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AndyC wrote:He was actually perfectly fine the rest of the time - just had one little brain-fart, which I brought to his attention at the time. No biggie, as far as I was concerned, and he carried on shooting just fine - but his poor little ego was apparently crushed enough to come and find me 15 minutes later and start screaming. I honestly though he was going to stamp his foot or something - lunatic.

If this is how he responds to a RO offering a friendly reminder imagine how he would act if someone said, "I don't believe I WAS speeding officer"

C-dub wrote:

plano2001 wrote:

punkndisorderly wrote:The sad thing is, the newbie shooters aren't the only ones you have to watch out for. There are plenty of people who have been around firearms their whole lives, but were never really taught safe gunhandling. Some may have been taught what they know by their fathers who never really learned it themselves. Some may handle firearms daily during the course of their jobs like military and police. I can't count the number of times I've heard shooters say "Nothing scares me more than a bunch of cops at the range" or something similar. Kind of the familiarity breeds complacency concept.

It's not only people who never truly learned safe gunhandling, but those who are so confident of themselves that they KNOW how to be safe with guns that they stop actually practicing those safety lessons. My daughter is 10 and gets a gun-safety lesson from me at least once every 2 weeks since there is a firearm in the house (even though it's either always 1. holstered on my hip or 2. stored in the biometric safe). Every lesson starts with: Me - "Is this gun loaded?" Daughter - "I don't know, I haven't physically checked it myself" Me - "Where does your finger go?" Daughter - "Outside of the trigger until you're ready for it to go bang". Hopefully she takes those life lessons and applies them later should she decide to own firearms herself.

I also do this with my 9y old daughter every now and then (about once every month or two). When I ask her if the gun is loaded, her answer is, "Yes. I haven't unloaded it yet or checked to make sure it is unloaded." I have done this with her for about 5 years now and her first trip to the range, just last month, went great. Without me having to remind her, her finger went right along the slide and stayed off the trigger until she was read to shoot. It almost brought a tear to my eye I was so proud.

How often do you take your daughter to the range?

I've posted this before but check out her trigger control at 8 y/o... It's a beautiful thing!!

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Aaaahhh.... "This froggie ain't boiling" ... I get it now... I looked it up and THANKS... I learned something interesting and cool!!

Now back to the regularly scheduled program...

Thomas wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:Another true story!!!! Sitting at the far right hand bench was this old guy with a scoped slug-barrel shotgun on a shooting rest hunched up into the scope. He'd been there all day. The other shooters decide to call a cease fire. Everyone calls safe, except this guy, who gets yelled at. "Sir? Sir? Cease fire? Sir?" He's still snuggled up into the buttstock, looking down the scope. Finally somebody walks over to him and loudly asks if they can get a cease fire. BOOM! he lets a shot off, falls off the bench...he'd fallen asleep! He packed up and left then and there.

For a second I thought you were going to say he died in that position. Your story had a better ending though.

ME TOO!!!

Here's a good one...

I'm at the range in WA state on a beautiful sunny spring day practicing with my XD .40 and testing my wife's Pink Mosquito and her Taurus PT-22 after getting them BOTH back from their manufacturers for various FTF, FTE issues...

Well, the RO (a very nice older gentleman) comes over and sparks up a conversation about my wife's Pink Mosquito and pulls out a Kel Tec P-3AT with a crimson trace and then takes a few shots downrange as he is telling me about his new Kel Tec and how he is getting on in years and the laser is to help him get his shots on target better.

After a few rounds gets a perplexed look on his face, looks at the target, looks at his shooting hand and gun and again takes careful aim at "my" target and slowly squeezes off another round...

Now, I can see clearly where his rounds are hitting pretty close to center mass but I soon realize he ain't seein' it but before I can say anything without removing the booger hook from the bang switch he waves his hand in front of the muzzle and then points it directly at his face to see if the "laser" is on...

I quickly stepped back and a few feet to the right to avoid getting sprayed with his grey matter I very nicely but sternly tell him to get that gun from his face and place it on the bench and we can clear it and see if the laser is on but will not show too bright at 10yds in direct sunlight!!