Overheard at the range

[PegLeg45]

One day at the range, many moons ago:

I was practicing for an upcoming Bullseye match and was shooting quite well.
A few spots over from me at the range, a guy was showing a woman the ins-and-outs of shooting.
I heard him tell her to always use two hands when shooting.
She promptly asked why, and he said because you can just shoot better that way (now, I don't necessarily disagree with the technicality of this statement, but this is not germane to the situation here).
She then said, "That guy over there is only using one hand."
To which he replied, "Well, he's doing it all wrong."
Followed by her saying, "Well, he's shooting way better than you..... look at all the holes in the middle of his target.....yours are all over the place."

Next thing I know, they're packing up and leaving.

 

[billt]

following the advice given to never dry fire any gun will make it impossible to field strip that glock they're shooting...  

That's the first thing I though of as well. It would have been fun to have walked over to him and asked him that, just to get his reaction after being made a horses ass in front of the woman he was supposedly "instructing".

[ExurbanKevin]

I'm been blessed in that I've rarely seen or overheard derp at public ranges: I've either been able to reserve a bay to myself, or else the other people at the range were far enough away that their stupid did not rub off on me.

The best, I guess, was two young men engaged who were in accuracy contest with a shared Beretta 92. One was shooting with a decent thumbs-forward grip, the other was using a classic teacup Weaver and was AMAZED at how well his friend was shooting.

Holding my tongue at that moment was difficult, but I managed to do it.

[Shoot the guns of history]

One of the best ones I have heard was a guy a couple of table down from me complaining that his AR was a POS and must have a bent barrel, as he could not hit anything with it, after a number of mags and a target that was free of holes, he was getting frustrated. I went over to see if I could help, well he was one that bought on a panic, the salesman said he needed a scope, and a .50 cal ammo can of ammo, then sent him on his way.
 Turns out he knew nothing about his AR other than how to put a mag in and pull the charging handle,  I ended up showing him how to open the rifle, pull the bolt carrier out and so on, we then moved the target in to 25 yrds and did a bore sighting and a rough scope setting, it was so far off that when I looked thru the bore, then the scope, the cross hairs were a good 12 inches off center at 25 yrds,  in a few shots I had it hitting center with the scope and then adjusted the peep sights.
After 30 minutes, he was hitting at 100 yrds and was a happy camper, other than he had wasted all but 4 mags of ammo by not knowing what he was doing, nice thing is, as he was getting ready to leave, I asked if he reloaded, he didn't so I offered to pick up his brass, he not only picked up all his brass, he put it in the ammo can and then left it on my table.

[TAB]

The best I ever heard was " you can shoot a 308 in a 3006, its just like a 357 and 38."


I packed up and left, the ro was notified on the way out.

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[alfsauve]

Excellent Peg.    See that's another one of those pieces of advice taken too far.  Sure shooting two hands can provide better support/control, but it's not an absolute as some yahoos try to teach it.

Kevin, it's hard sometimes not to jump in.   If it's a serious safety matter, I'll will but in regardless.   Sometimes, like Shoot Th Guns did, you can provide friendly help without seeming like a butinski.

Tab:   Sometimes that's also the best, just walk away and tell the RO.   Let them handle it.  I think ROs could write a book on the things they've seen.

[Big Frank]

I tried to post a reply to TAB yesterday but I was speechless. Wow. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that one.

[TAB]

I tried to post a reply to TAB yesterday but I was speechless. Wow. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that one.

which is why I got the hell out of there,  I want to be no where near that when it goes off

[tombogan03884]

which is why I got the hell out of there,  I want to be no where near that when it goes off

Not to worry.
It probably will NOT go off. since there will be no resistance to cause the extractor to snap into the groove the round will probably just slide into the chamber and lay there.
Would be different with a controlled feed, like a Mauser, where the extractor grabs the shell on  feeding it would be different, the shell would be held for the firing pin to hit it, but it would cause a heck of a mess.
In a good quality gun it should be SAFE enough (once)since 308 pressures a lower than -06, but split casing and sh!t accuracy are pretty much guaranteed.

[Majer]

it would fire form the .308 to the 30-06 chamber would most likely have the shoulder blown out.