Range pet peeves

East of Here said:
Anybody that comes over when I have a Mosin on the table and asks if I have ever heard of Simo Hayha. It's like clockwork...
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I don’t think that’s how you spell her name. :p

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After reading the 4+ pages of stuff, I'd have to agree with most but wait until you show up at the range shooting black powder arms only.

I shoot at a private range but we have a couple Tackycool Timmys in the group. One was giving me the lecture about how accuracy has gotten sooo much better through the years of firearms development so I asked if he minded if I took some offhand shots at his B27s on the 100yd line with my 1863 Sharps. So I started taking head shots with the old paper cartridge Sharps keeping all shots in the "kill" zone. He was shooting 4in groups off the bench with an AR at the same target but it was very easy to tell my 54cal hits from his 223. He started giving excuses about his shooting/gun so I offered to do some diagnostic on his gun. Loaded up 5 rounds in the mag, put 5 rounds offhand into the head of a 200yd B27. Yup, sonny, ya sure can shoot a bit faster with the modern stuff. So one of my peeves, aside from poor handling safety, being looked down on by Timmys with their modern crap so please don't diss this old codger who gets quite the thrill outshooting them with a muzzleloader and sometimes with their own guns! And yes Virginia, I used to shoot IHMSA, IPSC, IDPA, USPSA and 3G. There are more expensive things than crack and divorce.
 
When I am benchrest shooting my Annie and have my cheek on the butt stock and someone wakes me up! It is called bench rest for a reason!:)
 
Me. said:
Yesterday I ran into probably my worst peeve.....

I was having a good time, shooting away... checked my watch, I had over an hour and a half before I had to be home..... I had two steel-filled pistol bays all to myself..... I RAN OUT OF AMMO!

Dang.
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I did something similar a long time ago...threw the ammo cans and range bag on the truck and took off 45 min to the range. Got to the range and no guns lol.
I pack the night before and got interrupted so I never actually put my guns in the bag lol.
It was supposed to be a .45 day, so I had all this .45ACP ammo and the only gun I had was my 9mm edc with no 9mm range ammo lmao.
I went across the street to the shop and was laughing about it with the guys when I saw a used SR22 in the case. I bought it, a couple boxes of CCI and went shooting lol.
And that is how my son ended up with his first .22
 
Since the thread has taken a turn, Draco’s story makes me wanna tell one of my own.

Yesterday, I went looking for a recently acquired older Smith revolver (thanks again CFF’r) to photograph. Emptied my dozens of safes ( :p ) and it was nowhere to be found. After several hours, I realized one of my gun rugs was also missing. Ran out to the garage and found the gun, in the rug, under the front seat of my car. I guess I’d taken it to show someone and forgotten it there. Happy and relieved, it went back in safe 38R ( :cool: ).

A bit later, I realized the gravity of what I’d done. My daughter borrowed that car while hers was getting some recall work done. What if she’d been stopped and the car searched (no, no CHP). :eek:

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Jeppo said:
A bit later, I realized the gravity of what I’d done. My daughter borrowed that car while hers was getting some recall work done. What if she’d been stopped and the car searched (no, no CHP). :eek:
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Which is why the standing rule is 'do not borrow dad's truck without asking'.
 
Jeppo said:
A bit later, I realized the gravity of what I’d done. My daughter borrowed that car while hers was getting some recall work done. What if she’d been stopped and the car searched (no, no CHP). :eek:
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This is one reason that I recommend EVERYONE in a family, that can, get a CHP. Even if they don't have much interest in carrying, they will be covered under situations like this.
 
Toprudder said:
This is one reason that I recommend EVERYONE in a family, that can, get a CHP. Even if they don't have much interest in carrying, they will be covered under situations like this.
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Actually, this was one of my initial motivations for getting it myself.
 
Toprudder said:
This is one reason that I recommend EVERYONE in a family, that can, get a CHP. Even if they don't have much interest in carrying, they will be covered under situations like this.
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Only reason my wife has one. $90 for 5 years of insurance. :D

She’s never carried and as of now has no plans to. She’s been to the range twice...once to prep for the CHP course. And then for the course, with a different pistol she’d never seen before, and scored 40/40. Which is the example I always use to show that the CHP course of fire proves nothing about one’s ability to shoot. :eek:
 
Toprudder said:
This is one reason that I recommend EVERYONE in a family, that can, get a CHP. Even if they don't have much interest in carrying, they will be covered under situations like this.
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Myself, my wife and my daughter all have ours. It is a good idea in case something were to happen to me. Then one of them could take charge of my carry gun while I am on the way to the hospital.
 
BigWaylon said:
Only reason my wife has one. $90 for 5 years of insurance. :D

She’s never carried and as of now has no plans to. She’s been to the range twice...once to prep for the CHP course. And then for the course, with a different pistol she’d never seen before, and scored 40/40. Which is the example I always use to show that the CHP course of fire proves nothing about one’s ability to shoot. :eek:
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True for me, in a bad way!
I hadn't fired a gun since my 30s, and yet decided to take the CC class with a gun I'd never shot, and those holes were all over the target and I might have missed it once, even. (I'm sure I posted a pic of it) That's when I decided to get instruction, and fast!
I think I'd do pretty well now.....lol.
 
Toprudder said:
This is one reason that I recommend EVERYONE in a family, that can, get a CHP. Even if they don't have much interest in carrying, they will be covered under situations like this.
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Yup this is the main reason the wife got hers. Her profession does not allow for daily carry and to be honest she is not that into it but it does allow me to have truck/car guns secured in the vehicle to be used if necessary. Her having the permit removes any issues. We also do not let other people drive our cars for the same reason unless we are present.
 
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rufrdr said:
Gun baby talk really bugs me. Shottie, Remmie, Winny, Springer..really?
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Mine has NO NAME.....

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I have found out the best cure for Mr. Tacticool -- with obnoxious muzzle brake who wants to show how manly he compared to you and your puny .22 is by shooting on the bay besides you -- is a spoonful of Hakim.

B00ger said:
...its as bad/worse than some dude saddling up next to you at a line of urinals...personal space doods!
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Pet peeve of mine: someone striking up a conversation in the bathroom. I even told my boss: in the bathroom I know nobody.

NCLivingBrit said:
Oh yeah. I was taking an exs daughter to the range for the first time ever, she was excited but obeying all the rules and listening.
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Girls tend to be good at that.
 
People who think Kimber is the ultimate 1911 and that no other 1911 is worth owning. I have RIA 1911s that will shoot as good as any other 1911 I own including my STI 1911s but I really love shooting my 22TCM and watching the RSO jump and head down to see what that was
 
vaskeet said:
People who think Kimber is the ultimate 1911 and that no other 1911 is worth owning. I have RIA 1911s that will shoot as good as any other 1911 I own including my STI 1911s but I really love shooting my 22TCM and watching the RSO jump and head down to see what that was
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Not this RSO because someone was nice enough and let me shoot it!!! I love the flame from the TCM!!!
 
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