The funny things we do on the range

[HANDLOADER]

I have just got back from my first IPSC match and am total siked. Any way I got to thinking what I did wrong in my head and came to the conclusion I am trigger happy. How do I know this I fired 60 rds in a 28 rds stage. Just my luck. It was a steel stage and I had trouble with the small plates. So then I got to thinking what else had I done wrong this month on the range. Then it hit me I fired about a dozen 303 Brits which were my cast bullet loads. And at 50 yds they hit a foot high and could not figure it out. Got home and was cleaning it and the sights were sight for 300 yards. Just my luck again. So the question still stands what kind of funny things have happened to you while at the range.

GOD BLESS

Handloader

 

[Huddog]

Did the same sight trick with my Mauser the first time I fired it. Fired the first 5 at 100 yard target, didn't make a hole. The friend who was spoting laughed his ass off. Since we didn't have a large target so I could see where they might be hitting, I was putting the rifle back in the case to take it back to the safe in frustration when I noticed the sights were at the 200 yard setting. I reset it convinced my friend that laughing was not such a good idea. The mauser is much more accurate than I.

 

[ar10]

Not so funny but it happens. ( see it because I work at a range).
1. Women, particularly new shooters, always tend to wear some type of "low" v-neck blouse, shorts and sandals. Guess where at least one of the fired cases end up going, then the bare arms, followed by the mid thigh area.
2. (I just luv these guys). Four or five guys show up with a single AK47, one or two Hi-Point "cool guns" and 500-1000 rnds of Wolf ammo, and manage to go through all of it in under 2 hours.
3. Shotgunners that think that bird shot will knock down steel plates at 25 yards. And others that can't understand way buckshot misses the target at 150ft.
4. Then there's the range cat who shows no fear running across the 28 bay live fire range while hot in hot pursuit of a critter he flushed out of the corn field next door, and lives.

 

[SapperMapper]

Regarding no. 4 -

Why does every outdoor range I've been to have a range cat?

 

[wyosasquatch]

The range doesn't so much have a cat as the cat has a range to live at

 

[Sunray]

"...just got back from my first IPSC match..." Have fun did you? That's what IPCS is for. Both IPSC and IDPA are shooting games and nothing more.
"...had trouble with the small plates..." With what firearm? What ammo? How small were the plates? How close?
"...my cast bullet loads..." Did you work up the load and sight in? Mind you, 50 yards is too close for a .303. Cast or otherwise. Check the headspace on your rifle and go here. http://www.303british.com/

 

[jerkface11]

2. (I just luv these guys). Four or five guys show up with a single AK47, one or two Hi-Point "cool guns" and 500-1000 rnds of Wolf ammo, and manage to go through all of it in under 2 hours.

Yeah they have a lot of nerve having fun at a gun range.

 

[eflatminor]

60 rounds on a 28 count stage...slow down grasshopper!

 

[Jeff F]

Mind you, 50 yards is too close for a .303. Cast or otherwise.

Oh yea, tell that to the last deer I killed. Lowest setting on my sights are 200 yards and I have never had any trouble hitting from point blank to way way out there after I shot the .303 for awhile and learned the cartridge.

 

[Pat-inCO]

2. (I just luv these guys). Four or five guys show up with a single AK47, one or two Hi-Point "cool guns" and 500-1000 rnds of Wolf ammo, and manage to go through all of it in under 2 hours.

The ones like that I've seen usually take about a half hour to go through the first 200 rounds (figure out how to load it) and then finish the remaining rounds in the next half hour (gun at the waist, just blasting). - - Mall Ninja style.

 

[hotshotshoting]

ar10 on my indoor range we had 1 young lady who wore the low cut v-neck shirt.. we recommended she borrow 1 of our collared shirts to avoid shell casings but nooooooooooo we don't ever know what we are talking about so she will be fine...

1st shot fine
2nd shot fine
3rd shot down the shirt
off comes the shirt.... as she ripped her shirt off the shell casing went down the front of her pants...

off came the pants....

i think she learned a valuable lesson though... always wear underwear to the range...

(she was standing there naked)

 

[Boris Barowski]

I never understood why people jumped up that much when they caught a freshly fired shell casing. I learned to shoot with a 45 ACP, and the brass didn't get that hot. Now I shoot a .40, and that brass is _HOT_

 

[Vermont]

So I was at the range the other day and this guy was letting his girlfriend shoot his AR-15. She was shooting it at 25 yards and the shots were hitting the berm literally six feet above the target. The guy asked where she was aiming and she said "at the target" and he explained to her that she needed to aim well below the target because the rifle was zeroed for 200 yards.

It took a few seconds for it to sink in before I started chuckling.

 

[3KillerBs]

I've had brass down the V-neck once. DH was as new to handguns as I was and the range owner who'd given us our safety instruction didn't have much experience with female shooters. Fortunately since I had recently been a short-order cook I didn't panic about getting burned and just reached down the V-neck and retrieved it. It only takes once to learn. Shooting is the only reason I even own crew-neck shirts.

On the bare arms it just bounces off so that's better than long sleeves in hot weather. Same with sandals by my calculation -- a burn once in a blue moon beats regular agony from sweaty, overheated feet.

The hat and safety glass are, however, absolutely non-negotiable. Brass bounces off that hat all the time (not from my gun -- from others' guns), and I'm NOT shooting without it.

 

[scrat]

been there done that. To the point to where when we leave the range i am asking my boys what could we have done better. Then before we go to the range we go over that list. When doing this we find that we are getting better at what we are doing.

 

[Aaryq]

You have to remember the standard forgetfulness.

Bringing Guns A, B, and cC and bringing ammo for guns B, C, and D.

Bringing my corrosive surplus and forgetting windex.

Forgetting the targets.

Forgetting the stuff to put your targets up.

 

[scrat]

Range rod. i forgot it the past two times going to the range. i was shooting a muzzleloader. ended up having to use the one on the gun.

 

[alemonkey]

Why does every outdoor range I've been to have a range cat?

Never seen a cat, but we have a turkey.

 

[scrat]

hahahha i was shooting at a range way up north on vacation a couple of weeks ago. There was a cat there. Freaked me out. couldnt figure out how the cat could take the noise. must have been near deaf

 

[3KillerBs]

You have to remember the standard forgetfulness.

Bringing Guns A, B, and cC and bringing ammo for guns B, C, and D.

Bringing my corrosive surplus and forgetting windex.

Forgetting the targets.

Forgetting the stuff to put your targets up.

Forgetting the key to the gun lock for the gun you brought.

Yes, of course they should all be on one ring. But the gun locks come with 2 keys each and there are 4 shooters of age to have possession of the keys to the guns they use most often. The numbers don't work out.

 

[g.willikers]

No range cats in these parts, the range dogs chased them all away. One of the dogs discovered an entertaining game for itself - trying to catch bullets. It must have seen one of those old variety shows where a guy catches bullets in his teeth or something.
At the sound of gunfire, this mutt would run out in front of the shooter, jump up and snap at the bullets zipping downrange. Somehow it survived and only got occasionally nicked. One ear got a small chunk shot out and there were a couple of bullet caused furrows in the fur around its neck, but otherwise it never got actually shot.
Don't think it ever actually caught any bullets, though.
One crazy dog, for sure.

 

[hotshotshoting]

3killerbs... i cant tell you how many trigger locks or as we call (paperweight makers) we have had to pick the lock, or cut it off

its probably over 100 in the last year alone..


when catching shell casings its all about not letting them sit in 1 place....

the smaller the shell the hotter... it has to do with alot with surface area and thermodynamics...

.22lr is 1 of the hotest casings..

 

[jrfoxx]

ar10 on my indoor range we had 1 young lady who wore the low cut v-neck shirt.. we recommended she borrow 1 of our collared shirts to avoid shell casings but nooooooooooo we don't ever know what we are talking about so she will be fine...

1st shot fine
2nd shot fine
3rd shot down the shirt
off comes the shirt.... as she ripped her shirt off the shell casing went down the front of her pants...

off came the pants....

i think she learned a valuable lesson though... always wear underwear to the range...

(she was standing there naked)

hotshotshoting, where is your range, and do you need an unpaid RO? I'll keep and eye on things for free.....


I've forgotten ammo for a gun a few times. once took my bench and its associated stuff...minus the chair. Kneeling behind your bench gets real old, real fast, especially with bad knees (Still did it until the pain was just too much though, as I hate be a quitter, but as soon as the scope for that gun was sighted, it was all off-hand the rest of the time, and was still a short trip).

Worst was when I first got my inherited Win model 70 30-06 here from where it was stored for years in MI at parents house.Was trying to sight in the scope after installing it the night before, and at 40yds or so, the rounds were hitting the dirt at like 15-20yds . Kept adjusting the scope, and getting no better-still hitting dirt. start looking at the gun, and notice the scope is on a slant . Turns out, it matters which ring is in the front, and which in the rear, as they arent the same height to compensate for the shape of the receiver area they mount on. OOPS. Felt pretty stupid. They sure look the same at a glance, but they sure arent.

Worst, was I had posted a pic of the gun on here the night before, and looking at the thread after the sight-in fiasco, one of the 1st posts asks if that scope was slanted, or just an illusion......

I quickly took a new pic with the mounts corrected and edited the thread, but still had to own up to my stupidity since someone has caught it.Still got that schmuck on my "ignore" list...... (just kidding about that part )

 

[hotshotshoting]

range is in daytona beach Fl

its pretty easy to find being its the only indoor range within 60 miles ... if your not leo

 

[e7grt5]

Forgetting the key to the gun lock for the gun you brought.

Yes, of course they should all be on one ring. But the gun locks come with 2 keys each and there are 4 shooters of age to have possession of the keys to the guns they use most often. The numbers don't work out.

Throw lock and keys in trash.

Forgetting the targets.

Forgetting the stuff to put your targets up.

All part of shootin'