[Brucester]

On my descent from the road (SE Homestead Valley Rd / NFD# 9020-1 Rd) on the McClellan Butte Trail today around 5pm. I heard gunfire, very close from above and bullets rained down. Terrifying. I yelled at the top of my lungs yet heard a stray bullet through the trees then silence. Then further down more gunfire seemingly right above. I yelled again and yet another stray ricocheted off a nearby rock sent me running back to the trailhead. I did pass by the target shooting area on my hike and it seemed like a horrible place to target shoot. Very unsafe! The FS have been notified.

[mosey]

Every time I go by here I remind people not to shoot in the quarry, that is in a blind corner and across a road. The worst is when someone is at the top of the power lines there is a small pullout, as they shoot DOWN the road a few hundred yards in to the blind corner of the quarry. For reference, 9020 and north are within the i90 safety corridor, and it's illegal to shoot within 500 feet of closures. It's a massive fine at their discretion.

[zephyr]

[Kim Brown]

Had a spay of bullets hit the vegetation across the Beaver Lake trail right in front of me a few years ago. People on the other side shooting across the river. Screamed bloody murder, and shouted as if we were hit. I guess they heard us, because it stopped. They didn't bother to drive over to the trail head and run down the trail to see if we were indeed hurt.

[Kim Brown]

Maybe make the first post a wiki?

[Foist]

When I hiked Bandera on Monday evening, I also heard gunshots echoing from across the valley -- i.e., from below McLellan's Butte.

[Noheaperture]

[Foist]

Just curious, have any hikers actually been struck by a stray bullet from target shooting? Not questioning whether we're right to be concerned, just curious.

[Randito]

[Brushbuffalo]

[Malachai Constant]

I have been in the situation where twigs and branches started raining down on us from wild target shooters. It is scary, we replied and shot in their direction. The shots stopped, I was a teenager at the time. Stupid is as stupid does.

[Brucester]

I've yet to hear back from the FS. I'll try them again tomorrow.

[RichP]

I saw a FS Law enforcement officer at Hansen Ck once and he told me to report illegal shooting to WSP and they in turn relay the message to the FS or other agency in charge of that area. There is only ONE FS patrol officer for a huge area. He also mentioned to get any license tag # associated.

[forest gnome]

Just once..at deception lakes..some drunknown horse campers shot 1 or 2 rounds off I screamed u don't want me f*** ng coming over there!! Someone hiked out to call the Leo showed up next am and wrote several hundred $ in tickets And told them to leave...I SHOULD OF SNUCK OVER AT 4 am AND UNTIED THEIR HORSES...th en led them back down the trail... Unfortunately I only thought of that later.

[Brucester]