Oh, if only you would just have asked. I’m sure the shooter would have told you that he was scoping out a wolf or two — which would make his ignoring the “no shooting” sign perfectly legal in our state. (Wolves, after all, sure must be out there in the southwestern Idaho desert eating up the ground squirrels, rabbits and other creatures that the birds of prey depend on for their survival).

So, uh, the picture was actually of someone who was just helping the environment and those around him. Ya! That’s the ticket! He was PROTECTING the ATVers and hikers and critters from them damn packs of wolves endangering everyone and everything! You tryin’ to cause problems or something by printing your misleading photo on this blog?

Did you get a license plate from the shooter’s vehicle? I will be more than glad to follow up?
Lee

EDITOR NOTE–Tailgate was down on the truck and I was unable to see it. Grey Chev with camper shell.

Please confirm the area about 1 mile south of Initial Point, east side of Swan Falls and North of fabricated tower power line (which runs diagonal ne-sw) is indeed within the birds of prey area where the sign is located.

Let me make three guesses:

One, the Dude is a transplant who has just discovered all the open space. Like the big red STOP signs so many of them can’t comprehend, let alone obey, all those words just can’t apply to HIM. He is, after all IMPORTANT.

Two, he is a local who has become completely disgruntled with having been restricted, due to more damn overpopulation, from shooting rifled arms on the grounds where he shot squirels and targets for most of his life.

Three, hopefully he has a STOP signed intersection staked out and he is waiting for a tattooed, low hanging shorts wearing, sandal sporting, nincompoop to run it.

Seriously, he is probably, either ignorantly or willfully, just north of one of the few places that are now “allowed” by the land Nazis for the firing of small arms.

Check out the shotgun holes in the sign….

Certainly doesn’t seem like a wise place to shoot even without a sign but then, where can you shoot in today’s Idaho?

I’ve watched one shooting area after another be closed to protect housing developments or proposed housing developments or wishful-thinking housing developments.

And I didn’t even know housing developments were a protected species.

Seriously, he may feel that since he’s been kicked out of everywhere else, he might just as well sit down where he is and plink a few.

Of course, this is in the same part of Ada County where land management people have found garbage (with identification in it no less) placed in “no dumping” areas.

Just don’t judge all shooters by this jack#ss’ actions. Alot of us are happy to let the conservation area alone.

Isn’t that the guy who was on Johnny Carson with the earmuffs and overalls ( Billy Bob Crackers) who counldn’t read ,didn’t believe in schools, hated lawyers and doctors ( don’t need ’em, dadgumit.) I kind of took to the guy once I heard that!( B.B.C. says I got’s my own pliers ,saws and a big bottle of Jack Daniels ta kill the pain.)

Billy didn’t like government either saying all they want is your money so’s they dont have to work.That’s when I decided to move out west where all the real americans live and afer 8 years of dealing with them thiev’en lawyers ,doctors and politicians I think Billy bob was one SMART COUNTRY DUDE as I realized just how stupid I’d been for a long time. I just hope he doesn’t kill a wolf or one of Natures other magnificently beautiful creations. As for the Hikers and ATV’ers with their 50 ton trailers and $700 barbecues, well….if they can’t see the guy with a scoped 30-30 next to a large red and white sign I’d suggest a flak vest and steel helmet. After all your in the wild west , God’s country and your destroying it with your dadburn, fancy Dan ,lazy butt technerlegy!

Well, in all honesty, shooters didn’t see this moron out there. I go shooting with a large group of guys. We pack out, what we take in. But, where we shoot is getting pretty littered up, and this weekend we have some help from BFI and other companiest to get people out into the desert off Pleasant Valley to clean the garbage up. It also isn’t just the shooters leaving trash, we find it from the guys riding motorcycles out there, all the time, as well.

If we could get the morons to quit being stupid, and the other morons to quit driving off-road with the mud, destroying the landscape to quit being stupid, and we could get all the people that leave their junk in the desert to quit being stupid… things would be much better in this area.

The people that I shoot with, are mostly hunters. All of them are conservationalists. They like to hunt the animals, but they want there to be animals there every year. They want to take care of the habitat. Then, those of us that just like to shoot at paper and metal targets, we like to shoot, and leave our surroundings the way we found them. Unfortunately, it just takes one or 2 idiots to ruin it for a very large group of people.

The GUARDIAN goes Nationwide (again!)

FoxNews (AP Story):

Idaho National Guard Targeted by Sport Shooters

With just two agents to patrol 4 million acres of desert near Boise, gun enthusiasts regularly defy the ban by shooting squirrels, protected birds and even grazing cattle, park officials say.
Because money is already stretched thin, land management agents generally only cite illegal shooters they catch in the act. A PHOTOGRAPHER RECENTLY CAPTURED WHAT LOOKED TO BE A SQUIRREL GUNNER IN A RESTRICTED PART OF THE CONSERVATION AREA, but even in that case, chances of prosecution are slim.

Story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264270,00.html

(Don’t let the attention go to your head, Dave. As you know, SOME of your readers think you’re just starved for attention!)
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KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

I agree with Gordon… Target Practice… Heck it aint hurting no one… we shoot whistlin pigs from the back yard all the time. As long as its controlled.