Double Naught Spy
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TMJs pistol bullets with their shiny butts are great to watch going down range if you have the sun behind you.
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Riomouse911
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That’s the rare .308/‘06, one of the few rimless cartridges that headspace on the extractor...
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Bwana John
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If you look closely there is shoulder after its "fireformed"
Neck tension ain't so great though.Seems like when you get a lot of M1 Garands in both 30-06 and 308 together you find these type of cases on the ground. The funniest part is nobody noticed anything wrong... until the brass is picked up.
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Riomouse911
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If you look closely there is shoulder after its "fireformed"
At least the shooter wasn’t firing a .270... then there would probably be bits of stock, bolt, magazine and maybe even bits of fingers mixed in with the brass on the ground...
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Re Qualifying on the M-16 range. We had a real Jackrabbit run from one end, all the way across to the other end. No one managed to hit the lil fellow. But dirt was kicking up all across the front as he went across.
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My brother tells the same story. He was in from 76 to 80.
Dead Eye Duck
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well we must have been in the same class I was there from 1976-78 lol
Terry G
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Just happened Friday. My Friend and I went to shoot our yearly LEOSA qualification. Now everyone shooting is a former or active LEO. The last stage of firing is four shots at 25 yards. You pick the position. 25 yards with a good handgun isn't exactly point blank, but it's sure not long range. One shooter complained pretty loudly that the range of 75 feet wasn't realistic. No matter, shoot the course or don't. He got himself down in the prone position. The line officer did a double take and had to control himself. I've never seen that before. You really need only one hit to qualify at the 25 to qualify. If you can't do that I would suggest selling your handgun and buying a shotgun.
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Just before covid a man was showing wife how to hold and shoot a handgun. While the two of them were holding the gun, I'm watching them do this thinking to myself this is not good he told her to fire it. When the slide came back it ripped his hand to shreds, blood everywhere. Had to shut the range to clean it all up. One range employee was a army medic and was able to somewhat stop the bleeding and suggested he get to a hospital asap. He said it's fine, trying to be as manly as possible, the look his wife gave him would pierce steel and she said get your ass in the car we're going to the hospital. Haven't seen either one of them at the range since.
One other time a guy was shooting a Sig mosquito and the gun literally blew up, slide broke in half and parts went flying every ware. I couldn't believe a 22LR could cause that much damage. Luckily no one was hurt.
One other time a guy was shooting a Sig mosquito and the gun literally blew up, slide broke in half and parts went flying every ware. I couldn't believe a 22LR could cause that much damage. Luckily no one was hurt.
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Technically he was correct. 25yds IS an unrealistic distance for accuracy or speed training. I wouldn’t engage at that distance unless I had no choice. Even though CAN hit the target 10 of 10 at 25yds. However, it’s very common for LEO departments to have a qualifying field at 25yds. The range I managed had a number of LEO organizations that contracted with us for qualifying. I watched each one and they ALL had at least one 25yd qualifier. A few had several strings at that distance. Besides that, a few had some of the most bizarre training circumstances I’ve had eyes on. Thing is..those with the most outlandish qualifying regime, had the WORST shooters among their ranks. These were just downright embarrassing.
Terry G
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If I couldn't a silhouette target 4 time out of 4 in the kill zone from a standing position I would have wanted to be failed.
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By the time you’re ready to kill yourself, the rest of everything is irrelevant. Suicidal ideation is a powerful thing.
David Hoback
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I guess... It’s simply not something I can understand. I’ve been disabled, lost all my physical prowess, live with 24/7 debilitating chronic pain.... and all of this is NOTHING! In 2008 my wife & I lost our 2yo daughter. My little girl died in arms. She was everything! And I could do nothing to save her. Pain, agony & despair was my life for many years following. Yet suicide never entered the equation. I have two other children, and most importantly....The Lord’s Will for me was not finished. In fact I have a smile most of the time. I can’t drive... I can’t even walk very much. Pain controls my life. But I am happy because of my relationship with Christ. I am happy for the blessings he has bestowed on me.
So... to me, suicide is a path of week character.
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Everyone had different strengths. To say that suicide is weakness makes the issue worse for a lot of people. Some of the strongest guys I ever knew, fought many battles against many enemies and only lost the battle with themselves. It’s not a question of strength.
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Craziest thing I've seen at a range was In Las Vegas about 1980 and this guy comes in with an Uzi, full auto. It looked brand new, and the guy and his buddy load up about 10 mags with 124gr ammo and start blasting. The owner of the gun shot first, and he at least hit the target most of the time. He shot small bursts, and seemed to know what he was doing. His buddy gets his turn, slaps a mag in, and starts spaying all over the place. A couple hit the floor, a couple hit the wall to his right (only one lane away) and some hit the target he was shooting at. The rest went through the roof of the range. One of the owners comes running in and starts to grab the guy but freezes and waits to make sure he was empty. "What are you doing?" The guy looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language, and the owner yells "You blew a bunch of holes in the roof!", and grabs the gun from him and says, "$25 a hole!". There was $200 worth of holes in the ceiling/roof! He paid it and the owner showed him how to shoot it without it spraying all over, but as soon as he's on his own, he sprays again! No roof holes this time, but he did shoot 2 of the wires that the targets moved on, his own and the one to his left. The owner who yelled at him the first time, and one of the other owners came in and told them to leave. He refused, saying he was going to pay for it and the next thing I know the owners had him in an arm lock and were walking him out the door. He called the police to complain about getting tossed. "Private Property, and you are 86'ed from coming back!" As the idiot was getting into his car, he asked, "What is this, Nazi (blank) Germany?". We all laughed at that, it was the #1 phrase of people getting tossed out of casinos in Vegas.
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Our bp rifle club often holds informal shooting events at one of our members woods. He has a 'woodswalk' set up of ten metal clangers. We shoot about 40 yards across a ravine and into the natural berm on the other side. You may load powder and ball, but do not prime until you are standing on the firing line with your foot touching the wooden dowel that serves as a marker. The target is often (purposefully) obscured when you get in position. You may have to crouch or kneel or stretch out to get a clear shot.
One particular clanger has a bullseye center flapper that must be reset if hit, which it rarely gets hit.
Our club president at the time, ambled up to take his shot.
He was attending to his rifle in the classic manner of barrel pointing downrange, rifle cradled in the crook of his left elbow. He primed the pan with his right and was lowering the hammer to the half-cock notch when something created a spark and the rifle went off. Every thing was ok except his britches.
All of us in the area heard the distinct sound of the center bullseye clanger. He had hit the target dead-center from the crook of his arm.
With the cheers and jeers, he scored a fat zero for not having his foot touching the stake.
One particular clanger has a bullseye center flapper that must be reset if hit, which it rarely gets hit.
Our club president at the time, ambled up to take his shot.
He was attending to his rifle in the classic manner of barrel pointing downrange, rifle cradled in the crook of his left elbow. He primed the pan with his right and was lowering the hammer to the half-cock notch when something created a spark and the rifle went off. Every thing was ok except his britches.
All of us in the area heard the distinct sound of the center bullseye clanger. He had hit the target dead-center from the crook of his arm.
With the cheers and jeers, he scored a fat zero for not having his foot touching the stake.
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Worst thing that immediately comes to mind is a guy I walked up on at the range. He was shakey, trembling, talking my ear off a mile a minute with the life story and was not in good control of his rifle or sidearm. I reminded him of the condition of his weapon a few times while I was there. It was getting irritating quite honestly, nice guy, just off. I dont think this is what it was but I immediately wondered "meth"?
He was intelligent but there were obvious issues. Bad finger discipline, repeatedly observed a hot rifle with the finger on the trigger while yapping away like 6 hairdressers put together.... I was quite on edge. He was definitely dangerous. After he left the other guy that showed up while we were there was just casually observing and occasionally exchanging a raised eyebrow with each other at the obvious lack of awareness and exaggeration of his shooting skills, etc....
Once Mr. Scary left the other guy said, "yeah that guy is weird, he left his AR here and it was gone for over two weeks when we called him and told him we recovered his rifle, he had no idea it was missing" then he says "and it's not the first time its happened with one of his guns"
He was intelligent but there were obvious issues. Bad finger discipline, repeatedly observed a hot rifle with the finger on the trigger while yapping away like 6 hairdressers put together.... I was quite on edge. He was definitely dangerous. After he left the other guy that showed up while we were there was just casually observing and occasionally exchanging a raised eyebrow with each other at the obvious lack of awareness and exaggeration of his shooting skills, etc....
Once Mr. Scary left the other guy said, "yeah that guy is weird, he left his AR here and it was gone for over two weeks when we called him and told him we recovered his rifle, he had no idea it was missing" then he says "and it's not the first time its happened with one of his guns"
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