Asked the rangers were we could airsoft....

[Blkmask]

Well I had this relative that came from Austria to visit and he was very much interested when we mentioned the word airsoft. So we decided to go airsofting and take him too before he went back home to Austria the next day. Since it was out of city we were thinking to go airsofting around the MT: Hood forest for like 2 hours ( we didn't have that much time that day). But before we did we stoped in Sandy at the Ranger station to see were it would be ok to airsoft in the forest. Shesh, if you don't have that much time on hand like say you only have two hours to airsoft before you have to go home, don't stop at the ranger station unless you want to waste like an hour. The lady didn't know to much at the ranger station in Sandy she sent us to another ranger station up the road to talk to the people there. Well we get there and after explaining what airsoft is and saying that it is NOT a fire danger and that the only way airsoft could cause a fire was because the battery blew up. After a while of talking to them and them making phone calls, they finally told us what we could do.

So for you not to go through what I did here is the rules:

1. Can't shoot across any road even if its a dead end road.

2. Can't airsoft near a road need to be at least 100 ft away from the road

3. Need to have bio degradable bbs

4. Can't shoot over water, like lake, stream, and rivers.

5. They also said they don't recommend airsofting near a hiking trail.

6. Also they said you're not allowed to airsoft near some one's property

OK also this is what the ranger said " I'm surpprised airsofting has more rules the a real gun does", doesn't that make you feel sooo good.

Edit: Once we found a good place to airsoft we had lots of fun. But man the rangers really didn't know what to say when we first asked them about were we could airsoft, airsoft a fire danger.... please.

[Pope_Alex_Kaeda_I]

airsoft a fire danger.... please.

I see someone has never used a smoke grenade while playing airsoft.

[Blkmask]

Yes I havn't, but in this case it dosen't matter, we were a small group and the rangers didn't even know what airsoft guns were. So you can't really expect them to ask if we had smoke grenades. The point is I'm saying its not really worth asking them because most of you ( I think) know most of those rules its plain logic. The only rule I didn't really know/think about was the shooting over the water part, didn't really think about that one. Then again I'm no pro yet so yeah....

[Cobol]

The shooting over water deal is common firearm safety. You never fire a gun over or at a body of water that presents a flat(ish) surface because the propensity of a bullet bouncing off and flying god knows where approach 90% for any angle less than 45 degrees. Since people are notoriously bad at both a) aiming and b) judging distance and bullet drop, firing over water is a big no-no in the gun safety world. In the case of airsoft, I think it's a moot point.

[Blkmask]

Ok so shooting over water doesn't really concern airsofting then.....

[yandle]

It's still just not a good idea.

[Blkmask]

Yeah I agree after all whats the point?

[thedevastator54]

Cool you're allowed to airsoft though, i bet you aren't even allowed to where i live

[fuzzydice123]

I think Im gonna have a chat with the governer of Oregon... see what he thinks about airsoft.

[Thompson]

I think Im gonna have a chat with the governer of Oregon... see what he thinks about airsoft.

Oh please dont- that will shorten the life expectancy of you and this hobby at the same time.

[vortex]

I think Im gonna have a chat with the governer of Oregon... see what he thinks about airsoft.

Oh please dont- that will shorten the life expectancy of you and this hobby at the same time.

postman does make a good point if you ruin the sport for everyone else in your community well the only thing i can say is there will be alot of angry airsofters

[Knuckles]

I think Im gonna have a chat with the governer of Oregon... see what he thinks about airsoft.

Leave that to the big boys. You ought to stick to what you're good at: Lying, breaking things and disrespecting other people's property.

Your voice does not represent mine, nor my team's nor the league's, nor the community's voice.

Just don't.

[fuzzydice123]

obviously you guys didnt see the wink.

knuckles you make a great point.... but Im still yet to take any of YOUR advice.

[yandle]

More power to ya. You should take heed to what he says, I agree with it.

[Blkmask]

Might I add I started this topic like 4 months ago. I look back now and stopping at the ranger station in my opinion was a good thing. Yes it took like a hour till we got the info on where we could airsoft or even if we could for that matter. But overall at least I know some of the laws around my area now on airsofting.