You Can't Be Serious.

[Murray Brook]

What I find strange about this is you rarely hear of any of these fools getting hurt.

 

[archerforkids]

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

I asked a safety guy that very question on a job a couple of years back. Why not let natural selection run its course. He wasn't amused.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

I shoot at a private range and only hunt with a close group of friends and every time I see threads like this Im so grateful for those two facts but saying that I have RO'd at matches for the better part of 10 maybe 12 years and have been "pointed and swept" more then once.

Best is if were running a steel/gong comp and one or 2 gongs needs fixing and you look back at the shooting point and some guy is showing his budy his new scope on a rifle pointed straight at you, luckily that only happened once, wonder what happened to those 2 after they got chased away

 

[onelastshot]

Go to a wal mart that sells guns the night before opening day. Here in michigan thatd be nov 14th. Guys buying a gun with ammo and a hunting license. Straight to the woods with a gun that hasnt been proven/sighted in.

The first thing that comes to mind is, how many of those guys were purchasing cleaning supplies as well? I can promise you, none. A lot of these guys have never cleaned their rifle and expect it to shoot well. They go deer hunting year after year and the rifle never gets cleaned, let alone sighted in.

 

[Conaso]

You can't fix stupid!

I would have taken that bet and said if I won, I wanted the money donated to a charity of my choice in his name - The Arc (For People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities).

 

[OMW57]

last month, we showed up for our 100 yard BR match, one of the guys comes into the clubhouse & asked who left the rifles on the bench?!
there was a vintage military match the day before & someone left a Garand, 03 springfield & another rifle sitting in their cases on a bench overnight!
Wouldn't you think you would miss those when you got home to clean them?!?!

 

[jimmymac]

I was at my local club shooting several years back. There was an all clear and we had guys down range. I'm standing there away from my gun minding my own business, when I look over and there is a guy sitting at a bench looking through the scope of a gun that has the bolt closed. Before I could say anything, he dry fired the gun with freaking people down range. I came unglued and had a bad case of tourettes on this guy. He looks at me and with a smug attitude he tells me he knew the gun was unloaded. I shit you not. I read this guy the riot act and he was not apologetic in any way. Matter of fact, he didn't seem to care. I was obviously not getting through. At that point, I told him we could go get the president of the club and see what he thought about the violation. Only then did he acknowledge he was in the wrong, but it took the threat of being kicked out of the club. About an hour later, he comes by and apologizes to me. I told him I didn't want an apology and he should be apologizing to all the guys who were down range changing targets when he was back here at the line being an idiot.

 

[KMart]

last month, we showed up for our 100 yard BR match, one of the guys comes into the clubhouse & asked who left the rifles on the bench?!
there was a vintage military match the day before & someone left a Garand, 03 springfield & another rifle sitting in their cases on a bench overnight!
Wouldn't you think you would miss those when you got home to clean them?!?!

Maybe the owner was Vintage as well and just forgot that they were his. Or maybe he just shot bad and gave up the sport.

Back in the late 70's, Our gun club hosted the state trapshoot. After the shoot was complete on Sunday and the the club management was cleaning up, they found a reasonably new Perazzi MX-8 O/U, left in a rack on one of the fields. The club held onto it for a year and nobody ever contacted them to claim it.

 

[338 Mollett]

In the day I was a very dedicated bow hunter . During rifle season I went to a track of land that only allowed bow hunting ,yeah right I counted 22 shots this afternoon on a weekday , a deer comes by at 5 ;15 about 50 yds away and I couldn't tell if it was a buck or doe for the light . At that same time one county over two teenage boys were hunting over a field at opposite ends of each other . One left the tree line walking to the truck because of darkness , the other seeing an object move fired a open sighted 30 30 at 150 yds at a moving target and dead centered his friend killing him .

 

[jelenko]

I have just two.

One day at my private club, I show up and there's a group at the 50 yard line shooting. I'm walking down to just to see how long they expect to be there. When I'm about 15 yards away, one of the guys turns around and starts to cycle his AK to unload the rounds with the muzzle pointing right at me. I took him through the basic gun safety rules.

At another private range, we're at the 300 yard line with a hot line. Another member shows up to do some work in the pits and starts to walk down the far left side of the range. We call out that the range is hot. He says he trusts us. A couple of us left.

 

[rwj]

I was at my local club shooting several years back. There was an all clear and we had guys down range. I'm standing there away from my gun minding my own business, when I look over and there is a guy sitting at a bench looking through the scope of a gun that has the bolt closed. Before I could say anything, he dry fired the gun with freaking people down range. I came unglued and had a bad case of tourettes on this guy. He looks at me and with a smug attitude he tells me he knew the gun was unloaded. I shit you not. I read this guy the riot act and he was not apologetic in any way. Matter of fact, he didn't seem to care. I was obviously not getting through. At that point, I told him we could go get the president of the club and see what he thought about the violation. Only then did he acknowledge he was in the wrong, but it took the threat of being kicked out of the club.

That is an act of commission and should have been accompanied by expulsion, or at a minimum a suspension of privileges.

 

[jimmymac]

That is an act of commission and should have been accompanied by expulsion, or at a minimum a suspension of privileges.

Agreed. I did what I could do and passed the information along.

 

[Doug Casner]

Another one. I was in Wyo. deer hunting a guy, not with me, had a 300 wby. mag. bought 300 win. mags for it. I didnt see him shoot it but he shot at a deer. Those win. mags pribably had a weatherby shoulder on them. Doug

 

[Shooter13]

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

Azz wipe!

 

[KMart]

Another one. I was in Wyo. deer hunting a guy, not with me, had a 300 wby. mag. bought 300 win. mags for it. I didnt see him shoot it but he shot at a deer. Those win. mags pribably had a weatherby shoulder on them. Doug

And very short necks. Years ago, a local range use to pick up the brass an put it inside for sale. You could dig through the pile and pick out what you want.
I was digging through one day and found about 6 very short necked and long shoulder 300 Win Mag cases. When checking out, I asked the clerk what could cause this. He told me a 300 Win Mag in a 300 Wby. He said we find these all the time.

 

[onelastshot]

Another one. I was in Wyo. deer hunting a guy, not with me, had a 300 wby. mag. bought 300 win. mags for it. I didnt see him shoot it but he shot at a deer. Those win. mags pribably had a weatherby shoulder on them. Doug

I'm sorry, when a guy shows up at camp with 300 Winchester ammo and he's holding a 300 Weatherby, it means, he never sighted the rifle in and he hasn't even fired the damn thing. Send his mentally challenged sorry ass home. I wonder if i should buy some 6.5 Creedmoor and try it in my 6.5-284; the Creedmoor ammo is a lot cheaper!

 

[Olspark]

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,,

I used to hunt with a group of guys and one of them consistently loaded two balls in his flintlock. No double charge though. More than one deer he shot had two holes in it. Not advocating anything just stating a fact.

 

[Belly Benchrester]

I shoot a 6.5 creedmoor lol

 

[Shooter13]

I shoot a 6.5 creedmoor lol

At least you know how to spell it correctly!! Nothing wrong with a CM except the ED of the 308 group that can't accept it, I shoot both. NO ED

 

[Old Navy]

Our local steel range has a white line two feet behind the benches. No one is allowed over it when the range is cold. The range is only as safe as the rangemasters running them. Our guys walk walk the whole line making sure guns are safe before anyone goes down range.