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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mr. Farknocker on April 27, 2013, 08:05:03 AM
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I haven't been involved in the sport for very long but I've made and seen enough memorable mistakes at the range to learn by. Here are few:
1. Eating it down the slope after the RO calls a cease fire and gives the ok to retrieve/repair your targets;
Lesson: Act like it was intentional or always be prepared to yell, "Quit yer shovin'!" to the guy walking next to you.
2. Failing to remember that there is quicksand and weed stickies on the left side of the rifle range after a hard rain;
Lesson: Wear your favorite trout fishing coveralls on rainy days.
3. Standing next to an idiot who runs after a shop rag blown to the ground by the wind with a loaded 1911 in his hand;
Lesson: First you say it, then you do it.
4. Allowing a novice shooter to blow a hole in your brand new Caldwell rife rest because the barrel was not resting on top of the bag;
Lesson: Tell your friend to use the range bag instead.
5. Mistakingly bumpfiring an AK by not properly shouldering the stock as you try to sight in your brand new red dot scope;
Lesson: Don't look up at the RO to give away your position.
6. Jamming the BCG in your AR15 with a live round and having to call Director Mike Marumoto over to hammer the bolt open with his sledge hammer due to improper reassembly of the firing pin in the bolt carrier (pin wasn't pushed all the way in when the cotter pin was inserted);
Lesson: Never let Mike near your AR with a hammer.
7. Yelling "Yo, Adrian!!!" after getting scope kissed by your mule kicking 22 lr.; and
Lesson: um....
8. Accidentally going home with someone else's rifle cased in an identical gun case as yours.
Lesson: If you are going to commit a Class C felony, better make dang sure it's an upgrade.
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#7 made me lol. Thanks for the laugh today.
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thanks for the good laugh on a saturday morning! ;D
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Yeah, had to do the sledgehammer thing twice because I had a shoulder bulge on a couple if my cases. #7 was hilarious.
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Thanks for the laugh.
Id add..your not a bad@$$ marksman cause you shoot the steel rail on the silhouette range that all the targets rest on and they all fall down with 1 shot. It suck having to walk out to pick them all up, and hear the other shooter laugh at you when it happens
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or having a round stuck in the chamber before target change and having Mike lift the gun up and the round drops out.... wasn't me but was funny as hell cause the entire range had to stop and watch it happen....
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One must raise ones voice to maximum volume when trying to to tell a newbie shooter that you cannot open the cylinder of a loaded S&W model 60 when the hammer is cocked. He then had a ND and lightly burned his hand . He was trying to unload it first so he could decock it.
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Love it man :P ... last two I was laughing hard.
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Wooden stools do not slide on rough concrete. When the idiot to your right turns his locked-and-loaded 50 AE straight to his left in a vain attempt to cycle the action and extract a live round because shooting the gun hurt his widdle hands, jumping back works better than falling over.
At least I was out of the line of fire! Although everyone was staring at the wrong idiot...
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late to setup frame, running out to 100 yards and running back just to notice that I forgot to staple on damn targets....
everyone watching me run back again to staple the targets back on.... not as bad as falling but felt just as bad....
LESSON: just pretend you are shooting plain cardboard or the rescue helicopter could be coming to save you after running 400 yards at a full sprint.
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late to setup frame, running out to 100 yards and running back just to notice that I forgot to staple on damn targets....
everyone watching me run back again to staple the targets back on....
not as bad as falling but felt just as bad....
Better yet, after running back out to staple your targets, having the wind take your target out if your hand and you gotta do that stupid dance as you are trying to step on the damn thing.
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How about sitting at the wrong Bench when the RO says its safe to shoot....
That bench did have nicer guns!!!!!
Or having family member spot for you and all they yell is MISS out loud 15 seconds after the shot was taken....
ME: where did I hit, above the plate, below the plate, left of the plate or right of the plate.
SPOTTER: you hit dirt.....
ME ok let me adjust my scope for dirt shooting.....
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Better yet, after running back out to staple your targets, having the wind take your target out if your hand and you gotta do that stupid dance as you are trying to step on the damn thing.
How about when its windy and the shoot-n-c sticks to itself immediately after you peel it from the paper. :grrr:
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That's all good lessons learned. I guess that's why when you read warnings or even in instruction manuals you sometimes come across some ridiculous "don't do" and you tell yourself really? Well folks it's in there cause someone REALLY did it. :rofl: :shake:
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Best lesson I learned: Don't try a new technique while teaching students unless you've practiced it a LOT without students beforehand.
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Or having family member spot for you and all they yell is MISS out loud 15 seconds after the shot was taken....
ME: where did I hit, above the plate, below the plate, left of the plate or right of the plate.
SPOTTER: you hit dirt.....
ME ok let me adjust my scope for dirt shooting.....
I know exactly how that is! Lol