Comments on: Stop, Don’t Shoot That! – How to Recognize Dangerous Targets at the Range

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:11:41 +0000

Thanks for the insightful list of potentially hazardous targets! I once learned a similar lesson when shooting in a national forest. A huge granite boulder was selected as a backstop, as I thought it would be adequate for stopping cast lead 45 ACP. It indeed stopped all the rounds, but one good sized chunk came back to it’s departure point and drew blood from my forearm. Thankfully it didn’t hit elsewhere and I had eye protection. But that day, I learned a valuable lesson to select targets and backstops carefully.

By: Darkman

Darkman — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:00:32 +0000

In reply to I Haz A Question. I'm always more concerned with being the victim of careless firearm use at the range than I am of doing it. I have left the range many times because of someone's carelessness. Fortunately our range has cameras and I know the Rangers responsible for patrolling it personally. I have on more than 1 occasion reported unsafe firearm usage to them along with the description of the perpetrator(s). license number and description of their vehicle(s). Which resulted in them being banned from the range for up to a year. Our range also requires attending a new training course and retesting to return to the range after being banned.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:20:47 +0000

In reply to I Haz A Question.

SCotUS just ruled Trump has blanket immunity for official acts :

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/07/announcement-of-opinions-for-monday-july-1/

The freak-out by the left will be *glorious* to behold… 😉

By: Hush

Hush — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:05:48 +0000

I remember when I showed my girlfriend my pistol and she said, “THAT”S IT”, who do you think is going to have any fun with that and I said Me.

By: Hush

Hush — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:03:02 +0000

My girlfriend’s nephew and another young man were sitting in the nephew’s truck when the young man was showing the nephew his gun.
The young man pulled the magazine out and said to the nephew, it is unloaded and then placed the muzzle to the side of his face and pulled the trigger discharging a round into his face.
His face is now highly scarred and lucky he did not place it higher up on his head.
Plus he now has to live with the stigma of his mistake.

By: I Haz A Question

I Haz A Question — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:33:13 +0000

True story…

Last month I personally witnessed a LEO at the range incur an ND, only ten feet from me. This guy had exclaimed earlier he was a certified instructor. I watched him as he removed his magazine while (distractedly) talking with someone next to him, take his focus off his gun while speaking to the other person about something, and then point his gun at a target to demonstrate some sort of principle. Then his gun went “BANG!” He was startled as I clearly heard him say “S**t, I thought it was empty.” Fortunately, his muzzle was pointed downrange, but any and all possibility of respect for him as someone to listen to went out the window.