Dumbest things you have seen at the range.

[ltorlo64]

Took my daugther to the local range about 2 months ago. On the lane next to us was a older father/daughter combination. He was in his 60s and she in her late 20s to early 30s. The range we were at has mechanical target positioners on a pulley system and the guy two over from us had his pulley get stuck. The Range Officer came out and when we had each finished the magazine we were on, he had us verify our weapons were clear and step back behind the line on the floor designating where the safe are is. He told us to stay behind the line while he went down range to fix the target pulley, about 50 yards away. The RO went down range and I could see the father next to me getting real nervous, he would step to the line, and then back, and then step just an inch over the line, and then back. Then he just walked up to the table and picked up his weapon and started to mess with the slide, then he put it down. His daughter was telling him to step back but he would not listen. I watched him and made sure he did not pick up any ammo (I had watched him verify the weapon clear with the RO). I am not sure what he was doing with that pistol, but he was very intent. The RO came back and looked at the father. When he did the father sheepishly put the weapon back on the table and started appologizing and trying to explain what he was doing, which made no sense. Up to that point I had thought about letting the guy shoot my 1911 as he kept telling his daughter how much he wanted to shoot one. Instead, my daughter and I packed up our weapons and decided we were done for the day.

[ltorlo64]

At another range, we were shooting and the people on the line I was firing at decided it was time to check targets. We called the range cold and I turned on the range cold lights. I started across the range to my target and I hear the RO call out again that the line is cold. I turned around and he had turned off the range cold lights with me and another guy in the middle of the range, rechecked all weapons clear and then reset the range to cold. I didn't stay at that range any longer either.

[5.56NATO]

[slamfire51]

God help him if during a SHTF situation, something worse happens. Passing out is not good. LOL

[FunkyPertwee]

Not in a range but in a shop, I ask the man behind the counter to show me the shotgun leaning on the wall behind all the others. It stood out to me because of its classic styling and wood stock set on a combat shotgun, when all the others were run of the mill black polymer. He hands it to me, I check the weapon and exclaim "this is loaded". The man actually argued with me that the gun isn't loaded, because loaded guns aren't kept near the gun rack. So I start unloading shells from the loading port (a mossberg trick) in front of him and after about the third shell another employee runs over and asks me to hand over the weapon. The first employee got chewed out and I never saw him working there again.

[goldsbu]

Had a tyro with a 44 mag trying to shot 41 mag rounds out of it. He didn't believe me when I told him bulging and split cases were not the norm for handguns. Had to use a cleaning rod to get the last set of cases out. Told him to have a gunsmith check out the cylinder since there was come worrisome scorch marks in the chambers. only went through 30 rounds before Rambo figured there was a problem.

[L1A1Rocker]

So I start unloading shells from the loading port (a mossberg trick)

Please share this trick.

[ltorlo64]

Had a tyro with a 44 mag trying to shot 41 mag rounds out of it. He didn't believe me when I told him bulging and split cases were not the norm for handguns. Had to use a cleaning rod to get the last set of cases out. Told him to have a gunsmith check out the cylinder since there was come worrisome scorch marks in the chambers. only went through 30 rounds before Rambo figured there was a problem.

Only 30 rounds? Smart fella.

[AK-J]

Please share this trick.

If you press down on the bar of the cartridge stop (the thing that holds the shells in to the tube) it will move out of the way to allow a shell to come out of the loading port.

[slamfire51]

A guy (school idiot) I went to school with bought a new Ruger Super Blackhawk. He also bought a RCBS reloading outfit at the same time.

About a week later, he brought the Ruger back to the gun shop where I hung out after work. THREE of the cylinders and the top strap were missing. Everyone there was clueless how a Super Blackhawk could be destroyed. He said it blew up after the 3rd round.

We asked what charges he was using to reload, and he said, "I dipped the cases in Bullseye and seated the bullet." We all looked at him, shook our heads, and told him he's lucky he didn't lose a body part. Idiots, like drunks, never get hurt.

[Schuetzenman]

I had a similar not at the range thing to Funkyp. I was a dealer for many years and did gun shows. i was in at the Raleigh, NC fair grounds show one morning walking around before they let the civilians in and spied an SLR95 on a dealers table. It had the 5 shot Bulgarian waffle mag in the weapon. I asked about it and was told it was a consignment sale for a customer of his. I asked if I could take a look and he said "Sure". I pull the bolt back and look in only to see Russian HP rounds visible through the opening. I asked him to reach over and remove the mag while I held the bolt back as the weapon was loaded. He moved quickly! I saved his ass as if the show operator's personnel had found it or a customer had found it he would of been escorted out of the shows and banned for life.

[Dr. Gonzo GED]

What the hell does he mean "My thumb was in front of the muzzle, common accident, these things happen..."?

Am I alone in being somewhat disturbed by not only the host downplaying a serious incident of negligence, but also the show's producers enabling el doucher's stupidity by playing along?

The guy shot his own thumb off. Not in a high stress situation. Not while fighting for his life. But while standing at the ferking firing line on a perfect effing day!!!!!! IIRC, every new firearm I've ever purchased came with a short list of simple rules that if followed to the letter, completely eliminate any chance of this from happening.

Ima call BULLSHIT on this doomsday prepper. Dude should have spent his snub nose money on water filters and dehydrated peas... what an effing moron...

[FunkyPertwee]

What the hell does he mean "My thumb was in front of the muzzle, common accident, these things happen..."?

Am I alone in being somewhat disturbed by not only the host downplaying a serious incident of negligence, but also the show's producers enabling el doucher's stupidity by playing along?

The guy shot his own thumb off. Not in a high stress situation. Not while fighting for his life. But while standing at the ferking firing line on a perfect effing day!!!!!! IIRC, every new firearm I've ever purchased came with a short list of simple rules that if followed to the letter, completely eliminate any chance of this from happening.

Ima call BULLSHIT on this doomsday prepper. Dude should have spent his snub nose money on water filters and dehydrated peas... what an effing moron...

He was definitely trying to pass off a negligent discharge as a mechanical malfunction.

Anyone watching that show who doesn't know about guns and takes the shows producers seriously must think its really dangerous to own firearms now.

[Dr. Gonzo GED]

He was definitely trying to pass off a negligent discharge as a mechanical malfunction.

Anyone watching that show who doesn't know about guns and takes the shows producers seriously must think its really dangerous to own firearms now.

Maybe he should have included a "firearms safety course" in his doomsday prep.

[FunkyPertwee]

Maybe he should have included a "firearms safety course" in his doomsday prep.

Probably so.

I'm convinced that the purpose of those shows is to paint those interested in preparedness as emotionally distraught idiots.

I was flipping through channels the other day (a rare event) and stopped on it cause some big legged woman was exercising. Then it turns out shes a "prepper", and she "trains" by hiking around the populated city with here terribly rigged hiking gear on, about to pass out from exhaustion and probably pinch a nerve with her completely asymmetrical packing method.

I'm staring to think that "prepper" is a term used to described survivalists with emotional or mental disabilities.

[TEN-32]

I once observed a female officer use 3M adhesive spray (used for targets) on her weapon thinking it was CLP.

[hazmat]

Just last week during quals for the M9, we had a newer female shooter trying to qual on the 9 for duty. By the end of the first 15 rd mag, the RSO/Tower Officer was getting agitated. By the end of the 2nd, she was gone from the range. Her problem?

Trying to hold a Beretta M9 like a rifle. Meaning, she was using her support hand to hold the pistol like you would a rifle: bracing the forward end of the pistol in the palm of her support hand. How she didn't blow off at least one or more digits doing that, I'll never know.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

One of those malfunctions where the hand goes in front of the barrel????? Holy shikes talk about lame.

[5.56NATO]

One of those malfunctions where the hand goes in front of the barrel????? Holy shikes talk about lame.

I'm guessing he had excess thumbs and could stand to lose one. You know, common accident. those things happen.

[AKTexas]

Recently drop legs holsters, load bearing vest and drag bags. Oh yeah Springfield Soccom with one of those chassis systems...very dumb shit going on.