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I took an acquaintance from school out to the range as a guest. He was a firearms owner, but didn't have a membership of his own, and wanted to sight in a new SMLE No 4 Mk 1 he had purchased. We brought out 60 rounds of factory new .303 for him to sight in with.

On his first shots, he was hitting to the left, decent grouping though. So, he had a small punch and hammer with him, and he drifted the front sight a little and shot some more. This didn't seem to help and he was still shooting to the left. Myself and my other guest were puzzled, but being fairly new shooters and unfamiliar with adjusting sights on a Lee Enfield, so had little to offer, whereas he had looked up the procedure. Finally, he shot his last batch of ammunition for the day, and the results were worse than ever, with many shots landing completely off the paper. He sighed and said, "Well, that was disappointing, but I guess I'll make a last adjustment and try to work on it again another time".

Since this is the end of our day of shooting, and there's little left to talk about, we start looking at his adjustments out of curiosity, and he gives us a quick description of the process as he works. After a moment, we both look at each other, then turn to him and say "Wait, which direction have you been drifting the front sight?" "To the right", he replies, "to cancel out the bias to the left."

After a moment's more thought, he blanches and realizes that he's been doing it backwards from the beginning. So, after 60 rounds and 1.5 to 2 hours, all he managed to do was put his new rifle sights much more severely off point of impact. He left the range that day a little deflated, but hopefully with a little more incentive to think through what he's doing in the future.
 
When I was 12 my brother (10) and I went prairie chicken hunting on our farm. I had a cooey single shot .22 and he just had a pellet gun. Well when he finally found a chicken he took a shot at it and the bird didn't move or flinch. So he reloaded and took another shot and still nothing. He tried one last time Before getting mad and snuck up on the chicken and beat it with the stock of the gun. That was his first chicken and he was so proud even if it was unorthodox how he got it. Well after cleaning it up we cooked it in the wood stove, and sadly it got a bit burnt. He was so upset when he first seen it burnt. But in the end still tasted not bad.
 
In my first year out hunting I was riding out to a hunting spot, with a group of guys. As we were getting close a whitetail buck walks out of the bush. Everyone jumps out of their trucks and grabs their gun, and one guy says "Let Andrew take this one. He's never shot a deer"
So I cycle the action of my borrowed rifle, shoulder it, find the deer in the scope (finally), take aim, and pull on the trigger.
Nothing.
I didn't have the mag seated all the way, and no cartridge chambered when I cycled the action.
The deer casually bounded over a fence, past a "No Hunting" sign.
Needless to say, I didn't have first dibbs on the next deer we saw. (But I did shoot my first deer at the end of the season that year.)
 
So a couple years back I picked up a brand new kel tec sub2000 9mm zombie edition and some 9mm and headed out to the local shooting spot, set up some targets and started picking away at them while trading off and letting my friends try shooting for their first time (they loved it) after an hour 2 RCMP trucks pulled up so we finished the mag and put it down on the tailgate.

A young officer barely 30 years old walks up and we make chit chat, doesn't bother to check my license (it's a very popular spot to shoot and police love to patrol the area frequently, you would have to be an idiot to shoot there if you dident have a license ) so he sees my kel TEC sub2000 and asks what it is so I explained and showed him how it also folds in half and it uses pistol mags to allow you to shoot 10 rounds I stead of 5. He asked if he could shoot it, I said sure have a crack at it. He walked over back to his truck with my sub2000 and asked his superior if it was alright for him to shoot this rifle while on duty, the 50 something year old just waved at him like "go ahead" so he came back and loaded a mag and shot it, he then handed it back. He obviously can't count to 10 because the bolt was closed so I pulled it back and out popped a 9mm. He said "whoops! My bad"
 
Like shooting fish in a Barrel- (Almost)

A few years ago during a late August weekend family Camp-out at our club with the RV . I decided to test a few new rifle loads before nightfall . The firing point was deserted , & I set up for the 200yd with the Chrony .

Having touched off a couple of .338s’ just to foul the bore . I thought I could hear someone shouting in the distance. Ceasing fire ,& taking the hearing protection off to try to locate the source, everything looked good ,so proceeded to fire another couple of rounds, again I thought I heard someone calling out distantly , again the muffs come off. As I’m looking & listening my wife is walking behind me on the access road during her evening stroll . Questioning her about the “sounds”. She thought that she’d heard shouting as well.

Just seconds from being satisfied that all was clear, and about to chamber another round, I catch a movement at the top of the 200yd berm above my target. A fellow was walking along the top toward the side berm shouting , & waving his arms! Incredulous, I Immediately step away from the rifle , looking to make sure I had left the action open .

The guy keeps walking along the side berm for about 25 yds. Before finishing his trek towards me on the range floor . As he gets nearer I could see that he’s carrying a fishing rod, & a creel basket.

Finally at the firing point , I ask; Was he aware that this was an active range in use , How dangerous it was to walk on top of a berm, up to the firing point of an active range & what the hell was doing down there in the first place , why he would do such an idiotic thing with guns ,(or in this case one gun ) being fired, & Did he not realize that he could have been injured, shot , or killed !!??

His explanation; He had parked on the highway walked in to catch a few trout at small pond” where they go to spawn this time of year, was too tired to climb the hill back to the car” so decided to take a shortcut through the Club. Having done it the evening before, he saw no issues today. Of course he knew there was a range here as that was the reason for the shouting to let someone know he was going to “pop up”. To further drive his point home , he reaches into his basket proudly gripping an admittedly good sized Brookie , & exclaims ; “see, this is what makes it all worth it!!!?”

Head shaking, I bid him a good day, check the range, ready my gear to get back to my shoot. When the “fisherman” says “Oh by the way the daughter & her boyfriend are about 10 minutes behind me” !! They got a good catch too!

Now I love catching trout as as much as the next guy , but definitely not with even the slightest chance of catching a .338 LM between my teeth as well!
 
Ok folks this is the funniest I have so far as I am still somewhat new to the shooting world. At a guy's hunt camp setting up shop for deer season. just entered the russian surplus world and have a mosin and 100 rounds with me. I ask the guy after we are done working where I can shoot. He says " see that tree right beside the bridge?" ( the only bridge that allows us across the creek and out of the hunt camp) "that one there shoot that tree" 75 rounds later the tree decided it was done and wanted revenge. Fell over right onto the only bridge out of the hunt camp. Completely destroyed the bridge and left 10-15 feet high branches in our way.. along with the trunk and remnants of the bridge. Out come the chainsaws lol.. thats the best I have. So far. : )
 
I guess since there's been one CF story I can get away with this. On an exercise a while ago, through strange circumstances, I was the second most senior member of my section as a corporal and my fire team partner was one of the fresh fish that had showed up to regiment a few months earlier. This exercise was the yearly live fire qualification that the infantry does and our troop of engineers was integrated in with them. The qualifications are broken broken down into shooting live in pairs, as a section, a platoon attack. Sounds simple and straightforward yeah? Now in reality, this means you're running around with live rounds shooting popup targets with three feet of snow on the ground. And in my case, with a guy who wasn't that... quick nor experienced. Also, he's got the light machine gun. Very reassuring. So the day shoots go by just fine, everyone goes through without a hitch. Then comes the night shoots. Shooting at night involves night vision and an infrared laser and takes getting used to. This guy had hardly worn night vision up to this point. So before we started, I told him, "go slow, pick where you're stepping, and remember to turn on your safety." Mostly out of a desire for self preservation as I was going to be bounding ahead of him as he was shooting. So when the trial started and we started shooting and moving, my fire team partner heads to the top of a hill to get a good firing position. Excellent, he's learning quick, I had nothing to worry about. As I bound closer to the target, he has to move, so he gets up off his guts, grabs his gun, takes two steps down the slope of the hill and f###ing yard sales down the rest of the way. I, being ahead of him, only heard him yelp and the safety officer behind him yell "CONTROL THAT WEAPON!" I tensed up waiting for the machine gun burst that I was afraid was coming for me all day. It never came. As soon as he realized he was going down, he bear hugged his C9 and pretty much rode it down the hill. Once he got up, his helmet was full of snow, his NVG had unclipped from it's mount and the clip on the ammo box that holds it in place on the gun had broken so he was left with about 150 rounds tangled around his gun. All I heard from him after the safety officer asked him if he was ok was a meek, "I'm out of the fight." It is incredibly hard to finish off a shooting trial while laughing as hard as I was.

I did thank him for not shooting me while he tumbled down a hill a## over tea kettle.
 
Post that video on YouTube!

CraigNConnor said:
Okay folks,
This one falls into the close call/ plain dumb luck category:

First off do not repeat my actions, I probably don't even have to type that, but hey haha.




So drove out to the ol gravel pit for some Gryphon binary target fun,
all is going well when my wife's brother sees an old shot up 20lb propane cylinder lying in the distance, he says "lets try and see how high we can send that thing into the air"
Me, being the type of guy that usually shoots first and asks questions later, agrees that yes seeing a flying propane tank clear the tree line sounds ******* awesome!

So the two of us proceed down range and balance this 20lb propane cylinder (that has been shot up and is completely empty) on top of 1 lb of Gryphon binary Explosive.
We also set up 2 GoPro cams, one close to the target about 25 yards away and another on my wifes brothers truck that was 100 yards away.

Cameras are rolling and I proceed to 75 yards from the target and take a prone position in the dirt with my trusty .308 and let one go.

It was Spectacular!!! just as expected the propane cylinder cleared the tree line about 130 feet straight up and straight back down!
I got up on my knees and let out a cheer only to be returned by a "what the F*** was that" from my wifes brother.

so I ask "whats up?"
He tells me something hit the roof of his truck. Me looking through a scope only saw the tank go flying so I'm skeptical of his concern.

So we resort to the camera footage for an explanation.
AND WOW

I nearly was maimed my a piece of steel that came off the propane tank and struck the dirt about 5-10 feet in front of where I was lying and bounced over top of me and proceeded up range.

In the footage it looks some one took a shot at the ground in front of me, there is a big poof of dirt that gets blown upwards. and you can actally see the piece of shrapnel come towards the camera pass the camera and hit the vehicle. (720 frames per second film rate)

We couldn't find the damage on the truck until I looked at the roof, that's where you can tell a piece of something made some serious razor sharp contact with the metal roof because it had a 4 inch cut and dent on top.

So we went looking for what this projectile was, and we found it about 40 yards behind the truck.

It was the metal ring that the propane bottle stands on underneath, the tack welds let go and it broke in half and looked like the boomerang of death.

Luckily no one was hurt except for the roof of the wife's brothers truck..
serious lesson learned that day...

we were outside of cell coverage by an hour if that piece of steel contacted me in the right place that could have been it.

Always have a trauma kit close by when shooting cuz ya never know.
STAY SAFE GUNNUTZ!!

:D
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Id be careful about posting that sort of stuff on youtube though... i think there is something in the Canadian criminal code that kindof prohibits using an explosive to set off another explosive. Not sure, but id look into that before posting for the public, AND the RCMP to see.
 
i was out shooting the sks's with a few of my friends in the forces with me and we decided to shoot at a piece of ar500 at 100 yards away and it worked all fine and dandy until we all heard one coming back.... the noise seemed to drag on forever then SMACK it hit me right in the chest(the steel core) and knocked me down. instinctively they all ran over putting presser on the hole.... and that was all it was.... a hole in my jacket right in the core of my chest on the jacket.....the bullet stopped between my winter jacket and my t-shirt underneath but it felt like someone hit me with a sledgehammer. had a black and purple bruise the size of an apple and am lucky to still be here.

beware of steel core on ar500 and yes the plate was hanging from chain and angled

regards

rebel
 
LOL We have a shortlist, we'll announce today. Sorry for the delay guys, you just have to understand how slow the process is when you can't stop laughing!
 
warrenlikesboats said:
Id be careful about posting that sort of stuff on youtube though... i think there is something in the Canadian criminal code that kindof prohibits using an explosive to set off another explosive. Not sure, but id look into that before posting for the public, AND the RCMP to see.
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Where in my story do you read anything of me using an explosive to set off another?

Maybe re read the post?
 
mudmaker said:
Post that video on YouTube!
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I can post the vid
Ill have to retrieve the footage from my wife's brothers go pro
May not see him for a week or so, though.
But again all I did was shoot 1 lb of gryphon with an empty (shot up full of holes) EMPTY propane tank underneath.

A very dangerous learning experience.
I'm just lucky I didn't drive that day!
 
You have no idea how hard it was to judge these - quite frankly, I loved them all.

The winner is:

angrysoldier said:
Guy in the woods

A few years ago i was rabbit hunting near Halifax Nova Scotia. I was about 5 to km from anything and i was hunting near a march/bog type area so not the place you want to be if your not dressed right. As i come around a cospe of trees there is this guy sitting on top of a large rock in a buisness suit briefcase and all. So being the guy that i am i ask him " what time is it? " and he looks at the sun and tells me its "quarter past two". I then smile and nod and then just walk away. The oddest thing i even seen in the woods.
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