What is the oddest thing you have seen happen at the range?

[LiquidTension]

Carbon - no, thankfully I was not present on that day. Ryan and I have taken a camera to the range before, but just to film reactive targets. We do not try to recreate Counter Strike maneuvers at the range like these guys.

I guess the oddest thing I've seen at the range is bullets flying down range. I mean the actual projectile. At Shooter's Choice, there are a few places where the light is just right to reflect off of the traveling projectile as it flies down the range. It surprised me the first time I saw it. Pretty cool

 

[jacketch]

Back in the 60's at a range in Taiwan, shooting against the Chinese national team, we went downrange during a ceasefire to change practice targets prior to the match. The target stands were placed in a ditch behind a low berm. You had to stand in the ditch and reach up to change targets. As I bent down to put the pack of targets away I heard a crack; I dropped as fast as I could into the muddy ditch as did all the other frightened individuals at the target line. It turned out that one of the Chinese shooters was showing a friend how to shoot and didn't unload the gun first. What really scared me though was that when I looked at my target there was a hole in it, low at 7 o'clock. I packed up and left quickly.