Range horror stories in greentext

[19echo95]

Range horror stories thread (Remember in greentext)


>Go to range
>Start shooting
>Rednecks pull up
>Rednecks pile out of truck
>Rednecks get weapons out of truck
>Start shooting next to us
>No eye, or hearing protection
>Calling mags clips and bumpfiring "AK-47's" (SKS's)
>Correct them on what they are calling their firearm
>Rednecks get pissed
>Thinking they know everything about guns they school me on their "AK"
>I pull out SKS field manual and show them they are wrong
>Rednecks get pissed and leave
>Epic day at the range? I think so.

[ARTONY92]

>go to only rifle cal range nearby
>Bring newly acquired moist nugget carbine
>get scorned by clerks because i'm not older than 60 and shooting
>Get told to put bluegun trainer model with sample lasersite (was out for promotion purposes) down because its not a toy
>cant shoot moistus nuggetus because  crappy range says "if it sticks to a magnet, i cant shoot that ammo there"
>MFW they sell the same ammo in the store as "range ammo": *NSFW link due to language* http://myfacewhen.com/332/
>About to shoot rommy AKM
>Range supervisor says "you can only load five rounds in them clips"
>load 20 rounds anyway
>range supervisor stands over everyone's shoulder with a stopwatch timing them until they are done
>never shoot there again

[0406]

> Walk out side to back yard.
> pick tree to cut down.
> cut down said tree with 7.62x39mm
>pick another target.
>walk back inside.
>just had to post what goes on when i decide to have "range time"

[ApexCypher]

> Go to private range
> Load whatever gun I want
> Call it whatever I want
> Shoot it however I want
> With whatever ammo I want
> At whatever I want
> Love having my own range!!!

[ARTONY92]

> Walk out side to back yard.
> pick tree to cut down.
> cut down said tree with 7.62x39mm
>pick another target.
>walk back inside.
>just had to post what goes on when i decide to have "range time"

> Go to private range
> Load whatever gun I want
> Call it whatever I want
> Shoot it however I want
> With whatever ammo I want
> At whatever I want
> Love having my own range!!!

I'm so jelly i'm smuckers

[ApexCypher]

I know...what really sucks is when the weather is bad and you cant make it...or knowing that instead of the range fee you can spend it on ammo and then the store is out of ammo so you have to drive across the street to acquire more ammo but its like .20 cents higher than where you where just at. Having your own range has its downfalls too!!! 

[Smitty]

WTF bassackward parts of the country do you guys live? Range fees? Range occifers? Geez, I guess I really need to appreciate the blessings this area provides for my trigger finger more.

>walk down to 200 yards to pick up my trusty, well dented by .22LR, frying pan
>walking roughly half way back to the benches
>hearing someone firing
>look up and see someone firing a large caliber revolver
>waving frying pan up in the air yelling and screaming
>hearing more firing
>moving my fat ass as fast as possible back to the firing line
>unleash verbal hell on the ignoramus with the revolver in front of his girlfriend
>proceed to hear him explain that he was shooting on the pistol side of the range and not the rifle side of the range so it was okay
>tell him, in no uncertain terms, that he is wrong
>deciding that after the third time something like this has happened to me there that I will not be using that particular range anymore

[ApexCypher]

WTF bassackward parts of the country do you guys live? Range fees? Range occifers? Geez, I guess I really need to appreciate the blessings this area provides for my trigger finger more.

>walk down to 200 yards to pick up my trusty, well dented by .22LR, frying pan
>walking roughly half way back to the benches
>hearing someone firing
>look up and see someone firing a large caliber revolver
>waving frying pan up in the air yelling and screaming
>hearing more firing
>moving my fat ass as fast as possible back to the firing line
>unleash verbal hell on the ignoramus with the revolver in front of his girlfriend
>proceed to hear him explain that he was shooting on the pistol side of the range and not the rifle side of the range so it was okay
>tell him, in no uncertain terms, that he is wrong
>deciding that after the third time something like this has happened to me there that I will not be using that particular range anymore

Yeah that sounds like no range I EVER EVER Want to visit!!!!

[Ghost225]

> go to range out in the country
> set up and start shooting paying attention to the rules
> hear what sounds like "machinegun" fire
> walk down range with a WTF expression on my face
> notice the group of 10 18-19 yo kids who have monopolized 5 stalls
> hear the rapid firing again and notice its them (big shock)
> realize they are shooting their daddy's high end AR's as fast as they can pull the trigger
> realize they are shooting a bit high
> see the 'yote running back and forth across the top of the range mound out at 100 yards
> realize thats what these idiots are shooting at
> realize that the same animal has made the full circuit at least twice
> realize that these moronic kids has wasted several hundred rounds and have missed completely
> walk away chuckling
> get into fist fight with one of the kids who asked me WTF I was laughing at (didnt like my answer I guess)
> bust him up
> talk to his dad (whom I have known since I was a LEO)
> kid gets azz beat again and has to write an apology

[Toad]

> go to state range
> park car and get out
> hear bullet wizz by and hit a nearby tree
> get back into car and leave
> never by a state permit again


edit...forgot the green

[korkster]

> Go to private range
> Load whatever gun I want
> Call it whatever I want
> Shoot it however I want
> With whatever ammo I want
> At whatever I want
> Love having my own range!!!

Me too!

[marcodelat]

> drive north (about 1 mile) to range
> go inside
> have ammo & firearm "checked"
> pay $15 for "one half hour" range time
> walk over to firing line
> load magazines (these cannot be loaded beforehand)
> place target on frame
> send target downrange
> get to shoot at target for maybe 20 minutes tops!

 

... or go to the South Florida SHOOT!  

[7.62 Re[)E^^Pt!oN]

> drive north (about 1 mile) to range
> go inside
> have ammo & firearm "checked"
> pay $15 for "one half hour" range time
> walk over to firing line
> load magazines (these cannot be loaded beforehand)
> place target on frame
> send target downrange
> get to shoot at target for maybe 20 minutes tops!

 

... or go to the South Florida SHOOT! 

+1

[19echo95]

> go to range out in the country
> set up and start shooting paying attention to the rules
> hear what sounds like "machinegun" fire
> walk down range with a WTF expression on my face
> notice the group of 10 18-19 yo kids who have monopolized 5 stalls
> hear the rapid firing again and notice its them (big shock)
> realize they are shooting their daddy's high end AR's as fast as they can pull the trigger
> realize they are shooting a bit high
> see the 'yote running back and forth across the top of the range mound out at 100 yards
> realize thats what these idiots are shooting at
> realize that the same animal has made the full circuit at least twice
> realize that these moronic kids has wasted several hundred rounds and have missed completely
> walk away chuckling
> get into fist fight with one of the kids who asked me WTF I was laughing at (didnt like my answer I guess)
> bust him up
> talk to his dad (whom I have known since I was a LEO)
> kid gets azz beat again and has to write an apology

Win on your part, fail on his.

[Ghost225]

It was still irritating.