Do you ever see this at an indoor firing line? People talking on cell phones.

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Anyone ever see this at a live indoor firing line?

This has been a growing trend locally.

Your shooting at the a range full of people. Suddenly you hear a cell phone ring. A shooter takes off his/her hearing protection and proceeds to hold a conversation at an indoor range with concrete walls.

Yesterday, a person got offended when he was talking on his cell phone when the person next to him started to shoot a semi auto shotgun. He was complaining how rude it was for the person to shoot a shotgun at an indoor range while he is talking on the cell phone. Mind you, there was about 10 other people shooting, but the person with the shotgun was shooting Wolf buckshot which made it too loud to talk on his cell phone.
 
What kind of fool takes a cell phone call on a live firing line at the range? I don't see how he could possibly expect to hear anything. I'm amazed he heard the phone ring.
 
I've answered a cell phone at an outdoor range using earplugs. I listened to the call through the ear plugs. Was difficult, but I was able to say "I'll be home in 20 minutes" --- (yeah right!! haha) It was a 20 second call.

If you take off your ear protection in an indoor range, especially one that alllow rifle fire - you're asking for permanent hearing damage.


Last time I was at an indoor rifle range, I was next to a guy with a .338 Lapua Magnum...I had to exit the range, take off my muffs, then insert ear plugs, then put the muffs back on and then it was ok.
 
I get called on occasion while out at the outdoor range...because of the electronic earmuffs, I can "hear" static as the phone starts to pick up the incoming call a second or two before it rings. Make sure everything's safe, then step back fifty feet or so before talking.
 
I used a cell phone while on the firing line once. An old friend of mine I hadn't talked to in a while called me up while I was at the range. So I answered the call while firing off a few rounds screaming "I can't talk right now, I'm a little tied up."

:scrutiny:
 
I've stepped back from the line of an outdoor range and tucked the top end of my flip phone under my muffs. worked great, hands free. doing that at an indoor range is pure madness though.
 
I used a cell phone while on the firing line once. An old friend of mine I hadn't talked to in a while called me up while I was at the range. So I answered the call while firing off a few rounds screaming "I can't talk right now, I'm a little tied up."
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LOL, what did he say?
 
Wouldn't it be wonderful if cell phones were made with a way to switch them off? The manufacturer who introduces that feature would make a fortune because it would allow people to stop being rude, self-centered, arrogant, self-important jerks who impose on other people by requiring them to tolerate their selfish behavior.

An off switch on a cell phone would be especially useful at a shooting range, I think, because then the cell phone could be switched off and the range could be used for shooting instead of as some jerk's telephone booth.

The funniest thing I saw last week was as I neared a hotel conference room at just the moment a meeting took a break. Out poured thirty or forty men, each of whom drew a cell phone, and all of whom tried to make a phone call at the same time while trying to dodge the others who were trying to do the same thing in the narrow corridor. Every one of those lemmings gave annoyed glances at every other one of them because all of them had difficulty hearing their conversations. It was like watching the damned circulating in their special room in hell. Great fun, but still there's a fortune to be made by the first company that makes a cell phone with an "off" switch.
 
What about the person on the other end of the phone call? Myself, I might get a little irritated if I called someone who is unknowingly out shooting (aside from the fact that they are shooting without me, of course :D)and they answered. Though to be honest, I have idea how loud the shots might come across.

This almost ranks up there as talking to someone who answers while they are on the throne. Please, please, don't answer, listen to my voicemail and call back.
 
I don't understand how we became a society where everything must stop because a person is trying to call someone. Voice mail is there for a reason. If you are doing something (like driving or shooting!), let VM get it and call them back later! :cuss:
 
Don't use indoor ranges anymore but if I did, some halfwit on a cell phone would be my cue to break out a beta mag and put a loud and sustained disruption to the genius's call:neener:
 
Cell Phone and Electronic Ears

When I had access to an outdoor range I would often use electronic muffs. One day my cell phone range, but the muffs picked up the signal and the muffs rang (not my normal ringtone, but a LOUD high pitched scream) I nearly threw them to the 100 yard berm (probably an exageration). I do not use the electronic muffs often, and I never take my cell phone.
 
Could have just been "odd happenstance", but I was recently in the cell-phone store. Guy was saying to the tech that when he tried to use his phone, people couldn't hear him.

Guy had been to the indoor shooting range, tech concluded that the microphone in the cel-fone was bad. Tech stated that it could have been the concussion forces that broke the phone.
 
Here is the quote from Frank Drebin:
Thug: Drebin?
Frank: Yeah!
Thug: I got a message for you from Vincent Ludwig.
[Shoots gun at Drebin]
Thug: Take this you son of a bitch!
Frank: I can't hear you! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!
 
Cell phones aren't allowed inside the range at my local place for obvious safety reasons. Take out your cell phone = get the boot.
 
Suddenly you hear a cell phone ring. A shooter takes off his/her hearing protection and proceeds to hold a conversation at an indoor range with concrete walls.
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Yes. I switched to the Tokarev and did rapid-fire. :evil:

At a rifle range, that's when you'd hope someone has a Mosin-Nagant.
 
My wife has called when I was shooting at the indoor range. I answer, say I can't talk, and will call back. Then I move off the range, and call back.
 
My wife calls me while I am at the shooting range, even though I've asked her not to disturb me at the range unless it's an emergency.

Without fail, I receive atleast one call from her each trip. Of course, I let her leave a voicemail and then check it during ceasefire, just in case it IS an emergency. It's always something trivial that could easily wait until I get home. :rolleyes:
 
As has been mentioned already, i would be extremely loathe to use a cell phone at a firing range- especially an indoor one- because of the change incolved that such use would blow out the microphone. Much easier than you think.
 
That's when I put down the .22lr and pull out the .45:D

Three times a week, I have 20-45 minutes at the range before picking my son from Taekwondo practice. Last night, my B2 target was looking really good/wobble was tight until someone's cell phone "rang" (some wild ring tone) and I oblidged with a flyer up in "6". Recovered until I burst laughing as someone shot the ceiling and a good amount of ceiling tiles came crashing down! It was time to leave.
 
He was complaining how rude it was for the person to shoot a shotgun at an indoor range while he is talking on the cell phone.
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:scrutiny:
I suppose if this guy was eating a sandwich in the men's room he'd also think it was rude of me to take a dump while he's eating.

The jews have a wonderful word for people like this; schmuck.
 
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