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Old October 20, 2005, 01:35 PM   #15
okinhim
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Join Date: October 4, 2005
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SC public range

My wife, sons (17 & 15), father, 2 brothers-in-law, and several nephews (13-16 years old) went out to a DNR rifle range to give my wife a taste of shooting, shoot for bragging rights, and allow my nephew to shoot / sight-in his new .270. When we got there we were moved to the 2 far end tables. The only others shooters were in the first slot. My father went over to them as we were setting up and arrainged to be the range officer, he had plenty of experience and a willingness to do it. Everything was going fine even after 2-3 more shooters/groups showed up and they too didn't mind letting my dad take the responsibility. It was a thanksgiving friday and everybody there seemed to be experienced or willing to follow directions and enjoying checking out what everybody else was shooting. Then comes these couple of kids that didn't even look 20 years old, with a rifle a handgun and a lot of attitude. They took the last table which was next to ours and started setting ammo and targets on the table, cursing loudly with every sentence. We weren't the only ones there with kids and so when my father went over to let them know he had been acting range officer he also asked them to tune it down some. Quick note my dad grew up boxing golden gloves in chicago, was 28 years in the navy (enlisted then commissioned) and was then a high school teacher. They didn't seem to care about anything he said and told him they would say whatever they f'ing wanted to. They actually did lower their voices though. Pretty soon dad called a cease fire and to empty and ground all weapons. When all was clear he called that out and we all started to replace targets. The troublemakers put theirs out and quickly were back at the bench. Everybody was shocked when we heard my fathers best command voice echo across the range telling the jerks to put down the guns and step back. They were starting to load them with most of us downrange still. They were starting to argue back they could do whatever they wanted when they realised everyone place was all of a sudden watching them very closely. They quickly realised they weren't in the best of situations and started putting their stuff away and were escorted to the parking lot. Most of the rest of started putting our stuff away too thinking it might be a good time to leave. There was one guy there that said he had call the cops with the license plate since he had seen beer cans in their car.
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