What's the Stupidest Thing You've Seen at the Range
I shoot at a large outdoor facility that is owned by the state, but is operated by a lease holder. Consequently it is operated by the NRA rules complete with Range Officers (RO).
My dad and I shoot there throughout the year, but one year for some reason we did not get our guns sighted in before the rush. The rush starts about the middle of Oct. and runs to the start of deer season which is mid Nov. And as such every weekend in this time period is jammed with hunters getting ready for the season. It is so jammed that the RO's only allow 1 hour of bench time and then they kick you off for the next waiting guy and the lines can long and the wait can get aggravating.
So it was the weekend before the opener and it was colder than he77 and of course the lines were extra long. I guess the Packers weren't playing. After checking in with the RO we were told that it would be at least an hour wait. Groaning we go back to sit in the truck with the heater. We had parked the truck right in front and we could see up and down the firing line.
As we are sitting in the truck making small talk I here this TINK TINK TINK sound over the shooting. Looking up and down the line and can't see where this is coming from. A few minutes later and I here this TINKING sound again and ask dad if he here's it. Just then it starts again and we are looking up and down the line to no avail. A cease fire is called and shortly after it is over and the shooting starts and again I hear this TINK TINK sound over the shooting. And there just down from the truck is a young man with a 30-30 and a claw hammer and he is beating on the front sight.
I tell dad that with his luck he will be stuck next to this whacko. He laughed and agreed. And true to form the RO waves at us and the bench next to this guy opens up and dad takes it while I laugh and take another bench farther down the line.
After checking my guns accuracy I am headed back to the truck where dad is waiting and I ask, "Well what's the story with Gomer?" He said he didn't know what his problem was. I said, I saw you talking with him, what were you talking about? He then says, I asked one question and that was where he was hunting? And I ask, So? He said don't worry he's not hunting where we are. Boy, what a relief.
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i was shootin trap and the guy next to me was shootin an o/u and he had the barrel selector on the wrong barrel. so wen he pulled the trigger just a "click" then he lowerd it and put it at his hip cuz the puller thought it was a sizzler and he decides to just pull the trigger again to c what it does tha gun goes off and jerks him back
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I saw a idiot that had a 270, he was bragging about it and another guy next to him said that .308 was a better deer hunting cartrige.
so the guy "borrowed" some .308 ammunition to give it a try
it chambered and fired and exploded.
It was a remington I think.
The guy had to go to the hospital in an ambulance.
That was at the luna road shooting range in Dallas (where Oswald practiced)
I remember once at a "open" range (no range officers) a guy was shooting at a cardboard box with a target on it @ 100yds. His buddy was standing about 15 feet away to the side and after each shot he would walk over and tape over the bullet hole.
Stupid
Generally most people are very good with guns
at least around me they are.
I have seen guys get frog marched to their cars and handed their broken rifles before too
I didnt know what happend that time, just the after math.
A few years back, when the hunters were sighting their rifles for the nearing season, a young man was shooting an inline smokepole. "BBOOOOMM!"
Man, that ramrod went thru the target frame sideways!
Yep, he had forgot to remove the ramrod after loading!
His girlfriend was really PO'd - she had told him that morning to be careful, as they were getting married the next day. He got cut pretty good by the scope, and had blood all over his white t-shirt.
Lots of recoil, when you shoot that big a projectile! :insane:
Me at the range trying to justafy shooting soda cans with a 454 cas or 458 win mag....as being almost cheap to shoot.....of course a 22 LR seems to do pretty good on the soda cans at a lot less $$....but who said I was smart
Saw a guy learn the hard way that pre-war Ithaca shotguns will "slam-fire" if you hold back the trigger and pump the slide.
Two yahoos were sighting in with rifle slugs. One walks downrange to change the target while the other pumps the Ithaca. Gun goes off while his buddy was 15 feet downrange and !!!! near killed him. Slug missed him by inches. Morons.
I shot a friends .58 caliber black powder (brand new) and I didnt push the ramrod all the way down into its holder after loading. I guess the end of the rod was in the path of the bullet. I fired and watched clouds of dust appear everywhere. I didnt know it was the ramrod skipping out across the desert. It was a solid stainless steel one. It looked like a pretzel when I found it. My friend was not amused.
Jerry, I thought I was the only one that used cigarette butts as ear muffs!
Heard a guy at the range telling someone the best way to clean thier rifle was to take a loaded round then to put a wet patch around the bullet and then to fire the round.
I stepped in and explained that if the shooter did that we would be life flighting him to the ER
I was at the local pistol club a couple of years ago, walked in, picked up a club .22 went over to the bench, got cleared by the RO, loaded and was about to fire at the target, when some idjut tapped me on the shoulder, scared the jiggers out of me, I swung around, at the last second remembered the loaded gun in my hand and quickly pointed it down range.
Anyway it was another RO (the old incompetent one) he says whare are your ear muffs. I was wearing bright orange plugs.
I did learn one thing though, don'tsneak up and tap a guy on the shoulder when he has a loaded gun.
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Give me a six-pack and a red dirt open road (Adam Brand)
OK Dennis...I posted it a couple of years ago, but here goes....
One of my Sgt's was busting my balls for wearing my vest at the range on qual day. He was laughing at me and saying, "Ah Come on we're all cops here." I just told him that accidental discharges happen all the time....he just kept poking fun at me.
Later in the afternoon we were running some shoot on the move drills. The officer who was doing the drill at the time tripped and fell. He accidentally jacked the lever as he fell and sent some unintentional lead fying. Luckily it went down range.
I had to smirk as I watched that Sarge silently slip back to his car and put his vest on.
Bottom line: Friendly fire will kill you just as fast as unfriendly fire.
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OK Dennis...I posted it a couple of years ago, but here goes....
One of my Sgt's was busting my balls for wearing my vest at the range on qual day. He was laughing at me and saying, "Ah Come on we're all cops here." I just told him that accidental discharges happen all the time....he just kept poking fun at me.
Later in the afternoon we were running some shoot on the move drills. The officer who was doing the drill at the time tripped and fell. He accidentally jacked the lever as he fell and sent some unintentional lead fying. Luckily it went down range.
I had to smirk as I watched that Sarge silently slip back to his car and put his vest on.
Bottom line: Friendly fire will kill you just as fast as unfriendly fire.
