"The 'average' shooting: less than 10 feet, less than 4 seconds, less than 4 rounds, diminished lighting. - “Jim Grover”, G&A 1996
I've heard the 'rule of threes' from various sources. 3 yards, 3 seconds, 3 rounds. Either sounds about right.
My local place (Shoot Straight in Tampa; unfortunately they have the only nearby range)
sucks at pricing. One of the guys mistook my dumbfounded look over the price of a
used .22 (Raven, I think) for interest.
"I've had one of those for years, shoot bullseye competitions with it. $240's the lowest you'll find around here."
The older guys know to keep me away from prospective customers, because I'm likely to turn to my friends and announce "$700 for a used PCR? These people are high! I got mine
new for $540!" loud enough that every customer and employee--
especially the employees!--in that quarter of the store can hear me.
I've done this on a few things now. 3rd-gen S&W's, NAA .22 Mini's ($250 used), SKS's ($550), AR's of varying sorts, 870's ($375 used), a Bubba'd non-matching Mosin Nagant M44 ($285)...
In fact, I rarely see anyone actually
buying a gun there, that isn't a competition model, suppressed/supressable, or a Sigma...