Your worst range idiot story

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As much as we might not like to admit it, I think everybody has a story about some true idiot they met at the range.

The most memorable for me was when I was working a Hunter Sight-in Day at our range. Two weekends a year we would let non-members bring their hunting rifles in to help them sight them in for $5.00 per gun. The standard rule was you needed to get one in the black at 100 yd's before you could go to the 200 yard range. This guy walks up to my station with his brand new .378 Wby Mag and says he knows he is on at 100, so he wanted to go directly to 200. I told him the rules were the rules, but if he could put one in the black with his first shot I would let him to got 200 after that. He grumbled but set up at the bench. Wouldn't ya know it, his first shot didn't even hit the target carrier. Long story short this guy was such a jerk I let him go through 30 rounds of .378 Wby Mag before I took pity on him and bore sighted his rifle for him. His right eye looked like he'd been in a prize fight. :evil:

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Being an NRA certified firearms instructor, I will spare you the countless stories of being swept by a muzzle of a student who has been reinforced about a 100 times with the basic rules of safety. ,but here is one that you may not have heard. I brought a very attractive female student to the range once and kept it very professional. It was the first time I actually understood how embarrassed and uncomfortable women must feel when they are oggled and stared at nasium. This one idiot was standing in an adjacent booth staring at her rear end and was fixated, I had to have a polite conversation with him to stop.
 
Well, lets see, I was downrange once when some idiot decided he could start firing at his target...
 
I was in the navy...need i say more? ok i will, in '01 burning through piles of .45 ammo this female thought it's better to hold the gun over your head and look under it to shoot it, pea gravel sure hurts when it flys back after being shot with a .45 from 10'. Another time in '03 on the M14 range i actually saw someone get kicked off the range, and in the navy, in my expirences, it takes alot for that to happen. He was hitting everything downrange but his target, the ground, posts, other people's targets. The sad part was we were in prone, and he was actually trying. And of course, in our work space i was this guy's supervisor. He claimed his excuse was he can't close one eye at a time. How lame. I even tried to give him a few pointers before we went, obviously to no avail. He was later booted after his third phych eval...
 
Shooting at a gravel pit just east of Logan, Utah. As I was stepping out of my car, somebody parked on the level above us, about thirty meters away (we thought he was 4 wheeling, were unaware that he was shooting into the gravel pit, we even waved as we drove past) fired a shot right past us.

It actually passed directly over the roof the car within a few feet of me. I actually felt the bullet pass before I heard anything. I hit the ground a second later.

Then the guy had the audacity to walk toward us, and say that he "was there first".

No, I didn't murder him. But it was tempting. That was 15 years ago, and it still ticks me off.
 
I was shooting with my normal range budies and they had brought a friend with them. He was shooting his XD40. When he thought the gun was empty he turned his head towards us to say something and he "accidentally" fired his last round. Luckily the pistol was still poited downrange, but he came close to shooting a finger off. He has not been invited back to shoot.
 
Shooting at a private range. No RO. Me and 5 other guys enjoying the range all to ourselves for a while. We cease fire to check and replace targets. Another group of 4 is setting up, 2 adults 2 teens. I see a nice EBR come out of a case. No big deal. As I turn around, I see adult #1 sighting the AR on the target. Magzine inserted. I launch into a short tirade, which gets me an "I was just sighting, I wasn't shooting". I march my ass over and launch into a tirade about the four rules. Both adults whip out badges....Suburban PD guys. This incites me even further, and they both capitulate...very sarcastically. But they didn't point any more firearms downrange after that. Almost ruined a great day of shooting an M2 carbine.....
 
AS many as I've seen it was an officer from Oxnard PD that annoyed me the most. He was about 6 lanes down from my son and I and he was drawing from holstered and doing failure drills at about 7 yds. At some point he walks over to me with his target and asked me if my son was shooting at "his" target. At 6 lanes down we would have had to lean over the bench and around the wall to see, let alone, shoot his target. It seems he had one go very wide, like not even on the black, and wanted to blame us.

It was one of the most moronic chicksh*t moves I'd seen in a long time. I counted the holes in my son's fresh target and it was even with the 10 we'd loaded in the magazine. So then, after me showing him how it was almost impossible to see his target and that we had all ten on the black on ours he says "Are you sure he didn't put one in the pipe first"? Not wanting to start a fight at a gun range I told him I'd keep an eye out and wished him luck.

Leave your ego at the door sport!

I get angry just writing about it.
 
As I turn around, I see adult #1 sighting the AR on the target. Magzine inserted.

Same kind of thing. I was downrange putting up targets WITH THE DOWN RANGE SAFETY LIGHTS ON!!! Turn around to see a kid and his friend aiming a Marlin 39 downrange. I hit the dirt and they started laughing. I walked up to them and took the rifle from them. UNLOADED IT.:cuss:, and threw it in the trunk of my car. Apparently Daddy was off at the Trap range and decided to send the kiddies down to the rifle range to play. I told the kids if they wanted their rifle back Daddy would have to come get it.

Daddy started to give me lip and very quickly got humble. The rangemaster just smiled at me and didn't say a word through the whole thing.;)
 
We drove up to the "firing area" of a local pit one day. While we were getting out of the car (without ear protection yet) the folks who were already there, instead of waiting a minute, stated blasting away with a Ruger .44 mag Carbine. I went over and blessed them out pretty good. I had kids with me and it really ticked me off as to the example they were setting as well as their blasting our ears. Morons.
 
Heard about this one while making a trip for supplies two weeks ago:

Young couple at a local indoor range. At some point, the BF decides to give the GF some instruction and let her shoot -- don't know what caliber, make/model of firearm, etc, other than it had to be a semi-auto. BF is standing behind GF and trying to help her with her grip. GF inadvertanely pulls trigger, slide takes a chunk out of the bridge of her nose. Causes chain reaction in which she jerks head back, headbutting boyfriend who ends up stabbing his inner-lower lip with some of his teeth. Couple is asked not to come back.
 
I was at my favorite desert shooting spot where you can get about 125 yards back from the berm before you get into the bushes. A friend and I were shooting at 100 yard targets with our two cars behind us. Bubba and his friend show up with a shotgun a box of clays and one of those walmart thrower things. They park 10 yards behind us and our cars and 5 yards to the right. Then Bubba starts throwing clays to the right for his buddy to blast. so they were arcing out and over in our direction. While Bubba's friend starts blasting away. He was basically shooting directly over our cars and us. We were both shooting prone and jumped up and got the hell out of there after the first shot. No point in telling them to knock it off. Their two shared brain cells were rubbing together real hard just to figure out how to load that shotgun, let alone remember 4 rules.
 
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