Run off the Range by a Bully and His Girls

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Doc and I ran down to "The Ranch" for a day of shooting. Beautiful sunny day and a couple bags 'o guns. Doc had a Baby Browning .25 that would fire with the safety on. After twice I told him he ain't fixing it here, baggit. Broke out the KelTec P17 to warm up, I can't hit squat with it. Whaddya want from a $160 gun. Both the Philippine MAPP and the Turk CM9 ran through 150 rds without a single hiccup. Doc brought a CZ P07 and a Tanfoglio Witness 10 mm, both ran without a hiccup. The 10 mm is a "compact" and kicks pretty hard with that short grip. Finished up with Doc's .300 Blk AR before the bully and his group showed up. Gun fire didn't faze them a bit. Knocked over the target stand propped up in front of a 2x6 that somebody sunk into the ground. No regard for anyone :) I snapped a pic of the scalawags. The owner died 5 years ago and the "lock/key" that usually hangs on the gate was broken, key gone. Doc has his own key but soon the children will sell the 40 acres and we'll be boxed out. Oh well everything changes. Joe
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pharmer said:
Doc and I ran down to "The Ranch" for a day of shooting. Beautiful sunny day and a couple bags 'o guns. Doc had a Baby Browning .25 that would fire with the safety on. After twice I told him he ain't fixing it here, baggit. Broke out the KelTec P17 to warm up, I can't hit squat with it. Whaddya want from a $160 gun. Both the Philippine MAPP and the Turk CM9 ran through 150 rds without a single hiccup. Doc brought a CZ P07 and a Tanfoglio Witness 10 mm, both ran without a hiccup. The 10 mm is a "compact" and kicks pretty hard with that short grip. Finished up with Doc's .300 Blk AR before the bully and his group showed up. Gun fire didn't faze them a bit. Knocked over the target stand propped up in front of a 2x6 that somebody sunk into the ground. No regard for anyone :) I snapped a pic of the scalawags. The owner died 5 years ago and the "lock/key" that usually hangs on the gate was broken, key gone. Doc has his own key but soon the children will sell the 40 acres and we'll be boxed out. Oh well everything changes. Joe
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We had an incident where a bovine invaded the rifle range. Some rifleman shot and killed it. He claimed he did not see the critter. He was banned from the range for life.
During the a large benchrest match at the NRA Whittington Center, a good sized mule deer walked unseen behind the 200 yard targets. A bullet went through a target and dropped that deer. Who said a 6mmPPC shooting a 67gr bullet could not take down a 200 lb mule deer. No one saw the thing until it staggered out and dropped dead. It sure shut down that stage. Everyone got a re-shoot.
 
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We had an incident where a bovine invaded the rifle range. Some rifleman shot and killed it. He claimed he did not see the critter........
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These cattle are huge and yet one just "appeared" downrange. Within minutes there were a dozen, large and small, that were migrating through to a watering hole behind our firing line. The property is divided into fenced pastures (with broken gates) and some have vegetation so thick it's hard to see a 1,000# bull from 10 ft away. Joe
 
Baxter6551 said:
Maybe the property will be for sale cheap enough …? Build a nice range ?
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The owner (deceased) bought it over 30 years ago for cheap (>$1,000/acre for 40 acres). His children have no interest in it except to dump debris and junk construction equipment. They do have interest in $$$ and Doc is willing to go $200K for it. They want a $million. The is a "Skid steer" bucket loader in place but it needs repair. I'd create a 30ftx6ft berm for a proper range but that ain't happening now, probably never. Florida is overrun with properties owned by dead people. All posted, mostly useless. Joe
 
At the club I was member in Colorado, we would get pronghorns on the ranges and they were so used to people and guns it was hard to shoo them off sometimes.
 
The Hellgate Rifle range in Missoula had a bighorn sheep problem. They were acclimatized to people and didn't scare at all.
 
Years back (70s-80s) when I was shooting a lot of skeet, many times deer would wander out of the wooded area and onto the area that the shot dropped into. We had 3 skeet fields!

Many times a lot of shots had been fired before the deer came out. They would wander a lot closer and we would stop shooting and yell and dance a bit to try to move them out.

After a while we just said lets continue and I would see the deer twitch a bit as the descending spent shot hit their backs. It realy did not seem to bother them much, eventually they would just wander back into the woods.

They were safe from hunters at our club as due to a particular law we could have out shooting club there as it was grandfathered in from 1910 but it was in a no hunting zone.
 
Was qualifying in the early 70s at the range USCG Yorktown, Virginia base.
It was summer, RO’s for the most part were reservists 1/C and Chief Gunners Mates doing their active duty. Most of them were NRA instructors also.
At that point, my experience with CG range had been boot camp, which wasn’t a real pleasant experience. This experience, however, proved to be extremely productive and enjoyable. We were told that the point of this training was to teach us to shoot and qualify, no harassment, strictly a learning event. These instructors were really good.
At one point a woodchuck wandered onto the range. Cease-fire was called. We were then instructed to continue firing at the targets and that the woodchuck was not to be harmed unless he got between us and a target.
The woodchuck was unharmed, and we finished up the day better trained.
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I am not a hunter. I have no urge to go hunting. I was at a local range one day, in the middle of the week. I was there with a friend. He has a 1918 A2 BAR. We were shooting it from a bench. The target was at about 100 yards. I had just sat down at the bench and gotten behind the gun. A deer walked out in front of the target, stopped and looked at us. I did not shoot, but was tempted to. I know a bunch of guys that have hunted and killed deer for many years. But I do not think any of them have killed a deer with a BAR.
 
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