Took the family for a drive up in the mountains sunday. We were miles off the paved road, miles from any camping areas. I pulled off the dirt road in a nice open spot with a great backstop against the mountain and we set up a single coke can at 5 yards and let my boy practice some shooting (1 round at a time) with my LCP. We'd been there maybe 25 minutes for all of maybe 20 rounds when a Forest Service guy races up and proceeds to give us all kinds of grief for "shooting".
After letting him rant for a couple minutes I cut him off and politely asked what is the actual problem, we are well away from anyone else, we are being very careful, there are no buildings, camps within at least a mile of us (no camping allowed in this particular area), no hikers, good backstop. He spluttered for a minute and said "well its just not a good idea so you need to leave".
As we were really about to leave anyway (had 4 bullets left), and moreso that I had my wife and boy next to me, I said ok. Had they not been there I'd have told him to ticket me or F'off. We were legal and he knew it, he just wanted to throw his weight around.
Ticks me off to no end how just having a gun makes you a criminal in the eyes of other people.
-DallanC