Stupid Shooters

[Dannytheman]

Guy splits his eye open while sighting in a 30-06. Sighted just a tad to close?

As RSO, I yell cease fire when I thought I heard a squib, while a Doofuss in lane 12 keeps shooting. when I get to him, he looks and says, " I didn't know you meant all of us."

Indoor range, catch a guy attempting to bounce rounds off side wall onto target. Bye, bye.

Guy hands his girlfriend his 44 magnum Blackhawk. 1 shot, gun lands hard and bounces on concrete. Have you seen what concrete does to stainless?

[bombadillo]

When I go to the indoor range, I just notice a LOT of shots straight up above my head, INSIDE the dividers that are between the lanes, and shots on the shelf or whatever you would call it that you set your guns on. Are people THAT bad of shots that they hit everything else around them but the paper???!!!???

[sl0re10]

It's not a range story, just a dumbass individual story.

One of my buddies used to think it was hilarious to take his semi auto pistol, remove the mag and completely unload it, lock the slide back then shove it in the face of his room mate and release the slide via lowering the slide lock. Scared the **** out of her and he thought it was great.

I never saw him do it but I did tell him what a jackass he was and why. I think he took my not so subtle hints and has since thought about firearm safety a bit more.

Oops; didn't know you were kidding. Sorry about the steak knife piercing your heart. Dad always said; best to take them with you.

[someoneeasy]

There are some great threads on this topic going back years. The search feature is something that I cannot figure out how to work, but there was guy named Fred I think that had a thread about all the stuff he's seen working at Sharpshooters in Torrance.

Crazy stuff. Funny too.

i been trying to find that thread! I even went back to the beginning of a few forums trying to find it, no luck.... but i shall try searching Fred and sharpshooters in Torrance to see if I have any luck.

[Vin63]

At Targetmasters in Milpitas, I had a lady in the lane to my left pointing a loaded pistol at me while talking to her friend on the next lane over. I packed up and asked the range master for a different lane. When he angrily asked what my problem was. I told him, and got yelled at. I never went back.

I'm not sure who was worse..the clueless lady, or the idiot range master.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me there in '93. Told the range master, and he told me to "relax" and "don't get all excited about nothing," except as soon as return to my lane, the girl negligently discharged her handgun and the round went through my lane divider. I told the range master and he yelled at me about bothering him about nothing, Never went back...spent the rest of my range times while I lived in San Jose at Metcalf.

[dgax65]

Back in the early 90's I used to shoot at place off Hwy 39 in the mountains above Azusa. Pigeon Ridge wasn't really a range, just a spot in the mountains where people would go to shoot. You had to hike about a mile up a fire trail to get to a little clearing where you could shoot. My friend and I came around a blind corner on the fire road and had a round pass right between us at head level. Some knuckleheads had set up their targets on the fire road. They were shooting straight down the fire road and their target backdrop was the blind corner we had just rounded.

The only reason I liked shooting there was that it usually wasn't crowded on weekdays and and I figured the hike up to the range would discourage most idiots from shooting there. Geez, was I ever wrong about that. I should have learned my lesson and never gone back there, but I didn't. The next time I went back I nearly got killed.

[Picturepro]

4 years ago at OnTarget during Xmas the lane next to me someone kept rapid firing like he was playing a video game at home.
The target was maybe 10 feet out and the clip holding the target, swinging back and forth. A piece of metal sherd off and hit
me in the eyebrow. Cut me open and blood flowing down my face I went to the counter and said now I'm hit and bleeding its
time you tell Rambo to stop shooting and leave. He made one announcement "No rapid fire please" that was it. I picked up my
stuff and left for the past 4 years going to Oceanside Ironsights.
The last Month or two went back there, figuring the employee had left or fired.

[Adam_12]

When I was first getting in to shooting, someone called a cease fire at Spenceville. A handful of people went out to change targets, which included someone setting out a rather large TV. Most of the people had returned to the line but before the TV guy could, someone from the rifle end of the range felt it necessary to fire a 30-06 through the television before the TV guy could return to the line.

Don't frequent that place too much anymore.

[smak28]

I admit it happened training my girlfriend where she turned around almost 90 degrees from pointing down range with the pistol but I quickly stopped her from turning 180 degrees.

I also did experience a time when a group of about 8 hippie looking folks (not meant to be offensive but they had those rainbow tye-dye shirts) were renting guns including a .44mag and probably 7 out of 8 were first time shooters. It was obvious they've never handled a gun before as the recoil knocked off their balance and were swinging the firearms around. The range masters saw them and they were asked to leave due to safety reasons.

[DennisCA]

At Targetmasters in Milpitas, I had a lady in the lane to my left pointing a loaded pistol at me while talking to her friend on the next lane over. I packed up and asked the range master for a different lane. When he angrily asked what my problem was. I told him, and got yelled at. I never went back.

I'm not sure who was worse..the clueless lady, or the idiot range master.

I've been to that place a couple of times (although not in a long time) and every time I was there I had to keep watching the people next to me. The last time I was there I saw so many unsafe acts, that I swore I would never return!

[skosh69]

Was at USI in Concord last year and a guy and g/f were a couple spots down. I was keeping an eye on her as she was the "giggly" type. You guessed it, every time she shot the pistol, she'd turn her head around and yell "woo wee, I hit the target".

That was all fine and dandy until she started to turn her body with the gun and do it. I yelled down to her the first time to keep the barrel down range. Her b/f said something to her. Then she did it again. This time, I screamed at her loud enough to get he attention of the RO's. B/F started to give me flak and I told him if his g/f couldn't keep the gun up and down range, to GTFO, I'm not losing my life because of her stupidity.

RO's agreed with me!

[Sir Toast]

I saw a dip**** in Irvine, (range closed now), when we were all to stay clear of all the benches and firearms while the target guys went down range to do their thing on their ATV's. Some dip**** wandered up to the benches while talking to someone else and started finger f'ing his rifle and it went off. The target guys were down range and were almost hit. For some reason, the guys in the range booth didn't hear the shot go off so he wasn't "punished" for his retardation. Who leaves a loaded rifle on the bench like that?!?

[Barang]

Only been shooting a year and so far the worst that I saw at my range was some people don't wear ear protection.

[Rosereader]

One time at P2K one of the guys I was with (first time shooter) felt the proper way to load his rented 1911 was to hold it at a 90 degree angle to the target and to release the slide on the fresh magazine in that position, all the while with his finger on the trigger.

Pointing right at me and the (thankfully unaware) couple next to me. He now gets to practice with rifles that are too long to make such mistakes with The only reason he gets a get-out-of-jail pass was because it was his first time. If he does it again he will be making lonely range trips from then on.

Another time was my fault. Cooked a shell in my Mossberg when it was the only gun I had (first time shooting it). Was resting on the bench pointed downrange at the time, brushed by me and the good natured man next to me. Had no idea what happened so I put it back in its resting/downrange position and ran off to the range master to troubleshoot. Learned very quickly to leave all weapons action open after than! Just glad I was smart enough to leave it pointing the right way!



And the final piece of idiocy is what I see everyone do their first time; firing a weapon once, rechambering and handing the now live weapon off to its owner. I do not approve.





OH! One more. A woman at San Diego Police Supply company wanted to buy a personal defense gun. Pointed a Glock right at her own face. I doubt any gun shop would hand a loaded weapon to someone but holy hell send her to some safety courses before you sell her anything.

[Yreka]

At Targetmasters in Milpitas, I had a lady in the lane to my left pointing a loaded pistol at me while talking to her friend on the next lane over.

Don't know what it is about TargetMasters, but I see more dumb **** there than anywhere else. Last time I was out there, I was with some friends from Denmark who were first time shooters.. 2 lanes down, we had a gaggle of flat-billed dips##ts posing for pictures with their rental guns pointing side-range. Used them as a good learning experience on what NOT to do ( and switched to the other range) SMH

Livermore R&P OTOH, has pretty good range SO's.. Then again, they don't rent guns either which probably cuts back on the moron factor..