Strangest thing I've ever seen at the range...

[NelsErik]

This is the strangest thing that I have seen at the range. I generally don't go to this range, but thought it was a bit odd. The people in this picture were testing for their CCW. The range is an indoor range in Arizona and the outside temperature was in the 80's.

I guess some people just like to wear a coat and hat...

 

[searcher451]

I've seen more than a handful of hot-brass-down-the-shirt incidents that caused a certain amount of panic down the line when the victim wasn't able to keep "down-range" as his primary focus; it's always a scary sight.

I've also seen arguments at the range that in one case turned into fisticuffs; thankfully, range marshals were johnny-on-the-spot, and cooler heads soon prevailed.

 

[Cosmoline]

I suspect that I'm the strangest thing most people have seen at the range, esp. in the summer when my splendid magnitude rolls in on a bicycle to shoot a flintlock wearing cycling bibs. What has been seen... cannot be unseen! But I'm way past caring ;-)

My favorite thing I ever saw was 3 hill billy type guys walk up to the pistol range station (25yd) and they talked among themselves for about 5 seconds, loaded their shot gun and took turns pumping shells out pretty fast at nothing particular down range.

It could have just been a function check. I've known people who do that to make sure the bear gun is functional at the start of the fishing season.

 

[KodiakBeer]

Here's a group I shot yesterday:

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[acdodd]

Have you ever shot at a range where "slow elk" had the right-of-way?

No but I have shot at a range with a sign stating it was against the rules to shoot at the elk.

 

[Cosmoline]

Not elk, but moose, lined up perfectly at 100 yards!

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Did he hit the target?

 

[Cosmoline]

He just eyeballed us and wandered on.

 

[brucey44]

Dogtown Tom

Maybe he was short sighted

What about a horse running through a shooting range- indoor!

I've seen that

 

[kenno]

So a Ruger Charger, is that the 10-22 pistol?

 

[The Highlander]

Not a strange thing I saw per se, but I brought my mosin to a new range in town and NOBODY had ever seen or heard of one before. Many people asked me if it was an M1 Garand.

 

[archigos]

Strangest thing I've ever seen at the range (okay, so it wasn't on the range, it was just at the club, but...):
I was fairly young - perhaps 14 or 15, shooting trap with my father. I wandered back to his car at some point to get something, and a car pulled up next to me in the lot. The guy in the car indicated that he wasn't a member of the club, but wanted to know if he could sight in his "high powered rifle". I didn't exactly know the rules of the club as I was young, so I got my father to come answer this guy's question.
When my father arrived, the gentleman went into a little further explanation. "I need to sight in my high powered rifle for a mission tomorrow." Looking in the car, there's a wheelchair in the back and a jacket with a CIA patch conveniently arranged on the back of the passenger's seat so as to be very obvious. We told him he'd have to talk to an officer of the club and that we didn't know that any were around, so he should try calling later. Looking back, we probably should have called the police for impersonation of an LEO.
Though I still wonder what sort of "mission" a "CIA Operative" with a wheelchair needed to use a private gun club to sight in his "high powered rifle" the day before.

 

[griz]

My father and I were shooting on a 100-yard range carved into the side of a mountain. While we were shooting 3 ruffed grouse wandered out of the woods on the left and walked across in front of the targets to the woods on the right. I don't recall them even glancing our way.

No, we didn't shoot them.

At a highpower match a bird landed on the target frame of one of the shooters during the relay. It (the bird) didn't seem to mind the bullets whizzing by and apparently was a local that was used to the gunfire, and he (the shooter) continued firing. The bird took off, dropped down, and flew directly into the path of a 30 caliber bullet. If you have ever wondered, yes, a 308 is enough gun for small birds.

 

[eye5600]

Vietnam: a big Army base near Saigon. We were at the range just outside the perimeter which had been created basically by bulldozing the ground flat for 100yds and leaving the excess earth as a berm about 8 ft high at the end of the range. During a break in the shooting along about noon a group of about 6 local women climbed over the berm into the target area.

They were totally oblivious to the danger they put themselves in.

 

[Cosmoline]

Though I still wonder what sort of "mission" a "CIA Operative" with a wheelchair needed to use a private gun club to sight in his "high powered rifle" the day before.

He was part of a special team of operatives. It's the team that also includes Gunkid and Gecko45

 

[Voodoo1951]

Sounds like this guy...

 

[627PCFan]

I thought Cosmoline was supposed to be ruggedly handsome?

 

[Cosmoline]

I just wish I still had that much hair left. Thankfully you can't see my shame with the riding gear on. Here I am conducting a recon mission to midtown, for spam, pilot bread an bulk flour:

Note the tactical rearview mirror! That's so I can "check my six" as we say.

 

[leadcounsel]

I had to recently call a ceasefire on our M2 .50 cal range due to deer. We had 8 M2s rockin and rolling at 1000 yard range when one buck causiously walked across, followed by a doe. Another doe followed a few moments later. I was thankful that I was able to call ceasefire before someone thought it funny to find out what a .50 does to a deer. It would have been a waste and a mess not to mention illegal.

 

[Ric]

Everybody is missing the obvious answer...........he was working on his trigger control

 

[Mandolin]

Quote:
Though I still wonder what sort of "mission" a "CIA Operative" with a wheelchair needed to use a private gun club to sight in his "high powered rifle" the day before.

He was part of a special team of operatives. It's the team that also includes Gunkid and Gecko45

Maybe they were going to break Gunkid out to jail.

 

[gunsandreligion]

What about the muzzle blast charring from your mosin at 3 yards?

thats why you never see great groups for mosins, you have to be at least 25 yards away