I am always interested in hearing stories about bad experiences on the shooting range because it helps me be more careful when I shoot. It seems everyone has had at least one negative experience while shooting on the range. Does anyone have any stories they would like to share?
I have had thousands of positive and fun experience on the shooting range, but I had two bad experiences I wanted to mention:
The first was on the public Atterbury shooting range years ago before they refurbished it. I was on the 25 yard pistol range one day and there were very few people on the range at that time. After a while I was the only one shooting on the range. A guy came up and was picking up brass and he started a friendly conversation with me. As I was talking to him, I noticed he glanced over my shoulder so I turned around and there was a guy standing about two feet behind me. He was uncomfortably close and I immediately got that unsettling feeling that I was about to get in a fight. My first thought was to grab my gun, but it was empty at that moment with an empty magazine. They both ended up walking away and I packed up my stuff and got out of there as fast as I could.
The other bad experience I had on the range was actually in Dallas, TX. I was shooting pistols with some family members and there was a group of about 5 or 6 women being trained on the lanes near us by a female firearms instructor. I noticed the instructor was handling a revolver behind the firing line, but I decided not to say anything about it. I kept shooting and all of a sudden I heard a discharge and a scream. The gun the instructor was handling had discharged behind the firing line, and the bullet hit the concrete, ricocheted, and hit one of the female shooters in the leg. It cut through her jeans but luckily it was only a flesh wound but it did draw some blood. My brother's wife wanted us to leave right then and there, but I decided to be nosy and find out what happened. After the commotion died down, I asked the victim what happened and she said the instructor told her that a hot shell casing had hit her and caused her injuries. I told her that was a lie because a revolver does not automatically eject shell casings. And even if the instructor had shot a semi automatic, the hot shell casing that was ejected would not cut through a pair of jeans and draw blood. After that I always challenge people when they are acting stupid on the shooting range.
Anyone have any other bad shooting range experiences they would like to share?
I have had thousands of positive and fun experience on the shooting range, but I had two bad experiences I wanted to mention:
The first was on the public Atterbury shooting range years ago before they refurbished it. I was on the 25 yard pistol range one day and there were very few people on the range at that time. After a while I was the only one shooting on the range. A guy came up and was picking up brass and he started a friendly conversation with me. As I was talking to him, I noticed he glanced over my shoulder so I turned around and there was a guy standing about two feet behind me. He was uncomfortably close and I immediately got that unsettling feeling that I was about to get in a fight. My first thought was to grab my gun, but it was empty at that moment with an empty magazine. They both ended up walking away and I packed up my stuff and got out of there as fast as I could.
The other bad experience I had on the range was actually in Dallas, TX. I was shooting pistols with some family members and there was a group of about 5 or 6 women being trained on the lanes near us by a female firearms instructor. I noticed the instructor was handling a revolver behind the firing line, but I decided not to say anything about it. I kept shooting and all of a sudden I heard a discharge and a scream. The gun the instructor was handling had discharged behind the firing line, and the bullet hit the concrete, ricocheted, and hit one of the female shooters in the leg. It cut through her jeans but luckily it was only a flesh wound but it did draw some blood. My brother's wife wanted us to leave right then and there, but I decided to be nosy and find out what happened. After the commotion died down, I asked the victim what happened and she said the instructor told her that a hot shell casing had hit her and caused her injuries. I told her that was a lie because a revolver does not automatically eject shell casings. And even if the instructor had shot a semi automatic, the hot shell casing that was ejected would not cut through a pair of jeans and draw blood. After that I always challenge people when they are acting stupid on the shooting range.
Anyone have any other bad shooting range experiences they would like to share?