Was at the range today and

I've had it happen in the past at a couple public ranges.
Generally, it's a mistake.

Occasionally, it's intentional and extremely irritating.
While shooting with one of my brothers at the PMAA range outside Salt Lake City about eight years ago, we had a group of barely-legal kids show up and park themselves next to us with a single rifle - some one's shiny new AK.

They didn't bother setting up targets. They just blasted everyone else's on the 100 yard line.
The rifle was getting passed around the group like a joint in their parent's basement.
The RO talked to them. My brother and I reminded them that they needed to set up their own targets.
...And then they put two rounds through the roof of the shelter during a cease-fire, while my brother and I were down range putting up new targets.
The RO gave them the most apathetic and pathetic "talking to" I've ever heard at a range, so we packed up and got out of there.

By the time we pulled out of the parking lot, they still hadn't put up their own targets.
 
I had a guy that was shooting my targets and I said are you shoot my targets and he said yes so what. I said you can stop it! He sad he would do as he wanted to do! His 2 buddies said that he was wrong and they said lets go! One came over and said he was a trouble maker and that he would NOT be back with them any more. I said that that would be good if they would not bring him back.
 
Why its weird that somebody who likes classic rock might also be a 2nd Amendment supporting, firearms person - I don't know.
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I wanna shoot with this guy. New music sounds like Aguila .22 match ammo smells.
 
Several years ago it happened in the Winter Olympics. The event was when they ski for a while and then stop and shoot at some targets. The guy shot the wrong targets so I guess it could happen to the best of us.
 
"...two rounds through the roof..." Means the RO wasn't doing his job.
As I recall, cross shooting is grounds for disqualification in a match. Simply thrown out if deliberate otherwise.
Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, CCR and Hendrix aren't classic rock. Well, maybe Credence. snicker.
 
I have had people shoot my steel targets as well. Now I only use my steel when I go to the desert. The only people shooting out there are with me. But my son decided it would fun to shoot some spinners (hand gun only) with 7.62 x54R AP ammo. I didn't say much but I did send him a link on Amazon for a new spinner. He got the hint and bought it.
 
I was taking an intro to long range precision shooting, it was really an equipment check. The first thing we did on the range was 25 yards. I'm thinking what the heck. I was shooting my savage model 12 ftr and had a bad day. My target was .22 tall and maybe .25 wide. I usually shoot about .5" at 100 yards. The instructor asked me if I was trying to piss him off and what was I doing there. The range owner told him it was a prerequisite for the other courses. I was the only group (3 shot) under 2". I have been to the range almost weekly for the past 18 months and I have not seen anyone come near to my targets. I know their there just haven't seen them. I see the target stands all shot to pieces and I think "who is doing this?" Oh and 2 of the students couldn't get on the paper 24"x36" at 25 yards. I didn't follow up with the classes because the ruled no 223. The course only went to 600 yards. They didn't let three shoot at 100 yards.
 
I was practicing at the outdoor range last week. I got the crosshairs of my scope centered on the target and was about to pull the trigger, and observed a bullet hitting the ground right next to my target stand, which was pretty distracting. I then took the shot. My buddy was spotting through binoculars for me, and said with a puzzled look, "did you shoot twice"? This was amusing, because I was shooting a bolt action hunting rifle, one round at a time. This happened a couple of times. I took a break, stood behind the line, and observed a guy and his son 2 lanes to my left fiddling with the scope on their rifle. When the guy kept telling his son that the scope had "run out of adjustment", I finally understood what was going on.
 
I shoot at 200 yards bench rest only with my 308 , the shooter to my left was shooting 6 mm at 100 yards . He had a 5 shot one ragged hole group going on when I said to him , sorry I was shooting at your target . Only jokingly , you should have seen the look on his face priceless. At my range the targets are all different , easy to spot your own target . All the ports are numbered at the bench & target mount. Bench 8 Target 8
 
As I recall, cross shooting is grounds for disqualification in a match. Simply thrown out if deliberate otherwise.
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Definitely depends on the match, I've typically heard that the shooter who shot the target that was not theirs receives 0's and the shooter with extra holes gets the highest point value of the rounds in their target.
 
I recall my brother mentioned once that he missed his expert marksman badge or whatever in basic training because he accidentally took his first few shots at the shooters target next to him. When there aren't defined lanes it's easy to get mixed up at distance, at least for me.
 
We don't have defined lanes or target numbers for annual qualification, and once in a great while someone will pop a round in the wrong target. When someone scores a 252 and the top possible is 250, you know what happened.
 
I recall my brother mentioned once that he missed his expert marksman badge or whatever in basic training because he accidentally took his first few shots at the shooters target next to him. When there aren't defined lanes it's easy to get mixed up at distance, at least for me.
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Probably depends upon the situation.
The idiot next to me shot the target of the idiot next to him, during final qualification in basic training.
Both had to re-shoot. Neither should have had a chance. But there were so few rounds on the one target that they allowed it! :rolleyes:
(Both idiots were sent on to job training after basic, to allow for further weapons training and qualification once at their duty station. :rolleyes:)

Under certain circumstances, I can see it happening. But I've never done it.
In 2006, I actually shot an 'Expert' score with a gas mask on, while in 3-round burst. 25-yard qualification is not difficult as long as the barrel is the same caliber as the bullets...
 
Guy next to me qualified expert

We had one day on the range in USAF BMT. Twas the only time I handled a weapon in the USAF.
Targets too close together, yup I shot the guy's target to my right. It was quite difficult to figure out which was which at 100. No not all the rounds, just some of them....
He got a cute little ribbon, he did not deserve it but what the hell. He probably went on to security police, and I did not. That's a very good thing.:)
 
Psychedelic Bang said:
The folks in the lane to my left were hitting my targets. So annoyed.

How can you be such a bad shot? Even a person two or three lanes to my left who was firing a rifle hit my target.

Have you ever had this happen? I have never been to this range before.. I went because they were having a big advertised sale today and I wanted to see the prices.. cause I am thinking bout getting a new gun

Is it dangerous if somebody is so bad they can't hit there own target?
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You say they were having a big sale. This tells me there may have been new guns, being sighted in by folks having a hard time getting them on their own paper. If this was a 100 yard range, hitting a target several feet to either side of POA with a new rifle, not close to being sighted in, is entirely possible, even with experienced shooters that are proficient shots. With new rifles I generally shoot as close as 15 yards to get "on paper" and then slowly increase the distance to make sure I remain "on paper". But this is a ranges where I have the ability to do so, and at times when there is no one else there. One reason I enjoy having my own range to shoot on.
 
At first I thought you was joking but after reflecting on your post some more Im not entirely sure you didn't mean it's a common problem lol
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It was a many-faceted remark.
Everything from face value, to people using the wrong ammunition, to barrels being so shot-out that the shooter would be better off with a blow gun.
 
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