Frustrating day at the range

[rattletrap1970]

I belong to 3 private ranges in CT. 2 of those are installing cameras because paying members are shooting up their OWN club. You can't make this crap up. So now you have to be spied on at your own range because of these POS's.

 

[GunsAmerica Fan]

I don't know why you didn't vent there and take charge as the rangemaster because they were causing an unsafe situation. It says in the bible, "where there are no men, be a man". Sounds like a man was needed that day.

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

I don't know why you didn't vent there and take charge as the rangemaster because they were causing an unsafe situation. It says in the bible, "where there are no men, be a man". Sounds like a man was needed that day.

That might have turned out well, and it might have gone very badly. One idiot can generally be handled or reasoned with, but a pack of idiots is a dangerous thing. I don't believe I would have confronted them alone. Had I been in the OP's position but with a group of my own friends as backup, I might have confronted them, but alone certainly not.

My father-in-law and I shoot at a semi-public range maintained by the Ky. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. All of the local LEOs in that neck of the woods train at the same small facility. They come out at off hours to do simulation types of training. I can tell from locations of brass I've picked up that they are doing move-and-fire exercises against multiple targets, and from the volume of brass I've picked up, they do LOTS of that training.

In all the time Jim and I have used that range, we've only run into any of the LEOs once, and when we showed up, they dropped their exercises and instead went to marksmanship shooting so we all had room to shoot safely.

They were really pleasant to deal with.

I'm sorry your range got overrun by the mall-ninjas.

KR

 

[oneounceload]

You could have done the world a favor when they ran in front of you....oh well..........I have been to ranges like that - it usually doesn't take more than a firm word or two and shot downrange when they're acting like a mall ninja to convince them to get in line

 

[Zoidberg523]

I shoot almost entirely in public ranges. When i bring along my M 44 mosin and shoot at 50 yds, sooner or later the next shooter will leave owing to the blast . Then i have the pleasure of having a good table to my self.

Now shooting next to a guy firing continuously with an AR can be deafening. But again, once i shoot my mosin nagant carbine rifle, they stop and back off.

+1 I always bring my M44 with me to the range, and if there are rude or unsafe shooters (who are usually, IME, inexperienced and/or stupid enough not not wear hearing protection), I will let off shots until they leave (usually before I have to reload).

Nothing like watching a bunch of jerks (trying to show off to lady friends, and trying to trick said friends into shooting shotguns) flinch like wussies as that gun barks (especially if your girlfriend has covertly warned the girls to cover their ears).

 

[MinnMooney]

They still need to show common courtesy even if they do work for Blackwater.

Sounds like "Range Hogs" to me.

 

[loud-mouth shnook]

Once at a public indoor range, a big ol' he-man-type fella came in with a .410 single-shot and a "Look at me! I got this here gun thus my male member is now gargantuan and no man is my equal."-type attitude. I was already preparing to shoot and I was in the stall next to the one he chose to occupy. After every one of his shots, I could hear a "plink" on the ballistic glass partition between our stalls. Turns out he was ejecting the empty .410 hulls sideways to get my attention and then sneer at my li'l "one-handed" gun.

After I fired my first 2 shots, this genius stuck his head around the glass, puffed out his chest with an annoyed demeanor and said, "Hey, pal! You wanna try not to be so LOUD?"

I guess he found a .44 magnum 240 gr. JHP over 23 gr. of H110 to be impolite.

What would Martha Stewart say?

I've had reason enough lately to repeat a certain phrase in my mind so often that it's almost a mantra:
"How hard is it just to choose NOT to be a jackhole??????"

 

[liikeaboss]

He seriously told you to "hold it down" at the range?! Roflmao. This is further proof of de-evolution. Lol.

 

[loud-mouth shnook]

No kiddin', man.
I was just reinforcing to the OP that we feel his pain.
Apparently, there's a jackhole farm someplace that's runnin' 3 shifts a day, the way the public's been saturated with 'em.

 

[gym]

They will be 4 well dressed targets if they are heading to Iraq now.

 

[Mr.Davis]

Sounds like some seriously unsafe behavior. We often discuss the need to completely avoid dangerous situations whenever possible over in S&T, and this actually might qualify. It's a bummer to leave the range when fools show up to ruin your day, but I'd hate for the damage and misbehavior to be blamed on you because you chose to hang around.

I shoot almost entirely in public ranges. When i bring along my M 44 mosin and shoot at 50 yds, sooner or later the next shooter will leave owing to the blast . Then i have the pleasure of having a good table to my self.

Now shooting next to a guy firing continuously with an AR can be deafening. But again, once i shoot my mosin nagant carbine rifle, they stop and back off.

Sounds like you're a real charm. Intentionally running others off so you can shoot, then coming here to brag about it? Get over yourself.

It says in the bible, "where there are no men, be a man". Sounds like a man was needed that day.

Where does it say that in the Bible?

 

[JTHunter]

LMS - that takes a lot of gall to ask you to "hold it down". Hopefully, you just kept shooting and he left.

 

[omegaflame]

If someone is using a really loud gun, I put 32 NRR disposable ear plugs in under my 22NRR electronic hearing protection (and turn the amp up so I can hear the rangemaster).

Only works well if I'm shooting alone though.

 

[Phydeaux642]

I grab my stuff and come back and there is a couple of people all decked out in their IBAs and LBVs looking like they were going to war that had put their stuff in my spot. I was upset about that but the guy in the other spot was going to leave soon so I let it go. After a few more mins two more people show up dressed the same as the other two, which it turns out they were supposedly going to go to Iraq and work for Blackwater so they wanted to get a bit of training in and make some youtube videos.

Sounds as if Gecko45 has spawned.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Yeah, and real contractors have real places to train, and tend to shoot in a T shirt and nice pants, maybe cargo, may jeans, and talk about working, it being hard, and generally give you the impression they are something like middle management at a large but un-named corporation, but they like to practice with their guns to blow off a little steam.

Or they just kinda pass themselves off as LEO or military but never say anything out right.

Mall ninja, unlike an actual ninja, do their best to be seen and noticed, often only dangerous to themselves, except for the incidental danger to bystanders due to thier stupidity.

BTW, I have been trained by, worked with and had a few friends ship to Iraq as contract security. You would be more likely to encounter them getting sorority girls drunk than at a range, especially if it is during the morning on a weekend, they are still passed out.