What is the funniest thing you have seen at a local range....

[1911jerry]

What is the funniest thing you have ever seen or heard at a local indoor or outdoor range....

For me, I was shooting at a well known range near my house in Fremont and was in Bay #1. I had just put out a nice #5 target way at the back of the range, about 25 yards and applied a new Shoot N-C 8 inch paster right in the middle. I was loading and making ready when Blam. Some clown from bay #6 shot my target. We were the only 2 guys in the bays. I yelled at him....

" Good shot... you got the 10X ring"

He packed up and left.

It took me a few minutes to stop laughing and I often wonder what the guy was thinking. He only left one brass .45 ACP case behind. I quickly scammed it and dropped into my brass bag.

Lets hear from you all....

Shoot'n straight from the hip

Jerry Snyder

[moulton]

shooting my .22 semiauto rifle at the range, 2 deer, 1 buck and 1 doe walked casualy between the 100 and 200 yard targets while we were firing. They didnt even flinch . We called a cease fire, someone ran down and scared 'em off and we started shooting again, They came back . My friend complained because the week before he went deer hunting and didnt see a thing, had to goto the range to see the deer

[PanzerAce]

shooting a Glock 22 at my local range, fired the last round in the mag, slide locks back, and the brass hits me right in the middle of the forehead, after bouncing off both the pully motor and the deviding wall :P

Another time, my friend was shooting a Kimber .45 the next lane over, and the brass kept hitting me in the head.

[m1371]

Let's see......

There was the genius I was shooting next to once, while doing a firearms permit qual course.

Rangemaster was going through the usual commands, load, make ready, check chambers, holster, blah blah blah......

When the instructions to "perform a chamber check" were given, out of the corner of my eye I observe the genius next to me raise his handgun up to his face and peer down the barrel to confirm there was a round in the chamber.

Needless to say, I requested to be moved to another target far far far away from his.



Or the time I melted an m249 barrel.

Couldn't quite figure out why my rounds kept hitting below the targets, even with the extreme amounts of elevation I was putting on the gun.

[EBWhite]

I was at the LA range one time and there were these 2 guys (mexican gang bangers). They must have just picked up with mosin nagant from big 5 lol...A dear walks onto the range and the range master called seize fire...As the range master started to walk over to get the deer to go away one of the guys picks up the mosin nagant and takes a shot (200yds) at the deer. Barely missed it, he said "damn dawg i missed dat ****"...The range master kicked them out and called the cops...It was funny, i mean the deer was asking for it but it was not very smart when someone is down range.

[chickenfried]

Watching amendment II at the range, trying to get a shot in the black.

[bear308]

Recently the best one would have to be :

Angeles Shooting Ranges
Barret Single Shot 99 .50BMG Rifle.

I'm minding my own business slowly banging away at the 500 and 600 yard plates with my PPS in .308 and all the sudden I realize this HUGE rifle case on the gear bench next to mine. The owner (who I will have to try to refrain from calling names) started telling his friends about what it is and giving them the whole BMG attitude. While I'm shooting I intermittenly catch parts of their conversation.

"oh it has a really nice trigger, just got it back from Barret"
"yeah that first red plate is seven hundred yards"

things like that, so he sits down and starts shooting, fires a round or two at the "seven hundred yard" plate (really 400), not even close to hitting. Now it's time for his friends to shoot. Now I didn't catch any training leading up to it but the fourth or fitfth guy to shoot walks up and while standing to the left of the rifle drops his round into the loading port. He pushes the bolt home and closes the handle, then turns back to the owner with a questioning expression (not one hand on the rifle) and says "hey is this ready to" ..........




.... and the gun goes off. The brake worked pretty good, didn't get blown near as far off the table as I thought but it definitely got blown off the table. Thank god it was a single shot because as it fell it started pointing towards me. Lucking the one closest to the gun was ok, the gun looked servicable and aparently the scope was ok. The owner is pretty pissed(understandably) and starts telling (kinda scolding) him that you can't put the bolt farward without the safety on. About this time I'm stifling the biggest laugh attack I've ever had and the owner just keeps spewing bad/dangerous info to everyone around him. He kept shooting that rifle and I kept a close eye on their group, just a couple more rounds and I watched the thing go off when he clicked it off safe. After that they packed it up.

I'm sure a few people will say it's mean to laugh at him but oh well, I think it's freakin hilarious.

Maybe we should start a thread called tales of the range officer.

[grammaton76]

Story I'd posted on another thread about shooting over at San Gabriel last year or so...

There were a couple of Japanese guys a few lanes over who didn't understand English very well - I could understand most of what they were saying, but they apparently didn't understand the range commands that well. When they called the range hot, those two guys apparently misunderstood - they walked out as it was called hot and people started shooting. People yelling at them in English weren't getting any attention.

But, they DID run like HELL when I started yelling at them in Japanese! The one guy who heard me turned around, finally understood what was going on, and dragged his friend backwards by the collar about 20' to the bench. Then the semi-crusty RSO ambled over to have a talk with them, and I think it's probably best for the Japanese folks that they probably only understood every fourth word or so.

The RSO pointed out the Desert Eagle on my bench and pointed out that it would've been a perfect excuse to see what those 50AE rounds would do to human beings... brought up something about having served on the Pacific front in WW2.

The whole thing was on video, but unfortunately the camera wasn't pointing in the right direction when the guys went walking out on the range. But you could plainly hear everyone yelling at them, and the RSO commentary afterwards was priceless!

[avidone]

I was shooting at an indoor range and an LEO next to me was shooting his Glock 21 rapid fire. He went through 500 rounds this way emptying magazine after magazine. His ejected cases traveled in a perfect arc over the lane divider and showered my buddy and I. We would have normally moved, but were laughing so hard we just hung out in that lane and practiced shooting "under duress". That day we had both brought all of our .22 cal pistols so it was bang......bang (us)......BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG (him)........bang....bang(us)..... again and again.

I was thinking to myself "Wow, this guy has money to burn on ammo".
It was even more funny because we bought this big milk carton full of .22 ammo at Big 5 on sale for $9.95. We should have been the ones rapid firing.

[Justang]

I took a couple friends shooting for the first time. It was mainly men shooting at the range, with the ocassional wife along for the shoot, when the beautiful asian girl walks in behind her date. They were kinda dressed up a bit, the dude was wearing dress shoes and the girl was wearing high heels and very tight pants, so you could tell it was a date. The guy ends up having a Sig of some sort. They get themselves settled in and start shooting. Some of us were watching to see how things were going. Guy shoots first, then the girl. Every time she shot the clenched her butt. Half the range was looking at this girls butt watching it clench with every shot. It was marvelous butt I might add. Needless to say it was enjoyable. Then the guy decides he has to go to the restroom (I'm assuming that's where he went) while she was shooting. So, butt clenching and all I continue to watch... then the gun jams. The smart thing to do would to just put the gun down and wait for the guy to come back... nope, she just keeps pulling the trigger, looking at it sideways, wondering what's not happening. She then starts pointing it toward the rest of us... So I ran over and cleared the jam(FTF, appeared to be a light strike), handed the gun back to her and told her to keep it pointed down range no matter what. She smiled, said thanks, and was back to butt clenching.

[Henry47]

I took a couple friends shooting for the first time. It was mainly men shooting at the range, with the ocassional wife along for the shoot, when the beautiful asian girl walks in behind her date. They were kinda dressed up a bit, the dude was wearing dress shoes and the girl was wearing high heels and very tight pants, so you could tell it was a date. The guy ends up having a Sig of some sort. They get themselves settled in and start shooting. Some of us were watching to see how things were going. Guy shoots first, then the girl. Every time she shot the clenched her butt. Half the range was looking at this girls butt watching it clench with every shot. It was marvelous butt I might add. Needless to say it was enjoyable. Then the guy decides he has to go to the restroom (I'm assuming that's where he went) while she was shooting. So, butt clenching and all I continue to watch... then the gun jams. The smart thing to do would to just put the gun down and wait for the guy to come back... nope, she just keeps pulling the trigger, looking at it sideways, wondering what's not happening. She then starts pointing it toward the rest of us... So I ran over and cleared the jam(FTF, appeared to be a light strike), handed the gun back to her and told her to keep it pointed down range no matter what. She smiled, said thanks, and was back to butt clenching.

....and I'm assuming the pics are at the photo place getting developed?

[chickenfried]

Thank God I thought I was the only one that did that. Now I don't feel like such a weirdo.

Every time she shot the clenched her butt.

[1911jerry]

I would have been thinking, Ka Ching!!!! everytime a round came over the partition. I collect brass from the range and love it when I get showered.... penny here, nickle there....Thank you !!!

JS

I was shooting at an indoor range and an LEO next to me was shooting his Glock 21 rapid fire. He went through 500 rounds this way emptying magazine after magazine. His ejected cases traveled in a perfect arc over the lane divider and showered my buddy and I. We would have normally moved, but were laughing so hard we just hung out in that lane and practiced shooting "under duress". That day we had both brought all of our .22 cal pistols so it was bang......bang (us)......BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG (him)........bang....bang(us)..... again and again.

I was thinking to myself "Wow, this guy has money to burn on ammo".
It was even more funny because we bought this big milk carton full of .22 ammo at Big 5 on sale for $9.95. We should have been the ones rapid firing.

[phobos512]

Well let's see here...This last weekend my girlfriend Joanna, her son and I went to the range to pop off some 9mm for the first time and shoot the .22. So I'm shooting the 9mm about 2 lanes over from where Joe (her son) is sitting coloring while he waits to shoot the rifle. My girlfriend is sitting there too. So I'm shooting my first mag and she yells at me "Hey, watch it!" She was getting hit by the ejecting cases while she was loading the .22 mags for me. So she moves back a bit and I keep shooting. Joe stays put (actually he moves up a bit). All of a sudden I hear this "Ow!" I look over and he's rubbing his forehead and goes "Why'd you shoot at me!?" (he's 9, didn't understand it was the case, but he learned). Anyway we put 150 rds through the pistol and I keep hearing this "Ow!" every few rounds. Turns out the canopy over the firing line (outdoor range) was right over where I was shooting, and as the the cases were ejecting they were popping up, hitting the canopy supporting, bouncing off, and hitting him right in the head. It was pretty funny.

[petey]

At an indoor range, a guy brought his girlfriend in so she could shoot his 9mm. He fired off a mag, reloaded and handed it to her. She fired once, and dropped the gun. It fell forward, into the range. They called over the rangemaster, who called a cease fire, and they retrieved the pistol. She takes another shot, and drops it again. When they got it back, the guy unloaded the pistol, and they left.

I've seen deer at a sporting clays range.
Near Angels Camp, I had a cow walk up to me while I was shooting a .357

I once saw a muzzleloader launch his ramrod.

A couple of times I've had guys ask me why they couldn't load their SKS's. 7.62 Nato just wouldn't go in for some reason...

A guy was shooting his .44 Redhawk and missing everything. He saw me shooting my .357 and asked me if he thought there could be a problem with his sights. I made sure his .44 was unloaded, and I checked to see if his sights were loose or obviously out of alignment. There were no problems, so I asked if I could shoot it. I took a couple of rounds, but only loaded one. BANG, and the tin can fell over. I told him the sights were fine, set the gun down, and asked him to try again. He drops the hammer on the empty cylinder and the barrel moved about 1". I suggested that he might want to work on his flinch.

And of course I have to put up with the old guys telling me that my AR-15 is good for nothing but killing people, and the young guys telling me that my milsurps are going to blow up.