What scares me the most are all the holes in the ceiling at public ranges, some of which are nearly overhead! 
On the bright side, the barriers between the lanes seem pretty solid and are generally undamaged (at least from gunfire), but I still don't understand how people can have so many apparent NDs (luckily while following at least one of the safety rules, I guess, although discharging downrange would be preferable). I've only personally witnessed a new ceiling hole being created once, and it was by a guy who claimed that he was trying to decock his .44 Magnum revolver. That's a reasonable explanation for an unreasonable action. For safety's sake, even if you think you've expended all of the rounds in the cylinder, aim the revolver at the target and pull the trigger to decock it if necessary!
Keep doing that for a while without cleaning, and then try to load and extract your .357 Magnum cartridges.
Oh, yeah? My autoloader can shoot .40 S&W, .357 SIG, and 9mm with a simple field strip and barrel swap (and a 9mm magazine). Others can shoot both .45 ACP and 10mm Auto. Can your revolver do that?
Now wait a second, sometimes the wrong people get killed by the carelessness or stupidity of others.
Sometimes they're named after the case diameter--especially when a heeled bullet was originally used--and sometimes they're named purely for marketing purposes (e.g. .357 SIG) or to distinguish between different cartridge designs that have the same actual bullet diameter (e.g. .222 Remington and .223 Remington, both of which have .224" wide bullets
).
On the bright side, the barriers between the lanes seem pretty solid and are generally undamaged (at least from gunfire), but I still don't understand how people can have so many apparent NDs (luckily while following at least one of the safety rules, I guess, although discharging downrange would be preferable). I've only personally witnessed a new ceiling hole being created once, and it was by a guy who claimed that he was trying to decock his .44 Magnum revolver. That's a reasonable explanation for an unreasonable action. For safety's sake, even if you think you've expended all of the rounds in the cylinder, aim the revolver at the target and pull the trigger to decock it if necessary!Keep doing that for a while without cleaning, and then try to load and extract your .357 Magnum cartridges.
Aren't revolvers beautiful?
I do that dozens of times per range session! Sometimes when I'm in a wierd mood I shoot .32 ACP and S&W Longss out of a Nagant revolver!
Silly bottom feeders can't hang.
Oh, yeah? My autoloader can shoot .40 S&W, .357 SIG, and 9mm with a simple field strip and barrel swap (and a 9mm magazine). Others can shoot both .45 ACP and 10mm Auto. Can your revolver do that?
Now wait a second, sometimes the wrong people get killed by the carelessness or stupidity of others.
Sometimes they're named after the case diameter--especially when a heeled bullet was originally used--and sometimes they're named purely for marketing purposes (e.g. .357 SIG) or to distinguish between different cartridge designs that have the same actual bullet diameter (e.g. .222 Remington and .223 Remington, both of which have .224" wide bullets
).
