allows for safe shooting. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It would behoove our community members to occasionally patrol the shooting area, whenever there are shooters there, to make sure they aren't shooting at the telephone pole or targets on them. If they are found to be doing so, either give them a warning or call the McKinley County Sheriff.
The problem is mainly caused by outsiders who don't live in the community.
2 comments:
In your photos I can't see any signs alerting people to the dangers (to others) of shooting at the telephone pole. Maybe a billboard reminding people to only shoot toward the hill (also advising that there is a community whose members are at risk from improper shooting), and also placing a post for attaching targets in front of the hill (and labeling it as such) would help. A sign warning that people shooting in the wrong direction could be liable for criminal charges might help, too. You really can't fix stupid, but at least it might help deter the ignorant from endangering others.
I think there were signs, but were shot to pieces.
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