Shooting habits that bug you

[AndyLate]

The folks who bring friends/family to shoot and don't have ear pro for them. I pass out foam earplugs and tell folks how to insert them, whether I am asked or not.

Andy

[m1a_scoutguy]

I am pretty lucky being a member at a Private Range, just show up anytime from 9 am on weekdays through Saturday and 11 am or later on Sunday and you can shoot outside till sundown, inside you can shoot 24/7! With that said I don't run into many blockheads but there are a few. Biggest is a finger on the trigger for me and sweeping you even if I know it's empty, just not cool, another main one is handling a gun while people are down range! One of the biggest things is the dumb f**ks that shoot stuff up,we had just hung up New ballistic curtains inside and new 2x8s at the base/floor level for the curtain to hang in back of to keep it from flopping out or moving around and a week later some moron shot the shit out of the lower boards ! Like I said these are 2x8s so what the hell were they shooting at ! I shoot alone a lot because of my work schedule but I do have a main group of buddies so we don't have too many issues. If someone new or I don't know is there and they're struggling I will help with grip/stance, etc but try for the most part to keep to myself. I will always keep a watchful eye thought!

[eodinert]

2,000,000 year of evolution to develop a thumb, and when shooting off of a bipod, people don't wrap their thumb around the grip...'cause having a good grip somehow makes you less accurate.

[MegademiC]

2,000,000 year of evolution to develop a thumb, and when shooting off of a bipod, people don't wrap their thumb around the grip...'cause having a good grip somehow makes you less accurate.

I thought you did not want a firm grip to influence the rifle.
I barely touch the rifle with my strong hand when going for groups, but the argument could be made I dont know what Im doing.

[CRAMBONE]

Clean up your flipping empty shotgun shells!!! Been hunting a lot of public land lately searching for doves with my dad, and usually one of my daughters. I’m tired of picking up other people’s hulls. Pick that shit up. I have to explain to my daughters how some people aren’t as clean as us and how they don’t care for the environment and Mother Earth. Clean your trash up!

That and rude behavior. It’s really bad with on public land during waterfowl seasons.
And I love taking women to the range. Whether it’s a friend, my daughters or a romantic interest. Because they listen. And there is always some dude there that thinks he knows better and tries to butt into the range time. They always make a fool of themselves.

[26 Inf]

Clean up your flipping empty shotgun shells!!!

I'm with you on that, for sure. Too many folks think nothing about leaving hulls and boxes lay in the field, even in controlled shooting areas. My son is a neat freak and just as often as not he'll bring in a bag of trash from the areas he's hunted. He frequents a specific walk-in spot for turkey, I think he does more trash pickup than the KDWP personnel.

My pet peeve is folks shooting 22LR and steel-case who just leave their cases lay. I know very few people who police 22 brass, but it becomes a problem in high volume shooting areas. If you are on a concrete pad - sweep it up. If you are going to shoot 300 rounds from 10 yards on the plate rack, pick up the majority of your brass. You get ten people doing that on a week-end and it creates a problem with other shooters finding their brass.

Even if I'm using .22 to practice, I lay out a painter's drop cloths by my shooting positions (https://www.harborfreight.com/9-ft-x...oth-38109.html) I originally used blue plastic tarps, but .223/5.56 were hot enough to fuse to them and stick.

Not always practical if you are doing movement drills, but in most cases you are going to be able to clean your area quickly AND almost always 100% brass recovery. My primary pistol games are action pistol and GSSF so this system works well.

[Rogue556]

Unsafe firearm handling. Everything else falls into the mind your own business category, unless someone asks for help.

This.

Fudds are gonna fudd, tools are gonna keep being tools, and more aften than not no one wants your opinion unless asked, even if you are being truly helpful.

So long as one can refrain from doing something unnecessarily dangerous in the vicinity of me and mine, then I really don't care..

Though I do have my own land and thus don't have to deal with others, so there's that.



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[SteyrAUG]

I thought you did not want a firm grip to influence the rifle.
I barely touch the rifle with my strong hand when going for groups, but the argument could be made I dont know what Im doing.

That is such a "flavor of the month" thing. Hathcock shot circles around most of the people on this forum and he did it with less than ideal shooting positions and rifle grips and under usually terrible conditions. That is when you know somebody can really, really shoot.

I get the strong, practices basics part BUT if actually using a pistol grip with your thumb on the other side throws everything you do into disarray you aren't a strong "practical" shooter. Now if you are bench shooting for any Olympic gold medal, then do whatever makes you 1/200th of an inch tighter than you'd normally shoot.

[CRAMBONE]

My son is a neat freak and just as often as not he'll bring in a bag of trash from the areas he's hunted. He frequents a specific walk-in spot for turkey, I think he does more trash pickup than the KDWP personnel.

I’m the same way. I usually have more trash in the bottom of the boat than ducks on the way out, but I feel better.

[SteyrAUG]

This.

Fudds are gonna fudd, tools are gonna keep being tools, and more aften than not no one wants your opinion unless asked, even if you are being truly helpful.

So long as one can refrain from doing something unnecessarily dangerous in the vicinity of me and mine, then I really don't care..

Though I do have my own land and thus don't have to deal with others, so there's that.



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Stupid shit bugs me because I then have to wonder "what's next"? Doesn't mean I voice my concern or get into anyone's business, but it does mean I have to keep an eye on "those guys" when I'm trying to do my thing.

But if everyone is shooting safe, I don't really worry about it, but some things are still amusing.