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any crazy public range stories to add?

Swingin' Free said:
Yup, the one and only
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Hmmm...must be something in the water, lol. Didn't realize there was a range at the park. In addition to all the chemical pollution, the sewage that keeps going in there is just nasty. I've heard boaters talk about the "brown line."

Range story: Someone I know had a brand new rifle and scope nocked off a range table at a public range. Reportedly, the guy who did it was apologetic, but packed up and took off quickly. Scope was marred in the process and the owner has been suspicious of it's consistency ever since. In that scenario, what can you do?
 
Treehopper2 said:
I have a few to share from a local WMA rifle range.
1)Years ago I needed to check my rifle zero and it was raining the day I had time so I decided to use my local WMA range due to it having a roof over the bench area.
I get there and it was packed with guys thinking the same thing I guess so I get in line.
As I’m waiting there is this one guy giving everyone shooting instructions and pointers and I can tell this guy thinks he knows everything about shooting but with some of his statements I know he does not.
I finally get up to the bench the dude is getting on my nerves and everyone else’s so I’m thinking I want this to go well so I can leave.
My cold shot breaks clean and hits its mark so I start packing up my gear getting ready to leave and the guy giving all the instructions shoots a hole through the roof of the range from behind us.
That dude never says a word and gets in his truck and leaves.
Thank goodness the muzzle was pointed up.

2)Same range different day a guy was sighting in a muzzle loader and forgot his ramrod in the barrel and fires it.
The recoil cuts his eye and almost knocks him off the bench.
The thing is he didn’t even know he had shot his ramrod until trying to reload again he thought the extra pellet caused all the added recoil.
We all go down range looking for it and find very small pieces of it laying about.
Luckily he wasn’t hurt bad due to that range uses long tubes to cut down on noise.
At the end of the tube it has a sheet of plywood with a square cut in it.
If that ramrod would have bounced back that’s a bad day but luckily it exploded and went out the down range end of the tube.
I haven’t been there in years and have no plans to go back.


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I have personally seen fellas shoot ramrod on more then one occasion! Once, I even watched a guy reload and shoot his at a deer. And didnt even realize it as well until he tried reloading. He started looking all around for it. It was comical!
 
Plebe said:
Is this at the park on Lake Onodoga by the Liverpool Rowing Club?
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LOL....Yep. Dang, wish I knew you guys existed when I lived there! The excelsior bales they use (or used to use 10 years ago) made me stop using hot melt glue (insert eaters).
 
ThePennsylvanian said:
I have one from a private range that many nonmembers use. I was there by myself one saturday morning, working loads for my flintlock. This fella pulls up, grabs a rifle from the bed of his truck. Naturally, I'm cautious and guarded, as it didnt appear to me that he unlatched or even opened a case. I say hi, he just waves sits down at the closest bench pulls a round from his pocket and loads and pulls the trigger. Luckily I had my muffs on still, because his barrel blew up, split into three!!!! Scares the crap out him and me. I scream are you ok, he gives me a thumbs up, grabs the remains of his rifle jumps in his truck and drives off. I was left sitting there think "*** did I just witness????". I obviously reported it to the club but I had no clue who he was, it was definitely strange how he just shows up, blows his rifle apart, and just leaves. This all happened in roughly 10mins start to finish.
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Some guys are just that good and can confirm zero with one shot before deer season!
 
While at a primitive rendezvous I was pulling my cedar from a bear target and a shaft hit the dirt by my foot. I see a lady and young son looking up at me . At the next target the young fella walks up and says his mom thought that was pretty funny cause she almost hit my foot. I calmly leaned down and whispered to the boy, You tell your mom the next time I'll shoot back, and I don't miss. They slowly fell back and I didn't see them again that day.
 
Blacksmith said:
While at a primitive rendezvous I was pulling my cedar from a bear target and a shaft hit the dirt by my foot. I see a lady and young son looking up at me . At the next target the young fella walks up and says his mom thought that was pretty funny cause she almost hit my foot. I calmly leaned down and whispered to the boy, You tell your mom the next time I'll shoot back, and I don't miss. They slowly fell back and I didn't see them again that day.
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It's funny that movies and TV make people think that if you shoot someone one time with a handgun in the toe that they will fly out a window and land in a pile DOA, but a bow is just some toy. I don't get it.
 
The local sporting goods store have a small archery range for people to try out the bow they want to buy. They had a tube with all kinds of arrows and of different lengths. This guy grabs an arrow way too short for his draw length and shoots it through his thumb and pointer finger and the arrow stayed there pinning the bow in his hand. The ambulance took him with the bow still in his hand to the hospital. They never got the bow back.
Same shop had a young lady release the wrong hand and had the bow fly back at her....
 
my partner arrowed a rosi bull just a monster.when tracking it he found someone ells was flagging his blood trail .he didnt recover it.later in the year he sees a rack on i fish that looks identical kickers and all and the chaps said they harvested in the same creak bottom below grind stone.so he argued that they ripped him off .ofcourse they disagree with him.the next season 2 of my freinds spot the remains of his bull in the blackberries just above camp. brought the skull back to camp and asked him did those guys realy steel your bull.threw it in his face
 
4miles out the f line above Thomas creek is the knoll my family hunted.my mom he taken a half dozen deer of the same bench.my dad harvested his biggest buck there.while he was hurting it he heard grandpa test his soul.crack off a shot on the opposing side of the knoll.when he went to help gramps buck looked identical.huge 3x4.assumed they where brothers.at the top of the knoll is a deer trail around the rock my son is standing in front of.this year my dad asked me to spread his ashes there.crazy for me20201104_112329.jpg
 
I don't have any personal range stories but, if you want to laugh out loud I recommend that you listen to the story by Monty Browning that starts at 41:18 of this podcast. Then when you are done I highly recommend that you listen to the entire podcast as well as Part 2. They are the most entertaining podcasts I have ever listened to.

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The Stickbow Chronicles- Traditional Bowhunting Podcast: 005 - Monty Browning Part 1

Bowhunting Rhino's, scary cemeteries, and almost running over Fred Bear
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GCTerpfan said:
I don't have any personal range stories but, if you want to laugh out loud I recommend that you listen to the story by Monty Browning that starts at 41:18 of this podcast. Then when you are done I highly recommend that you listen to the entire podcast as well as Part 2. They are the most entertaining podcasts I have ever listened to.

stickbowchronicles.libsyn.com

The Stickbow Chronicles- Traditional Bowhunting Podcast: 005 - Monty Browning Part 1

Bowhunting Rhino's, scary cemeteries, and almost running over Fred Bear
stickbowchronicles.libsyn.com
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"Dan, you're a little high!"
 
GCTerpfan said:
I don't have any personal range stories but, if you want to laugh out loud I recommend that you listen to the story by Monty Browning that starts at 41:18 of this podcast. Then when you are done I highly recommend that you listen to the entire podcast as well as Part 2. They are the most entertaining podcasts I have ever listened to.

stickbowchronicles.libsyn.com

The Stickbow Chronicles- Traditional Bowhunting Podcast: 005 - Monty Browning Part 1

Bowhunting Rhino's, scary cemeteries, and almost running over Fred Bear
stickbowchronicles.libsyn.com
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Reminds me of stories about how Howard Hill would put on demonstrations at schools and take child volunteers out of the crowd and shoot apples off their head. I brought that up on a traditional archery forum and no one else saw the problem....since it was Hill!
 
raisins said:
Reminds me of stories about how Howard Hill would put on demonstrations at schools and take child volunteers out of the crowd and shoot apples off their head. I brought that up on a traditional archery forum and no one else saw the problem....since it was Hill!
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Yeah, I've heard the stories about Hill also. I think I would lose it if it was my kid.... even if it was Hill!
 
while hunting mulies in eastern oregon desert a truck goes rolling by with 2 girls in the front windows up bumpin hip hop.in the back 2 dudes sitting in cushy leather recliners with their bows .i didnt know it but this is comon practice over there
 
not many people have witnessed the seenery behind monument peak its called monument for a reason its monumental.anyways me and my best freind where sitting on a log eating starberst candy by a wallow when a bull elk walks right up on us 17 yards broadside we bothe put an arrow through him at the same time.he ran 10 yards and stoped to look around.at that time im fumbling for another arrow while eddy sent one over his back .and he took off.we gave him 40 minutes to expire.then started tracking him.about 150 yards away we jumped him and he hightailed it .we tracked him over a mile up the backside of monument only finding pin sizzed drops of blood at one point he hit a road and we thought we lost him for sure there while eddie was searching brush i walked up the road there are elk tracks everywhere old and knew just a mess about 50 yards up the road i saw one pine needle next to a bull track and it was red not yellow .reach down and it stuck to my finger.walked up the road and saw blood in the brush where he dove in.the bull would wind through an open meddow and set up above watching behind him .dont know how manny times he spotted us but by dark we lost his trail of pindrops.and pulled out with our heads hangin lower than my caricter.a freind gave up his last day of season to help us track it.its second nature to him .that morning we get to where we lost the trail.thought we jumped some deer.somehow cole found a couple of pin drops and did what he does.he told me he was bedded right here he got up stumbling.i dont even know how he could tell while he was scouring the ground i see the bull laying on his side as if he was looking at us and fell over .he was hot to the touch and i realised thats what happend he just expired right then.im not gunna talk about the pack out.harder to kill than i thought
 
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