I'm surprise I have not bought this up until now. I've never seen this before. The last time something close came to this was this summer and I believe I talked about it here. It's a beautiful day for shooting and out of 11 benches 8 were taken up. The last two benches were taken with both shooting at 50 yards. I was at the other end and started packing my stuff up. All of a sudden when I look around down range, I see this guy running and he was about 10 feet from the 50 yard target board. I take a quick look around and everyone is blasting away. I yell cease fire four times and everyone looking at me. I see the guy putting up his targets so I ask the person next to me to make sure no one on the line is touching their guns. I walk off the line and this guy is running back to his bench. I'm yelling at him to freeze and he stops and looks at me coming at him like a real mad drill sgt. I'm yelling what the fuck do you think your doing on and on until I get in his face.
The range is open to the public for three weeks before hunting season for 10 dollars a rifle for sighting in. I ask him if he was a member or not and he said member. I asked him how long and he said ten minutes. At that point I'm not yelling at him anymore because he looked like a 50 year old ready to cry and I could tell he was not to bright. I sit him down at his bench and told the rest that the range is now hot.
I asked what he was thinking going down range when everyone is shooting. He said he was keeping an eye out for everyone. I then said did you read the rules and he said what rules. I then got him a copy and went over each one. He had a real nice setup on his new AR and I have know idea if he knew what he was doing. I also bullshitted him by showing him my sidearm which was the FN 5.7 and told him if a cease fire was called and I went down to change my target and you forgot or did not look for me and you took a shot at your target, that I would have pulled this out and taken you down with a head shot. I showed him the magazine and told him I shoot a 2 inch group at 200 yards, remember I'm bullshitting. I said you would be dead. He asked wouldn't you go to jail. I said what for self defense. It scared the shit out of him which was my intent. I asked if he understood all the rules and I got a yes and a sorry.
I got into my truck and went to the shack were the owner was and told him everything. He told the guy to read the rules first. Everyone has told him before he is lucky so far that no one has been killed there. There are no range masters. People look at me and a few others as people in charge because we are always there and I do something when someone does something wrong. Then I started to think about all the others who did not even call a cease fire. The guy next to him told me he stopped shooting but was not a member and he was in shock to see this guy run down range.
When my son was here to shoot with me one of us stayed to make sure no one touched their stuff when one of us went down range. From now on I'm going to ask the person who does not go down to keep an eye out on everything. No more weekend shooting for me anymore unless I go to the other side and then I'll have the place to myself.
I even had to go home print out the rules and ask the owner to have people read them sign them and give them a copy and for him to keep one. He does have a copy up that needs to be replaced and post in more than one place.
