Visiting the Chestnut Mountain Shooting Range

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After ryulincoln@ryulincoln and I did some hiking on the Pinhoti Trail, we passed by a shooting range in the middle of nowhere. It was only a mile or so from the trailhead which was in the North West Tip of Georgia.

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Wavelength380 through 700 nanometers
LocationDalton Georgia USA.

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We arrived at a dirt parking area, looking alot like a hiking trailhead.

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Paid the needed fees for each of us, ten dollars each. Ive paid alot more and had to deal with range officers breathing down my neck. So pretty happy with paying this and being just me and ryulincoln@ryulincoln.

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As we approached the range, the guidelines billboard was all shot up. With dozens of holes punched in it by bullets.

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This place is quite secluded so I can see how people got away with it, though sucks as its harder to read the rules now.

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Further damage can be seen to the roof of the overhang. People have shot through the roof for fun im guessing.

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See that light coming through, those are bullet, slug and buckshot holes.

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I really liked the signage, looks like someone used a wood router to carve out the letters and then painted them.

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Shell casing were everywhere, this bothered ryulincoln@ryulincoln more than me. As he has slipped and fell before on such strewn about shells.

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This place would make for a good cleanplanet@cleanplanet post cleaning up these shells and surrounding trash

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Even worse than the roof and sign damage, was the structural damage caused by people shooting at the support beams.. Not good.

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Seems people got bored of shooting targets and turned their guns on the shooting range.. Never seen anything like it.

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"I love Aero 4-Ever" Im guessing is a reference to ammo or a gun reference.

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Even the brass trash container was shot up.. nothing was spared.

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Enough talking about the shot up range and lets talk about the guns we brought. A Chinese AK-47, all blacked without any wood.

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The AK shoots 7.62x39 ammo, we were using Rifle Line Full Metal Jacketed 120 grain ammo.

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Loading up the magazines, holds 30 rounds. I have been relishing the use of these since they were illegal in California.

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Well the Chinese AK had issues after shooting a few dozen rounds. The back plate popped off during shooting.

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Eventually it kept falling off and then his reflex scope broke from impact.. damnit!

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With that setback, we took a break and ate some food I brought for us.

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I love picnics with guns, just make sure to clean your hands off before handling each. Unless you like greasy guns, and gun powder flavored food.

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ryulincoln@ryulincoln shooting his Mossberg 30-06, this is a large game hunting rifle. Has as much kick as a 12 Gauge shotgun. I liked shooting the AK more before it broke on us.

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Set up my Actioncam for some video lapse before we left.

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Lastly a picture of my shoulder the next day, had some bruising from shooting the 30-06. That gun is quite powerful.. well both of them are honestly. Its alot of fun practicing on our grouping and we found a few spot to visit with our guns.

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