Dumbest thing you've seen at the range?

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Wow. You all have made me very much appreciate the range I go to. Those guys keep a tough stance on anything. You screw up due to ignorance, they will generally give you a warning. You screw up by deliberately ignoring the well posted rules...see ya.

Heck you can't even shoot at that range without first watching a 10 minute video, that steps through the rules.
 
Lets not kill this fun 15 page thread with Redneck jokes I know they are jokes but let one person take it the wrong and make a witty comeback and this fine thread will be shutdown. Thanks Fellas.
 
wrong end of a gun

I looked to the side, along the firing line, and saw...

A man had a misfire; no shot, in his pistol; semiauto.
He turns it around looks down the muzzle and shakes it!
I couldn't yell, just sucked breath, and had to turn away from looking.

He must have cleared the misfire, because he was still there and continued to shoot.

One of those things "you will never forget."
 
almost lost some toes

Good times. As a range officer in MD (indoor range) about 15 or so years ago, some little asian fella was using a rental gun - a stainless walther PPKS. He loads the thing and must have decocked and I guess thought there was something wrong with it when he went to fire because the double action pull can be a bit "hard" on them. Anyway I look up when doing my walk up and down the line and here comes knucklehead with a Walther pointed at me still trying the squeeze the damn trigger - I swear he mouthed "it no shoot."
Of course before I could get to him it went off and took a chuck out of the floor by my foot.
He left mighty quick with some assistance.
 
I didn't see this myself, but I saw it on youtube.

Guy has a Glock 18 and shoots it using a forward vertical grip attached to the rail. Didn't put the screw in to lock it in place or it sheared past the notch, and when he went FA, it recoiled back and up, and he tried to compensate using the forward vertical grip. The grip came off the rail and he shot himself in the hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fcg543Jow
 
A guy shooting 9mm in a 40 cal Glock. He couldn't figure out why his cases where bulged and he couldn't get a decent group. RO came over to him - looked at his gun, pulled out the magazine and told him maybe it was because you're supposed to shoot 40 cal in a gun chambered for it and not 9mm.
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27399337/

This takes the cake, *** is an 8 year old doing shooting a micro Uzi or whatever that model is called in the first place?

A couple of my friends coworkers were pretty close to this when the kid shot himself. One still has nightmares about it, he said their was blood everywhere, and the kid was screaming for a bit.
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At 18 years old, I fired a full-size Uzi and it had a lot of muzzle climb. Letting an 8 year old fire a Micro-Uzi is way stupid and near-criminal. If he wants to go full-auto, find a .22 FA or a belt-fed. Not an oversize pistol that trys hard to shoot you in the head. Last I checked, this is not the Matrix and you can't fire Micro-Uzis in one hand like Trinity.
 
At 18 years old, I fired a full-size Uzi and it had a lot of muzzle climb.
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Interesting. I've had the opposite impression.

If you watch the video on the front page of Larry's site here: http://vickerstactical.com/ they discuss a bit about the design of the telescoping bolt of the Uzi and how it makes it more controllable in strong-hand only fire than other sub guns.

-Sam
 
The only thing that comes to my mind is, at a local range a few months back a guy with his buddy were tossing a revolver back and forth they only did it a couple of times before the range manager asked them to leave, thank god for camara's. Would you believe they wanted there money back.
 
I remembered one time when I went to the range with my dad to try out a new tomcat that was bought for my mom and he brought the wrong ammo for it, when he chambered it a .25 slide right down the barrel.
 
One day at the local indoor range that I frequent a few new skylight holes had been blown in the ceiling. They were not there a week ago and I don't believe the staff installed them.
 
Bovice said:
I didn't see this myself, but I saw it on youtube.

Guy has a Glock 18 and shoots it using a forward vertical grip attached to the rail. Didn't put the screw in to lock it in place or it sheared past the notch, and when he went FA, it recoiled back and up, and he tried to compensate using the forward vertical grip. The grip came off the rail and he shot himself in the hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fcg543Jow
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I have seen this on youtube too and my question is-How was the pistol even legal? Was it a LEO capture that they were just testing? Is THAT even legal?

(The youtube video depicts a full auto Glock 17)
 
Watched a buddy take out a ceiling tile at the local indoor. First time ever shooting and they hand him a pistol-grip 12ga...:rolleyes:
 
I have seen this on youtube too and my question is-How was the pistol even legal? Was it a LEO capture that they were just testing? Is THAT even legal?
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If it is a converted G17, as the misleading title suggests, then it could certainly be a G17 converted to full-auto, legally registered NFA Title II, prior to 1986. That could be owned by anyone who can afford it and who has filed the Form 4 and received the tax stamp from the BATFE.

It could be a Glock 17 converted to full-auto buy a SOT Class 2 manufacturer after 1986 and owned by them or a SOT Class 3 dealer. (Or owned by a law enforcement agency.) These would be known as "Dealer Samples," and cannot be transferred to private citizens.

I don't believe there are any such "transferrable" (registered before 1986) actual G18s, but there are some real ones in the hands of Class 3 dealers and law enforcement agencies.

Without knowing the specific identities of the folks in the video and the status of that gun, it wouldn't be possible to say what's really going on there, but there's no reason to conclude that they aren't legal.

-Sam
 
The dumbest thing I ever did was going to the shooting range for the first time alone, I understood all the rules of operation of my gun, but not transport, I completely unloaded my gun and took out the magazine assembly and walked off the line with it, and luckily the Range Officer was polite enough to give me a stern warning without yelling at me and throwing me out forever. The funny thing is that it was at the official NRA range, but I guess we are all allowed one obviously dumb mistake. The only other infraction I ever had was putting two rifles in the same case, and having one pointing each direction, I didn't think it was a big deal because one was a Mosin Nagant without the bolt assembly, but luckily they have taught me a lot about firearm operation.
 
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