I’m not talking about the booming of big guns that are used for avalanche control. I’m talking about people driving over to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, or what they think is BLM land, to do some target practice. Since we have often heard guns going off in the hills to the west of ArrowCreek, this Reno Gazette Journal article caught our attention: County trains crosshairs on illegal Peavine shooting by Benjamin Spillman, from 4:39 p.m. PST January 30, 2015.

More information is here: Shooting Areas in Washoe County