Well that was a boneheaded move...

[Rustytigwire]

Mini van days, 4 kids. Drove 2 blocks. Wheres Margaret! 5
She took a stool out to the garage and climbed up to push the door opener.
All 4 survived my upbringing and still laugh with me about it.

 

[NV_Dmax]

I lost a Benchmade CLA auto last year at BSWN. The clip snagged itself to my gear cart and fell to the ground. It was never turned in.

 

[bozo699]

Packed all my gear up once and got ready to leave. Realized I'd forgot to put my wife in the truck. I wonder if she would of been returned? Mike

bwahahaha!...no one would be that cruel would they?....
Good one Mike!
Wayne

 

[NorCalMikie]

Left my Electronic Head Phones laying on the bench as I was cleaning up before I headed home. Didn't figure that out till I saw the Care Taker wearing them the next week. Didn't say a word.
Opened up one of my soft rifle cases and watched as the rifle slid out the end and hit the deck. Time to load up and go back home.

 

[Dryfly24]

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you’ll get lucky. Most shooters are honest folks.
Put up some posters at the range. A little late to advise this but I put my name and phone number on just about everything valueable.

I was just about to post the same thing. I have it on all my equipment. If anyone with a little bit o conscience finds it, they’ll never be able to use the excuse that they didn’t know who or how to get a hold of whomever it belongs to...

 

[Dryfly24]

At the range referenced by the OP I once had an amazing thing happen. While shooting at my 100yd target I saw motion to my left about 25yds downrange. It was the fellow shooting a few benches to my left going to check a target he set at about 30-40yds. I hold fire, call out loudly for a cease fire and the guy just motions and hollers "I'm alright...ya'll can keep on shooting". The most amazing part was not his action at that moment but the fact that he lived long enough, up to that point, to propagate at least two generations of his genetics into the gene pool.....and that is what scares me most. I could see an exuberant teenager moving beyond the line until he was called out then returning to the bench when he realized what he had done; this guy was at least 55yrs old.

At a match last month, there was a kid of about 13 or 14 shooting at the bench next to mine on my left. There was a pretty steady wind coming from that direction and behind us. While everyone was shooting, he dropped something he was messing with on on his bench just as I was getting ready to squeeze the trigger and the wind blew it past the front of my bench. Without even thinking about it he came around the bench and dove right in front of my muzzle to snatch it, but luckily I caught the movement in my peripheral vision. I stopped myself just in time but it was so close my hands were shaking afterwards.

The thing that upsets me the most is that. Afterwards when I explained to him what he had done wrong, his mom and the guy who was with him teaching him how to shoot, didn’t really correct him at all. I felt like they really should’ve hammered it home and used it as a teaching opportunity, but they pretty much glossed over it like it was no big deal. . .

 

[spife7980]

At a match last month, there was a kid of about 13 or 14 shooting at the bench next to mine on my left. There was a pretty steady wind coming from that direction and behind us. While everyone was shooting, he dropped something he was messing with on on his bench just as I was getting ready to squeeze the trigger and the wind blew it past the front of my bench. Without even thinking about it he came around the bench and dove right in front of my muzzle to snatch it, but luckily I caught the movement in my peripheral vision. I stopped myself just in time but it was so close my hands were shaking afterwards.

The thing that upsets me the most is that. Afterwards when I explained to him what he had done wrong, his mom and the guy who was with him teaching him how to shoot, didn’t really correct him at all. I felt like they really should’ve hammered it home and used it as a teaching opportunity, but they pretty much glossed over it like it was no big deal. . .

Thats when you tell him he almost got a hole punched through him and it would have been all his fault. Really drive the point home, some scares are a great learning experience.