The funny things we do on the range

[ar10]

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.

We never try taking off the locks, otherwise everyone who forgot their key expect us to do it for them. Best lesson in the world is having to go x amount of miles home to get the key they forgot in the first trip. So far it seems to work fine

Our range cat just showed up. I don't know if he's deaf (Oh yea, he is a male), or not. He's also the best food thief I've ever seen. We do warn everyone to eat their food immediately. He also loves range bags. If they leave it open he jumps in and goes to sleep.

 

[86thecat]

Going back down range to chase the deer away that were still laying down behind the berm, after you already went down range to set out targets.
Looking under the seats for ear plugs, and finding only one.

 

[Aaryq]

Forgot about the ear plugs...

I once went to the range with my wife (the day she outshot me) and forgot my ear plugs...My wife realized that I'm a gun nut when I stopped the truck and threw it in park, stopped grabbing guns because I realized I forgot the ear plugs, started to turn around when my wife found...COUNT IT...12...COUNT 'EM TWELVE boxes of earplugs I grabbed and forgot to take them out on previous occasions.

I'm always set up for the range because I always have ear pro.

 

[RDak]

I get to the range and try to load my 1911. The slide moves back WAY to easily (and everything seems loose and is rattling).

I forgot to put the recoil spring, guide rod and guide rod plug back in the gun when I oiled it up before going to the range! (No, I take that back, the guide rod was in the gun and that is what was rattling.)

Everything was still sitting on the workbench when I got home. How I didn't realize this when putting the gun back together is RIDICULOUS!

The gunshop/range employees still laugh over that one. Whenever I bring in the 1911.... well you know what I hear.

 

[3KillerBs]

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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.

Nonsense.

When you have small children, especially intelligent small children, multiple, redundant safety precautions are the only responsible option.

Our guns are either on our bodies/under our direct control or locked up with gun locks on them and bolts locked up separately from the bolt-action rifles.

After all, the 8yo knows how to put the bolt into his Crickett and, of course, how to load it. The 2yo, in handling his toy cap pistols, shows knows how to cock a revolver and proves that he can pull a trigger no lighter than the one on his sister's Hi-Standard revolver.

And both have seen us load magazines and load the magazines into the semi-autos many times.

If you think a kid either can't figure out how to load a gun and prepare it to fire or how to cock it or if you think a kid isn't going to be strong enough to pull a heavy, double-action trigger or if you think a child who knows better can always be trusted to behave as he ought to behave then you are dangerously naive.

A small child with a "good idea" can get into amazing amounts of trouble in extremely short amounts of time.

 

[Old Grump]

Fort Riley Kansas at the 5th army championship matches many moons ago. Slow fire string with 45 at 50 yards, first shot off to one side, make my adjustment, 2nd shot to the side make my adjustment, this goes on for 4 rounds then when I made the last adjustment for the last shot the sight fell off. Total score for those 5 rounds-'5'. Raised hand and tried to call alibi and was laughed at but they did let me shoot my next 5 on the next relay after range gunsmith replaced my sight. Funny thing is I never had to adjust it after installation, it just happened to be zeroed. Following year on the same range with the same gun my last shot of the day sent my bushing, recoil spring and plug down range and I never noticed because I just put the gun in my box, went down and scored and went to the barracks. Pulled the gun to clean it and discovered it wasn't all there. Got back to the range just as the last relay had finished up and this young shooter was bringing the parts to the gunsmith trailer as I was bringing him my gun. He just raises an eyebrow at me and says "Rear sight working?", I nodded, "Trying to make me rebuild your gun?" All the guns he works on and he remembers me?

 

[Rugerlvr]

I learned to shoot with a 45 ACP, and the brass didn't get that hot.

I've been burned pretty good by .45 ACP. Still got the scar.

 

[Bart Noir]

(she was standing there naked)

Was there ever a thread that more deserves the old complaint:

"This thread is worthless without pics!"

Bart Noir