Shooting habits

joelAK · 10-23-2009, 10:10 AM

Aside from the shooter next to you on the rifle range smoking a cig
between shots, what are the most absurd or disturbing habits you have seen?

bigwheel · 10-23-2009, 10:59 AM

Guys coming in with big bore magnums with brakes and setting up next to me
and my kid, when the whole range is open. I keep the stw and brake in the
truck now, back way up on the shooting bench and rock their world. One group
of guys I just told, "you're not setting up there. MOVE" One guy of the three
stayed pretty tweaked about it but our firing line is 50 yards long, just no reason
to crowd when only two groups of shooters are there.

CPO TED · 10-23-2009, 12:09 PM

All the holes in the freakin' ROOF!!!

The old Winchester Range in English Town, New Jersey comes to mind.

Never saw it happen ... but there were so many it HAD to be a habit for someone.

T

joelAK · 10-23-2009, 01:22 PM

recently when i zeroed in my rifle last wk, one guy came up and suprised me by shooting a tactical shotgun "from the hip" and he wasn't even aiming......gd thing he didn't shoot off his or his friends's feet!

when there isn't a whole lot of lead going down range shooters should spread out and be respectfuly.

Thanks for the input, guys.

lextech · 10-23-2009, 09:50 PM

I always feel real bad for the guy who thinks its safe to set up one bench down to my right. I always warn them but not everyone heeds the warning til the steel cases start raining off the steel roof onto them. Imeadiate right is safe 12-15 feet right is the shelling zone.

ndm86 · 10-23-2009, 10:29 PM

at a public range before pheasant season i had some pumpkins down range. i was just getting some practice with my 870 before season started. a red car pulled ONTO the range. this lady went around all the huge rocks that separate the range from the parking lot. i was standing there in disbelief at what i am seeing. then she gets out of the car with a shotgun in hand. this lady was in a very business professional dress. next she shoots all my pumpkins from an angle across the range. gets in her car and leaves. i felt like i was in the twilight zone. i could not believe what i had just saw. loaded shotgun on front seat of car, nice dressed lady, drive onto gun range, dump 5 rounds and leave.

i can only guess she caught the hubby doing something he should not have and needed a little practice first.

dam pumpkins were $1.00 each.

joelAK · 10-23-2009, 10:46 PM

kinda hard to top that story! ndm86

knall · 10-23-2009, 11:28 PM

Gangsta ALBATROS's practicing there side arm no aim spray while screaming GET SOME BIATCH!

lextech · 10-24-2009, 06:05 AM

LOL. I spent like 20 minutes setting up clays on the bern one day and some drunk clown shows up ten minutes later with a scoped .22 and proceed to work through 3/4 of them in like 3 minutes then comes over to me and says "Funny how all those clays landed up there in a line like that huh?".

ruckstar · 10-24-2009, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ndm86

at a public range before pheasant season i had some pumpkins down range. i was just getting some practice with my 870 before season started. a red car pulled ONTO the range. this lady went around all the huge rocks that separate the range from the parking lot. i was standing there in disbelief at what i am seeing. then she gets out of the car with a shotgun in hand. this lady was in a very business professional dress. next she shoots all my pumpkins from an angle across the range. gets in her car and leaves. i felt like i was in the twilight zone. i could not believe what i had just saw. loaded shotgun on front seat of car, nice dressed lady, drive onto gun range, dump 5 rounds and leave.

i can only guess she caught the hubby doing something he should not have and needed a little practice first.

dam pumpkins were $1.00 each.

I can't stop laughing at that one!

ronin · 10-24-2009, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ndm86

at a public range before pheasant season i had some pumpkins down range. i was just getting some practice with my 870 before season started. a red car pulled ONTO the range. this lady went around all the huge rocks that separate the range from the parking lot. i was standing there in disbelief at what i am seeing. then she gets out of the car with a shotgun in hand. this lady was in a very business professional dress. next she shoots all my pumpkins from an angle across the range. gets in her car and leaves. i felt like i was in the twilight zone. i could not believe what i had just saw. loaded shotgun on front seat of car, nice dressed lady, drive onto gun range, dump 5 rounds and leave.

i can only guess she caught the hubby doing something he should not have and needed a little practice first.

dam pumpkins were $1.00 each.

You know, I don't have anything even remotely close to that one. It's so bizarre that I tend to believe it!

High Tower · 10-24-2009, 08:59 AM

Pretty hard to top that one, ndn86. She needed some stress relief, it sounds like.

It always gets me and this happen frequently when some guy brings the small children out to the public range and they have no ear protection. One time a guy came to the bench next to me and pulls out his BAR 30-06 and just starts shooting with no warning. I had just got back from checking my targets and didn't have my ear muffs on and BOOM BOOM BOOM. He starts firing semi auto. He brought it loaded in the case to the range. My ears are still ringing....F***ing douchebag.

letitride · 10-24-2009, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CPO TED

All the holes in the freakin' ROOF!!!

The old Winchester Range in English Town, New Jersey comes to mind.

Never saw it happen ... but there were so many it HAD to be a habit for someone.

T

I know how one hole in the roof happened,in western Pa. Maybe 35 years ago,I handed my brother-in-law a S&W Model 58 .41 magnum to try. He cocked the hammer,pulled the trigger,I heard one long booom.....he almost fell over backward,gun pointing at the ceiling. Two rounds spent....he must have jerked the trigger double action after the first shot. Always wondered where that second slug landed.....

CPO TED · 10-24-2009, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by letitride

I know how one hole in the roof happened,in western Pa. Maybe 35 years ago,I handed my brother-in-law a S&W Model 58 .41 magnum to try. He cocked the hammer,pulled the trigger,I heard one long booom.....he almost fell over backward,gun pointing at the ceiling. Two rounds spent....he must have jerked the trigger double action after the first shot. Always wondered where that second slug landed.....

Yep.

I've heard that some nubes tend to "cowboy" a revolver the first time out ...

they cock the thing ... take it in both hands ... bring it up over their heads ... and as they're lowering it to the target ... they get about 1/8 of the way down ... and

BLAM!!!

That might explain some of the holes in the overhead ... but there were some REALLY BIG holes on the RIFLE range at English Town ...I can't imagine ...

well ... after reading some of this stuff ... I guess I CAN imagine how them holes got there!

T

lextech · 10-24-2009, 06:00 PM

The deer crossing sign on the way to my range is all shot up, like somebody just couldnt wait the next 3 minutes.

ScottD. · 10-24-2009, 07:50 PM

When no one else is around, I LOVE to shoot into the drainage ponds around my range. Giant mushroom clouds of water. Even more fun when there is about an inch of ice...bullets shoot thru and the water squirts out.

Now my pet peeves...The old guy who always comes over and NEVER shuts up. I swear they have one resident old guy who lives at every range Ive belonged too. Just shut man, I just want to be left in peace to shoot.

The 'precision shooter' snob. 4 grand bolt guns. Scowls at my 70 year old guns and SURPLUS, CORROSIVE ammo.

The 'sniper guy'. Obviously NON military or LEO, but has GIANT scoped weapon and shoots 50 yard targets. Cant get a group, always because of 'bad ammo'

And my biggest pet peeve.....The "Shotgun news know it all".....the guy who only owns a SKS and a 10/22, but is a expert on all things tactical, firearms and military related. Always steers conversation towards his wealth of information about whatever gun has just been covered by Kokalis in recent article of SGN. This guy is usually a combination of all 3 above and drives me bonkers. I have seriously considered SHOOTING this guy at the range before but I dont want any blood on my guns........

Pvt.Joker · 10-24-2009, 10:37 PM

Funniest range story I have was this one afternoon, me and one other shooter were out just plinking around. After shooting for about 15 minutes, we take a break to go change targets.

So I walk out to set up my target at the 100 yard line, and on the way back, I get this feeling that SOMEONE is staring at me. So I stop and look over my shoulder, and there is a doe about 10 feet away, just looking at me. I turn around and walk back to the firing line, and when I turn around again, there are a line of 4 of them, standing end to end, on the 50-yard berm.

I turn and look at the other guy, and he looks back at me and we both just crack up laughing. (Deer season doesn't start for another week, for those who are wondering) But the irony of these guys just standing there, all lined up and waiting, is too funny. So they finally just calmly walk off, oblivious to the gunfire, the human prescence, etc. into the woods on the other side of the range. Never saw anything like it.

10-23-2009, 10:10 AM	#1
joelAK Member AKaholic #: 5828 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FL Posts: 91	Shooting habits Aside from the shooter next to you on the rifle range smoking a cig between shots, what are the most absurd or disturbing habits you have seen?

10-23-2009, 12:09 PM	#3
CPO TED Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 6044 Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,639	All the holes in the freakin' ROOF!!! The old Winchester Range in English Town, New Jersey comes to mind. Never saw it happen ... but there were so many it HAD to be a habit for someone. T __________________ You want to “TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL”???? http://www.resistnet.com/ http://www.the912project.com/ http://www.freedomworks.org/ There’s three ideas … join one. Stand UP … SHOW UP!!!

10-23-2009, 09:50 PM	#5
lextech Curio & Relic Contributor AKaholic #: 6259 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: central new york Posts: 4,572	I always feel real bad for the guy who thinks its safe to set up one bench down to my right. I always warn them but not everyone heeds the warning til the steel cases start raining off the steel roof onto them. Imeadiate right is safe 12-15 feet right is the shelling zone. __________________ For me the choice is obvious. Some people would do ANYTHING to breathe the air for 1 more minute. I would not.

10-23-2009, 10:29 PM	#6
ndm86 Member AKaholic #: 28423 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: middle of nowhere Iowa Posts: 278	weird at a public range before pheasant season i had some pumpkins down range. i was just getting some practice with my 870 before season started. a red car pulled ONTO the range. this lady went around all the huge rocks that separate the range from the parking lot. i was standing there in disbelief at what i am seeing. then she gets out of the car with a shotgun in hand. this lady was in a very business professional dress. next she shoots all my pumpkins from an angle across the range. gets in her car and leaves. i felt like i was in the twilight zone. i could not believe what i had just saw. loaded shotgun on front seat of car, nice dressed lady, drive onto gun range, dump 5 rounds and leave. i can only guess she caught the hubby doing something he should not have and needed a little practice first. dam pumpkins were $1.00 each. __________________ Chuck Norris & Ted Nugent 2012 We'll kick their ass. Then shoot 'em.

10-24-2009, 06:05 AM	#9
lextech Curio & Relic Contributor AKaholic #: 6259 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: central new york Posts: 4,572	LOL. I spent like 20 minutes setting up clays on the bern one day and some drunk clown shows up ten minutes later with a scoped .22 and proceed to work through 3/4 of them in like 3 minutes then comes over to me and says "Funny how all those clays landed up there in a line like that huh?". __________________ For me the choice is obvious. Some people would do ANYTHING to breathe the air for 1 more minute. I would not.

10-23-2009, 10:59 AM	#2
bigwheel Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 11146 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: mt Posts: 4,900	Guys coming in with big bore magnums with brakes and setting up next to me and my kid, when the whole range is open. I keep the stw and brake in the truck now, back way up on the shooting bench and rock their world. One group of guys I just told, "you're not setting up there. MOVE" One guy of the three stayed pretty tweaked about it but our firing line is 50 yards long, just no reason to crowd when only two groups of shooters are there.

10-23-2009, 01:22 PM	#4
joelAK Member AKaholic #: 5828 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FL Posts: 91	recently when i zeroed in my rifle last wk, one guy came up and suprised me by shooting a tactical shotgun "from the hip" and he wasn't even aiming......gd thing he didn't shoot off his or his friends's feet! when there isn't a whole lot of lead going down range shooters should spread out and be respectfuly. Thanks for the input, guys.

10-23-2009, 10:46 PM	#7
joelAK Member AKaholic #: 5828 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: FL Posts: 91	kinda hard to top that story! ndm86

10-23-2009, 11:28 PM	#8
knall Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 5181 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: northern NH Posts: 4,301	Gangsta ALBATROS's practicing there side arm no aim spray while screaming GET SOME BIATCH!

10-24-2009, 08:59 AM	#12
High Tower New Member AKaholic #: 14354 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: South Dakota Posts: 19	Pretty hard to top that one, ndn86. She needed some stress relief, it sounds like. It always gets me and this happen frequently when some guy brings the small children out to the public range and they have no ear protection. One time a guy came to the bench next to me and pulls out his BAR 30-06 and just starts shooting with no warning. I had just got back from checking my targets and didn't have my ear muffs on and BOOM BOOM BOOM. He starts firing semi auto. He brought it loaded in the case to the range. My ears are still ringing....F***ing douchebag.

10-24-2009, 06:00 PM	#15
lextech Curio & Relic Contributor AKaholic #: 6259 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: central new york Posts: 4,572	The deer crossing sign on the way to my range is all shot up, like somebody just couldnt wait the next 3 minutes. __________________ For me the choice is obvious. Some people would do ANYTHING to breathe the air for 1 more minute. I would not.

10-24-2009, 07:50 PM	#16
ScottD. Veteran Member AKaholic #: 5242 Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,661	When no one else is around, I LOVE to shoot into the drainage ponds around my range. Giant mushroom clouds of water. Even more fun when there is about an inch of ice...bullets shoot thru and the water squirts out. Now my pet peeves...The old guy who always comes over and NEVER shuts up. I swear they have one resident old guy who lives at every range Ive belonged too. Just shut man, I just want to be left in peace to shoot. The 'precision shooter' snob. 4 grand bolt guns. Scowls at my 70 year old guns and SURPLUS, CORROSIVE ammo. The 'sniper guy'. Obviously NON military or LEO, but has GIANT scoped weapon and shoots 50 yard targets. Cant get a group, always because of 'bad ammo' And my biggest pet peeve.....The "Shotgun news know it all".....the guy who only owns a SKS and a 10/22, but is a expert on all things tactical, firearms and military related. Always steers conversation towards his wealth of information about whatever gun has just been covered by Kokalis in recent article of SGN. This guy is usually a combination of all 3 above and drives me bonkers. I have seriously considered SHOOTING this guy at the range before but I dont want any blood on my guns........

10-24-2009, 10:37 PM	#17
Pvt.Joker Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 8956 Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5,194	Funniest range story I have was this one afternoon, me and one other shooter were out just plinking around. After shooting for about 15 minutes, we take a break to go change targets. So I walk out to set up my target at the 100 yard line, and on the way back, I get this feeling that SOMEONE is staring at me. So I stop and look over my shoulder, and there is a doe about 10 feet away, just looking at me. I turn around and walk back to the firing line, and when I turn around again, there are a line of 4 of them, standing end to end, on the 50-yard berm. I turn and look at the other guy, and he looks back at me and we both just crack up laughing. (Deer season doesn't start for another week, for those who are wondering) But the irony of these guys just standing there, all lined up and waiting, is too funny. So they finally just calmly walk off, oblivious to the gunfire, the human prescence, etc. into the woods on the other side of the range. Never saw anything like it. __________________ Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. "Epitaph on the Politician Himself"- Hilarie Belloc In the end, those who felt the "need" to make better choices for the rest of us should be told that they have a choice between going to the gallows, or being fed chocolate cake. But WE get to "make the BETTER choice" for THEM for once.

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