December 20, 2005, 11:59 PM | #51 |
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GLP- From what I've been told, rapid fire is not allowed because people can get out of control and start hitting the ceiling. Seems hard to believe but I guess a couple of idiots along the line have probably ruined it for everyone. I have shot "rapid fire" in the country at a home range many times and never had a problem hitting the target with every shot.
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December 21, 2005, 12:16 AM | #52 |
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That makes sense, though unlikely. But yeah, I guess there a few inexperienced idiots who ruin it for everyone. The only time Ive hit the ceiling (or so I thought I did) was a couple times when I was shooting my Beretta 96, and my finger pressed the trigger directly after an aimed shot, and the gun was still pointed upwards because of the recoil. Kind of scared me a little. I was expecting to shoot, but the shot came too early, and I think I might have put a hole in their ceiling
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January 3, 2006, 03:23 PM | #53 |
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I have also heard that rapid firing can cause "cookoff" where the barrel/chamber of the gun actuall gets hot enough to fire off a chambered round. Although you should always be aware of what you are doing with a chambered round it can still be dangerous if it fires when you are not expecting.
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When I took the Cooper Extension Course in Houston back in 1982, a Houston PD LEO was over on the extreme right side of the firing line. Since back then they had to carry in a flapped holster he was using his duty rig to become proficient with it and the 1911. We are in the middle of an exercise when I hear, "I'm hit!" I look over and the LEO is going down holding his right calf. Uncle Jeff, ever the instructor, yells for the rest of to stay on target and ignore the wounded man, while he and the range officer took care of the cop. The poor guy got disconnected with the flap and got his finger on the trigger (Rule 2) before he cleared leather and shot himself in the calf. I would not have wanted to 'splain that to my captain!
On the more humerous (and dumber) side.... I once went hunting with my best friend, his father and his two idiot uncles. I was around 16 or 17. The three brothers were famous for pulling gags on each other. At the very least one of their caps was sure to get ventilated this day. One uncle had a 12 ga shell used for scaring off birds, the kind that shoots out a small explosive charge that detonates among the birds and scares them off from airports and the like. He slips it into my friend's father's shotgun. We came to a shallow water-filled ditch, and one brother steps across. Just as he does my friend's dad shoots in the water from about six feet away to splash him. His shotgun goes boom and the little explosive makes a small and unimpressive splash in the water. There it is in the ditch water and the fuze is burning with a sizzling sound. My friend's father goes, "What the s###?!" and leans over to investigate the strange little sizzling device in the ditch with predictable results. One thing about that group, we learned how not to behave around guns. CX |
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I was at the local indoor range a couple of months ago, a guy was there with his 2 kids. One was 18-ish, the other 12-ish. I was five or six rows down on the right from the man and the younger son, the older son was in the lane to my right. The older son was doing swimmingly. I stopped to reload and looked to my left to see the youger son skipping(!) towards me with a with a revolver pointed out in front of him!! I duck in between the protective glass and wait til the kid goes by and then go have a little chat with the father. I used a couple of choice words when the man told me to "calm down, it's not loaded." By this time the children have seen me gesturing emphatically at their father and are present. I walk with them down to the older son's lane and I pick up the revolver, open the cylinder and what do you know, 4 rounds inside. Should the child have tripped and fell down and pulled the trigger, the hammer would have fallen on an empty chamber, but that is no excuse. They were asked politely to leave. Stupidity should be painful.
Off topic but still ridiculous. I was waiting for the clerk at a LGS to finish with a customer and I happened to over hear their conversation, not an easy thing as the customer was only fluent in Ebonics. The customer had a CCW and was trying to decide which Glock to purchase. The clerk made a couple of decent suggestions about a holster and the man replied he didn't need one. It was a full-sized Glock so the clerk asked him how he would carry it. The man took it, and stuck it down the front of his pants, and tucked his shirt in behind it so that the grip stuck out in plain sight. The clerk informed him that he could be charged for brandishing and might lose his license if he did so. The man said he wasn't worried about it, it would be worth it because he would look so cool to his friends. He was asked politely to leave. |
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This is my post to a similar thread.
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I confess that I changed the barrel on my Dan Wesson M-15 using the older
style wrench with separate barrel plug, then fired the plug down wrench, had to hacksaw off the barrel shroud and barrel and replace them. A short time afterwards read in one of the gun magazines where one of the "experts" admitted to doing that, then I didn't feel so bad. The newer style Dan Wessonuzzle wrenches are one piece tools, a much better design. And I did buy a spare barrel for my 9MM Browning HP, when I fired it I wondered why the cases were expanding so much, yes it was a 40 S&W barrel. |
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I used to belong to a private shooting range where every member had their own key and could go anytime 24/7. It was kind of a hole in the wall but it served the purpose. It had eight 50' shooting stations, nicely lite, clean, restrooms and soft drink machines.
One day I got there just as someone was leaving which was unusual because I had never been there before when someone else was using the range. I had been there dozens of times and I always had the place to myself. I was there about 15 minutes when this old man comes in looking crabby as all get out. He starts bitchin' at me, "why the hell don't you have the fan turned on" he hollers at me. "What"? I said. "Turn the God*anm fan on" he screamed at me. I told him I had just got there and to turn it on himself. The guy before me must have forgotten to turn the fan on when he turned the lights on. Great way to start the day. Anyway, we start shooting and I take a break to get a coke and when I return he's down range. So I take off my ear muffs and toss them on the bench. Well the old man sees that and goes nuts. He screams "get behind the line. You know the rules! You're not supposed to touch that bench when someone is down range." I said, "all I did was toss my ear muffs on the friggin' bench" Well, this old man was gonna have a heart attack so I just said sorry about that and walked away. So a little while later I said I was going down range to check my targets and he says OK. I get down range and turn around and the old man is standing at his bench loading his gun! I screamed at him "what the fu*k are you doing" and ran back up range to my shooting bench. I asked him, "are you nuts, I'm down range and you're loading your gun. Don't you know the rules?" He says "I'm a retired policeman". I said "you're a stupid old man!" I went into the office and called the president of the gun club and told him exactly what happened and never went back to that range again. |
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skeet range G's
one Sunday at the skket/trap range, the sound of 15,000,000 watts of base brought all shooting to a stop. The next thing we know we have three kids that had been watching way too much tv. they went unanounced to station 5, trying to figure out how to get the clay birds to fly. they had one firearm for the 3, a Tech 9. I flipped on the cell and called 911 before the RO headed over to them. Luckily they didn't try to go Rambo on us. Then again, one tech 9 vs 25 skeet shooters................
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March 26, 2006, 12:43 AM | #61 |
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About 20 years ago we went to a outdoor range , i decided to walk over to the river and take a look ,when i got there i saw a huge dead carp belly up floating about 4 feet from the bank.
Soooo....i whip out my model 27 S&W .357 , took aim and....SPLAT! I was covered with carp guts and general goo. They made me sit in the trunk..... Growing up is so hard...glad thats over with |
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