Thread: Range Idiots...

So it appears that not only do the right thinking folks on this site enjoy putting extremely sharp pieces of metal to there faces they also seem to be fans of firearms and firearm accessories!!

This was posted on another forum that I frequent, and I thought some here might enjoy it. Be sure to check out some of his other videos!!!

Very nice. Makes me glad my Pop taught me well from the get-go!

Very funny song, and well performed, too. The guy clearly has some talent.


If you sweep someone accidentally, I'm willing to accept an apology, but I'll certainly be watching you. If you do it a second time I'm going to see it as a pattern. You're absent minded and you shouldn't be at the range until you can learn to focus on what you're doing. I probably won't go to the range with you again.

However, I absolutely refuse to go to a range with or even socialize with people who don't take gun safety seriously. In other words, if you think pointing an 'unloaded' gun at someone is a source of entertainment, or you think it's funny to crank off a few rounds while your buddies have their hearing protection hanging around their necks, then you don't belong anywhere near me or anyone else for that matter. Guns are serious, if you can't treat them that way then you're no friend of mine. The Second Amendment doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

Originally Posted by joesixpack

The Second Amendment doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

Correct, that's what the First Amendment does!

As a range safety officer at a lacal public range I deal with this all the time. The most common offenders are the ones that want to mess with stuff on the bench during a cease fire. Most people that sweep the line learn after the first time it gets brought to thier attention. Buy it seems like every shift I work there some chowder head that needs to get off the shooting line while people are down range.

So I usually shoot at public ranges with no range officer.
Took a kid I know who likes to shoot and his new to shooting girlfriend out last summer.
She has CP and is in a wheelchair so I picked a range I hadn't been to before bit had heard it would be more accessible for her.
Gave her the safety speil on the way. Treat every gun as if it's loaded. Don't point the muzzle at anything you're not willing to kill/destroy. We got there and I showed her how to operate the my Charger and she got in to it.
Couple guys showed up with class 3 items so we any to the pistol range to get away from the noise of full auto.
Got out the P22, showed her how to use it and she was in heaven. About 20 minutes later some local yokels showed up so we stopped while they set up. They took a bag of oranges and a bag of potatoes and scattered them on the ground from 5-10 yards away from the bench.
I grabbed my target stands and told the kids to start packing up. She was a bit confused but as I was wheeling her back to the car one of the yokels unloaded a .40 into the fruit as fast as he could. We were 10 yards away from the bench and got hit with flying potatoes chunks.
She calmly exclaimed, "what a bunch of assholes. There should be an IQ year to buy a gun."

I used to spend a lot of time at the range and I can't tell you what really stupid things people do at the range. It is a fact that someone somewhere is watching over a lot of people otherwise they would be dead. One of the worst was some dude who was firing 357mag and he had a mis-fire and immediately takes the revolver points it at his head and is looking down the barrel. I guess he thought the round disappeared or something.

Please, if anyone does something unsafe, SAY SO! If they will not correct themselves, get the hell out of there, if there are range officers available, LET THEM KNOW!

ALWAYS TREAT A GUN AS IF IT WERE LOADED!

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

One of the worst was some dude who was firing 357mag and he had a mis-fire and immediately takes the revolver points it at his head and is looking down the barrel. I guess he thought the round disappeared or something.

That actually made me a little sick to my stomach when I read that line. The kind of sick you feel when you see a really terrible accident on the highway or if you saw a toddler pick up a power tool. Though I know there are people stupid enough to do this on an intellectual level, it still blows me away (no pun intended) when I hear about someone who's that absent minded.

I'm sometimes absent minded, but when I have a gun in my hand I am acutely aware that I am holding a very dangerous weapon and that I need to be absolutely focused on what I'm doing. If I don't think I can devote my full attention to what I'm doing, I make the gun safe and put it down until the distraction is properly dealt with. If the gun misfires, I treat it like an accidental discharge waiting to happen until I can make the gun safe again.

If you've been shooting for any amount of time, you've certainly seen the characters described in this vid!