Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles My local shooting range story (from today)

So headed to Cheyenne mtn shooting complex that's ran by ft Carson mwr. So get set up get to shooting their is a kid bench over obvious he is a joe in the Army shooting a brand new savage axis. His target is at 25yds and it's one of those zombie pig targets. He's shooting away. Then he asks rso to check his group out the rso exclaims yeah dude your scope is broke. So I take a look at his target hhmmm horizontal stringing ok. So cease fire we are walking to look at targets ask the kid what kind of ammo you shooting? He replies oh some reloads I picked up at a gunshow, then goes onto say yeah my scope broke after 10 shots. I told him go buy some federal blue box and try it again. Kid just looked at me with a dumb look grabbed his target hot footing it to sportsman warehouse. One day I'm going to get property so I can have my own shooting range.

Sound idea.

I've lately been thinking of the same thing.

I was just looking at a piece of property that borders the national forest. There sure are some idiots out there now days. No wonder they want to take our guns away..

What I like the most guys with 7mags or any rifle just shooting fast as they can... Barrels screaming ass hot..... Then they have their ballistic charts out " yeah xx inches low at 400yds" me hey have you chronographed that load huh what's Chronograph oh boy never mind.

Ah [bleep] folks with pistols the worse. Failure to feed turn pistol sideways pointed my direction ah [bleep] going to meet my maker at the shooting range. When I see that I get up and take a break.

I don't have to deal with idiots out here. But it pisses me the heck off, to have to go out and shoo the cows away from rubbing on the 4,5,6 and 700 yard gongs.....

That and the AR guys. Pray and spray buddy, pray and spray!!!

You see all kinds, the other day I went to the local range over lunch to test fire a few new loads. It isn't much, just a place to shoot on some county owned land. In the middle of my session in drives a red convertible mustang and I thought what yahoo is this.
Turns out it's an 81 year old man who just bought a Springfield Armory compact .45 for his own birthday present the day before. He wanted to try it out before roadtripping through WY and MT this fall.
I thought when I'm 81 I wanna be like you.

79, I'm an NRA Cert. RSO. My job is RANGE SAFETY OFFICER, not a coach to check targets or equipment problems other than specifically safety related, which calls for a range wide Cease Fire. I'm only cert. on a rifle range and DO NOT allow pistols or revolvers (I do allow single shot handguns on sand bags at my discretion however) on my watch. I have been called a "Range Nazi" and so be it however with that said I still have my share of horror stories, but no accidents. Please all remember the 2 rules, BE SAFE and HAVE FUN.- BTW my day in the local barrel is tomorrow.-Muddy

That sums up most of the shooting ranges I've been in SoCal. Guys spraying their ARs with random hits all over their zombie targets.. There are a few odd bench rest guys who are really good, though. Lots of cheap equipment abound.

Eric

Man, thats rough!

I gotta watch for ATVs coming up the beach, infringing on the back-stop picture before I get enough snow to use the Bravo to get out alone across the tundra to a hillbank. No gongs tho, nor chronographs- just those 4X4 pieces of cardboard out to 300 yards.

After that I've a fair idear.... to 500.

You need to electrify the gongs Don.

I'm fairly certain cows are attracted to gunfire.

you may be onto something.....

Years ago we bought what we call the North Ranch, it had a chip seal air strip 3600' long on it, we didn't need an airport so i made a 1000 yard shooting range out of the old airport, we have had a lot of fun shooting there over the years. rio7

a range I go to occasionally was closed for a while because a house a mile behind it had a bullet go through a patio door and Imbed into a wall.
Turned out a local law enforcement guy and his buddy set up a human silouhette target at 100 yds and proceded to let wholly hell loose with their ar15s. They set it up in front of a berm but it was so high they were skipping many off the top of the berm. Word was there was a good sized u shaped notch cut out. Luckily one of the shooters was related to the homeowner so apologees were easier to make. The range now has steel panels angled up over the berm and is reopened. Still....that homeowner has to wonder every time he hears shooting how safe he is from another idiot.

those dem's came to collect your guns

Has nothing to do with why they want our guns.

I often see guys at the range sighting in rifles from the off hand position.