Did you ever?

[scaatylobo]

All the above and then some.

I am 69 years old in 2 months.

Been shooting all my adult life.

Most likely have had ALL the listed mistakes,and then can add a few.

Worst one was a few years back.

went to indoor range and with limited space I put all my ammo to shoot on small counter in front of me.

Wondered why the XDS .45 was blowing cases so wide at the mouth :banghead:.

Seems your not supposed to put .40 S&W in a .45 ACP chamber .

I figured it out AFTER having it happen the second round fired !.

Best part was = NO damage to the XDS [ well made gun ].

To be continued .

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Once when I was a new reloader, I took a box of ammo that I had just loaded to the woods deer hunting. I get there and go to load my rifle and none of the rounds would chamber. I hadn't trimmed them and they were long enough to not even chamber. lol

I started scrounging around behind the seat of my truck and found a half a box of Remington factory ammo. I was concerned about POI but luck was on my side and I killed the biggest buck I've ever killed to this day that morning. It's no trophy but it is my personal best.

 

[Bula]

I recently left a .50 cal ammo can about a third full of 9mm reloads on the range bench. Drove back that night and it was gone. Good Samaritan picked it up and let the range know he had it. Luckily I was able to get it back. Great group of Members at PRGC in Phoenix.

 

[BigBore44]

The two worst I've had....

Wasn't having the best day so I decided I'd go let off some steam at the range. Had some new reloads for my 444 and 45-70 I wanted to try and shoot for accuracy. Only had about an hour before sundown, so I grabbed a couple boxes of ammo, my lead sled, table, targets, stapler, and ear muffs and headed out. Now we've all been and a hurry and left stuff at home before......so....

Got to the range and set up the table. Grabbed my rifles and set them on the table. Then I grabbed the lead sled and put it on the table. Went to grab my targets.... Left them in top of my safe. Dammit. So I loaded everything back up and headed back to the house. Walked in, grabbed the targets and headed back out. Got back to the range and got everything set back up. Went to hang the targets an realized I'd left my stapler on my bed when I got my rifles out of the safe. No biggie. I can improvise. Now everything is set up and ready to go. Where the hell is my ammo? Next to my stapler. I just laughed, loaded everything up, and went home. Too many things were going wrong that day. Figured it best not to let Mr. Murphy have any more opportunities to ruin my day.

Second was I drove 45 minutes to go check out a new hog spot. Had 2 friends get chased out of there coon hunting the night before. Well I grabbed my dog, backpack, and my 45 and headed out. Got out, walked about a mile in, and realized my magazine well was empty. I'd taken the ammo out of it the night before to check for tarnished/corroded brass. Was the first time I'd done that. My 45 stays in its Blackhawk holster. And it's always loaded. But this one time... Never again.

 

[PabloJ]

I thought I was the only person who'd ever done that. By the time I realized it, I was a hundred miles from home.

That was not a problem and lot better than realizing having one just as "you" were about to enter scanner at an airport security check point. The latter situation would truly suck.

 

[Warp]

That was not a problem and lot better than realizing having one just as "you" were about to enter scanner at an airport security check point. The latter situation would truly suck.

What was not a problem?

 

[pittpa]

Sometimes it is not forgetting to bring something, it is forgetting (or not knowing) what you did bring. At airport security on the way to fly to Costa Rica, I was stopped at security with six 38 JHP rounds in my camera bag. I had put them there 6 months before while staying at a friends house out of town. Upon leaving I had not found them so used my spare ammo. A friendly county cop appeared with an empty retail ammo box, retrieved the ammo, having to rescan it to locate it. "No wonder you didn't know it was there", he said. He suggested I check it through or put it in my car. I was going to Costa Rica and my car was off site. We went out into the terminal, he took the rounds, and put me back at the head of the line. Imagine if the ammo was found while I was entering or leaving Costa Rica.
One time my friend used her range bag as a carry-on, something I avoid entirely due to powder residue. TSA found a 45 ACP round with a struck primer. A nearby shooter had ejected a dud into her bag. She pointed out the primer and explained, but they still detained her while they called the FBI.
i urge everyone to search every nook and cranny of all your bags before traveling.


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[RetiredUSNChief]

Heh!

I don't use any shooting bags for general travel bags. Though I'm considering taking my backpack out to the range and setting it next to me on the bench so I can get a buncha powder residue on it. Then see if they have to do a swab check next time I fly...

 

[The_Armed_Therapist]

Got to my range 1 hour and 15 minutes away to realize I left the range permit I printed, on the printer.

I've done this 3 times. I am pretty ditsy.

 

[plodder]

Got to my range 1 hour and 15 minutes away

An hour & 15 minutes to your range? I'm counting my blessings now with my 5 minute drive.

 

[Poper]

Did you ever?
Did you ever drive to the gun range only to discover that you left your ammo behind? It only took me the one time to learn that lesson.

No, but I did get to the range with the ammo to a gun I intended to shoot but left the gun lying on my work bench. <facepalm> DOH!

 

[The_Armed_Therapist]

An hour & 15 minutes to your range? I'm counting my blessings now with my 5 minute drive.

Yeah. :/ I live in the city, and any other range closer than that costs an arm and a leg ($15/hour/person or several hundred $$/year). I do most of my shooting when visiting my wife's family several times a year as her Father owns rural land with his own range. But, a few times a year I also drive to that distant range. It's only $5/day/person, and is much safer, cleaner, and comfortable than most ranges I've attended.

EDIT: I should add that I have a buddy about 20 minutes away that will let me shoot on his land, but I've only done that a few times when I had a specific, singular purpose (ie, testing a "repair" I made on a firearm).

 

[Rock185]

I've done some of those. The mistake that annoyed me the most was when I got to the range, but forgot the electronic card that opens the gate. I'd changed range vehicles and remembered to switch all my gear over to the other vehicle, except the gate card. Fortunately, the range is only 8 miles from the house.

 

[rondog]

At one time or another I've probably forgotten just about every piece of range gear in my normal load-out. Including my membership/gate access card. Guns, ammo, earmuffs, stapler, targets, shooting rests, etc, etc..... Forgotten pretty much everything but my shoes and my truck.

 

[pittpa]

Heh!



I don't use any shooting bags for general travel bags. Though I'm considering taking my backpack out to the range and setting it next to me on the bench so I can get a buncha powder residue on it. Then see if they have to do a swab check next time I fly...

Looking for excitement, are you? Things can't be that boring.


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[grampajack]

Pat McManus wrote an article on this very subject for Field and Stream that had me rolling on the floor. All I can recall is something about using a tie tack because he forgot his staple gun.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Looking for excitement, are you? Things can't be that boring.

Just poking "stupid" in the face.

Anytime they "find" anything, they do a package inspection. Which they seem to have to do anyway. If I come through a line with bottles of booze I just bought at the Duty Free shop, they have to pull the bottles out of my carry on and run them through the whiz-bang scanner machine to verify it's not some explosive compound. If I go through a scanner after standing in line for an hour with my backpack on, they "discover" a suspicious spot on my lower back that requires a physical inspection. That would be the sweaty portion of my shirt, where the backpack was resting against my back.

If a machine discovers an odd chemical signature to anything I have, they will inspect it and do a swab test.

 

[MIL-DOT]

About 10+ years ago, i drove from a county and a half away, down to the Rifle & Pistol Club on Fort Benning to do some long range shooting, and while almost to the main gate, realized I'd left my wallet and ID at home, and couldn"t enter the post !!!
I decided, "what the hell", it was a nice day, and I had nothing else to do, so I drove home,got my wallet, and then drove back down.
When i got there, they told me the adjacent ranges were hot, which meant we couldn't set up targets any further than 100 yds out !!!
:banghead:

 

[kimberkid]

You guys make me feel better about some of my trips to the range ...

At different times I've forgotten, mags, ammo ... Tools when I've gone out specifically to make adjustments or install & zero a scope ... A couple times I've forgotten to grab the main gun I wanted to shoot.

The one that makes me feel the dumbest is forgetting my key card.

 

[Lakeshore]

My range bag and gym bag look somewhat alike.

Awhile back, waiting with a bunch of other shooters for my name to come up at the range, I discovered I had dashed out of the house with the latter and had been standing around with a bag full of workout clothes. Awkward.

 

[Walkalong]

Seems your not supposed to put .40 S&W in a .45 ACP chamber

Or .41 Mag in a .44 Mag.

 

[Hookeye]

40 plus yrs.
Boringly uneventful.

 

[Bush Pilot]

I knew a guy that went on a sheep hunt in Canada and left his ammo at home. Luckily, the outfitter had a spare rifle and he ended up killing a huge ram. He never made that mistake again.

 

[Bush Pilot]

I've done the exact thing, 41 in a 44, I will say they did chamber easily.

 

[D94R]

The 'worst' thing I can remember during a range trip is discovering I failed to put powder in a reload. That squib ended the handgun shooting part. It also taught me to carry tools to remedy those situations.

Fire a round of 9mm in a .40.

I have a story about a situation like this.

A guy I worked with came out with a group of about 10 of us to shoot. He was a major goofball and this ended up being the last time I went out if he was joining.
Anyhow, he had bought his brothers "duty pistol" from him (brother was a New Jersey or New York detective or something) and was proud to have a pistol that "had been pointed at someone with intent".... SMH.

So, he's shooting this Beretta and about 5 minutes later comes up to me and says "D94R check this out, something is wrong with my pistol". He puts in magazine, racks the slide, pulls trigger... nothing. Racks it again, no rounds come out, pulls trigger again, POP! and bullet hits dirt about 30ft in front of him. Pulls trigger again, nothing. Racks slide again, pulls trigger, POP! and hits dirt in front of him again. He does this one more time confirming something is amiss.

I tell him to box it up and take it to a smith to look at.

About 10 minutes later he comes up to me with a casing he picked off the ground from the gun and says "I think I found out whats wrong" and hands me the casing. Yep, the mouth of the casing is hugely expanded and split. He says "the slide says 40, and I bought 9mm. My brother said it was a 9."

DOH!