There's a public, unsupervised range near here. If I pull up and anyone else is shooting, I turn around. If I am shooting and someone shows up, I pack up and leave.
Indeed. Sporting safety aside, there’s risk in shooting at known shooting spots because criminals sometimes visit them to rob people of guns. I’ve read of murders, but most thefts I’ve heard of are criminals who just sit back and wait for someone to go change their target then drive off with their gear. So much for background checks.
I shoot at places you’d need to be an experienced off-roader to get to and have GPS and topo maps to find. I basically have a forbidding and empty state the size of France all to myself to shoot in as long as I take sufficient equipment along with me. Certainly want to bring along a convoy of similarly equipped pals...