What are some of those bonehead mistakes that you've done out on the range that you're almost embarrassed to talk about?
For me it would have to be when I had to qualify during the police academy. Everyone knew I was a gun guy throughout and always asked me gun questions. I even had a multitude of nicknames from the instructors such as Takckleberry, Psycho, Francis (as in don't call me Francis) etc.
So anyway.....finally comes range week...the time I've been waiting for after 17 weeks. All week I'm shooting just about perfect scores and going head to head with a friend of mine who was a former air marshall and delta force operator (damn he was a good shot). So then comes the last day and time to fire for qualifications. We shoot a 60 round course and you need 80% or 48 hits to qualify. You carry five 12 round mags and do mag changes throughout. So I'm goin through and have a perfect score and think the shooting award is all mine. Until that is I go to reach for my 5th mag and see that it's completely EMPTY!!! I look down in horror as I realize that I was talking to someone when I was loading up and hadn't loaded one of the mags in my pouch. I made a plea to the instructors on the range but no dice......had to qualify with the ammo I had on me. So minus a whole mag I shot a 48 out of 60 and qualified with the bare minimum. :banghead:
As you can imagine I've had my balls busted many times for that incident. Whenever the Capt. from the range sees me he always says that whenever he talks to new recruits he tells them about the guy that came through that could shoot the wings off a fly....he just couln't count!
For me it would have to be when I had to qualify during the police academy. Everyone knew I was a gun guy throughout and always asked me gun questions. I even had a multitude of nicknames from the instructors such as Takckleberry, Psycho, Francis (as in don't call me Francis) etc.
So anyway.....finally comes range week...the time I've been waiting for after 17 weeks. All week I'm shooting just about perfect scores and going head to head with a friend of mine who was a former air marshall and delta force operator (damn he was a good shot). So then comes the last day and time to fire for qualifications. We shoot a 60 round course and you need 80% or 48 hits to qualify. You carry five 12 round mags and do mag changes throughout. So I'm goin through and have a perfect score and think the shooting award is all mine. Until that is I go to reach for my 5th mag and see that it's completely EMPTY!!! I look down in horror as I realize that I was talking to someone when I was loading up and hadn't loaded one of the mags in my pouch. I made a plea to the instructors on the range but no dice......had to qualify with the ammo I had on me. So minus a whole mag I shot a 48 out of 60 and qualified with the bare minimum. :banghead:
As you can imagine I've had my balls busted many times for that incident. Whenever the Capt. from the range sees me he always says that whenever he talks to new recruits he tells them about the guy that came through that could shoot the wings off a fly....he just couln't count!