I don't know about you, but at 100 yards I'm not able to read the markings on shotgun shells.  

If the shotgunner had kept firing, he would have been knowingly firing at another human being.  

Alpine shooting range south of Fort Worth. The guy next to me, unsolicited, tells how wonderful his Kahr 9mm is, and how stupid I am for wasting my money on a Glock. The second round he tries to fire doesn't go off; he waits a second, sweeps me, and looks down the barrel. He had the gun pointed directly at his left eye. There's a part of me that wanted that thing to go off.

I packed up my stuff and left. That was 2004; the last time I went to a public range.

Theres a range out here that is a couple of miles away from where i live. On a Saturday I was there zeroing at the 50 yard range no issues and we all stop shooting to reload it there must have been five of us on the line. It was a pretty crazy coincidence that we all were reloading at the same time. Anyhow a new guy pulls up in his ACUs of course, and just waltzes down range. It was a predominantly self regulating range so there was no RSO there immediately at the moment. I shouldered my rifle and went to shoot some more after reloading and saw the retard on the other end out of my peripheral vision. I look at the guy to my right and ask did he even say anything? Guy just groans and rolls his eyes. I shot the rest of my loaded mags and promptly got the fuck out first chance I had. I ponied up the cash for the exclusive membership and only go on members only days now. I was amazed that a soldier was dumb enough to just go down range with no regard to check and see what condition everyone was in. I would have thought that at least the army guy would have range safety protocols understood.

At a public range, I watched as a guy apparently took his girlfriend shooting for the first time. She pulled the trigger on a handgun, nothing happened.

She then turned around and pointed it straight at his chest, pulling the trigger repeatedly while saying "It's not working!"

He jumped to the side and deflected the gun away. I went home.

I don't believe in hitting women and I never have hit a woman

BUT..  Ida slapped that bitch

Vietmeneese shrimpers screaming and unloading scoped revolvers at a 45 degree angle into the sky.


Beaumont TX. Legers shooting range.

Two words come to mind at public ranges: Brass Grabbers

easy with all the story specifics, I don't have time to read all that

so...lol?

Maybe that's where the expression, "Only the good die young", comes from  ;-)

A friend and I went to an outdoor range in central FL, a few months back. We had adjacent benches on the rifle side of the range(they have both rifle and pistol), and there were probably seven or eight other benches occupied with people shooting AK's, AR's, Mosin's, bolt-action .30-06's etc.  Even with proper hearing protection, it was pretty loud, and it was often! It was a crowd that seemed like they were all enjoying themselves, and were there to send a lots of lead down range, just as often as they could, ourselves included.

While the range was hot, the shooting was constant, and you could "feel" the sound, much like you might at a concert if you were relatively close to large speakers. As I was reloading a magazine, my friend gets my attention and points out a couple of gray squirrels, casually feeding, about 20 or 25 feet in front of the firing line! Neither one of them even flinched, AT ALL.....NOT ONCE!  Not even after the range went cold, and then hot again. They looked almost robotic. We still can't decide whether it was because they had balls of steel, or they were just stone-deaf.

funny everybody is an expert in these threads

so she doesn't understand the rules, and you would resort to violence?

WTF is wrong with you?


How about, expelling the rules to both of them, because maybe they don't know, and making a bad experience better.


But no, you, billy the bad ass would slap a woman?

She's aiming the gun at a man's chest and pulling the trigger, and you're worried about her feelings?

Lol, beta.

That's it. That's the story. Sucks to be him?



 

...I agre, I was thinking.."nelson jpeg  haha"  on him

At range with grandson and son in law in Sept. Guy  shows up with son and sons girlfriend with brand new 44 magnum dad had just bought at gun show. Dad shoot first and son leans crutches up and takes his turn. Son fired off one round and sets gun on table and quite clearly says. "I just re broke my thumb". Had been in motorcycle wreck and was not quite healed. He did not shoot it again.

Honestly, now... Did you REALLY expect to come in and read something like:

Condensed version.....My wife and I were at a unsupervised public range when 5 young men pulled up.

We were shooting WWII bolt guns and the guys took an interest in us, lots of whispers and other comments we could hear.

I think they were thinking about taking out the old folks and stealing our guns.

I went to the car, pulled out an AK, walked back to the bench, put a mag in and racked the slide.  I stood facing them (muzzle down range) and let them have a good look at the AK.

They were gone in less than a minutes.

Not uncommon at a lot of ranges. Our range has this happen with deer. They will wander into the bench rest range and just stand there with guns firing no less. They have just become acclimated to it.

The safety nazism, paranoia, and general snobbery in this thread reminds me why I pay somebody to shoot on their private property.   Activities yesterday included bump firing (the old fashioned way) approx 500rnds through an AK47 and hand tossing melons to blast with a Taurus judge 000buck

 
Doesn't mean you should kill over it. I've been peppered thousands of times. It's not a big deal.



Some of you people are fucking pussies.



Too bad Reagan shut down all the psych hospitals for you fuckers.

I shoot alone in the desert.

If someone is in the spot I was going to, I go to another one.

I hate when people roll up on my spot and ask to shoot next to me....

Fuck no. Go somewhere else. I am running drills with my timer, I don't know you, we aren't pals. I have no idea what your shooting experience is and I am not there to teach you if you are flagging me and all fucked up.

You can ask if I am about done and if I am I'll tell you as much or I'll tell you about the other spots all along the road.

I used to find shell casings all the way back where you pull into the parking lot. I think rednecks just drive in there and blast the whole range without getting out of their truck.

Some of the biggest problems I've had at private clubs has been with the guys running it.

I was accused of deliberately shooting the target backers at the outdoor 50 yard range at the Massachusetts Rifle Association. Turns out the shooting happened while I was at college in Tennessee, and they (supposedly) had some grainy videos showed a guy with a 20" AR15. One of the directors saw me shooting a 20" AR15 after graduation, and just assumed I must have been the guy who did it. Fuckers.


ETA: Different range. Members only place with 24hr access. Me and a buddy arrive, are the only ones there and start breaking clays. The shotgun range backed up to some dense woods/swamp, and after about two hours of shooting some dude walks out of the woods carrying a half dozen old unbroken clays. There were no cars parked in the area. He didn't say anything, just walked past us and down the road. I was just in shock that somebody thought wondering through a shotgun range was a smart idea.

Please sell any firearms you own.

Went to a range recently and, right in the middle of shooting, a fox ran right into the target area. The RSO immediately screamed "Cease fire!" and told everyone that anyone who shot at the fox would be banned from the range forever. I never met the RSO before, but he is good with me.

White Knights assemble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had a good sized hawk land in the middle of the range and chowed down on some poor critter. Nobody said anything, except - 'look at the hawk'. The bird then flew over to a target stand at 100 yards. Again, not much said. After 5 mins. or so, the hawk just flew away......different kind of folks I guess? We get water birds, quail and bald eagles that do the same. Odd ducks.

I have a range about 15 minutes from my house, and I wanted to test my reloads for the 9mm AR I had just assembled.  It had no sights at all- but it was easy to line up on cardboard (and the berm) to make sure it functioned and my reloads were stable.

Our range was in the rear of a 2000+ acre county park.  The range land itself was surrounded by a 8' chain link fence with outward facing 3-strand barbed wire, with one sliding access gate at the main road and another gate at the rear road.  Then the rifle/pistol range itself was also surrounded by another fence, only way in was through the range lobby into a vestibule at the tower,  where an RO would open a gate and take you out to a bench on the line.

I was in the office on a 'closed' day--the rifle/pistol range was closed, the trap/skeet fields were closed, the sporting clays course was closed and the LEO ranges were closed.  All gates were closed and locked, main gate at the road was closed but not locked.  Building entrances were locked.

I'm in an office doing inventory on the computer.  Another RO was over at the maintanence shed at Trap & Skeet repairing a clays machine.

This was in South Florida.  Two Hispanic gentleman drive up, open the main gate.  Drive to rifle range.  Doors to building are locked.  They climb over the barbed wire fence, drag a garbage can into the middle of the 100-yard range, pull out pistols and from ten feet away, no eye or ear pro, start doing mag dumps into it.  They're facing back towards the firing line and their bullets are going past the benches and hitting the wall of the range building, hitting Windows, restroom doors and vending machines.  

Other RO and I hear the gunshots and come running over, screaming at them to stop.

One guy speaks NO englese.  Other guy barely speaks it.  Can't understand why we're mad.  Kept repeating "Is this not allowed?" And said he thought that if you wanted to shoot, this was how you went about it.

Another time, similar situation, range closed.  Three college kids show up, climb fence to trap/skeet range, walk onto a trap field, pull out pistols and start shooting garbage cans and fence posts.  We park a Rhino behind their car and call the sheriffs dept.  before they arrive, one kid makes a phone call.  He locks the guns in the trunk of his car.  Five minutes later a Cadillac pulls up, it's the kid'd father, a lawyer.  They live in Arvida, a gated subdivision down the road from the park.  Police show up a few minutes later, lawyer says since police didn't witness the trespassing or the 'alleged' gunfire, they don't have probable cause to detain or search the car.  We argued with the cops for twenty minutes and they finally let the kids go.  Lawyer called Parks and Rec commissioner that week and tried to have us fired.

You seem....Familiar....

What did the fox say?

So way back when I was still in college, painting class, our instructor told us to go out and paint a landscape. I had just picked up this Rossi M971 .357 (yeah, I know... I was broke) and really wanted to shoot it.

Decided a gun range landscape would be ideal.

The free local range is out at a state park off a gravel road (this will be important in a second). I get to the range, I'm the only one there, paint a quick picture... shoot a bit... shoot the painting a few times for authenticity... decide I'm done and start packing everything up into my car.

That is when this black Corvette comes flying down the gravel road... slides sideways into one of the parking spots... stops... and this guy hops out wearing a suit with no jacket and a double shoulder holster... storms down to the pistol range... proceeds to yank both pistols out from his shoulder holster (John Woo style)... and dump both mags... casually walk back to his car and drive off.

That is the best thing I have ever witnessed at a gun range. Hats off to you wannabe 80's secret agent guy in a Vette... I was amazed...

Bullet Hole?



 

lol, Ft MCclellan  Al  circa  1989...M-60 range..(range was basically shooting hilltop to mid hilltop across a valley...deer went ont oimpact area...saw about 16  -20 M-60's start to converge fire in that area (pretty far don't remember exact range but definitely "area target " range..Drill Sergeants went apeshit screamnig at all us idiots...

lol  markham park..ftw?...

Majority of guys cannot sight in their guns, they will sit there and burn through two or three boxes of ammo and not have a clue. I think the range charges 7.50 or something like that for a bore sighting.

I went to watch the FCSA match at Coalinga once, and the evening before someone had left a gate open and let the cows wander into the range.  About 30 of them were sitting about 20 yards downrange, and they didn't even twitch unless a bullet passed within 15 feet (directly overhead- terrain drops a bit below the firing line before rising up to the 1000 yard target line).  

I went to the range with a friend a few weeks ago to sight in his new .300 blackout.  He was shooting patterns instead of groups.  After fiddling with the scope and wasting a couple dozen rounds he asks me to try it.  I shot a nice two inch group right over the bullseye .  He began fuming and went back to wasting ammo.  He still swears it's the gun.

the more Private the better these days.

Check fire?

B


Get'er done

Use of force is one of the concepts that is regularly and frequently misunderstood and misstated on this forum, but your statements are out of whack by any standard.

Good point

On Veterans' Day, I checked out this new indoor range in the Springs because it was free for Active Duty for the entire month. ..I should've known what kind of goobers this promo would bring in.

There was this group of gentlemen who were being "taught" by some dude who just regurgitated Costa-isms and all the cool-guy crap without providing reasons why the techniques are used. Needless to say, their groups were not impressive at 25 yards with the SCAR H they were sharing.


Growing up, I had plenty of WTF moments at public ranges.. From my cousin pointing a .44 at my head when I was 5, to an Old Fart trying to get me to render "88" honors after shooting his luger.. (He was kidding, but I was still like )

Now, I try to shoot in the boonies, but I have to deal with people setting up their firing line 100m DOWN RANGE (but slightly off to the side ) from me

Ummm...no, that was Carter.....but I digress,  Hotshots like yourself are the reasons I avoid public ranges...I prefer to let you plug yourself without my interruption.