The dump is... well, dumpy. Not sure about Virginian rats...
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Plinking in Gwinnett
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OK THEN... where can a guy shoot rats with live 22 ammo near Gwinnett with an option for cans...
Lordy, Lordy... why me...
If you don't own the land, you would need the property owner's permission to shoot there.
If the county owns the land, they won't give you permission. Not for any park, nor any undeveloped raw that that the County is just holding to one day, 10 years from now, build a school or hospital or something.
If an industrial park, commercial real estate developer, etc. owns the land, you won't get permission to shoot there.
You probably should start networking with people in the area and see if you can make a friendship with some landowner who has 5+ acres and borders hundreds of acres of woods.
According to satellite images, there are still some parts of eastern Gwinnett Co. that have patches of woods miles wide, with maybe only a couple small roads with a few houses in some 50-acre tracts of land. But "most" undeveloped woods in Gwinnett appear to be either parks or golf courses.
Check out the area where the Alcovy river crosses the Walton/ Gwinnett Co. line, north of Ozora Rd. but south of Indian Shoals Rd. What is that land being used for? Who owns it? Can you get a land owner's permission to shoot there?
There's a utility easement through that area.
It might be worth doing a little hiking or exploring.
But if you can shoot there with permission, legally, you have to have a backstop to make sure it's SAFE, too.
A .22 bullet that ricochets off the ground could still go a mile, or close to that. It would be difficult to find a place to shoot with a mile of "nothing" in front of your gun. So you'd want to find an embankment or huge pile of soft dirt or a cliff of mud or clay to catch those bullets.
If the county owns the land, they won't give you permission. Not for any park, nor any undeveloped raw that that the County is just holding to one day, 10 years from now, build a school or hospital or something.
If an industrial park, commercial real estate developer, etc. owns the land, you won't get permission to shoot there.
You probably should start networking with people in the area and see if you can make a friendship with some landowner who has 5+ acres and borders hundreds of acres of woods.
According to satellite images, there are still some parts of eastern Gwinnett Co. that have patches of woods miles wide, with maybe only a couple small roads with a few houses in some 50-acre tracts of land. But "most" undeveloped woods in Gwinnett appear to be either parks or golf courses.
Check out the area where the Alcovy river crosses the Walton/ Gwinnett Co. line, north of Ozora Rd. but south of Indian Shoals Rd. What is that land being used for? Who owns it? Can you get a land owner's permission to shoot there?
There's a utility easement through that area.
It might be worth doing a little hiking or exploring.
But if you can shoot there with permission, legally, you have to have a backstop to make sure it's SAFE, too.
A .22 bullet that ricochets off the ground could still go a mile, or close to that. It would be difficult to find a place to shoot with a mile of "nothing" in front of your gun. So you'd want to find an embankment or huge pile of soft dirt or a cliff of mud or clay to catch those bullets.
I don't think that just plinking in the woods, even if you choose a hill or something to serve as your backstop and always shoot in the same area, counts as establishing a shooting range.
If it did, however, Section 230 of the Gwinnett Code of Ordinances requires that any outdoor shooting range be on a minimum of 20 acres of land, with other specifications for a minimum distance between the firing line and any property borders.
If you DID find a cooperative property owner with less than 20 acres of land, but enough to be safe and not be a nuisance to the neighbors, then it doesn't look like any other County law forbids shooting. As long as it's not a "range". I'm not sure how often you could use it and what you could do as far as making target holders or setting up a shooting bench before, in the eyes of the law, you'd have built a range.
If it did, however, Section 230 of the Gwinnett Code of Ordinances requires that any outdoor shooting range be on a minimum of 20 acres of land, with other specifications for a minimum distance between the firing line and any property borders.
If you DID find a cooperative property owner with less than 20 acres of land, but enough to be safe and not be a nuisance to the neighbors, then it doesn't look like any other County law forbids shooting. As long as it's not a "range". I'm not sure how often you could use it and what you could do as far as making target holders or setting up a shooting bench before, in the eyes of the law, you'd have built a range.
Thanks!
Big thanks to GAgunLAWbooklet for once again clear concise interpretation of the law. God bless you buddy
How is Wilson Shoals Range?
