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[mousegunner]

So at the range today next to me 2 guys show up. Nice AR with a thermal scope on a lead sled rifle rest. I ask "you shoot hogs with that at night?" One says "yeah, hogs and deer". I think deer at night, oh dear!

To fire rounds one guy kneels on one knee on top of the stool to look through the scope. These guys looked like they came from church. Nice shoes, nice jeans, plenty of cologne, best dressed on the range that day.

I drove off as the one knee shooter fired to his target at 100 yards. I wanted look at his target but who knows maybe he was on the money, still something just off.

Also I was practicing my sitting rapid with my service rifle open sights at 100 yards. Did o.k. 9s and 10s, haven't shot this in over a year. I look at other AR shooters shooting at 50 yards on a full B27 target. FOA (foot of angle) groups. I sometimes want to approach people and offer some advice but you never know how they'll take it but I did step in when someone called a safe line but his AR had a mag in the well and safety off. Anywho still a very nice day at the range today.

 

[Downhill]

Yep. If you ever get to a point in your life where you feel you have seen it all- spend a day at a public shooting range. I never want to question ones right to bear arms but you will see people with no frigging business what so ever to handle a firearm. Stressful at the very least.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Gettin close to deer season here. I got to see 3 ft groups at 25yds. I did pick up 75 once fired 30-06 from my bench. The guy finally ran out getting the simmons on paper at 50

 

[mike a]

I gave a buddy a beat up Savage Axis in 308. He never checked its zero and I don't think he's ever cleaned it. He's shot it three times in three years. Got a buck every year. Go figure.

 

[watercam]

I was working in Memphis for a few months so brought a rifle to shoot in what little off time I might have. The local range is run by the prison guards with trustees to help. All good, everyone is getting ready for deer season. There was one gent with a Marlin 30-30 having a tough time getting on paper...at 25 yds.. Cursing and swearing and generally not having the best of times. I sauntered over and noticed that his scope was mounted 90º out. Windage was on top, elevation to the right. Trouble was he was using them as if they were in the correct position. He went through several boxes of ammo, got up in complete frustration and said "F__k it! Good enough for hunting!". Opted not to ruin his day further, the deer would be safe from him.
Needless to say I was not going into the woods until the season was over.

 

[ebb]

Many state wildlife agencies had a provision to take deer that are damaging crops. Perhaps these guys have a permit and are taking deer with this rifle legally?

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

We are in a do what you want era, no consequences for breaking laws. See it in the major cities, all the gang crime, police are evil and should be disarmed. Probably because mother earth hates us and we all will die in 12 years.

 

[Prose]

Was at the range yesterday and a guy walked out about 30 feet, through an empty beer case on the ground, then proceeded to shoot it three times to get zeroed for deer season.

 

[DNorton]

At least they hung a target. Most of what I see are guys with AR’s just spraying into the trees or the ground 20 yards in front.

 

[spclark]

At least they hung a target. Most of what I see are guys with AR’s just spraying into the trees or the ground 20 yards in front.

Another approach.

 

[DNorton]

Cool story with a very happy ending. I figure it would have played out exactly the same had the woman picked up a shotgun instead. Either way, bad guy gets dirt nap.

 

[rwj]

Was at the range yesterday and a guy walked out about 30 feet, through an empty beer case on the ground, then proceeded to shoot it three times to get zeroed for deer season.

Wow... do you think that the notion of bullets striking the ground at a low incidence angle then skipping “off range” even occurred to them?

 

[Nature Boy]

These guys looked like they came from church. Nice shoes, nice jeans, plenty of cologne, best dressed on the range that day.

At my range you feel blessed if the guy next to you has bathed in the last week.

 

[Curmudgeon]

With windage on top and elevation on the right scope would be 180 out. He'd have the objective to his eye. He was the long ranger.

 

[Rube Shooter]

Wow... do you think that the notion of bullets striking the ground at a low incidence angle then skipping “off range” even occurred to them?

I thought the same thing when my buddy and me watched a fellow shooting at a can on the ground at a private range years ago. The guy looked at us with a psychos grin wanting to be congratulated for having hit the can, with the that incident we never went back or re-upped on our membership fees.

 

[ckaberna]

Another approach.

Probably won’t see this on mainstream TV?

 

[sawcarver]

How about the guy that told me he just turns this dial on the left side of his scope to whatever yardage he is shooting elk at and the scope automatically adjusts.

 

[divingin]

Wow... do you think that the notion of bullets striking the ground at a low incidence angle then skipping “off range” even occurred to them?

To the consternation of a lot of rifle shooters, my range has a "No FMJ" rule in effect due to a combination of an international airport a mile further on from the rifle line, and a surfeit of people who can't hit a B8 target (21"x24") at 100 yds.

 

[K22]

Things I've seen at the range that you can't make up (just a small sample of 50 years on the range):

1. Guy shot 9mm pistol ammo in a 10 mm pistol - pistol and ammo newly purchased at Cabela's.

2. Right handed guy shoots a sub compact 45 ACP placing his left thumb over the right thumb and the slide slices his thumb to the bone - blood everywhere - 911 call on this one.

3. AR guy with large capacity drum magazine fires the entire magazine destroying two adjacent four foot target backer - barrel so hot that it's smoking.

4. Guy shows up with five water melons - wants to evaluate ammo's effectiveness - told him this is in violation of range rules - his response - "why - it's biodegradable".

5. Guy with 40 S&W pistol mis-fire points loaded pistol along the firing line while trying to clear the jam with right hand on stock and trigger finger inside the trigger guard and left hand trying to work the slide.

6. Rambo 'wanna be' shoots himself in the leg practicing his quick draw - another 911 call.

7. Didn't witness this but it happen at the club - guy ends life with pistol shot to head in club parking lot.

Plus a whole host of handling firearms while others are down range and failures to clear weapon while changing targets.

 

[AccelR8]

I was working in Memphis for a few months so brought a rifle to shoot in what little off time I might have. The local range is run by the prison guards with trustees to help. All good, everyone is getting ready for deer season. There was one gent with a Marlin 30-30 having a tough time getting on paper...at 25 yds.. Cursing and swearing and generally not having the best of times. I sauntered over and noticed that his scope was mounted 90º out. Windage was on top, elevation to the right. Trouble was he was using them as if they were in the correct position. He went through several boxes of ammo, got up in complete frustration and said "F__k it! Good enough for hunting!". Opted not to ruin his day further, the deer would be safe from him.
Needless to say I was not going into the woods until the season was over.

I learned to shoot as a kid, taught both by my father and in the Boy Scouts. In the Scouts we shot 22 target rifles with target sights, no scopes. This was in the '60s. My father, born in 1914 and having spent many years in the Marines, would not have a scope. “Anybody can shoot with a scope. A real rifleman uses iron sights only and he can adapt and adjust to any condition, any range. If you rely on a scope, it's only a crutch and one day you'll wish you had irons!”

So I turned 18, having never used a scope. I bought my first rifle and got a good deal that included rings and a 4X scope. The shop said their gunsmith would mount the scope and bore sight it for me. Cool!

First trip to the range, fine-tuning my 100 yard zero, breaking into my third box of twenty rounds (fired 40 already) and expressing frustration that the more I tried to adjust my scope the farther away my shots moved...I could find no rhyme or reason why my shots moved the direction they did...someone came over and looked and pointed out to me that my scope was mounted 90 degrees off with the windage turret on top and the elevation on the left side.