I can't make this up, no matter how hard it is to believe.

[wkdickinson]

I stopped arguing with idiots a long time ago. It is truly pointless, because they KNOW they are right.

 

[Sniper338]

6.5 creedmoor... good gosh these people.....

 

[IdahoSharpshooter]

yeah, had to be a Creedmoor guy...

 

[joshb]

A big bonus of being retired is going to the range on a weekday. Usually, I see nobody. Occasionally, I see another old guy like me that says “Hi” and continues shooting.

 

[akajiggs]

Come on guys,you know that gravity ceases to exist on the range.He is one that knows when bullets leave the muzzle ,they start to rise,therefore his gun just shoots farther than yours and flatter. Now don't tell me you have not heard that one.Everyone knows about bullet rise.

 

[wkdickinson]

Come on guys,you know that gravity ceases to exist on the range.He is one that knows when bullets leave the muzzle ,they start to rise,therefore his gun just shoots farther than yours and flatter. Now don't tell me you have not heard that one.Everyone knows about bullet rise.

LOL, ya I've heard that one a lot of times - again, an issue of those who "know" expounding on their knowledge.

 

[farmerjohn]

You know from time to time I read threads like this and the problems with idiots that you fokes encounter with a shooting range membership. I shoot 600 IBS and point blank also, in traveling to other ranges like St Louis and Memphis I talk to the fokes that belong to the different ranges who tell me stories like the ones I read on this site and realize that like Rick I am also blessed in having my own range here on the farm, I can shoot 600 out of my shop, drive 1/4 mi across the field to my 1k bench. It makes me ashamed that I not a lot better than I am competively. At my age I don't suffer a-holes well and I don't know if I would have what it takes to get any thing done if I had to drive a long way or put up with these Bozo's that some folks have to deal with, I am thankful for what I have...
Farmer

 

[ED3]

I just got back from a really enjoyable/productive session at my indoor range. I was creating a custom elevation tape for my PCP air rifle so I can dial out to 125 yards. I was all alone, not wearing hearing protection, nice. (pretty good groups I might add)
So, fella comes in with great fanfare. Sets up right next to me and starts shooting, at 25 yards.
He shoots 8 or 10 and then asks me what I'm shooting. I tell him it's a BB gun. He didn't care about that.
He can't wait to tell me he has a new 1,000 yard rifle. Factory ammunition.
I ask why he's shooting at 25 yards.
He says, and I'll raise my hand to this, "If it's good at 25, it'll be good at 1,000".
Another hand raise. I'll bet you can't guess the caliber.

"..."If it's good at 25, it'll be good at 1,000" ..." only if he does his part

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Reading all this makes me realize just how fortunate I am to live where I do here on the central Orygun high desert. When I want to range-test my handloads or just do some casual range shooting, I load up my BR Pivot Lite and head out to the outback in the sage and junipers where "my" range is located, about ten minutes from home.

Except for my own gunfire, it's quiet. No keyboard commando's, no silly kid with his AK or AR spewing brass all over me, no stupid questions or bragging comments like the "good at 25, good at 1,000" crap either. Just me and my guns. Or the occasional jackrabbit or coyote, maybe a mule deer or pronghorn eyeballing me from the sage, but NO range idiots.

I am truly fortunate, and I don't take it for granted.

Yes you are, and I am truly jealous.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

"..."If it's good at 25, it'll be good at 1,000" ..." only if he does his part

All day long

 

[CT10ring]

the last time I shot at a public range, Piedmont NC ( a great set-up), some (nice) guys set up on either side of me w ARs 16" bbls, brakes, (that's OK) and proceeded to just unload beaucoup mags of ammo into 8" groups. or 16"... I had a headache after that and I was not feeling too safe at any time. A great R.O. kept them in line and all of us alive. I have shot at my last public range. It's like russian roulette. plus the 25 yds zero is good for 1000 stuff. what?!

 

[CT10ring]

Extra Large Potato gun...?

ever shoot a potato gun? guessing you have. It's a ton of fun. hairspray propellant.

 

[KenOath]

ever shoot a potato gun? guessing you have. It's a ton of fun. hairspray propellant.

I have, even went as far as oxy acetylene, buut that didn’t end well for someone!!! Fly spray worked well to..

 

[CT10ring]

whoops. exploding chamber? my son myself and some friends enjoyed p guns for few years. We found them to be accurate enough that we set up a potato gun as a "pitching device" with a home plate, and us as batters, with real bats. all of us found that we were out on called strikes w the bat just moving cause that thing was so dam fast. You had to swing before detonation to even have a chance.

 

[KenOath]

Yep PVC everywhere and a trip to the hospital for said person....which luckily wasn’t me..

 

[CT10ring]

ouch. we were lucky, I guess. That was some fun- my son loved the whole thing, was next shooting a suppressed 308 in the "backyard" but really the potato cannon was the most fun. hope all were patched up ok in your case! this is another of my posts going off the rails. apologies to the OP -shooting situation with the 25-1000 yd. brainiac.

 

[KenOath]

Yeah all good, minor burns and a few pieces of plastic dug out..

 

[CT10ring]

boys will be boys.

 

[simplerider]

Come on guys,you know that gravity ceases to exist on the range.He is one that knows when bullets leave the muzzle ,they start to rise,therefore his gun just shoots farther than yours and flatter. Now don't tell me you have not heard that one.Everyone knows about bullet rise.

Of course, everyones heard of bullet rise. Its simple physics and You cant argue with physics...

 

[KMart]

ever shoot a potato gun? guessing you have. It's a ton of fun. hairspray propellant.

There is a fella down in Bay City, Tx that has modified one of these things and markets it as a deer feeder shooting corn. Has a hopper, timer, igniter and everything. The idea is to not have your feeder in your shooting area. It also keeps game from helping themselves. I can only imagine the pain if someone should be downrange when the feeder trips.

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