YOUR biggest range goof

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My roommate and I went out to test fire his AKM that had been giving him problems with the bolt. We get out to the range, pull out the AKM, slap in a 30 rd mag, and chamber a round.

Him:
*Pulls trigger*
*Click*
*Cycles action, no round comes out*
*Takes dust cover off*
Me:
*Hey, where the hell is your bolt?*

:p
 
ND into the ground about 15ft in front of me at an outdoor range. D'oh! I was trying to decock my CZ-52 one handed and I think my middle finger must have touched off the trigger while I was pushing up on the decock lever with my thumb.
 
Discovered that the toilet of an indoor range has only a baseboard panel between it and the firing line - I had not realized that I needed earplugs to enter the bathroom... You can all use your imagination...
 
Last night.

Took 4 friends to the range (a very well-regulated state-run range), none of whom had been to a rifle range in at least 20 years, if ever.

Range protocols are as follows:

RO calls range hot
Put on ear & eye protection
2 people enter booth
1 friend shoots until RO calls range cold
Take off eye & ear protection
leave booth
Change target if necessary
Repeat

Now, at this particular range you are only allowed to enter your booth while the range is hot. After we were done we waited for the range to go hot. Then, our procedure went something like this:

RO calls range hot
Forget that people shooting in adjacent booths is loud, too
Enter booth to clean up
Scramble for ear muffs when .308 in next booth goes off

Not pleasant, but if that's the worst goof in an evening I'll take it.
 
JKimball

re your cz 52.... might not have been any of your fingers...they are known to fire themselves-sic- when decocked. its a quirk of age/sear alignment & has happened to me also. Knowning this is probable, I dont consider it to be a AD. Just got to be R E A L careful with it. preferably decock on an empty chamber.
 
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My biggest goof was when I inadvertently took the wrong caliber of ammo for the weapons I had brought with me to use. Luckily, I was at the indoor range that sells ammo and not at the free range 15 miles away from the nearest place to buy ammo (provided that Walmart even still sells ammo).
 
It was a cloudy day at the range and I was sighting in my new Bushnell scope. No matter what I did I could not get enough light in my scope. I had been shooting for about 12 years at this point so I thought I'll move my head right as I sqeeze the trigger. Having been scope bitten once before, BANG! Come to find out the rife recoiled faster than I could move. I had a perfect circle around my fresh black eye for 2 weeks, but the shot was still in the 9 ring at 200 yds.
 
Loading an En Bloc into my Garand and handing it to my friend who sat down at the rifle bench, slapped the bolt up, and started firing. No safety violations. The 5th round chambered but didn't fire, so I took it out as a dud. The next round didin't chamber at all. Turns out they were .280. :cuss:
 
Took the boys to shoot a few rounds of clays. Had to stop at Wallyworld for a case of shells. These days they keep the cases in the back instead of on the shelf. The stock boy fetches me a case and we head out to the range.

We get there and I run through my last box of on hand shells and break open the new case. Yep it is 20 Gauge and I only brought 12s. It is a good 15 miles back to the store. Always check what they hand you....
 
Negligent discharge. Had the "last" round fire and the slide lock back. Dropped the mag, looked into the ejection port for daylight where the slide had been and eyeballed the chamber as empty. Dropped the slide and pointing the gun off the deck into soft dirt I pulled the trigger. Nothing. "Oh yeah, Hi Power mag safety!" Popped the "empty" mag back in, racked the slide and it locked back, thumbed the slide lock down and dropped the slide, pointed the gun off the side and turned my head and pulled the trigger expecting "click" and got "BANG" instead. Ramline mag locked the slide back with a round still in the mag. Not checking that the mag was empty was foolish. Good thing I had it pointed in a "safe" direction. Lesson learned: Check everything twice and make no assumptions.

hso, that's EXACTLY what happened to me! I was at home without hearing protection though... Damn magazine safety! I removed it after that (much better without it anyway).
 
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Went to a Skeet shooting event put on by the company my father works for. We drove 45 miles to the range only to find the keys for the gun locks had been left at home... We ended up borrowing shotties for the event, but I had also forgotten my glasses...
 
I don't really think this is a goof, but certainly a spooky mishap.

About my third trip to the range with my .35 Whelen 03A3. I was about twenty minutes into shooting when after loading the mag, as I closed the bolt, the gun fired. It was pointed downrange and did strike high on the berm, but scared the dickens outta me.

It has not happened since. Just makes me wonder. When I stripped and cleaned the gun, bolt and all I found nothing suspicious.
 
shooting While wearing a suit

I had a job interview and I was all dressed up in a suit and tie. After the interview I felt the need to go target shooting and releive some stress.

I starting shooting my Sig Sauer 9mm pistol pretty fast. The brass was flying all over the place.

After I was done shooting I noticed that the hot brass burned some small holes in the pants and jacket of my suit.

Target shooting wearing a suit is not something I plan on repeating.
 
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