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  • texasnurse

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    Funny Story: My Father In Law, shoots well but tends to teacup every once in a while or cross his thumbs behind the slide;carries an XD 9mm 4” One weekend we were shooting at Shiloh while I was down for the weekend. I brought Two Guns Xds 3.3” .45 and Colt Clapp 1911. So after a while he wanted to try out my xds, I obliged everything was good had him holding the gun properly, thumbs forward Etc. Then just before he fires he teacups it. XDS about flew out of his hand bullet impacted upper right of target.

    Ever a glutton for punishment...he wants to try my Clapp : Once again, same scenario everything perfect, showed him how to hold the 1911 thumbs high; of course after he clicked off the safety. He proceeds to cross his left thumb over the beavertail and Fire...Here comes the hammer, pinches the webbing of his hand and draws blood and the slide came back and ripped half his thumbnail off. On the plus side though impact hit bullseye

    Needless to say, he doesn’t ask to shoot any of my 1911s anymore. I did point out his error, and continue to work on off hand placement; he’s getting better...


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    texasnurse

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    I’ve seen...at Ables in Huntsville People bounding down Range while it was hot to set their target, or collect that last piece of brass. I’ve personally been swept with a muzzle, seen a girl try to dislodge a piece of hot brass from her cleavage with butt of her loaded Glock. People taking out the legs of the target holders, shooting my target. Stopped somebody from loaded their Glock 22 with 9mm,

    saw somebody point the muzzle of a loaded 1911 at their face in CCW Qualifying, they had borrowed Daddy’s .45 to quality with and couldn’t figure out how to get the safety off, she was lefty.


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    davis449

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    I'm at the range on a Thurs. night a few months ago. I usually shoot twice a week at the indoor range I belong to. I wasn't thinking anything of all the cars parked in the lot when I walked in the door (it was in excess of what I'd seen before for a typical weekday night). As I walked in I saw the advert. sign stating Thurs. night ladies night at the range. The stereotypes just flooded into my mind, but I laughed it off inside and just let it go, because I know all stereotypes aren't true and I have seen women on the range that would out shoot my ass any day of the week. I got my lane in the 25 yd. section and was pretty much alone.

    About halfway through what would normally be my 1.5 hour long session, a group of ladies, probably four or five, and the sole female RSO walk in and take up a lane about four lanes down from me. They're loud and obnoxious as all get out. I swear every time a gun went boom, there were whoops and hollers. It sounded like a bunch of drunk college girls at a bar. I tried my best to just stay focused on what I was doing. But eventually, I look over and I see this lady holding a FS 1911 and think to myself, "Oh f**k, here we go." A big boom, some serious physical reaction to recoil from her, whooping\hollering from everyone including her, and I hear, "And you just shot your first gun!" from the RSO. The lady whips around covering my lane with it (I ducked), and then turns back around and puts it on the table sideways pointed to the lane next to her (there had to be a round in the chamber ready to go, as I saw no one clear it). Whooping, hollering, and not a peep about gun safety from the RSO. REALLY!? Who thought giving this woman with ZERO handgun, and probably firearm experience in general, a .45 to shoot for the first time ever was a good idea????

    SMH.

    I packed up and left.
     

    avvidclif

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    Now I'm figuring out why they sell bullet-proof vests to the general public. I've actually wonder why in the hell folks figured they needed them. I think I know now.

    So they can go to their local gun range in relative safety. Maybe they should issue them at the door....
     

    Jakashh

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    When I worked at a local indoor range, I once helped a group of ladies clear spent .380 casings out of her .38 special ruger lcr. It fired and went downrange just fine.... lol
     

    benenglish

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    Watched a Bubba shoot .270Win out of his .30-06.
    He wondered why he couldn't find the holes.
    Making a mistake in that direction is laughable and inaccurate but not terribly dangerous, just like my .40 in a .45.

    Shooting a .308 out of a .25-06, now that's dangerous. :)

    Note: For those not from Houston who might not get the reference, there's a range north of Houston that everybody visits at least once. They have a blown-up rifle on display. It was a .25-06 in which someone fired a .308.
     

    Brains

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    I've fired a .40 S&W in a .45ACP, so I can't really point fingers.
    I almost did that once. Grabbed a single .40 instead of a .45ACP and shoved it into the mag, then shoved the mag into the gun. Dropped the slide, muzzle downward towards the open ground in front of me, where that cartridge then quietly deposited itself.
     
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