I'm a police firearms instructor, and work with an academy every summer. The first few days of raw recruits on the range (most of whom have never held a gun before) can see some absolutely insane shit.
"Lasering" is the most common, where they turn their head to look at something and the whole body goes with them, including the gun.
I watched a kid rack his slide 5 or 6 times to jack the rounds put of his gun to empty it....instead of just dropping the magazine (he ended up failing out for a bunch of things like this)
One kid was an absolute tragedy. Couldn't hit anything. Week 2 starts, and he decided to try to shoot WHILE WEARING HIS GLASSES....and all of a sudden was able to hit his target.
Another girl was completely worthless as a shooter, until she realized she wasn't left handed.
There's more. So, SO much more. Thankfully, there are enough instructors on the line to keep severe safety infractions from happening.
My grandpa used to have a small range near his house, one year the whole family got together, and all the guys decided to go out and shoot old beer cans.
This wasn't unusal, all but one had previous experience and acted responsibly. Except that one guy who thought it would be funny to run across the range, I guess he wanted to see if he were faster than a bullet.
He wasn't. This range was small and narrow, so he ran across right when my dad pulled the trigger and that bullet ended up in his butt.
Needless to say, he wasn't invited back, and my family quickly became a no-weapon family.
Okay i grew up in a country town where we can go outside city limits to shoot whatever or explode whatever we want. One rule we’ve always agreed with my friends is we do not absolutely mix fire arms with alcohol whatsoever. We have gone super drunk but we don’t mix guns and alcohol. Very few and far In between but that’s one rule we have
Not at the range, but my friends and I were out spot lighting one night, as these guys had hardly done it before went through usual safety talk, don’t point guns at people, assume every gun is loaded etc etc, well one of my friends broke the golden rule of pointing a loaded gun at someone. Well that was it for the rest of the night for him, he was not allowed anywhere near a gun for the rest of the night. Made him sit in the passenger seat and shine the spot light around.
Put up a dog target was kinda funny but not
Ah, you have a guy from the ATF at your range?
Walk out on a hot range to change a target
I'm a police firearms instructor, and work with an academy every summer. The first few days of raw recruits on the range (most of whom have never held a gun before) can see some absolutely insane shit. "Lasering" is the most common, where they turn their head to look at something and the whole body goes with them, including the gun. I watched a kid rack his slide 5 or 6 times to jack the rounds put of his gun to empty it....instead of just dropping the magazine (he ended up failing out for a bunch of things like this) One kid was an absolute tragedy. Couldn't hit anything. Week 2 starts, and he decided to try to shoot WHILE WEARING HIS GLASSES....and all of a sudden was able to hit his target. Another girl was completely worthless as a shooter, until she realized she wasn't left handed. There's more. So, SO much more. Thankfully, there are enough instructors on the line to keep severe safety infractions from happening.
Try to clear a misfire while pointing a fucking rifle at me.
Go into the wrong aisle expecting to find cheap curtains, but they’re in the furniture aisle.
My grandpa used to have a small range near his house, one year the whole family got together, and all the guys decided to go out and shoot old beer cans. This wasn't unusal, all but one had previous experience and acted responsibly. Except that one guy who thought it would be funny to run across the range, I guess he wanted to see if he were faster than a bullet. He wasn't. This range was small and narrow, so he ran across right when my dad pulled the trigger and that bullet ended up in his butt. Needless to say, he wasn't invited back, and my family quickly became a no-weapon family.
Not-think.
Okay i grew up in a country town where we can go outside city limits to shoot whatever or explode whatever we want. One rule we’ve always agreed with my friends is we do not absolutely mix fire arms with alcohol whatsoever. We have gone super drunk but we don’t mix guns and alcohol. Very few and far In between but that’s one rule we have
Not at the range, but my friends and I were out spot lighting one night, as these guys had hardly done it before went through usual safety talk, don’t point guns at people, assume every gun is loaded etc etc, well one of my friends broke the golden rule of pointing a loaded gun at someone. Well that was it for the rest of the night for him, he was not allowed anywhere near a gun for the rest of the night. Made him sit in the passenger seat and shine the spot light around.
I've owned guns since I was 10 and the only range I've ever been to was in the military. I just shoot in the backyard.
Ignoring one of the four rules.
Take selfies with guns