Insane/Mentally Ill people at the range.

[Waffen]

This guy makes Alex Jones look like the pope.

 

[bogie]

I did overhear him swear that "it takes 20 rounds of copper jacketed bullets after firing molly bullets to get an uncoated bullet to stabilize". I have loaded quite a few molly bullets for my 06 and have never noticed anything like this.

It really depends on the degree of stabilization, and you don't clean moly by firing... I've shot moly, and I've shot nekkid, and not really seen a difference. Moly's a PITA too...

 

[bogie]

A years back, I stopped at a gun show booth for a local guy running for Congress. Chatted a moment. About a minute into the conversation I found out that the volunteer running the booth had been abducted by aliens. About two minutes in, I managed to get away.

 

[Kurush]

A years back, I stopped at a gun show booth for a local guy running for Congress. Chatted a moment. About a minute into the conversation I found out that the volunteer running the booth had been abducted by aliens. About two minutes in, I managed to get away.

So... Did you ask what he recommends for HD against space aliens?

 

[Walt Rauch]

I was disappointed this weekend to find some odd/disturbing behavior while teaching my "future niece" the basics of rifle shooting. Some of this behavior can be attributed to mental illness, some is just plain stupid. I figured I would post and see what other members had witnessed. If you live in or around Austin, try to guess what range this is.

To start off, my niece is from Florida, and her parents are somewhat anti-gun. We had planned this trip for 3 months now and she was quite excited, as was I.

To start the day off I gave a brief general gun safety lecture and then proceeded to show her gun specific gun safety. Fortunately for my niece’s confidence we were the only ones at the range for a good while. The trouble started off about 1-2 hours after we had been there. The owner of the ranges/local crazy person hitched a ride up to the 100 yard range with a shooter that had just arrived. That in and of it self was just fine, no problems there. The new shooter setup all his equipment while talking to the range owner.

Since the shooter that just arrived was shooting .22 cal rimfires and I was giving instruction in between shots I was putting on / taking off earmuffs off as was my 13 year old niece during live fire conditions. What we proceeded to hear was some of the craziest conversation we had ever heard. While this new shooter started shooting the range owner kept talking about how "Chinese people were really space aliens from Mars' second moon that had landed 8000 years ago he had evidence that could prove it, and that is why they were technology leaders." also how "Blacks were inferior because they came from Jupiter on a makeshift space craft 2000 years go" and how all this was a known fact. Keep in mind; these are not direct quotes because what they really said would get me banned on this form.

The conversation took a quick turn to the apocalypse and how we will all be killed on Sept. 29th 2005. All the while my 13 year old niece was hearing all of this.

During the conversation of the apocalypse a older man appeared from our 7 o'clock dressed in full battle gear, full survival pack ,full camo face paint, armed with what I counted to be 4 guns. 3 pistols and 1 AR-type rifle. It must have been at least 80lbs of gear on this guy. He then comes up to the range and all 3 of them sit down and talk.

I picked up little of this conversation because at this point I was just trying to keep my niece shooting and her ears off their discussion. I did manage to pick up something about how this "commando" had been out there for 2 days "living off the land" and practicing "battle tactics". From what I picked up this appeared to be his first contact with humans in 3 days.

They then proceeded to talk about the end of the world and more space ship landing crap and something about people being assimilated into the decks of US Navy ships in the bramudia triangle.

Somewhere during their conversation I made it clear that we were calling a cease fire and would be going down range. At this, the range owner soon jumped to his feet and came staggering to me and made some unintelligible comment about women shooting and how they don't belong here. I kind of laughed out of nervousness and just to "play along" and jokingly answered saying in a few more trips to the range she would outshoot him. He seemed somewhat angry, muffled something under his breath and stumbled back to the lunch bench that he and his group were sitting at.

With that, we grabbed our targets about 15 minutes later and left. My niece said she had one of the best times of her life, but she was obviously "put down" by what the man had said and was scared by these absolute psycho’s that were there. I assured her that this was not the norm and will be taking her to my "members only" range to clarify what the real gun community is really like.

Just had to share this, it was absolutely the craziest thing I have ever seen at a gun range. I considered calling the police to see if they could take this guy to an instutition, but then I realised I would be cheating 1/2 of Austin out of a range. Anyone else have an experience like this? Or been to this range and seen the same thing?

I must ask. Why did you not leave when you noted that you had nut cases there? At the very least, you had a responsibility to the child.

 

[MDG1976]

This is why I hate going to public ranges. There might not always be someone who is insane shooting, but there is almost always someone who is dumb/careless/dangerous/inexperienced. Thank goodness my folks own 25 acres in the boonies.

 

[CAPTAIN MIKE]

..Hey... I KNOW Those Guys

Yeah, they're the ones who stole my Tin Foil Hat fer cryin' out loud.
Next time you're at the Range, ask 'em to return it, Alright??? I need it for my return trip to the Planet Zultar.

 

[Aikibiker]

That reminds me of an encounter of the strange kind I had at the local Army Navy store when I was still under the legal drinking age.

The nice man at the counter decided to share some of his worldly wisdom with a poor kid. He proceeded to explain to me how the trilateral commission and the UN were trying to take over the united States. I belive he mentioned the Free Masons and grey aliens somewhere in there. He also had a very nice laminated diagram of the entire conspiracy which he used to illustrate his points.

And that is the story of why I stopped going to the local Army Navy store for a few years. By the time I went back he was gone. I am hopeful that he has been stabilized and continues to take his medication.

 

[lbmii]

The nice man at the counter decided to share some of his worldly wisdom with a poor kid. He proceeded to explain to me how the trilateral commission and the UN were trying to take over the united States. I belive he mentioned the Free Masons and grey aliens somewhere in there. He also had a very nice laminated diagram of the entire conspiracy which he used to illustrate his points.

What a goof ball! Everyone knows everything is controlled by the Rothchilds. That whole Trilateral thing is a diversion.

 

[sterling180]

You are luckier than some

Waffen

A crazy bastard in 1987 shot and killed 17 people in Hungerford England, because he thought he was Rambo. He was so sick and deranged that he alledgedly raped and shot a woman 15 times in front of her small children-whilst they watched from her car-with his Beretta M92fs. He also broke into a disabled woman's house killed her husband with an Ak47 and shot her with his Beretta several times, before reloading. He also had an M1-Carbine on him with his grenades, bullet-proof jacket, machete, combats, boots and face paint.

This guy thought he was Rambo and turned up with his Beretta tucked into his trouser waistband.Also he made pipebombs and other explosives to use against, his enemies that he thought had wronged him.He turned up for work with these as well as a couple of fragmentation grenades.

If you didn't have your rights, then the antis would use this as an excuse to ban weapons, like they did to some here.

 

[V4Vendetta]

That is why I ony use my home range. I don't have to put up with nutjobs. I feel sorry for your niece because I believe that "first impressions are lasting impressions." I hope that she meets some good gunners out there like me. If a girl out shoots me, I don't say that women don't belong there on the range. I simply acuse them of cheating . I just joke about it though. I don't seriously accuse them of cheating without proof.

 

[V4Vendetta]

I forgot to say in my last post that if the chinese were aliens, that would explain why so many of them are good at math & computers.

 

[auschip]

So I heard crazy Richard shutdown the range. Apparently, he sold the land and they are building houses. Can anyone confirm?

 

[mrmeval]

A plus at the Atterbury range was getting the range masters. The range is paid for with state funds and they yahoos, slurvivalists, apockynoids, bangers and such were getting pretty thick There was talk of closing the range. Now they keep the range free of the worst of them.

 

[AmYisraelChai]

Yeah, the range is supposed to be closing down and be turned into a neighborhood. It is my understanding that they are still shooting there, or have only very recently shut down.

 

[WinchesterAA]

I've never heard of anything like that before, but one time I was at the range and this guy 20 yards or so down from me - while people were firing - started walking out to his target.

The owner of the place jumped his ass good for that one, but MY GOD what an idiot.

 

[Derby FALs]

A plus at the Atterbury range was getting the range masters. The range is paid for with state funds and they yahoos, slurvivalists, apockynoids, bangers and such were getting pretty thick There was talk of closing the range. Now they keep the range free of the worst of them.

What? They don't pay taxes???

 

[mrmeval]

There was such a furor over the yahoos at Atterbury that it took some quick action to stop it. I wasn't involved in that but am glad someone was thinking quick.

 

[Manedwolf]

They then proceeded to talk about the end of the world and more space ship landing crap and something about people being assimilated into the decks of US Navy ships in the bramudia triangle.

Movie, The Philadelphia Experiment, 1984.

Reminds me of not-quite-there people who watch History Channel and get confused, thinking they were in those battles later.

 

[Mannlicher]

yawn.................

 

[trickyasafox]

wow i wish i had something productive to add but that guy is just seriously not well.

 

[ravencon]

Yikes! Here in western Massachusetts there are few commercial ranges (Smith and Wesson comes to mind and that's about it), most ranges are private clubs/associations. This definately seems to help in keeping the crazies to a minimum. If a member breaks the rules they can be booted out of the club. It doesn't happen often but it does happen.

 

[ABTOMAT]

Reading this thread reminds me of the surplus store owner in "Falling Down". Fer stomping!