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Jeff,
Have you considered using a mountain bike. You can lift it over the gate.

1760 yards

Doubletap,

That's not a bad idea. When I packed a pretty big plate in there, I just used a frame pack... It's hard to explain but my "main" group of plates, it wouldn't help much to access from that road in the pic; it's easier to drop down to them from the timber.

Used a towel to protect my pack frame. As far as I can tell this plate has now been stolen.

People will steal anything.

I bet it ain't stolen, but some yuppie anti gun idiot probably took it just far enough to hide it good.

1760 is fun. I wished I had access to it on a reliable basis... I loved shooting that far and farther the times I"ve done it. Not at all easy but damn sure fun.

Probably true. Thieves don't usually want to work hard enough to backpack out a heavy object.

Or the BLM removed it from public land as junk... Public land doesn't always mean do what I want to land.

I'm betting is was stolen.

Painted rocks and steel are very common on BLM and USFS lands in Southern Oregon. Which makes for a good time. I'm constantly amazed when I hear a guy say, "I was up plinking and found some steel plates so I took them." WTF... Just shootem, why would you want to move them? So when I drop plates it's usually way down in a canyon where if someone is stupid enough to take them, they deserve them.

Dropping off a canyon into the poison oak to paint steel is good exercise.

It'd take some tools to get that plate; it was nailed to a big stump with spikes about 6" long.

I've not been shy about pointing out where these particular plates are hung; they are up by an informal range that we locals have been using for decades, so I talk to lots of shooters when I'm shooting at the plates. They stop and chat. Anyway someone else went in and painted it orange... then about a month later it went missing. So, who knows. A little annoying to be sure. That was my only big plate. I still have a bunch of the 10" round ones, hooking up with a 'Fire member on Monday who's got a couple other friends that he's giving some to... I like the thought of sending steel out into the shooting world, just not that particular piece!