Moving from Toronto to North Vancouver for several months, where to go shooting?

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As the title says I'll be spending 3-6 months in north Vancouver (right near grouse mountain) for work. Does anyone in the are know of and is willing to share a good spot for shooting. Be it a public range (almost all the ones here are members only). Or better yet a good spot on crown land where i can shoot my NRs safely without too much hassle by the police.

If anyone is willing to share I will be eternally grateful. also, if there is a better subforum to post this in where I'm more likely to get a good response please let me know. I posted this here as i assume this is the most forgiving subforum where it comes to making these sorts of blunders (i.e. posting the wrong topic in the wrong place)
 
I grew up in that area, sadly my experience is 30 years old now so take if for what its worth. At the trail head of what is now the ultra safe grouse grind there is a road to nickey creek that heads north towards the north end of capilano lake...there is a gravel stockpile a few miles up the road from there... we used to go up there as kids to backwoods camp and shoot, hard to say if that activity draws in the swat team now or not tho.
 
There aren't any ranges left in North Van.. You will have a drive to the closest ones. You can try Burke Mountain/Poco Gun Club, DVC Indoor range, Thompson Mountain, Langley Rod and Gun, Langley Indoor range, Abbotsford Fish and Game. I may have missed some. Some will have waiting lists to join. If you need an ATT in the mean time, make life easy and join Silvercore virtual Club which will allow you to go to day pass and drop in at local ranges that have that. Sorry, can't help regards the crown land info.

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If you drive up past Squamish there may be some FSR where shooting is possible without the SWAT showing up. So I've heard. But don't be anywhere near a road or housing or hiking trails when you set up. Getting more and more challenging finding such places. Generally driving as far as you can might work. The BC government hosts a very slow to respond, awkward, impossible (for me) to navigate mapping system where you can supposedly add layers and use filters to figure out where the heck crown land might be, but I gave up on that. You'd almost think government doesn't want gun owners actually doing any target shooting. Weird.
 
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