*snicker* Mate, no one hereabouts cares what manner of bullet you use. Or how often you decide to target practice outside of town. And just as an aside, there are indeed miners working valid sites locally, some living entirely off of what they make in the summer throughout the winter, to begin again the next year if necessary. This IS “Gold Country”, after all.
I still go there and do a lot of shooting every summer. I go there to shoot so I can be alone with my cams set up so I can see what I'm doing right and wrong. This is serious practice for me and I discharge hundreds of rounds each trip. I'm safe and careful while shooting. You may not realize that it is totally legal to shoot about anywhere up there as long as you are a hundred yards away from someone else’s house and on public property or have permission from the landowner if on private ground. If you are not in an incorporated city and not close to someone else’s building or house, on property you control, rented or owned, you can shoot off of your own back porch if you want to and it is totally legal.
I teach hunter education for the state of cali. A lot of our subject matter are the applicable firearms and DFG laws. After that safety is my primary issue but common since safety and not citified wives tales born in ignorance or the dislike of guns. The way I state this to young students is, "Just because you can hear a gun go off does not mean anything unsafe or illegal is taking place. Pay attention but do not assume that any laws have been broken or that you are in any danger."
As long as I'm obeying the laws and maintaining a high standard of safety I could care less what others think or say about my hunting or shooting. My shooting and where I shoot has nothing to do with what others think is safe or unsafe. I keep me and what I'm doing legal, safe, and right. If others do not like it they are free to load up and leave at any time.
I've had this discussion with more than a few gun/hunting/law ignorant people and fully realize that they think of guns as evil things. They are anti gun zealots who will say anything and everything to support their cause. Nothing in the categories of local culture, fact, logic, reality or provable researched data have any bearing on their beliefs unless it supports their point of view. It does not matter what the laws say or history demonstrates they are right and they know they are right. They are not rational people and treating them as if they are is a waste of time.
I am a retired US ARMY Ranger with 23 years of active duty, a self employed gunsmith, I shoot long range rifle and combat pistol competition, and am an avid archery hunter. I carry both cali and florida CCW's and am armed every day of my life. I will apologize to no one for any of these things. Everything I do is legal and I do not need the permission of anyone but local my Law Enforcement and the state of Florida for my CCW's and existing state and federal laws, to do or not to do anything. It always amazes me when when a gun/law ignorant or paranoid person from one of the big cities think they should be able to tell me what I should or should not be doing with a legal weapon. I will tell them to call the local Sheriffs Office and let the the officer tell them that everything I'm doing is legal. Then they will pack up and leave muttering because they still don't think it is right. Been there, done that several times.