One day when our "private membership range" was closed, I headed up to the public shooting area. It's under the control of the Bureau of Land Management. Shot gun hulls about 6" deep, crap all over the place, shot up tv sets and old propane bottles all over the place.
Once before I headed up there when our range was closed. The parking lot is about 10' lower that the shooting area. The County had come in, cleaned the shooting area and pushed all the crap down onto the lower parking area, Looked like maybe 5 dump truck loads. One time I went up there and someone had set the NEW shooting bench on fire. It was still smoking.
About 100 yards away is a staging area for dirt bikes and 4x4 riding. New block house toilets had been built about two weeks before.
One of the "fine" County residents had driven over the new toilets with a BIG 4x4 and broke them all to hell.
And we wonder why all the open land is closed to the public?
I'll stick to my paid for shooting club membership thank you!!