Ive been shot at and have returned fired on BLM land before.
It happens. People are fucking retards.
It happens. People are fucking retards.
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i was 200 yards down range once when some former jackass marine thought it would be funny to start shooting around me.
I guess he was suprised when I started shooting back at him my 45. (Bullets were landing all around him as he started running out of the line of fire.)
He ended up being held at gunpoint until the Sherrif arrived and took him into custody.
To this day I’m not certain how long he was in prison for... but I did find out he was dishonorably discharged, and it appears the ATF had a beef with him too. (I think he was making supressors and selling them.)
I guess he was suprised when I started shooting back at him my 45. (Bullets were landing all around him as he started running out of the line of fire.)
He ended up being held at gunpoint until the Sherrif arrived and took him into custody.
To this day I’m not certain how long he was in prison for... but I did find out he was dishonorably discharged, and it appears the ATF had a beef with him too. (I think he was making supressors and selling them.)
No public range for me either. I go to the Austin Rifle Club where I have been a member for years. No bullshit allowed. No mulligans for an unsafe action. You scre up you're done for the day. I know it's a 100% safe range because I wrote a lot of the rules when I did a stint as Director of Range Safety.
It's people like those that you guys encountered that ruin it for the rest of us. Glad y'all got out of it okay.
I was at an IDPA sanctioned shoot one day.
A couple of us old guys were outside the building having a smoke before starting.
There were about 6-10 of us there between the building and cars talking.
A loud crash and glass breaking interupted that.
No sound of a shot really.
I put my hand on my carry gun but did not draw looked around saw a hole in the building.
People scrambling, I just kept smoking and stood there.
Range master ran out looked around and and asked if anyone got hit.
Told him I didn't think so they could still run.
Asked about bullet I showed him the hole in the wall and busted head light
3 -4 feet from me.
Asked why I didn't run, told them I was too old for that shit.
Cant return fire on an unseen target in a building full of good people.
The offending dumbass was escorted off the property by le already there to compete.
A damn contractor had removed internal berm between walls for construction
and not replaced it, covered it up.
The guys that ran ran back some with trauma kits etc.
The clearing area was moved and double checked and the shooter an le was reprimanded apropriatly I was told, on top of that I think it was another le's car. Lol
A couple of us old guys were outside the building having a smoke before starting.
There were about 6-10 of us there between the building and cars talking.
A loud crash and glass breaking interupted that.
No sound of a shot really.
I put my hand on my carry gun but did not draw looked around saw a hole in the building.
People scrambling, I just kept smoking and stood there.
Range master ran out looked around and and asked if anyone got hit.
Told him I didn't think so they could still run.
Asked about bullet I showed him the hole in the wall and busted head light
3 -4 feet from me.
Asked why I didn't run, told them I was too old for that shit.
Cant return fire on an unseen target in a building full of good people.
The offending dumbass was escorted off the property by le already there to compete.
A damn contractor had removed internal berm between walls for construction
and not replaced it, covered it up.
The guys that ran ran back some with trauma kits etc.
The clearing area was moved and double checked and the shooter an le was reprimanded apropriatly I was told, on top of that I think it was another le's car. Lol
I fortunately own a lot of property. Prior to that, I used to live in Houston and the best range around was a combination range and gun store north of Houston called "Carter's Country." They tried their best to run a tight range operation with "cease fire", "range safe", and "commence fire" calls every 15 minutes and ROs all over the place. But, that didn't save the poor fool in the parking lot who tried to wrestle his loaded shotgun from behind the seat of his truck by the barrel-end. Yep, it went off, and yep, he died on the scene.
Those cows of ours have ruined my plans to shoot on many occasions.....
Stupid stuff even happens at big matches. Last November I shot the Fiocchi Cup at Ben Avery in Phoenix. It’s a sporting clays shoot. On the Rattlesnake course they had a section where you could look over to your left and about 125yds away the people at one of the next stations were hanging out the frame painting you with their gun as they set up for a tower shot.
I hate public ranges and 2x for the indoor ranges we have in the northeast. People shooting everything dowrange including supports. Gang bangers practicing the latest sideways shooting positions. The hunter in the next lane touching off 44 mag rounds that hurt through plugs. The guy trying to clear jams while the muzzle flashes 1/2 the shooting line. All in a poorly ventilated atmosphere. Gave that up years ago.
We all have horror stories, and each of us has our own tolerance levels. Maybe I am wrong, but it should be up to us to at least try correct unsafe behavior, once anyway. I more or less shoot at semi private ranges, not totally private so unsafe behavior is limited.
The idiocy gets to me, the big talk, general horseshit anymore. Some of these fucktards are so damn uninteresting that you find yourself praying for Darwin to show up. "It's a tack driver, shoots bugholes, one hole groups, won many shoots with this" yet they need a spotter at 500 on a 10" plate.
Thursday, I drove the 40 mile rd trip to test 10 rds. A couple friends had brought some twat with a Barrett 338 Lapua, 12 shots in it dawned on someone his windage turret on his POS Mark 4 was a full rev off. The rifle was last used on a failed Buffalo hunt, but he can hit 1K all day long.
10 quick shots and I was in my PU heading home, friendships could have been tested had I stayed, Rant over.
The idiocy gets to me, the big talk, general horseshit anymore. Some of these fucktards are so damn uninteresting that you find yourself praying for Darwin to show up. "It's a tack driver, shoots bugholes, one hole groups, won many shoots with this" yet they need a spotter at 500 on a 10" plate.
Thursday, I drove the 40 mile rd trip to test 10 rds. A couple friends had brought some twat with a Barrett 338 Lapua, 12 shots in it dawned on someone his windage turret on his POS Mark 4 was a full rev off. The rifle was last used on a failed Buffalo hunt, but he can hit 1K all day long.
10 quick shots and I was in my PU heading home, friendships could have been tested had I stayed, Rant over.
I agree there are local ranges I won't go to despite the proximity and cost, rather drive up to Los Altos, you still have the wing nuts but have more people as RO on the lines and an environment where self policing is encouraged.
And @Milo 2.5 you get me with that logo every time, that's where I work and it triggers me, cease and desist! ?
I adapted it to piss local clowns off, it continues to complete some days for me. lol
It was never intended for anyone who works or worked at Intel, it was Facebook LR shooting group that drove it.
Someone had the audacity to question me in public, that's a no-no, lmfao
One of my scariest days at the range began on a Sunday afternoon many years ago. It was busy but had just slowed a little as some people were leaving and several benches opened up on my right side. There was an RO present and he would call ceasefires occasionally so people could hang targets, it was a 25 to 50 yd. range.
Three young guys came out wearing suits and at first I thought they might be LEOs. I noticed they had one B-27 Law Enforcement Target which he hung at 25 yds during a ceasefire. Just about the time I noticed none of them had a gun case or a gun one of them in a black pinstriped suit steps up behind a bench next to me and with his right hand reaches into the left side of his coat and comes out of a shoulder holster with a chrome plated Colt Python. Unfortunately, in his haste to fast draw the hammer catches on the lining of his suit coat and rips the hell out of it.
Realizing this idiot has a loaded 357 with his finger inside the trigger guard trying to free it from his coat and pointing directly at me. I dropped my pistol on the bench ran backwards as fast as I could as the RO is screaming at the guy to freeze and not to move. But by now the weapon is clear and the RO has him place it on the bench and step away. The RO called a ceasefire, ripped him a new one, picked up and emptied the gun, and then marched them inside the store. After a few minutes, catching my breath, and explaining ten times what just happened I went inside to find out they had come from a gun show where they purchased the Python and a Safariland shoulder holster and wore it to the range. They were told were told to leave and not to return. What a show!
Three young guys came out wearing suits and at first I thought they might be LEOs. I noticed they had one B-27 Law Enforcement Target which he hung at 25 yds during a ceasefire. Just about the time I noticed none of them had a gun case or a gun one of them in a black pinstriped suit steps up behind a bench next to me and with his right hand reaches into the left side of his coat and comes out of a shoulder holster with a chrome plated Colt Python. Unfortunately, in his haste to fast draw the hammer catches on the lining of his suit coat and rips the hell out of it.
Realizing this idiot has a loaded 357 with his finger inside the trigger guard trying to free it from his coat and pointing directly at me. I dropped my pistol on the bench ran backwards as fast as I could as the RO is screaming at the guy to freeze and not to move. But by now the weapon is clear and the RO has him place it on the bench and step away. The RO called a ceasefire, ripped him a new one, picked up and emptied the gun, and then marched them inside the store. After a few minutes, catching my breath, and explaining ten times what just happened I went inside to find out they had come from a gun show where they purchased the Python and a Safariland shoulder holster and wore it to the range. They were told were told to leave and not to return. What a show!
I was shooting at 600 yards at my private gun club, there is a slight berm at 600 to shoot off of. We have the flags flying showing the range is hot from 600 yards into the target and two red fullsize trucks on the safe side of the berm we are extremely visible. I am shooting with a spotter and I have about a pound on my 1.5 pound trigger ready to shoot in a calm and he calls out a cease fire very excited. As I pull my finger off the trigger I see the cab of a pickup right in line with my line of fire as are the two occupants of the truck. The idiots are driving between the firing line and the target which is off the clearly defined road on a hot range.
Luckily the spotter was with me and not pulling targets as we usually shoot I believe I would have put a round very close to the cab if not into the cab of the truck as they were driving at a good clip. Looking through the 42 power scope is like looking down a soda straw you see very little on the peripheral.
I got the couple to stop and explained to them that they were driving on a hot range and they said they were looking for a tent they left during a non-shooting weekend activity on the range. They were completely ignorant of how close they came to having a round come very close to their heads.
Another time I am shooting an F-class match with about 20 shooters on the line so there are lots of rounds going down range when a cease fore is called. I clear my gun hoping there was not an accident and see someone walking across the range. The RO walks down and talks to the woman and she says she is looking for her father and was completely ignorant that there were rounds passing over head. The woman was not deaf so she had to be a complete idiot to not realize there were 20 shooters firing 22 rounds each in about 15 minutes or less, it is quite a barrage.
Stupidity is the last form of natural selection left to the human race.
Luckily the spotter was with me and not pulling targets as we usually shoot I believe I would have put a round very close to the cab if not into the cab of the truck as they were driving at a good clip. Looking through the 42 power scope is like looking down a soda straw you see very little on the peripheral.
I got the couple to stop and explained to them that they were driving on a hot range and they said they were looking for a tent they left during a non-shooting weekend activity on the range. They were completely ignorant of how close they came to having a round come very close to their heads.
Another time I am shooting an F-class match with about 20 shooters on the line so there are lots of rounds going down range when a cease fore is called. I clear my gun hoping there was not an accident and see someone walking across the range. The RO walks down and talks to the woman and she says she is looking for her father and was completely ignorant that there were rounds passing over head. The woman was not deaf so she had to be a complete idiot to not realize there were 20 shooters firing 22 rounds each in about 15 minutes or less, it is quite a barrage.
Stupidity is the last form of natural selection left to the human race.
I've seen some dumbass shit at ranges, public and private. Matter of fact, I've done some dumb shit, loading wrong powders, kept firing as primers were blown out of cases with weak pockets, taken a few shots where I knew a hit was impossible.
But even on mag dump Saturdays, with some clown telling me his dpms can hit golf balls at 500 with ease, I'm still more comfortable than being admitted to a hospital when the problem is not known.
But even on mag dump Saturdays, with some clown telling me his dpms can hit golf balls at 500 with ease, I'm still more comfortable than being admitted to a hospital when the problem is not known.
Had a gal with a group of men have some kind of FTF with her BF's AR15. Closed bolt, safety off, finger on the trigger, pointing it down the lane at everyone, asking her BF why it didn't fire. They both start yanking on things while she is still on the trigger, safety off and flagging everyone down the line.
I called a cease fire cease fire. They didn't even look up. Just kept fiddling with it. I put my hand on my side arm and said "HEY!" "not everyone here knows you and your flagging us all". "Maybe you should just put the rifle down." Dumb arse handed the rifle to BF and went and sat down. *shakes Head*
I called a cease fire cease fire. They didn't even look up. Just kept fiddling with it. I put my hand on my side arm and said "HEY!" "not everyone here knows you and your flagging us all". "Maybe you should just put the rifle down." Dumb arse handed the rifle to BF and went and sat down. *shakes Head*
I have decent luck just using the public land in the hills around here (PNW/ oregon). I dont set up at a spot where there already people, i just drive on and find somewhere else. Others usually do the same thing when I am shooting (stop and reverse as soon as they see the spot is taken) once in a while someone will stop and visit for a few minutes and then drive on or wait for the spot if your almost done but i usually dip out and scoot if I see anyone at a spot. Just rolling up and joining someone while they are shooting is about as socially acceptable as the chatty guy at the row of urinals... some places I just don't go to sociialize
I try and get people to come shooting and it's like pulling teeth. From late fall to early spring I have steel from 10-600 yards on private land.
You should feel lucky to have like minded people near you lol
Oh I love going out with buddies. Just not a fan of random people (particularly unfriendly ones or tweakers) who try to just roll up and linger while I'm shooting. It weirds me out. If they hop out and say hi and actually have manners I dont mind. Can't have too many friends.
A lot of the time I prefer shooting alone.
Probably 90%
But at times getting some of my buddy’s out is like pulling teeth.
Lol
I do have one friend that gives me access to a private ranch in eastern Oregon.
That spot is the nicest place to shoot I’ve ever seen.
I would never say no to that opportunity.
I only go to public ranges for quick load development or general trigger time.
Public outdoor range in MN...I'm prone shooting a 22.250, only other guy there had an ar. I look over to see him try to shoot, gun goes "click" and didnt fire...he gets up, walks over to a boulder, slams the butt against the rock, kneels down and it shoots....watched this several times as I was packing to leave. I believe some people are to f'ing stupid to know that they are stupid...me tell'in him prolly wont help.
https://www.wheretoshoot.org/ hope it helps you may be able to call the buro of land management in your state, and see if there is any blm land you could shoot on . ? wish we had some .
I once had a very dangerous experience at 13 mile in Billings MT. I absolutely would have shot back if I had had my rifle.
Talk to the RO first, that’s what he’s there for. Then politely ask the offenders if they wouldn’t mind not sweeping you as they’re breaking one of the rules of safe shooting. If they’re new to the range be helpful and guide them through firearm safety, making a point that it’s just as important to themselves as it is for everyone else. If they’re A-holes, ask the rest of the people shooting on the range if they’ll team up with you and tell them to leave. Last resort leave.
Every time I got to a public range it reminds me how I need to save up my money to pay for a private club next year. The closest one to me it 2 plus hours away but it has a 1000yard and 300 yard range with a 1 mile day about once a month. Worth the drive.
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