Thanks for the link. I was looking for more information but all I saw in this thread until I got your post was a bunch of bladder from people spouting off and not contributing anything except innane comment. What happened to FR? They used to have experts from all over the place weighing in on stuff giving local detail. Everybody just sits around in their chair and bladder is on with meaningless nothingness.
Here’s what I know since I live in the area:
The area is known as Deep Creek. It’s a series of hot springs that is popular with the locals, not to mention hiking trails that lead into the San Bernardino National Forest. Once you get off the main roads it’s not uncommon to find areas will people will pull of the side of the road and shoot. They figure it’s the desert it don’t make a difference.
However, most shooters who are knowledgeable about the area will go to designated areas that do not have restrictions. If one is to look at a San Bernardino County shooting map it highlights all of the different areas people can go to shoot. The deep creek area is not known as an area to go shooting. To do that most people head out for the desert between Victorville and Barstow. This particular area is restricted to shotgun-only shooting. Not illegal to shoot here, but very rare because a lot of people congregate there: people exploring the hot springs and hikers etc.
So this is very odd and has made the community in the High Desert very edgy, especially after the San Bernardino shootings which took place. I’ve been in the building personally.