the guard leases it, it is public land! you can shoot out there. The only thing that might be of concern would be an active military operation in your area. In that case a polite MP will come over and ask if you would please move to the other side of the main road (pleasant valley road) They are more than aware its public land. You can go out beyond the little bridge and go right or left. I prefer to go out to the fork, bear left until I hit a stream-bed and go to the left from there. very remote and very private. a nice long ditch canal that you can put metal pop-ups or paper into and send the boys practice drills. The only thing you could do "wrong" and I say this lightly, if you go out to where the main road splits, it goes to live fire area. I don't mean small arms live fire, I mean tanks, and artillery. Although it is public land it is clearly marked IMPACT AREA and not safe. There is unexploded ordinance out there dating back to world war I. You can go out and drive the road all around the OTA, I have been known to take my boys out there to cindercone and watch the tanks fire at night (very cool) but they will let you know if they are doing something dangerous. They also dont appreciate you shooting around any buildings (there are structures on the ranges) and you cant use the range they have established out there (pretty obvious because they have signs) However, you will find plent of nice areas with backstop and terrain features if you just go beyond the little yuppie- shoot, trash, and leave shooting areas!Find attached a shot from one of the spots we go to out there. Note this photo was taken a couple year ago and at the time it was a mess. Several of us have taken the time to haul out trash (fridges, washers, real junk) and since then this particular area has stayed much cleaner. Since then we have started going to a much more remote location where we take out what we take in. [attachment=1]
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