Ask Ian: My Most Unsafe Range Experience (Incoming Rounds!) (Audio Only)
Added 2022-09-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTCFrom Brian on Patreon:
"What’s the dumbest or most unsafe thing you’ve ever witnessed while out shooting in the desert or at a range / match?"
That would definitely be when a pair of totally movie shooters out at my desert shooting range spot decided to violate Rule 4 (Know your target and what is behind it) and ended up dropping rounds right into the place where my wife and I were shooting.
Second place is a match I attended that was designed as a simultaneous head-to-head competition between two shooters. One particular stage had both competitors advancing down a long bay, but if one was a lot faster than the other, they ended up downrange of the slow shooter, taking fire. Oops!
Comments
Disturbing that the older couple at the range shooting blindly weren’t *more disturbed by realizing they almost shot you guys. But then, I am not surprised. My wife is from rural western PA. Bullets during deer season hitting houses are not uncommon.
2022-09-09 13:16:05 +0000 UTCThat's worthy of Alec Baldwin or Jon-Erik Hexum right there...
Bruce Brodnax
2022-09-08 18:22:20 +0000 UTCoutch that sounds close
Guido Schriewer
2022-09-08 17:55:49 +0000 UTCLast winter in an infantry training (idf) two motorbike riders ignored warning sign and enter to the fire direction, we didnt saw them initially so about 20 man open fire with m4 and negev machin guns and stormed towards them..they were not injured but were very frightened..
Tsachi Levi
2022-09-08 15:25:24 +0000 UTCi brought a pistol in for warranty and had an employee at sportsmans warehouse point my single action 22 lr/mag revolver at his head with an empty case in it trying to see when it was lining up with the barrel, mind you the other guy behind the counter put the empty in it then when he couldnt figure it out the other guy came over, i was speechless.
Shawn McIver
2022-09-08 12:44:17 +0000 UTChow about newbie turns around, with my clubs fav 357mag 686 at the time, cylinder closed you don´t know are there empties light strikes or unfired ones in that cylinder asking "where to go with cases?" that like 1foot from my belly. wanted to punch him and just knock him out send him to those cases! door opens guy wants to walk in closed slide on a pistol muzzle forward... oh, clayshooting lady turns sweeps like three others with a closed 12gauge double.. you mean like along those lines? it is a safe hobby as long as people ain´t dumb as a rock. though.. we had almost catastrophe last week with a 45winmag squip in a grizz. fortunately next did not chamber. with those preassures... uhoh.
Guido Schriewer
2022-09-08 12:33:05 +0000 UTC
