Thread 64055210

I met a guy at the range today who thought he had to manually cycle each round in his handgun... He had a concealed carry permit. what are the dumbest people you've met at the range.

>>64055210 (OP)
I think he was just yanking your chain anon

>>64055210 (OP)
I didn't know what DA/SA in a revolver was, so I was asking the boomer how exactly it works before renting a smiffnwesson 686, "I saw in a video online that you can cock the hammer, but don't have to."
>"You can't learn anything from a video."
>doesn't elaborate on how it functions
>proceeds to rent me the gun anyway
b-based?

>>64055231
he was on the other side of the range doing that for like 10 minutes, just dumping live round on the ground. he also had an accent and when he left he put his gun in his pocket.

>>64055232
KEK
get fucked retard

>>64055210 (OP)
I've seen some dumb people; I wouldn't know how to rank them.
>Someone once called me an anti gunner because I was trying to explain to him the difference between a single-action pistol (like a 1911) and a DA/SA pistol (Beretta 92). He (who didn't own a 1911) said that the hammer didn't need to be cocked and that I was bullshitting.
>Guy told me that I was a pussy for shooting a .22 rifle and that a real man would choose something with more power. He owns a 10mm PCC (a good option) that he never shoots anymore (here's where his idiocy is exposed) due to ammo being too expensive.
>Some guy telling me I should never shoot surplus guns because metal degrades over time. While technically metal does degrade, there are people shooting 15-17th century muskets right now with no issue.
>I was talking about hearing protection with a guy and I expressed how I love that they've gotten more accessible over the years and he told me he thinks they should be illegal.

>>64055210 (OP)
>who thought he had to manually cycle each round in his handgun
Like a spring airsoft gun? Lol

>>64055527
yes. exactly like that.

>>64055626
>>64055527
I would like to point out that the pic a made is not a meme, he said that.

>>64055512
>I was talking about hearing protection with a guy and I expressed how I love that they've gotten more accessible over the years and he told me he thinks they should be illegal.
Based as fuck dude hell yeah

>>64055705
BASE HEADS FUCK DUDES?

>>64055210 (OP)
>>64055262
>>64055640
Instead of creating a tribute thread you could have showed him the ropes. So the guy didn't know what the auto meant in autoloading and didn't know how to handle a gun, but at least he learned something today unlike you OP, when will you learn not to be a faggot

>>64055210 (OP)
Someone bought a g2c or g3c to the range and couldn't figure out why his gun wasn't chambering, range master came down to help and we found out the nigga bought 9x18 Makarov instead of 9x19

Also, the one and only time I brought an old highschool friend out onto a trap range, I gave him my Model 37 and the dude proceeded to reload my gun doing the one handed movie star bullshit

Very rarely go to public ranges so the dumbest things I've ever seen actually were me.

>be me circa 8-10ish
>Inna desert shooting with dad and friends
>Set up mini14 with scope on a rest for me
>"Ok anonson pick something to shoot"
>"Mmm... I'm gonna shoot the sun!" As I move to zero in on the sun through the scope
>He shouts "fucking don't!", pulls me away and explains why shooting the sun is highly discouraged

>Same age, range different trip
>One of his friends is shooting a snubnose 38
>Ask to try it
>I try to hold it but my scrawny stick arms can't hold that mighty 1 pound chunk of steel
>Go to try to grab under the cylinder to support it
>Luckily friend notices and grabs it before bad times were had by all

>Same age different trip again
>honestly don't remember any of the particulars but from what I gather from the memory fragments I must have shot off a 22 while my dad was going or standing down range
>Likely didn't hear them call cold through my intense focus and large ear muffs
>Might have also been a particularly close call because I remember for quite a while after feeling nauseous that I almost killed him, or at least thought it was that close at the time
>Fun times

I was not a smart child.

>Be late teens
>Shooting in desert again with dad and new wife
>Gets to sundown and he pulls out a box of tracers
>Loads a mag and gives it to wife
>"You see that big boulder in the middle of the hill? Shoot it"
>The hill is probably 80-100 feet tall, at least twice as wide and maybe 1/2 a mile away
>If you painted it red it would be a certified broad side of a barn
>She takes aim
>*Blam*
>We all watch as the tracer just slowly sails
>Clear
>Over
>The hill
>We both just look at her like literally how in the fuck
>only making a big deal because an interstate crosses behind it a few miles away
>Probably too far for a 223 to come close even with a really good arc, but still

>>64055821
>Few years ago
>Desert, dad, yada yada
>Showing off my ptr91
>Not sure if he got too close or I got too close
>Ejected case ended up hitting him in the cheek and actually cutting him
>The hk brass yeet ain't no joke

Beginning to think one of us is cursed, or maybe the desert itself.

>Many years ago
>Out shooting with friends, yes desert, no dad
>At a wide flat area where people have set up a long range... Range
>Also have a natural(?) long deep pit for short range shooting which runs parallel to the firing line
>We were at the far end of the range
>When we stopped to reload mags we heard a strange noise
>*Sssshhhho*
>*Ssssssooo*
>*Bzzzzoooo*
>What the f- oh those are bullets
>Well that's less than ideal
>We all hop into the truck and gtf to the entrance
>Only other people there that day were in the pit
>And they were shooting UP AND OVER THE EDGE
>We all get out and yell that they're shooting into the fucking air
>"Oh shit dude we didn't realize"
>"Fucking how, you literally *LITERALLY* could have killed us over there
>"Shit dude our bad bro"
>We all decide to just pack up and leave now having been under heavy dumbfuck fire for who knows how long

Yeah I'm thinking it's the desert itself that's probably cursed.

>>64055786
I'm the one who told him his gun was automatic, I also did gave him some pointers. I was just too flabbergasted by what I was seeing to do much more. he finished his box of ammo and left shortly after.

Not something I personally witnessed, but cousins told me about. They were at the range and two dumbass zoomers come in and rent a ton of guns and ammo to post on Instagram, had a massive bill at the end

>>64055893
Good, I hereby retract my previous statement

Probably trans

>>64055895
Well, isn't that what normies usually do at a range if they dont own any guns? Rent the house guns and shoot them?

>>64055893
>automatic

>>64055210 (OP)
A guy came to my range and tried shooting his Glock. I think he had a .40 glock and 9mm ammo. First round went off (no, really!) and then he had trouble with his gun. Guy I was with went to help him after a couple minutes and got the casing out and told him wrong ammo (he didn't speak much english). Guy left, bought the right ammo, came back like 30 minutes later, kept shooting, and gave the guy who helped him the box of 9mm (49rds). I still have that case somewhere.

>>64055527
I wonder if he grew up with cheap airsoft 1911s. Or those godawful Marksman .177 BB pistols.

>at local public range
>R/O is chill old vet, sits in a FWA truck and reads paperbacks, waiting for retirement
>recognizes me, waves, gets back to his western novel or whatever.
>set up at the 100 yard range with my AR
>come back from setting the target, see three older gentleman also arriving to the 100 yard range
>only 3 lanes, I'm in #3 and they start unpacking on #1
>I notice they aren't packing anything but 2 soft rifle bags and a 5 gallon bucket of cat litter
>I'm aggressively minding my own business but passively curious what is happening
>these men unzip the bags and pull out a Nagant and a lee Enfield from one bag, and a Mauser and 1903 Springfield from the other
>all guns look in spectacular condition, despite being crammed in nylon bags
>lid is removed from cat litter bucket, its loose rounds
>men begin inspecting the rifles, looking for places where the bullets go
>ohshit.gif
>I then speak up, ask them if they need any help
>'no, we got it, just gonna load these'
>I again interject, asking if they've ever shot those rifles before
>'no, they were our dads, he recently died and gave them to us, we've never shot a gun before'

At this point, I stepped over and politely explained that the rounds aren't universal, told them how to look at the headstamps to determine caliber and reference whats on the barrel, showed them how to load them, basic stuff. No one was hurt, they were very appreciative of the help being 50+ year old noguns. I even loaned them spare ear muffs since the range had a tin roof over it. The rifles were gorgeous and I gave my number to them if they ever wanted to sell them.

I'm glad they weren't dicks about it- another man telling them that they weren't doing something right- but Jesus the thought of them shoving random .30 cal rounds into vintage rifles was terrifying. I couldn't just stand back and watch it happen.

>>64056981
yeah vintage nonsense aside they could have seriously hurt themselves. Good job giving them a few words.

>>64056981
good thing you stopped them from seriously hurting themselves

>>64055210 (OP)
>At range
>Guy struggling with an AR-10
>Looks odd, kinda long.
>It's a Noreen Arms .30-06 long action AR which is really cool.
>And a $20 Barska airgun scope
>Turns out this guy did A LOT OF RESEARCH and concluded that an AR in .30-06 is the optimal weapon possible so he bought one at great expense as his only do-everything rifle.
>And a Barska scope that can't hold on due to all the recoil. Sitting way too low on the action to be usable anyway.
We all had a good laugh and he acknowledged that he has a lot to learn. I hope he's doing well now. Let me put a few rounds through that rifle too which was neat.

>K meet
>99% of people who show up are cool.
>Couple odd people but no biggie.
>GQ shows up with a bunch of brand new airsoft tier LARPerator gear, an AR, FAL and a PS90
>But no ammo.
>Has all these Gucci guns but doesn't have any ammunition for any of them.
>Genuinely showed up expecting to bum ammunition off other people.
>Nobody has 5.7mm, only 308 I have is Tulammo
>I offer to let him shoot it, but warn him it might not go well because FALs don't like steel.
>FAL literally blows up on the first shot.
>Not catastrophic, but dust cover flies off and mag blown out. Case head separated and front of case stuck in chamber so it's going to be a bitch to fix.
>Of course he doesn't have a broken shell extractor or even knows what that is.
Later on, I wasn't there to see this myself.
>Anons down range
>Bullets whizzing over their heads
>Eat dirt
>GQ retard saw a rabbit and took shots at it while people were down range about 20 yards from it
>Damn near got shot with accurate return fire
>Tried to play it off like it's no big deal.
He got sent packing straight away after that.
>>64055787
I can see that mistake from a novice because most people never heard of it and don't know that there are different types of 9mm. Thankfully 380 is usually advertised that way as opposed to 9x17mm or 9mm Kurz.
>>64055527
I've seen people do that.

>>64056981
Good thing you stepped in and even better that they listened. That could have gone really badly.

>>64056034
Gott damn! That woman is uglier than a jar full of buttholes.

>>64056037
Technically, yes.
Not select fire, but it will automatically load the next round from the magazine into the chamber by just cycling the action.

>>64056981
good job anon
you saved those guns and guys from a lot of problems

>>64056037
yes, zoomer, that's an appropriate use of the word. Any self-loading firearm is "automatic"

I don't usually go to public ranges if I can avoid it.
Here's what happened on my last range trip from about a month ago.
>Got done building the second to last AK kit I have
>Pissing hot and rainy outside, decide to go to indoor range to test fire it
>Eight lanes, only one other group of guys there
>Six jeets, only one of them seeming to know wtf he's doing, the rest standing around taking videos and selfies with their iPhones.
>They take turns shooting the rented an AR15 from the range
>Look and behave like the Indian train guys taking selfie videos shooting the AR
>Third guy in the group proceeds to shoot the ceiling and the target holder
>Target holder falls on the floor
>OhShit.jpg
>They just shift to the next lane, setup and start shooting again.
>mfw
No RO on the range btw

>>64055210 (OP)
I don't believe you.

>>64059115
I assure you, It very much happened

>>64059115
Why wouldn't you? A couple of years ago a video surfaced of President Putin manually cycling the bolt of a semi-auto DMR after each shot. The former KGB desk jockey only had training with handguns, it seems. So why would it be any different from other people using guns for the first time?

>>64055821
>shoot the sun
kek retard

>>64056037
Lmao what a moron

>>64057759
This reminds me that the amount of people I see mounting red dots too low on ARs is kind of staggering. They take T1 profile stuff and just stick it on the rail with no riser at all. I've politely mentioned it and it seems a split between people who seem a little sheepish and admit they've got a riser on order but just wanted to shoot, and people who confidently dig in their heels that well acktually this setup is awesome.

I once saw a guy pulling on the charging handle of his AR AND hitting the mag release button afterwards every time he reloaded. He was brand new and got it in his head that is "how the military does it" and I was able to set him straight about just doing one or the other and when it was most appropriate.

>>64055210 (OP)
Here's a military one
>Unit schedules an M203 range
>Other unit has some random guys who need to practice so they make an arrangement to bum some of the spots from us
>They show up with M16A2s with M203s
>This is important to the story because M16 20 inch barrels are longer and hang out in front of the end of the M203.
>Guys firing from sandbag positions and multiple times get caught resting the rifle barrel on the sandbag, thus aiming the M203 right at their own sandbag
>Finally it happens
>A giant poof of orange chalk as a dude fired a 40mm chalk round right into is his own sandbag
>UCP uniform days so his sweaty uniform just soaked up all the orange and he was head to toe neon orange
>1 year later I heard people still gave him shit about it

>>64055821
Too bad your daddy stopped you from murdering the sun.
Wouldn't be so damn hot in here right now if you had gotten that bastard.

>>64059668
The mag release button?

>>64060108
God damn. Bolt release. Fuck.

>>64057759
Lol. A ~$70 Barska came with my one AR upper and I shot it out of curiosity. Turned out there were pads between the scope and rings...for some (Barska related) reason and it shot probably CD sized groups at 50yds. Replaced Barksa rings that had a tendency to self-loosen their thumbscrews with Leupold ones, halved the group size. Put a Leupold scope in the rings, and the group size is now insanely better.

>>64059668
That's silly, but what drives me up the wall is people pulling back the charging handle and then hitting the bolt release without seating it back in the forward position first. It might not be totally obvious, but that's a great way to bend if break your charging handle over time. Good thing they are usually cheap so it isn't a super expensive lesson.
>>64059686
Story I heard from some police bomb techs.
>Getting cross trained with the military at military range.
>One of the bomb techs sees a shiny.
>Digs a 40mm projectile out of the dirt and shows it off to the others.
>They all assume it must have been a dud and take it as a souvenir.
>Ends up rolling around on a shelf in their truck for a few years.
One of them ended up taking an in depth course on how these grenades actually work and came back basically white as a ghost.
>40mm grenades like that have internal safety pins that withdraw from a central impact detonator pin due to centrifugal force as they spin.
>This way they have a minimum arming range so that some boot doesn't blow himself up shooting against a nearby object or obstruction.
>Which is exactly what happened with their souvenir grenade.
>A grenade that has been rolling around on a shelf in a moving vehicle for plenty of time for the remaining pins to withdraw, thereby arming it.
Now they couldn't go admitting that they had stolen UXO from the military in their truck so they came up with a plan.
>Drive over a big ass bridge over the SF Bay at night.
>Throw it off.
>Grenade actually detonated when it hit the water.
>Big boom, big splash.
>Trained professionals doing Chinese fire drill to get back in their van and scramble out of there before CHP shows up and they get an ass ripping

>>64057759
Oh and random bumps would throw it off zero at least an inch at 50 yds. Like, bumps from walking around with it, putting it away/taking it out, and putting it in the car when going to the range. Holy shit that thing was a pile.

>>64060324
Why are people always retarded when it comes to explosives?

>Be shooting 84mm for the first time.
>After finishing the shoot, we walk across the range to look at the steel plate we used as a target. Instructor wanted us to get a feel for the effect on target.
>I walk next to king retard.
>"Chek it out. That's the tail section of a round"
>Look over to see him yanking something out of the ground like 3 feet away from me.
>thisishowidie.gif
>Turns out is was just a blown off tail section.
"Dude. We are walking on a range, where all sorts of explosives are fired. Stop pulling random shit out of the ground."
>"huh. Didn't think about that. That's smart."

No. Its basic self preservation.

>>64055210 (OP)
Conceal carry qualification is a fucking joke now.

My dad paid for my class for my 21st birthday, and the other people there where mostly old fucking retards who didn't even own a handgun or had fired one before. One guy didn't even speak english and didn't have the paperwork ready at any point in the class to the last day. Nearly everybody had to borrow guns for their qualification from the instructor, wanting to qual with revolvers and 45s as well even though they never fucking shot one before. I never felt more like a genius despite being a retard.

There was a guy who asked questions about buying weed with a CCW for chrissake.

>>64061004
I just asked for one on the state website and picked it up after six weeks. it came with a paper with a bunch of bullet points basically amounting to 'you are not a crimefighter please don't shoot people willynilly please fucking please oh god'

no test. no qual. no eval. just a background check.

>>64062914
op here, in my state you have to take a class and bring a certificate to the sheriff.

>>64061004
It's not an unreasonable question to see if it's reciprocal as state ID in a weed legal state. CCWs aren't federally issued.