People you wouldn't expect to find at the range

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Yesterday night, I saw a fellow wearing an "MIT Alumni Week" tee shirt.

Now, I may be biased, but I wouldn't expect to see too many geek-school grads at the range. (As a recovering Ivy League :rolleyes: grad, I can say stuff like that.)

What sort of folks have you seen shooting that you wouldn't have expected?

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You got "geeks" out here too!

After all, add in reloading, bullet making and etc, and it do get a bit technical, don't it?
 
I was at a range the local indoor range on my lunch break a few weeks ago and a couple walked in together. The female was wearing a buisness suite (nice skirt and coat) and they guy was in a formal suit as well.

They came in there with what looked like a piece of carry on luggage converted into a rolling range bag.

I never did see what they were shooting, but it was odd to see suits on the firing line.
 
There are more geeky types into guns than you would think. After all, nerds like stuff that's technical and cool.

Guns are technical and cool.

Therefore we like them.:D

I don't think that there's really any sort of person that I wouldn't expect to find at the range. Maybe a big part of that comes from having been part of a college rifle/pistol club where we had a huge cross section of not only genders and backgrounds, but nationalities as well. :cool:

Heck, even Tom Diaz owns handguns.:scrutiny:
 
People often looked surprised to see me on the range, or in the gun store - until recently, hair past my shoulders (cut for various reasons not of my own liking nor choosing), usually in a Kiss T-shirt, or one of various other bands (My Kiss shirt collection is my largest, and favorite), jeans - I look like a hippy, more or less. No one expects me to vote Republican, either, but I do, and I smile when I do it :D .
 
I don't know if this qualifies or not.

Back in the day, I worked as a paramedic for a private ambulance company. This was back in the days before political correctness and lawyers didn't totally dominate every aspect of our lives. About six of us at that company became obsessed with bowling pin shooting, but the local match was held on an evening when we were all working. No problem, we went to the field supervisor and asked if he could arrange it so we could be in that part of town and be out of service for about a half hour. So, if you had been at the range, you would have seen an ambulance pull in the parking lot, two uniformed paramedics get out of the ambulance carrying range bags, we go in and shoot. We drive away as another ambulance pulls up and the whole senario is repeated two more times.

You also might be hanging out at a local gun store, see two paramedics walk into the store pushing their gurney. They purchase a rifle, place the rifle on the gurney and cover with a blanket and leave.
 
Before my daughter got married she used to get into my safe, get out some guns and away to the range she would go. At that time she was in her 20's. She already had her Texas CHL.
She would really get some looks when she went to dragging out my Ruger SRH .44 mag out of her range bag. Some how a young nice looking woman isn't supposed to shoot large caliber guns. She enjoys shooting the larger calibers, but usually carries a Taurus model 85.

Jim Hall
 
i'm a geek. i'm also a young female. i've gotten some strange looks from others (all males, sorry). there was one guy who seemed convinced i was going to drop my P90. he just kept checking to see what i was doing. never said a word to me. i should have turned and done this :neener:

jade
 
444, LOL, I need lube--stat!

pd, what do you mean "geeks" don't like guns?!?! [El Tejon looking out windown--ouch, the sun, the sun] My office is right across the river from the Land of the Black & Gold Slide Rule--a hotbed of gun dorks.

What better people to know if you have a problem gun than engineers, 'puter types, or chemistry majors.:D
 
I'm with Aahzz, with my long hair I get some funny looks at the range. Most people assume I'm some kind of Hippy fruitcake, when actually I'm a gun owning Metalhead. I guess I need to wear leather more often.:D
 
Knowing the 130+ members of the local gun club, I know we have vast diversification of people. From students, retired, Dr's, lawyers, judges, college professers, blue collar, CEO's, self-employed, disabled, you name it, we probably have them. And all in little 'ol S/E Kansas.
Come on down sometime, and we'll go bust some caps!
 
Yeah what Justin said; the indoor range I used to manage was across the highway from Intel's main plant in Santa Clara, CA, and those guys were over alot.

We had informal groups of enginners and programmers from pretty much every tech biz in Silly Valley come in. Propellor heads like cool gadgets; guns are cool gadgets.

We'd have qeeks from Amdahl come in and tack up IBM promo material to their targets.

When Linux World was in town we'd be packed with penguin logo'd guys three deep.

Oh yeah and when AMD had Japanese engineers in town we were a regular stop on the tour.
 
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Systolic Array - An array of processors, each recieves data from one neighbor, processes such data, then passes the data on to the neighbor opposite the one data was recieved from.


Also, a characteristic of hackers (which also extends to non-hacker geeks) is to enjoy individual sports, such as shooting, archery, etc...
 
Gang banger types...

You would be amazed at the child-like joy expressed on the faces of gang banger type dudes that come in to shoot without having to run like hell after they empty their mag.
 
I would be more surprised to see a sociology type at the range than an engineer/geek. Most engineers have an appreciation of fine machinery and how it all works.

Greg
 
The 3 biggest geeks at work are now goign to the range together.... Darrin, Rod, and I. We show up about once a week to the free range and shoot anything and everything. People sometimes wonder why geeks like guns....its that whole CounterStrike connection i think :)
 
Gang bangers. Or at least people who look like them. Hmm, what exactly do they look like? I feel safe with -- excess gold chains (and no leisure suit), gold capped teeth, baggy Raiders jackets, baggy shorts (undies showing), $150 basketball shoes, tattoos of dead homie's names, holding the gun sideways, ghetto idioms I cannot understand, and a perma-glare attitude.

Did I miss anything?

And why aren't they practicing at home...
 
Penforhire, you forgot the do rag with a cap over top of it, on sideways.
 
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