
Traveling north on Route 87 the views of Tonto National Forest appear pristine and beautiful. Towering saguaros pepper a land that seems to go on endlessly. It wasn’t until I ventured off of the highway onto one of the many dirt roads intersecting Tonto that the pristine landscape revealed a different truth. Gunshots can be heard coming from all directions and bullet holes can be found piercing many of the saguaros. This part of the desert is frequented by car after car full of people from across the valley who participate in recreational target shooting. As a result the land is now littered by bullet casings, shotgun shells, broken glass, beer cans, busted vacuums, used propane tanks and just about anything you can imagine. Plinking is the act of shooting an object not originally intended as a target.
- InstaShoot – Images appropriated from a popular image sharing site
- Tonto National Forest
- Bee Line Highway
- Saguaro Cheese
- Sugarloaf Mountain
- (untitled)
- Four Peaks
- Plinking Range
- Gunz
- California Plinker
- Plinkers
- Plinker
- From Chandler
- (untitled)
- Exploding Target
- Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty
- Kids at Play
- ISIS
- Photo Explosion
- Strawberry Shortcake
- USBC Approved
- Car Hood
- TV Screen #1
- TV Screen #2
- Dell
- Water Tank
- Clean Your Shit