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Daryl Crawford

Daryl Crawford

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Well, at 53 I'm a little young to say this, but here goes...
I'VE SEEN IT ALL!
After work today, two friends and I stopped by the range on gamelands 205 here in eastern Pennsylvania. One friend wanted some practice with his .50 cal T/C, the other needed to confirm the sights on an unmentionable rifle. I wanted to confirm sights on one unmentionable rifle and play with my new flintlock rifle (.50 cal Lehigh/Northampton style Shimmel gun). I was about done when I watched a grown man (looked mid 20s) walk onto the firing line with a Mandalorian helmet on, blast away with a Kalishnakov style rifle, leave brass everywhere, then walk away.
First, really poor range etiquette. Second, what the heck!
I have in fact seen it all.
Oh yeah, we left the range. I've seen crazy, but I don't want to be around it.
 
Daryl Crawford said:
Well, at 53 I'm a little young to say this, but here goes...
I'VE SEEN IT ALL!
After work today, two friends and I stopped by the range on gamelands 205 here in eastern Pennsylvania. One friend wanted some practice with his .50 cal T/C, the other needed to confirm the sights on an unmentionable rifle. I wanted to confirm sights on one unmentionable rifle and play with my new flintlock rifle (.50 cal Lehigh/Northampton style Shimmel gun). I was about done when I watched a grown man (looked mid 20s) walk onto the firing line with a Mandalorian helmet on, blast away with a Kalishnakov style rifle, leave brass everywhere, then walk away.
First, really poor range etiquette. Second, what the heck!
I have in fact seen it all.
Oh yeah, we left the range. I've seen crazy, but I don't want to be around it.
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Up here in Pike no mandalorian Helmets yet!🤣
 
I am old and at a loss at what a Mandalorian helmet is?
as far as seeing it all Daryl, I was RM at a range in socal for a few years. thought I had seen it all, including women in thongs shooting M60's while being filmed. I took my time shutting that down and didn't make many friends.
the best/worst was a car load of ms13 bangers with SKS's. firing pin on one stuck and the moron turned 180 with it still spraying. range house got shot up and he got a few of his buddies in the legs before i could get ahold of it. glad he turned starboard, the other direction would have involved some innocent family groups.
 
deerstalkert said:
I am old and at a loss at what a Mandalorian helmet is?
as far as seeing it all Daryl, I was RM at a range in socal for a few years. thought I had seen it all, including women in thongs shooting M60's while being filmed. I took my time shutting that down and didn't make many friends.
the best/worst was a car load of ms13 bangers with SKS's. firing pin on one stuck and the moron turned 180 with it still spraying. range house got shot up and he got a few of his buddies in the legs before i could get ahold of it. glad he turned starboard, the other direction would have involved some innocent family groups.
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Can you describe what sort of thongs, because I am old, confused and live in Aus. One is against range standards in relation to open toed footwear, the other is just plain distracting and nowhere to hang your earmuffs from.
 

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Can you describe what sort of thongs, because I am old, confused and live in Aus. One is against range standards in relation to open toed footwear, the other is just plain distracting and nowhere to hang your earmuffs from.
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take the pants out of the picture and remove the shirt and you have it.
firing ceased in most of the positions while that was going on.
Turned out to be some perfume commercial. never saw the advertisement. darn it!
 
Daryl Crawford said:
Well, at 53 I'm a little young to say this, but here goes...
I'VE SEEN IT ALL!
After work today, two friends and I stopped by the range on gamelands 205 here in eastern Pennsylvania. One friend wanted some practice with his .50 cal T/C, the other needed to confirm the sights on an unmentionable rifle. I wanted to confirm sights on one unmentionable rifle and play with my new flintlock rifle (.50 cal Lehigh/Northampton style Shimmel gun). I was about done when I watched a grown man (looked mid 20s) walk onto the firing line with a Mandalorian helmet on, blast away with a Kalishnakov style rifle, leave brass everywhere, then walk away.
First, really poor range etiquette. Second, what the heck!
I have in fact seen it all.
Oh yeah, we left the range. I've seen crazy, but I don't want to be around it.
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Mentioning what is not to be mentioned makes as much sense as wearing a Mandalorian helmet.
 
deerstalkert said:
take the pants out of the picture and remove the shirt and you have it.
firing ceased in most of the positions while that was going on.
Turned out to be some perfume commercial. never saw the advertisement. darn it!
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But, what was the safety violation????

On Sunday I went fishing. It was snowing hard. As I was fishing, a woman pulled in her truck, let her dog out for a bit, then stripped down buck nekkid. A rather good looking woman. She went into the lake and took a bath about 20 yards away. Nudity and skinny dipping both being legal in Montana, I watched in appreciation of her dedication to staying clean. Among other things.
The fact I am old was brought home, as knowing how cold the water is year round in that lake, and the snow was coming down hard, I was thinking, "Dang that looks cold!"
 
deerstalkert said:
I am old and at a loss at what a Mandalorian helmet is?
as far as seeing it all Daryl, I was RM at a range in socal for a few years. thought I had seen it all, including women in thongs shooting M60's while being filmed. I took my time shutting that down and didn't make many friends.
the best/worst was a car load of ms13 bangers with SKS's. firing pin on one stuck and the moron turned 180 with it still spraying. range house got shot up and he got a few of his buddies in the legs before i could get ahold of it. glad he turned starboard, the other direction would have involved some innocent family groups.
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Are you familiar with Marvin the Martian? A little cartoon character, that is. They are both wearing very similar headgear.
 
Daryl Crawford said:
Well, at 53 I'm a little young to say this, but here goes...
I'VE SEEN IT ALL!
After work today, two friends and I stopped by the range on gamelands 205 here in eastern Pennsylvania. One friend wanted some practice with his .50 cal T/C, the other needed to confirm the sights on an unmentionable rifle. I wanted to confirm sights on one unmentionable rifle and play with my new flintlock rifle (.50 cal Lehigh/Northampton style Shimmel gun). I was about done when I watched a grown man (looked mid 20s) walk onto the firing line with a Mandalorian helmet on, blast away with a Kalishnakov style rifle, leave brass everywhere, then walk away.
First, really poor range etiquette. Second, what the heck!
I have in fact seen it all.
Oh yeah, we left the range. I've seen crazy, but I don't want to be around it.
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You got to witness life's main character, or at least he thinks so!
 
Range safety? Naw..I'm talkin' , watch your own A55. 'Bout 10 yrs. ago , I went to my favorite sportsman's club range to sight in a new .40 cal. , scratch built mtn. rifle. All was going well when a car pulls into the club house lot. Two guys got out with one carrying a MAC 10 , and the other a 9mm handgun , with an extended mag.. They had no other equipment w/ them except for a box of 9mm ammo. All they said was , they wanted to make sure their guns worked properly . Silent alarms went off in my head , and I regreted not bringing my concealed protection pistol to the range that morning. Trying to speed their mission of "trying" their guns to get them gone ASAP , I told them they could use my 25 Yd. target , instead of them randomly blasting away at a targetless 100 yd. wood backstop. I silently planned a getaway route into a rododendron thicket behind the range in case it was necessary to escape. To my enjoyment , they shot up my 25 yd. close target , and left. I packed my .40 and left. I had just retired from a 41 yr. high stress career , where I was on the road 8 to 14 hrs. a day alone , and responsible for my own safety. I was hopeing to not have to carry my protection with me in retired life , but as the old saying goes , there are two kinds of people , those that carry protection , and victims. The pastor of our small rural church asked me to carry while in Sunday service , so I could watch his back. Don't think he realized I was armed , and in the pew with him long before he asked. Guess it is what it is , nowadays. ...........oldwoodchas
 
Daryl Crawford said:
Well, at 53 I'm a little young to say this, but here goes...
I'VE SEEN IT ALL!
After work today, two friends and I stopped by the range on gamelands 205 here in eastern Pennsylvania. One friend wanted some practice with his .50 cal T/C, the other needed to confirm the sights on an unmentionable rifle. I wanted to confirm sights on one unmentionable rifle and play with my new flintlock rifle (.50 cal Lehigh/Northampton style Shimmel gun). I was about done when I watched a grown man (looked mid 20s) walk onto the firing line with a Mandalorian helmet on, blast away with a Kalishnakov style rifle, leave brass everywhere, then walk away.
First, really poor range etiquette. Second, what the heck!
I have in fact seen it all.
Oh yeah, we left the range. I've seen crazy, but I don't want to be around it.
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Makes me wonder if he was supposed to be at the range in the first place.
IF it was a private range, he may not have been a member.
IF it was a public range, he might have been a prohibited person.
Hence the full face covering helmet

As for the brass...., YES PLEASE and THANK YOU. I'd have loved getting that. Ya think maybe he'd come South into Maryland?

I've seen guys trying to load the wrong modern ammo into the rifle they had. Stuff that fits a WW2 battle rifle normally doesn't also fit a lever action rifle first marketed in 1894.

I've seen more than once a guy pouring in powder straight from the horn into his muzzleloader. No measure, just a "count in his head".

I saw a guy once in the woods near the road where we were driving as we headed out to hunt upland birds, and he had a rack of deer antlers strapped to the top of his head. I never found out if he was being pranked as a newbie by other knowledgeable hunters (he was right at the woodline next to the road) or lost a bet, OR had a death-wish. It WAS deer archery season, but he had a gun in his hand. MAYBE he was snipe hunting?

LD
 
Going to the range often gives me anxiety about proper etiquette and being respectful to others there (particularly when blasting away with a matchlock), but then I see these stories where it almost seems like there was no one around to raise these people, except someone was clearly around to drop them on their head as a baby.
 
Watched a car load of 20 somethings pull up to the range. Five people got out of this little car with one collapsible AK. The gun was inside the car with them, no bag, no pelican case, nothing. They did wait for a cease fire and the range to go cold so they could run out to the 25 yard line and hammer a 4 ft steak in the dirt and tape a 8-1/2 X11 paper target i strongly suspect somebody printed right before they drove out.
They had one magazine already loaded and big plastic bag of extra ammo. As soon as the range went hit the guy who had been driving cut loose with a stream of lead as fast as he could pull the trigger. I think he hit the paper 3 times! Everyone else was howling about how loud it was. No hearing protection, no eye protection. The voluntary range officer recommended both, they basically said "next time" then one of the girls unloaded. She hit the first shot then she just sent unmolested spent AK rounds into the back stop. The next guy got his turn and thank God he had a stoppage he couldn't clear. They went to most of the people on the range for help and oddly enough, not one person knew anything about clearing a jam. They took the magazine out and everyone got back in the car (with the jammed gun) and left. I believe in the right to bare arms! 100% but I'm also ok with some mandatory basic safety prerequisite!
 

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