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ajwakeboarder wrote:One thing that bothers me is a guy at the range over the weekend. He was standing back watching his 10 or 11 year old son shoot his semi-automatic rifle that was spraying brass over the 3 shooters to the right of him. Guess who happened to be number 3, and who happened to catch some brass in the side of the head while looking down my scope. Hot brass doesn't feel good when it gets stuck between your glasses and the side of you head.

Meh, brass sprays at a range. This isn't something that would bother me, and I certainly am not focused on where my brass is going when I am concentrating on shooting.

Medic624 wrote:Aaaahhh.... "This froggie ain't boiling" ... I get it now... I looked it up and THANKS... I learned something interesting and cool!!

That is why I decided to include the link in my signature explaining it. I first heard of the analogy in the mid-90's when I read Ross Ross' well-known Unintended Consequences.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Anyone else have some good range anecdotes?

If three different people fired your Taurus PT92 right in front of you using your ammo, and it functioned flawlessly for them, but it stovepipes about every second-third round for you, you absolutely are not limp wristing it and you should send it in for repair.

Stay alert when the guy at the next bench with a .338 magnum rifle with a side-ported compensator is getting ready to send one ...... the concussion can rattle the brain if you're in condition-white. :)

It's okay to just start bagging all of the brass on the ground while I'm shooting, I guess I didn't want my brass back anyway.

Bring 4-5 friends with you to the range, and take lots of pictures holding the guns with finger on trigger. Heck, point it at the cameraman, too, it looks way more impressive on Facebook that way.

Cease fires are for wimps, just put your gun down and start out to the target. The other shooters will get the point!

Next two from a friend of mine in Ohio:

TRUE STORY!!!!! At the Delaware ODNR range, it was a windy day, there was a guy sighting in his pistol, he had his buddy standing at the rope HOLDING HIS TARGET to keep the wind from flapping it. Two annual passes, seized and destroyed.

Another true story!!!! Sitting at the far right hand bench was this old guy with a scoped slug-barrel shotgun on a shooting rest hunched up into the scope. He'd been there all day. The other shooters decide to call a cease fire. Everyone calls safe, except this guy, who gets yelled at. "Sir? Sir? Cease fire? Sir?" He's still snuggled up into the buttstock, looking down the scope. Finally somebody walks over to him and loudly asks if they can get a cease fire. BOOM! he lets a shot off, falls off the bench...he'd fallen asleep! He packed up and left then and there.

It is ok to bumpfire your ak, 4 feet to the left of a guy who is zeroing a precision rifle . He wont mind at all.

The whole "lets give my wife or girlfriend an air weight .357 or .500. It will be great fun when she shoots one shot then drops it on the floor. Let's put it on Youtube!"

.45 is a 'real' gun. 9mm and .38 are for wusses.

No need to clean up after I am done shooting. Some one else will do for me. Just like my mommy at home.

If you go to an outdoor rifle range and fail to bring targets, feel free to shoot the freshly painted steel targets. The range must put the steel targets up for customers to shoot ''cause them steel targets is expensive and nobody could afford their own''.

Jackwagons that shoot other peoples targets are idiots.

It's O.K. to teach your woman, friend, or buddy how to put a mag in your rifle and work the bolt while everyone else is hanging targets on a COLD range.

It's O.K. to have your kid ahead of the firing line trying to catch the brass ejecting out of your A.R. on a HOT range with other people shooting.

Need to see where your shots are hitting on your target? Just walk over and use my spotting scope, even though I have no clue who you are, and then mumble "I thought that was the range scope".