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

[JerryM]

We had an old sergeant in our unit. She must have been in for 25 years or so.

Every time we went to the range, it was fun times for everybody.

After 25 years, it would take over 30 rounds just to zero (mind you it was always her service rifle, so it should have been zeroed already).

But the funniest thing was seeing her try to slam the magazine into her weapon every way but the correct way. Upside down, backwards and upside down backwards.

I broke many a safety paddle hitting her Kevlar with it.

[bigmike82]

"Some particular letters come to mind, specifically STFU and MYOB "
Thanks for threadcrapping. :-p

Back to topic. Personal story of DOH!

I had this Howa 1500 in .30-06 a while back. I was a novice shooter, and hadn't shoot a scoped rifle in years...just the AR, which has very little kick. So I get behind the rifle, start looking down the scope, and keep moving my head around to get the best picture possible. Unfortunately...I had moved my head a little bit too close to the scope. When I pulled the trigger, the rifle recoiled back against my shoulder and the scope went WHAM right into my shooting glasses.

I get up and walk back to the bench, a bit stunned and thinking wtf. I take off the glasses and notice some blood on fingers, so I go the bathroom to see what happened.

Fortunately, it wasn't a serious injury...simply a small gash between my eye brows where the plastic from the glasses impacted my face.

I think this is what's called a life lesson...a mistake you only make once.

Oh, and I gotta give props to ESS eyewear. Those shades survived the recoil of a .30-06 without a scratch. Damn good buy for 70 bucks.

[MasterYong]

It sounds like you are taking my post very personally for some reason. But I'm sure I'm wrong about that.

No, not personally- I'm just curious why someone would chew out an entire group of people for something that as best as I can tell never happened.

If you're not going to address that, that's cool- just trying to help by pointing out that "STFU" is the equivalent of giving someone the bird in real life. If that's how you conduct yourself then by all means go right ahead.

[Fjold]

"Some particular letters come to mind, specifically STFU and MYOB "
Thanks for threadcrapping. :-p

Back to topic. Personal story of DOH!

I had this Howa 1500 in .30-06 a while back. I was a novice shooter, and hadn't shoot a scoped rifle in years...just the AR, which has very little kick. So I get behind the rifle, start looking down the scope, and keep moving my head around to get the best picture possible. Unfortunately...I had moved my head a little bit too close to the scope. When I pulled the trigger, the rifle recoiled back against my shoulder and the scope when WHAM right into my shooting glasses.

I get up and walk back to the bench, a bit stunned and thinking wtf. I take off the glasses and notice some blood on fingers, so I go the bathroom to see what happened.

Fortunately, it wasn't a serious injury...simply a small gash between my eye brows where the plastic from the glasses impacted my face.

I think this is what's called a life lesson...a mistake you only make once.

Oh, and I gotta give props to ESS eyewear. Those shades survived the recoil of a .30-06 without a scratch. Damn good buy for 70 bucks.

The cut is called "magnum eyebrow".

Wear a ball cap and adjust it so that if you get too close the bill touches the scope.

[Black Majik]

"Some particular letters come to mind, specifically STFU and MYOB "
Thanks for threadcrapping. :-p

Back to topic. Personal story of DOH!

I had this Howa 1500 in .30-06 a while back. I was a novice shooter, and hadn't shoot a scoped rifle in years...just the AR, which has very little kick. So I get behind the rifle, start looking down the scope, and keep moving my head around to get the best picture possible. Unfortunately...I had moved my head a little bit too close to the scope. When I pulled the trigger, the rifle recoiled back against my shoulder and the scope when WHAM right into my shooting glasses.

I get up and walk back to the bench, a bit stunned and thinking wtf. I take off the glasses and notice some blood on fingers, so I go the bathroom to see what happened.

Fortunately, it wasn't a serious injury...simply a small gash between my eye brows where the plastic from the glasses impacted my face.

I think this is what's called a life lesson...a mistake you only make once.

Oh, and I gotta give props to ESS eyewear. Those shades survived the recoil of a .30-06 without a scratch. Damn good buy for 70 bucks.

That's funny. I've done that too, not once, but twice, also by 30-06... I didn't get scope eye, the impact was caused by the frame of my eyewear.

So, instead of scope eye two hours in I took off my Oakleys and it looked like I was growing a unicorn on my forehead.

[rgs1975]

I once fitted a nice scope to my Enfield No.1 MkIII. I was using a relatively junky scope mount that I can't even remember where I got. I sat down, took the rifle out of the bag, popped the caps off the scope, unscrewed the adjustment tower caps, loaded the rifle and got fixed in for my first shot.

The range was pretty busy. The bench right behind me (about 5 feet back) was full of guys taking a break or waiting their turn.

I pulled the trigger and bawham (damn that gun is loud). The scope instantaniously flew off the scope mount, traveled completely over my head (no, it did not hit me) and landed in the lap of one of the guys sitting on the becnh behind me. I had no idea at first where it went.

Totally embarassed I turned around to look for it, fearing I'd see it laying in a pile of glass shards on the concrete pad. I looked for 2 or 3 seconds (which felt like a lifetime) and the guy who caught the scope stood up, smiled and said "Lookin' for this?" as he handed over the pristine scope to me.

I never did get a scope put on that old .303.......

[MAC USMC]

At the range I saw a rather pushy "instructor" volunteering advice to an older lady. He went through the proper way to hold a pistol, sight picture, stance, breath control -- the whole gamut.

She was very polite to him and thanked him. His target was placed at 10 yards, hers was at 25 yards. After about six minutes, he cleared his weapon , walked behind her and observed that most of her shots were in the "X" ring with none outside the 10 ring. He packed up and left. She is a Camp Perry competitor, a certified firearms instructor and a nice person.

[Ninja45]

Two funny stories come to mind:

The first one happened to me. I was shooting a 1911 that I put together from parts collected from my frequent gun show excursions. I was on my third magazine, shooting at a steady cadence of bam-bam, bam, bam-bam, bam, when all of the sudden I heard a click instead of a bam, and some pieces of my pistol ejected into the firing line...my recoil plug decided to separate so part of it flew away followed by my recoil spring 10 feet away from the firing line. I told the shooter to my right that I ran out of ammo so I was try to hit my target with other metallic projectiles! hahahaha

Next one: I was at the counter waiting for my range assignment when a man came out of the indoor range holding a stainless 1911 rental in his left hand while his right hand was pressing into a bloody gash on his cheek. He said that something was wrong with the pistol as it caused the bloody facial injury. The range employee asked him what happened. The man said, "I don't know, I took aim, pulled the trigger and wham, the pistol separated and hit me on the face!" We all looked at each other, wondering what he meant. The employee asked him to demonstrate exactly what he did, and the man proceeded to show us all. He took the pistol and took aim, putting the sights an inch away from his right eye with his cheek directly behind the slide (like aiming a rifle)! The group groan from the small crowd was heard across the parking lot.

[MrClamperSir]

He took the pistol and took aim, putting the sights an inch away from his right eye with his cheek directly behind the slide (like aiming a rifle)!

Wow, I would've liked to have seen that.

[Stryfe76]

Wow, I would've liked to have seen that.

Thats like the smart ones who try to look through the scope like it's a peep hole with the stock above their shoulder like an RPG.

[cryoguy]

my wife has called me all sorts of names for reading these funny stories and laughing out loud. I think she thinks I am going crazy or something... So Funny...

[johnthomas]

This has nothing to do with guns but....Has anyone seen that commercial for the service you call and ask any question and they will answer it? The question is, can you milk a hamster, it cuts to someone trying to hook an itty bitty milking machine to a hamster and the hamster squeals. I thought this was the funniest commercial I have ever seen but cannot find it on the internet.

[cryoguy]

Ok here are my funny stories.

1st one is about myself. I was at the Western Division Matches. during one of the practice days we were practicing speed reloads from the holster when I miscounted the number of shots fired not realizing there was still a round in the chamber. I preceded to do as instructed to complete a speed reload by bringing the weapon up to eye level muzzle pointed up ( so you can visually see the magazine enter the weapon with the rounds also pointing up to reduce errors in loading) And when I slammed the magazine into the weapon I was reminded that my finger was left on the trigger which resulted in a round going strait up! Luckily for me no one saw or heard me but man I nearly pissed myself. Now it is a constant reminder every time I pick up a weapon how easy it is to screw up your day...


and the second was when A young Marine at a local on base shooting competition loaded his rounds in his 9mm Barreta backwards, then tried to chamber a round. I got a pic with my cell phone and will try to post. The entire line was laughing at this guy....

[Z ME FLY]

Ok here are my funny stories.


and the second was when A young Marine at a local on base shooting competition loaded his rounds in his 9mm Barreta backwards, then tried to chamber a round. I got a pic with my cell phone and will try to post. The entire line was laughing at this guy....

I love it when people do that at the range. My post I have here talked about the same story. Expect for one of the guys was a handgun expert who knew everything.

But being a Marine and doing that..... he must have gotten A LOT OF CRAP for that! haha

[fusionstar]

Some guy was all talking about how his gun is brand new and so cool and wouldn't stop bragging and dropped it on the ground as he tripped while walking back to the car on 120+ degree asphalt with sharp gravel.

The kind of trip like, the gun was a hot potato and he couldn't catch it and steps on his other foot and falls stomach/hands first to the ground. Hard enough he had to get up, pick the stones out of his hand and read adjust his shoes and pants. You could tell he was mad cause he peeled off out of the parking lot. lol... His gun flew maybe 7 feet away from him haha...