You Can't Be Serious.

[pilediver]

I volunteer as a range safety officer at the nearby state owned range. The stuff we see there on an almost daily basis is hard to believe.
Scope mounted backwards, yes.
Coming to the range with their new gun still in the cardboard box, yes.
Bitching about having to clear their weapon , lock the action open, and remove magazines before we can go downrange, yes
Thinking all the rules are to inconvenience them rather than protect everyone, yes
But, so many people appreciate the safety and guidance we provide and tell us so, that is why I still enjoy my volunteer time there

 

[swd]

We had a guy at the local trap club that always used a fired shell as a snap cap at the end of the day until the day he put a live shell in and pulled the trigger. There were a ton of people around. It blew gravel all over and shockingly no one got hurt at all. He turned purple with shock and embarrassment and left the moment he knew no one was hurt. We didn’t see him for while.

 

[boltman13]

Oh the stories I could tell. Two take the cake. A guy in the camp down the hill from ours hunting elk in Colorado one year, walked up to our camp on the end of the first day carrying a really nice looking Savage 99 with an older all steel Weaver 2.5X scope in 308 Win. His Grandfather had loaned him his rifle to come all the way out to Colorado to hunt elk from Arkansas. His Grandfather had helped him sight in the rifle and told him to buy a box of Remington 180 gr. Core-Locks like the rifle was sighted in with. He went to the local Gun store and when told they had no 180 gr Core-Locks he said give me some Winchester 180's for a Savage. The clerk gave him a box of 300 Savage 180 gr. Power Points and off he went happy as a clam. First morning along comes an elk and stops about 100 yards down hill. He lets loose a round and he said it didn't sound right, and he missed the elk completely. He showed us the rifle and ammunition and allowed as how it had been hard to extract the fired case to try a second shot. Following our explanation of why it had all gone wrong he left with his tail between his legs and spent all the second day of a 5 day season trying and finally finding some 308 Win. Remington 180 Core-Locks. He never saw another elk. The second was a guy who showed up at our Club's Public Sight In Day with a brand new Weatherby 300 rifle and Leupold 3X9 Scope bore sighted the day before. He stopped on the way out to the range and and bought 3 boxes of Winchester 300 Win Mag's and commented how much cheaper the Winchester 's were than the one box of Weatherby's he had bought. Fortunately the Club member helping him spotted the problem before he fired a shot.

 

[JSH]

This far through this thread I have read all of the comments.
I do not understand what the problem seems to be?
Sounds all perfectly normal from mid October to opening day around these parts, lol.
When the Orange army arrives I am pretty scarce around gun ranges.
Now about January 15- tax time I am around. End-mid January Jim bob is selling his rifle for cheap just to make a minimum payment on his plastic he used for Christmas. Tax time, if I have to explain you have already sold your rifle to make a CC payment.

 

[60723]

One of my best friends who is actually a genius wanted a muzzle loader just like mine. He bought it and I helped him sight it in. While I was shooting, he was resting the loaded rifle on his foot. I warned him to never point a loaded rifle at anything he didn’t want to shoot. A couple of weeks later he had swapped trucks with a mechanic friend of ours. Gun fell over at a red light. He pulled at it and the CB radio bracket hung the hammer and fired the muzzle loader. He asked the man if he had ever considered putting a spotlight on top of his truck since the hole was already there! About a month later he shot off a couple of toes with his 30-06!

 

[Murray Brook]

Got a call from a hunter appx 5 years ago asking me if I could sight in his rifle. Told me he had a scope installed by a gunsmith but only bore sighted. Told him to meet me at the range at a fixed time. He arrived with a Savage 338 laupa mag. Nice set up. He hands me the ammo and I see it is chambered for a 338 Win mag. Told him it couldn't be used, to bring it back and get the proper ammo. He leaves and comes back from the shop where he purchased the ammo saying the guy at the shop told him he could use that ammo. How do these guys stay alive.

 

[Monte F]

A picture says a thousand words, or shot pellets.

 

[hogpatrol]

If the lower ranges trash cans need emptied, I take 'em to the dumpster. What's in them is a good indication that the weekend warriors were there.. Evidence shown: Somehow that 30-06 round didn't work too well in a 300 WinMag. I found one, who knows how many more.

 

[Court178]

Several years ago my son and I were taking a pistol self defense class. A couple next to us had just bought new pistols that week and struggled to work the slides. So when they went to unload they would turn the gun sideways pointing it down the firing line so they could get more leverage. To make matters worse they would unload the round in the chamber without removing the magazine first. Essentially loading another round when the slide slid forward.

 

[Eric Leonard]

Saw a guy loading a TC Hawkin and he put in 100 grs Pyrodex twice, I told him man you already put in the powder,, he said 100 grs was for 1 bullet that he used 200 grs when he shot 2 bullets,,

 

[Minshooter]

I have no words to say. A picture says a thousand words, or shot pellets.

Or, maybe he just ticked off one of his Captains.

 

[stork]

Overheard at Cabela's "A 150 lb. crossbow isn't enough to kill a deer".

At the range, more times than I can count. "Is your AR/AK safe so we can go downrange"?
Reply: "Yes". Me: "Please open the bolt". Them: "OK". CAJING as a live round gets ejected.
Me: SMH.
In today's world, there's no such thing as common sense. It's so rare, it should be called uncommon sense.

More than once, had the same thing happen.
They live among us...and they breed.

 

[Murray Brook]

They live among us...and they breed

And walk

 

[snert]

Yeah, one of my favorite witticisms is, "We're all dummies, just in different ways."

That being said, we're living in a period of incredible ignorance among young adults who simply lack good upbringing. How many times have you entered into conversation with what looks like a full grown adult, only to realize that on a given topic his or her intellect is down around that of an eight year old? jd

Every. Stinking. Day.

 

[D Coots]

Even adults born after Dec. 31 1965 must pass a Utah Hunter Education course. A lot of states don't have this kind of requirement but they should.

Never realized there was a cutoff date for stupidity.

 

[D Coots]

My Dad had a firearms license when I was a kid. This time of the year he sold alot of rifles. We had a 100 yd. range so we got to set some of them up. Guy bought a 270 and scope took it out to the range shot 3 times hit the box twice said that looks pretty good to me. Dad said fine. Went hunting. Doug

Sounds good...if it was a small box.

 

[Greg@wfcustom]

Best (worst) one I ever saw was years ago, the yahoo with the new Beretta 92 trying to clear the jam by beating the end of the slide on the wood bench with the muzzle pointed at his face!
Observing this from a safe (?) distance, I told the Rangemaster who was a good friend,
“Hey Mark watch this, this is going to get messy”
You have never seen a Range master move so fast in your life
As pointed out above you can’t fix stupid.
The problem is we keep protecting the stupid people! What the hell ever happened to Natural selection? Darwin works, eliminate the stupid gene from the gene pool. If you’re stupid & slow you get eaten by the lions. That’s the way it works!
Sorry rant over, carry on.
G

 

[SBS]

Got a call from a hunter appx 5 years ago asking me if I could sight in his rifle. Told me he had a scope installed by a gunsmith but only bore sighted. Told him to meet me at the range at a fixed time. He arrived with a Savage 338 laupa mag. Nice set up. He hands me the ammo and I see it is chambered for a 338 Win mag. Told him it couldn't be used, to bring it back and get the proper ammo. He leaves and comes back from the shop where he purchased the ammo saying the guy at the shop told him he could use that ammo. How do these guys stay alive.

I've been asked more than a few times "what other caliber can I use in this rifle?". Most recently was a .300 WSM for which the owner couldn't find ammo locally and had been "advised" by several people that he could use other .300 magnum calibers.

 

[Bill Norris]

Back in the early 2000's a couple of friends of mine who were retired H W Patrol went over to another friend of ours cow pasture where we could shoot about 400 yards. One of the H W Patrol had invited 4 County Law Enf. officers to go with us to shoot some 2 liter drink bottles filled with water. After about 4 hours the 4 CLE officers loaded up and left kind of pissed off because neither of them could touch a water bottle at 200 yards not to even mention 400. I guess the straw that may have broke the camels back was when my two friends and I were able to shoot the caps off of the water bottles at 400 yards.

 

[pikespeakgoat]

So many of these horror stories are the biggest reason that I truly am concerned to be in the woods with most folks during hunting season..I probably work harder in finding areas without folks than I actually do hunting anymore.