I know some of you go to a range, whether indoor or outdoor, but what about when you go out to the desert or forest or any other open space?  What do you bring when you go shooting?  I know "targets" is a given, but how do you hang your targets?  I have some friends that bring tables to place their guns on.  I've never done that myself but have now included a table in my outings.

I'm just trying to see if I'm missing something when I go out shooting.  I'll be taking my daughter out shooting at the family farm this weekend and want it to be pleasant.

Extra hearing protection and glasses. 

Steel targets are also far and away the best way to go when you're shooting away from a managed range. No mess to clean up, no running around to check hits, and a very satisfying clang.

Do you guys have the same problem with trash out in open spaces?  We have a ton of it here in Utah and we always clean it up, just to see it trashed a few months later.  So I now include garbage bags to bring the small stuff home since I don't have a truck.

That's what we did when I was rolling in my Bronco or Scottsdale... We'd generally take 15 minutes or so and clean up the area. 
We've removed couches and chairs, bags and bags of trash... and Appliances of all sorts.  It was always a fear we'd open something up and find a body.  Only a couple snakes though. 
Don't know which would have been worse though.

I have six to eight 6' shepherds hooks that I use to hang my steel plates.  Use two per plate. 

So how do you hang your steel?  I've bought a couple of stands from a local guy Works well enough and breaks down small.  I just hate having to talk/drive it out to set it up.

I have some BIG steel plates. We found a sheet of AR500 at a scrap metal place, and they cut it into 2'x'2 plates, some little sub-1-ft "piano keys," and one 2'x4' sheet, all with holes for hanging. We use chains and S-hooks to hang them. We built a hanger from 2x4's and saw horse brackets. The whole thing is a few bucks at any big hardware store, and each part can be replaced easily if we shoot it too much. It's basically an 8' saw horse. It all fits in a pickup truck bed, and because the plates are 60lb minumum (other than the piano keys) we set up the saw horse over the truck bed, lift the plates into positon and attach the chains, then drive out from under it all.

I have some BIG steel plates. We found a sheet of AR500 at a scrap metal place, and they cut it into 2'x'2 plates, some little sub-1-ft "piano keys," and one 2'x4' sheet, all with holes for hanging. We use chains and S-hooks to hang them. We built a hanger from 2x4's and saw horse brackets. The whole thing is a few bucks at any big hardware store, and each part can be replaced easily if we shoot it too much. It's basically an 8' saw horse. It all fits in a pickup truck bed, and because the plates are 60lb minumum (other than the piano keys) we set up the saw horse over the truck bed, lift the plates into positon and attach the chains, then drive out from under it all.

I recall reading about something similar----guy stole repurposed his kids old swing set to hang targets from. probably pick one up for free off of Craig's list---people just wanting to get rid of it