laid down the law at the range today

[possum]

i just tak my own stell plates out at 100 and 200yds and me,my brother, and dad switch off hitting them with the ak's, m4's, and any thing else wewant to shoot through them they are ours and nobody has a problem with it, but heck as much as a membership cost there I think you should be allowed to do what ever the heck you want to do!

 

[bthest86]

I asked him if was dropped on his head as a child or just naturally retarded

The guy made a dumb mistake but I can't really blame him for acting defensive towards a comment like that.

I'm a person who doesn't like confrontation so whenever I see someone doing something wrong I explain it to them in a friendly "matter of fact" way and vice versa with those correcting me in a similar manner.

 

[taliv]

it does sound like you handled it well on the range. however, your description is appreciably shy of "laying down the law"

 

[BHPshooter]

Atek3, I think you handled that in an exemplary manner. You seemed to be friendly and helpful while still looking out for the interests of the range and its other members. Inviting him to the carbine match was very kind of you! You get the RKBA Gold Star for the week.

I wish I had handled it more diplomatic like you but I was shocked at this guys level of stupidity and arogance.

I think I would classify it more as ignorance and innocent thoughtlessness. Come on, be honest -- have you done anything that was less than perfect? Ever done anything that wasn't so smart? I sure have. What it boils down to is this: Everybody has their brain cramps... everybody does thoughtless stuff at times.

Just try to remember, you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Next time you jump on somebody, you might permanently alienate him from the shooting community.

Wes

 

[Owen]

Possum,

You may not realize how much commercial steel targets cost.

A rack of 6 falling plates costs well over $1000. A pepper popper starts about $150 (and rifle rated pepper poppers are well above $300 IIRC). It is easy to understand why clubs are sensitive about what you shoot their steel with. The club I belong too will ban you for using any long gun on the plate rack. The thought process is that if someone sees you shooting with your lever action .22, they may decide that their lever action .308 is just fine too. Therefore, no long guns on the steel, at all.

I suspect your annual membership would pay for less than one steel target.

Any steel target with craters or holes poses a risk of bullets coming back to the shooter and other people on the firing line, or leaving the range. I hope your targets are in good shape.

atek, that's the way to do it.

 

[Zen21Tao]

I think I would classify it more as ignorance and innocent thoughtlessness. Come on, be honest -- have you done anything that was less than perfect? Ever done anything that wasn't so smart? I sure have. What it boils down to is this: Everybody has their brain cramps... everybody does thoughtless stuff at times.

You had to be there. The range had been cold and everyone was back from setting up their targets and was in the process of calling the range hot when this guy strutted in and right down the range without checking on whether or not it was hot. On the way down all targets stands were in use so he put up his targets up on the wooden stands holding the target stand (right next to other shooters properly placed targets) and came strutting back like he as master of the range. I asked him calmly what he was doing putting targets up like that and he said "well, all the targets were in use. I had to put them somewhere." This all struck me as arrogant and stupid. So I siad what I did. Yes, I should have handled it differently and in the future will. But every range noobs I have seen has been more considerate than this and stops to see if people are shooting before just strutting down range.