Animals on the shooting range

We have had to stop shooting skeet for deer crossing over the berm and turkeys down range. The only animals that ever got spooked was the occasional duck or two sitting in the pond by the 200 yard range.
 
There was a grizzly bear at the 600m berm at the Longest Mile range south of Edson in July. I got there at 9am and there was another fellow there too. He took three shots at the steel and on the third shot, he clanged the steel. The bear looked up and ran off into the woods.

When I went out to paint steel at 500/600/700/800/1000 metres, the hair was standing up on the back of my neck. and I kept one of the car doors open...
 
Rob said:
How about your strangest animal at the shooting range?

This summer I was shooting at a local 100 yard range, when a big fat woodchuck/groundhog (for Westerners, thats a gigantic gopher) started wandering around the target stands...I could have, but I decided not to...

It reminded me of one spring in Alberta when I was shooting at a target and the sound woke up two moose in the bush to one side of my range. They wandered out into the field right behind the target and layed down in the muddy field. They wouldn't move and I had to move my target stand. After awhile they got tired of the racket and wandered off.

When I lived in Vancouver and shot at the old Barnett Rifle Club range on the northside of Burnaby mountain, a fellow went out (and up) to the 300 yard target. But when he stepped into the woods to relieve himself, the range officer declared the range was clear, and firing commenced. The fellow had to hide in the woods until the next ceasefire. Deer also used to wander out onto that range.
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You get caught shooting at any wild life on my range and you are banned and reported. Like it should be.
 
I had to stop shooting because a WT doe was trying to cross in front of the 300 yard mark. I had been ringing the gong steady burning up some .243 shells.

Apparently it wasn't too worried about the noise. The gong is pretty loud. I am sure that deer have a good idea of what your intent is.
 
I was shooting on the 200 yard line one day and noticed movement on the berm to my right, no more than 20 feet away was a big fat groundhog. He clearly lived in the berm and had been for a while since the gunfire didn't bother him one bit. Or he was deaf. He just carried on his business while I sat there shooting for about half an hour.
 
We wasted a cow that wandered onto an artillery range in Meaford, Ontario about 1989 or 1990. They don't stop the exercises for a single cow. Poor thing... when the smoke and dust cleared, there was no sign of it.
 
Strangest we've had is a woman on horseback come over the berm and a goose that was a pet for a while.....came in the indoor range and was very attached to people
 
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Bears and deer at our range. Had a bear show up at the butts so I stopped and waited, and waited and waited. so I finally took out my .22 and pinged a few rocks to the side of him started about 60' from him and slowly got closer, he finally got up and left as I got within 30'
 
Animals on the shooting range ... HA ..... when I read that title first thing that came to mind were cops & ETF guys I've seen at ranges.
 
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