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Hello, everyone. How many of you guys avoid the rifle range as deer season approaches?
Our club has "Sight-in-days" from the last week in Oct. thru Nov. 14.
That means I have about 3 weeks until the Ya-Hoo's are out there in force.
This year, at the suggestion of another club member, I think I'll hang out at the IDPA range & concentrate on load development for my revolvers.
I used to help out with sight adjustment, spotting, etc., but after last year, I think I'll pass.
There was a 30 something fellow, with his 75-80 something father. Cease fire had been called for target change..son was retrieving another rifle from truck..dad was sitting at bench.
Range rules demand rifles unloaded & in racks or case while anyone downrange..this old guy must have placed racked rifle on bags..and when everyone was about 20yds in front of firing line..this guy touches off an 06'!
Everyone started yelling at him..and get this..HE started arguing that he had been shooting all his life and that they were perfectly safe as he was shooting down his lane!
To the sons credit..he had a long talk with dad..but old man was arguing with him!
After about 1/2 hour..during another cease fire call..and people were forward of line..this old guy picks up and places rifle on bags again!
The son had to physically restrain & remove rifle from the old mans grasp.
Old man yelling and cursing all the while.
Why he wasn't thrown off range before this I have no idea, (original club member/officer, who knows?). This sure wasn't the time to be ***** footing around with politics when peoples lives were at risk!
That, and having guys touch off the wrong ctg. in their rifles..neck blown out straight..and wondering if they should "try and see if it happens again".
I am afraid my luck might just run out.
It's because of guys like this, I don't hunt anymore.
Yes, I am looking forward to getting to know my old handguns again.
 
Yep.:mad:

That's why I stopped shooting on public land and joined a gun club. That scenario would be a termination of membership for the member involved. If you can't shoot safely, or control your guests, you won't a member of our club.

I was hit in the neck by a ricochet from a guest (policeman) firing unsafely at steel targets, I have zero tolerance for crap on the firing line now.

Speak up, stop unsafe practices, the life you save my be your own.

Rant over.

May not be PC, but older folks sometimes have to be reminded of the safety rules, and sometimes can't hear the 'cold range" call. One guy in particular at my range can't hear thunder, I always touch him on the shoulder and make sure he knows it's a cold range.

Oddly, the two most problematic folks I've seen on our ranges are cops and recent ex-military. They seem to think that the range rules don't apply to them. I don't have a problem at all telling them to follow the rules or hit the road.
 
I work for an organization that leases out tracts of land for hunting during the work week. We get lots and lots of fellows down from Atlanta and the surrounding suburbs, so I'm knee deep in yahoo time. I love the program because it brings in much needed cash, but it scares the **** out of me when I have to go riding around on my ATV trying to find a guy who hasn't checked back in at his departure time. I told the Ladyfriend that it would really suck to survive getting my Humvee blown up, a hard landing in a Blackhawk cause by hostile fire, and taking two hits center mass in my vest only to be blown away by a Delta pilot who thought I was a buck.

And I've noticed the trend too concerning cops and ex-military. Being part of that demographic myself, I constantly have to remind folks that this isn't the sandbox or mid-town Atlanta, no need for Condition One and please don't seet me with your muzzle.
 
How many of you guys avoid the rifle range as deer season approaches?
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Ignorance, like Evil, is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Be part of the solution.

The guy in question should have be politely escorted of the range, regardless of who he was, after he had been made to understand the why of it.
 
When I hunt public land I avoid yahoos

by never hunting on opening weekend, or any other weekend.

I am retired, and Mon thru Friday Morning is a good fit for my schedule. Friday evening is a no-no for me because local yahoos get off work at that time and head to the woods.

Not-so-local yahoos show up Saturday mornings, and all yahoos stay in the woods thru Sunday evening.

Deer don't settle down from all of the weekend disturbance until about Tuesday morning, so I carry my climbing stand in on Monday evening, and hunt Tue AM thru Fri AM.

Seldom see ANY yahoos.

I just love 10,000 acres of quiet, peaceful woods during deer season!;)
 
Had a particular ya-hoo hunting in my FiL's backyard last year. The guy was staying with the neighbor that weekend to hunt.

FiL didn't mind too terribly until said ya-hoo shot the house, the truck, and the camper in an attempt to bag a deer and missed with all 3 rounds. He was also way less than 100 feet from the house.

After the initial shock, FiL then proceeded to grab his Remington 1100, hand me his 870, load both with birdshot, grab another 100 shells apiece, go out on the back porch and blow the top off every tree in the back few acres.

No, no shots were fired at the hunter, nor in his general direction (we're not that nuts:)), the purpose was to make enough noise over a long enough period of time that there would be nary a deer to be found in those woods for the rest of the season.

Ya-hoo decided to call the game warden, who summarily thanked him for the call, got our statement, and went back to the cabin next door to issue a few tickets.
 
There's always been city folk who go to the country to hunt, me and mine were among them. We lived in Dallas, but hunted all over South Texas.

You got born and bred country boys that demonstrate their prowess at being a Ya-hoo year-round....not just during hunting season.

Hunting ain't what it used to be. It's more about big business now. People charge an arm and a leg to hunt on their land now. I stick to ranges only now due to this get rich every season madness over hunting land. Unless you know somebody, or own your own land, the price to hunt on most private land is ridiculous.
 
It's getting to where you have to be rich to hunt. I grew up in the country hunting with a hunt club. Now that I've graduated college I can't hunt off my dad's membership anymore. Dues are too expensive right now seeing that I have a real job for the first time and don't have enough vacation time to make it worth it. So I've got to scrounge hunting land off my buddies. Still don't like the idea of going hunting on the public land where any idiot with a rifle can be hiding in the bushes shooting at noise.
 
This sounds like an East Coast issue - opening day in Northern NV meant you had about 300 other folks out there in about 50,000 square miles - not an issue.

Public SHOOTING ranges were another thing - two weeks before season, every dipweed was there, even a few the afternoon before their season opened sighting in a new rifle and new scope........
 
It's a proximity to city issue I suspect. Cities are where business people go. Businesses have money and therefore drive up land values in the country-side and as a result hunting prices go up even for those not connected with the city. Why charge a hunt club x amount when a bunch of city folks will pay twice that to hunt the same piece of land?

The solution clearly is for me to quit my job and move out the middle of nowhere Montana. Ted's cabin isn't being used.
 
I avoid public ranges as much as possible but if i want to shoot more than 100yards i cant help it. Last week i was at the local range sighting in my new 204 ruger. Muzzleloader starts this weekend so there were several guys there trying to sight in. Next to me were two guys that i could tell ddidnt know what they were doing. They were shooting about a foot low at 200 and i heard them talking about how to fix it. The conclusion was to try using 4 pyrodex pellets to up the velocity. Needless to say i packed up and got out. Hope nobody got hurt.
 
One more reason why I love Alaska and can't wait to get back to it.

Here in Michigan, the firearm season is 2 weeks long, and every ya-hoo with a shotgun is out in the public land. It's like playing connect the orange dots on public land here. I never, ever had that issue in Kodiak. Every once in a while, I'd run across a trapper checking his snares. Other than that, I never saw anyone else while hunting, even on the somewhat limited road syatem land.

Can't take leave this year to go back to MS and hunt there... And I refuse to pay $1k a year to hunt what these hillbillies call "trophy" deer. Their idea of a trophy is a 3 year old 6-point....

If you haven't noticed it, I'm not a fan of this state....

- Waiting impatiently for a billet to open up back in AK somewhere....
 
Yahoos during deer hunting season is the worst. I'm actually looking hard at the muzzleloader season and taking up bow hunting. The Yahoo count goes way down and my chances of sucess go way up! I've heard so many Yahoo stories this season, it's not even slightly funny.:eek: I stayed home!
 
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