The last few days up here in CNY have been like springtime, so I took advantage of the 60* weather and spent the morning at the range, as did about 6 other club members. Things were going good, we were all playing a little game we play, "Shooter's Poker", where we tack up a few decks of cards on the 25 yard board and in a series of 5 shots each, try to make the best hand.
Anyway, we have close to 250 members in our club and it is impossible to know who everyone is or their habits. One of the younger members (looks around 22-23yrs old) pulls in and during a cease fire, he goes out to the 100 yard board and sets up his targets, returns to the line and sets up his gear (he had a 10/22 and a semi AK and a crapload of ammo for each). When a resume firing call was given, this guy starts blazing away with his rifles, in rapid fire/tach reload fashion. A few of us playing Shooter's Poker stopped and just watched this guy and a few comments were made about the fact that he wasn't wearing eye or ear protection. One of the other members called for an immediate cease fire and we told the guy, the rules say you must wear eye and ear protection at all times on the range. So, after a few comments, he pulls out his eye and ear protection and puts em on. Resume fire is called and again, he starts blazing away. Ok, the guy is into rapid fire, no biggy, hell, I've done it myself a few times. A little later, the guy goes over to his car, which is backed up to the line (the parking spaces are about 5 feet from the line) pops open his trunk, and cranks up his stereo. I don't think any of us cared he was playing that rap music, but he was blasting it loud enough where ya could hear it over the gunshots and he had one of them kicker bass box things, where ya not only could hear it, but feel it as well! I called for a cease fire and said to him "Dude, ya mind turning that down cuz it is very distracting". Well, he nastily refused and says "Don't tell me what to do, motherf----". Right there I decided, as did the other guys it wasn't worth it getting ugly, so we packed up our gear and headed over to the clubhouse (which is about 500 yrds away) to file our range use sheets. None of the club's officers were there, but one of the other guys said as soon as he got home he was calling the President of the club over this.
Now, I feel we handled this as best and as safely as we could, seeing how this member obviously had a real nasty attitude (and obviously, was armed). How would you have handled this situation? I ask cuz when I got home, my wife asked why I got back so early, so I told her what happened and she felt we should have made the guy either turn it off or leave, or at least called the cops. It got me thinking, did we do the best thing (safest)?
Anyway, we have close to 250 members in our club and it is impossible to know who everyone is or their habits. One of the younger members (looks around 22-23yrs old) pulls in and during a cease fire, he goes out to the 100 yard board and sets up his targets, returns to the line and sets up his gear (he had a 10/22 and a semi AK and a crapload of ammo for each). When a resume firing call was given, this guy starts blazing away with his rifles, in rapid fire/tach reload fashion. A few of us playing Shooter's Poker stopped and just watched this guy and a few comments were made about the fact that he wasn't wearing eye or ear protection. One of the other members called for an immediate cease fire and we told the guy, the rules say you must wear eye and ear protection at all times on the range. So, after a few comments, he pulls out his eye and ear protection and puts em on. Resume fire is called and again, he starts blazing away. Ok, the guy is into rapid fire, no biggy, hell, I've done it myself a few times. A little later, the guy goes over to his car, which is backed up to the line (the parking spaces are about 5 feet from the line) pops open his trunk, and cranks up his stereo. I don't think any of us cared he was playing that rap music, but he was blasting it loud enough where ya could hear it over the gunshots and he had one of them kicker bass box things, where ya not only could hear it, but feel it as well! I called for a cease fire and said to him "Dude, ya mind turning that down cuz it is very distracting". Well, he nastily refused and says "Don't tell me what to do, motherf----". Right there I decided, as did the other guys it wasn't worth it getting ugly, so we packed up our gear and headed over to the clubhouse (which is about 500 yrds away) to file our range use sheets. None of the club's officers were there, but one of the other guys said as soon as he got home he was calling the President of the club over this.
Now, I feel we handled this as best and as safely as we could, seeing how this member obviously had a real nasty attitude (and obviously, was armed). How would you have handled this situation? I ask cuz when I got home, my wife asked why I got back so early, so I told her what happened and she felt we should have made the guy either turn it off or leave, or at least called the cops. It got me thinking, did we do the best thing (safest)?
