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Over the winter our indoor pistol range had a genius somehow put 4 bullets into the ceiling.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/300523-range-trip-cancelled-thanks-careless-shooters.html
The range was closed until steel plates could be installed to prevent it from happening again.

There is now a new sign on the entrance door to the range:
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Hopefully that will make people think before they act.
 
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I was at the range by me last week. There are 10 lanes. I was in lane 7. A gentleman was in lane 10. No one else was there. This guy shot so poorly he hit the ceiling by lane number one. It startled me. he missed hitting his target and cardboard back stop more times than he hit it. He had his target set up at 15 feet. I imagine a range officer talked to him. At least I hope he did.
 
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indiandave said:
I was at the range by me last week. There are 10 lanes. I was in lane 7. A gentleman was in lane 10. No one else was there. This guy shot so poorly he hit the ceiling by lane number one. It startled me. he missed hitting his target and cardboard back stop more times than he hit it. He had his target set up at 15 feet. I imagine a range officer talked to him. At least I hope he did.
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Hopefully you reported it, sometimes the RO doesn't see everything. I would have reported it on my way out of the range. I wouldn't have stayed any longer than it took to pack my stuff up. I had a similar experience when a guy was teaching his wife 2 lanes down. I notices the dust from the ceiling tiles in front of my lane falling down.:eek:
 
indiandave said:
I was at the range by me last week. There are 10 lanes. I was in lane 7. A gentleman was in lane 10. No one else was there. This guy shot so poorly he hit the ceiling by lane number one. It startled me. he missed hitting his target and cardboard back stop more times than he hit it. He had his target set up at 15 feet. I imagine a range officer talked to him. At least I hope he did.
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I've seen it quite a few times when people setup target like 5-10 ft away and try to shoot "head" of the target. Usually I politely point out that they are shooting ceiling. Our range is kind of high tech and high tech equipment has a price tag attached to it and I really don't want those guys go out of business, cause it's a very convineint range for me :D
 
I shoot in a range in a local High School that has been active since 1933. There are ventilation shafts along the ceiling (which is a couple feet of concrete). The range is limited to 22 RF, but the number of holes in the ventilation shafts is amazing. I can just picture a young person closing the bolt on a rifle and putting his finger on the trigger "before" lowering it to target level, and "bang" a hole in the ceiling. Fortunately the adult club I shoot with at this range has never had an accident of any kind, but we are all very watchful of any new member.
 
Did that sign get a "thumbs up" from the legal department as a proper means of eliminating all future club liability?

If so, I'll need a few hundred of 'em to tack up around here.
 
Hillbilly77 said:
Over the winter our indoor pistol range had a genius somehow put 4 bullets through the back wall of the range.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/300523-range-trip-cancelled-thanks-careless-shooters.html
The only way to do that is to shoot through the ceiling. The range was closed until steel plates could be installed to prevent it from happening again.

There is now a new sign on the entrance door to the range:
7ama2uru.jpg


Hopefully that will make people think before they act.
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Aren't stupid people a federally protected minority now?
 
kozmic said:
Did that sign get a "thumbs up" from the legal department as a proper means of eliminating all future club liability?

If so, I'll need a few hundred of 'em to tack up around here.
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The best thing may be to find out where the stupid people live and put the sign on the inside of all their front doors.
Sure would save the world a lot of hassle. ;) :D
 
Yeah, the problem is most stupid people seem to miss signs of any kind. And, they are probably to stupid to realize they are stupid.
I think we could start a very long thread about stupid people at gun ranges. I stopped going to a range because it seemed like it was always crowded and filled with people who did not know what they were doing. Did not feel it was safe there any more. There had been a very strict RO but he left and things kind of fell to ****. Something about stupid and firearms do not mix.
 
The last time I went to my range, I just happened to look up a few times and saw holes that I had no idea how they got there. I just thought it was a bunch of goofballs fooling around. After seeing a couple of these posts, I'm not so sure it was fooling around anymore. From lane 10 to lane 1?? That's scary.
 
How many times have you seen someone approach something with a "Wet Paint" sign and touch it to see if it's true?

As for stupid people being in the majority, I disagree. Uninformed or misinformed people are another matter altogether, especially when it comes to guns.
 
indiandave said:
I was at the range by me last week. There are 10 lanes. I was in lane 7. A gentleman was in lane 10. No one else was there. This guy shot so poorly he hit the ceiling by lane number one. It startled me. he missed hitting his target and cardboard back stop more times than he hit it. He had his target set up at 15 feet. I imagine a range officer talked to him. At least I hope he did.
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While qualifying on the range when I first got into L.E-we had one very pretty woman who I was forced into standing behind while on the range. We were using .357s to qualify with. This gal was swinging her right arm all the way back and could easily have shot me--every time she just fired a shot at the target--which was about 30 feet ahead. This gal shot the ground every time and I was getting very fidgety watching where she swung the barrel of the 357--and all the while I was trying to get the range instructors attention to the matter. Finally Mr. Sullivan saw I was waving while also standing well away from the woman. Luckily she just finished firing her six and he ran up there and yanked the handgun from here and sent her to the sidelines. She never hit her target and hit the ground at the base of the target.

That's the closest call I ever had on any range.
 
kozmic said:
Did that sign get a "thumbs up" from the legal department as a proper means of eliminating all future club liability?

If so, I'll need a few hundred of 'em to tack up around here.
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While signs may look like an answer I think driver licenses with stupid in red letters stamped on it would be a better option.
 
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