1. Scope mount was loose, drove home thought barrel was just really fouled. Wasted ammo and range fee. 2. Guy next to you with a 7.5" AR and a muzzle brake throwing un-burnt powder all over you. 3. Arrives to range, left magazines at home. 4. RSO breathing heavily down your neck like it's his first day on the job and yours out the womb.
Ive had some A-Hole RSOs, but my most recent was the one that spent his time telling stories to people while the whole line was standing around with their thumbs up their ass waiting for him to call cold. not sure which is worse tbh.
1 and 2 haven’t happened to me yet. 3 happened to me once, and I had to drive home and fetch them. Lucky thing is I lived within 10 mins drive. There was also one time I left the optics at home and had to drove back. 4 happens all the time. The RSOs at my local range have a habit of treating everyone as an idiot and yell all the time like grumpy drunks. I’m usually okay with it because I understand they are just trying to do their job and afraid accidents might happen, but it really triggers some other shooters.
I've had days where I can't seem to hit crap. The worst was the day I drove 1 1/2 hours to a range with friends, only to find that I left my ammo home!
My worst experience was an NRA High Power match at my local range, where my new M1 Garand decided to rip off case rims instead of extracting rounds because somebody **ahem** didn’t clean the chamber well after purchasing. My takeaways after years of shooting: 1. Always take more than one gun to the range 2. Clean your guns well afterwards and inspect them inside and out for excessive wear and tear 3. Make sure that any screws on your gun, sights, etc. are always tightened (using proper gunsmithing screwdrivers!!!). I’ve had action and sight screws back out on numerous occasions, wreaking havoc on the range 4. Use quality ammo or reloads you have followed by the book. I’ve been gassed in the face and suffered reliability issues with super cheap ammo. Maintain your guns well, be safe, and have fun on the range!
joeman2551 I've never understood the guys who are actually proud of never cleaning their guns. I'd rather maintain my firearms like you described and have more confidence in them.
As a new shooter I appreciate this video. I've only been a gun owner for a few months now and I've been shooting very often with my Glock 19 gen 5. I try to make it a point to make improvements each and every session. My last session was the first time I didn't see improvement and it bothered me a little bit. You are probably right when you say you need to focus on having fun first. Good video, keep up the good work. Been watching for almost a year now. You guys have tought me so much about firearms, my favorite gun channel on UA-cam for sure.
The nice thing about being a farmer, or a retired farmer, is that the firing range is right out your back door. But talking about guns you like to shoot, I absolutely love the way my Ruger SR1911S's and my Remington 1911R1S fit my hand and as much as I like shooting them it wasn't until I wrapped my hand around the Ruger Mark IV Competition Stainless that I found the gun of my dreams. I love shooting it so much I wake up mornings hoping that I can make it outside to shoot it sometime during the day. I was disabled in 2003 because of back problems that have steadily become worse and my day at the "range" is any day I can make it outside to shoot. I keep a metal folding chair and a yellow target ball on the porch. I drag the chair down to the driveway and toss the target ball out about 25 to 30 yards, shoot my eight magazines, gather up the target ball and the chair and take them back to their spot on the porch and hobble back in to my recliner happy to have been able to make it outside again.
I too have a private range (farm). we rarely have bad range days! There has been turd boxes that get brought out and they create problems........yet fun is still being had.
Not really my bad day but when people bring their friends/families over at the range with lack of protective equipment, I see a trend that whenever an individual brings his friends over to shoot for the first time, they do not provide proper hearing and eye protection. I'd see the newcomers plugging their ears with their fingers the entire time and when it's their time to shoot, they're a little hesitant to shoot because of the noise. After seeing this multiple times at the range, I always bring a pack of foam earplugs and would offer them for those that need them just to make their shooting experience a little better.
I can admit to shooting a SilencerCo Omega 300 win mag can off my Scar 17S. I didn't have it tightened down. It traveled 25 yards downrange when I fired a shot & had a baffle strike as it left the rifle. SilencerCo was terrific during this entire experience. They fully rebuilt my can 100% in about 1 week or less. Top notch company! One of my worst days on the range. Turned out ok in the end thanks to SilencerCo.
Mr FNH I had the same experience with my Silencerco Omega on a 308. The suppressor landed on the 50 yard line. Silencerco replaced it within a week at no cost. They provide outstanding customer service. I own two Silencerco suppressors now.
would be nice, although since 1965 white people can't emigrate to America, only 3rd worlders. Besides, this is my home. It needs fixing, not abandonment. So does the USA in similar but different respects.
Guys! This gives me a great idea for a video...how about an "IV8888 Behind the Scenes" or "a day with IV8888"? Like start from leaving for the range, maybe some shots while driving there and setup of cameras and mics, add some shots that got edited out, bloopers and outtakes and some closing thoughts or commentary. I think a lot of viewers would love to see how a day in the life would be.
Bad days at the range remind me of bad days of certain times when I play piano. Sometimes you just can't get much right and feel unfocused, the music just doesn't sound good. Then you come back the next day and things are great. The same thing happens even to the greatest pianists in the world. Same with shooting or any other skill. The brain is a very strange organ.
I had bought a glock 23 .40 S&W and I was getting ejection failures left and right couldnt figure it out so mad because it was brand new. some random person happened to be watching and approched me and told me I was shooting with a limp wrist and i gave him a confused look and he said do you mind course i said nope thinking that it would fail again and to my supprise he fired a whole mag no failures and he gave me some pointers on how to correct it
that's cool you actually listened to him, I've tried to help new shooters before and they snapped at me, as if I was insulting them. "I know what im doing... mind your own business" smh, ok buddy.
I'm sure I've given other people a bad day at the indoor range. I was trying some really hot .44 magnum handloads in my Ruger Redhawk (almost a full charge of Winchester 296 under a 200 grain Nosler JHP). Even with a 7.5" barrel, the muzzle flash lit up the whole range and the concussion was incredible. After firing off a few cylinders full, I looked around to see everyone else had left.
You mentioned golf, I used to play seriously and at the tournament level for around 5 years and NOTHING is more frustrating. I've had days where I was so off shooting that it defied logic but it still didn't come close to golf. I've never had a "bad" day shooting, it's always fun even when I'm left scratching my head.
I’ve only ever gone to the driving range a handful of times. I’ve watched an occasional airing on tv and I really like to play PGA Tour on PlayStation. I’ve come to really appreciate a very well executed shot. It’s almost like magic sometimes.
I didnt really wanna watch this video, we live in the woods, so everyones yard is the "range", but I came and gave it a thumbs up just bc I dont like the crap people have talked the past while, and I wanna show my support, take care guys
#4 and I'm posting this early in the video that sometimes air pressures and temperatures might throw your bullet flight off on different days (this is more for distance shooting). Or you had coffee and a monster right after, and your shooting hand looks like the Ed Edd and Eddie cartoon.
Jakaya Wilson This comment wins. By the time i drive the hour and a half to the range I'm jittery as hell. Coffee/monster combo needs to be stopped before it ruins more range days lol
DavyJones'Locker thank you. When your dropping rounds while topping off a mag from shaky hands it's not gonna be a good shooting day. LOL! That barometric pressure talk is more for long range (as I'm sure you know already) but still effects bullet flight. I'll use any excuse though when my wife's with me though, and that one makes me look smart and gives me an excuse simultaneously...... I hope she doesn't watch this video and reads this. Have a good one guys and safe shooting!
Put a revolver in my hand and it's a great day at the range, 30 yard shots good tights groupings but put a semi-auto in my hand and I'm lucky to hit a bucket at 5 yards away lol anyone else like that?
Mr FNH We’ll I didn’t purchase them. My local gun shop let’s me do videos on certain Guns. I don’t think I would ever buy a high point. They are damn ugly... but they go boom. And my channel being garbage is your opinion and that’s ok. But stay tough internet tough guy 😂
Love the llight hearted humor in the episode, it would almost male a great end of year "look back and laugh" episode. Love you guys keep up the good work!
Back in 2014 at my last Annual Training, we were qualifying on the M249 SAW, one particular SAW caused a triple feed during quals, it also misfired continually and gave other issues. So I pulled it from the firing line and let it cool, inspected it and found the new gas block (non removable) was 3/4 clogged with carbon. No one had cleaned this SAW thoroughly for a long time, we got the Carbon out and the SAW back up and running but still gave some hiccups. Fun day at the range.
I agree 100%. How a particular gun fits can make all the difference. I trained myself to shoot my IDPA glock 17 better than THE average shooter but I can shoot my Walter pk380 like it's an extention of my body and the bullets are subject to my every will, I can even make hits shooting over cover blind, all because it fits my hands so well
My worst day at the range in recent memory was having a case rupture in my Sig P320 blowing apart the extractor and cracking the frame. After looking at the other cases shot out of it, they all had similar markings indicating an unsupported case. I’ve since had the pistol fixed and it shot fine after being repaired. Definitely glad I was wearing proper safety gear.
I've found that the S&W mod 19 shoots light bullets (125 - 145 grain) with odd stabilization patterns. Dead on at 5-10 yards and at 75-100 yards. But it's literally hard to hit a car door at 35 yards. They do great with any bullet over 145grains at any range.
Boy did you hit the nail dead center on this one. So many good points. My example is I recently spent a lot of time creating bullets for my Swiss K 11 . Went to test my rounds ... had trouble going into battery. Followed Text book OAL .Knew after three rounds I had to put the gun down and stop. Had to go home and figure out what happened. Simple fix at home just need to adjust the OAL down a bit. Knowing when to go home is the key sometimes. It was a simple fix at home... but a waste of time to try and fix at the range. .
Blew up my new C308 from century Arms a couple years ago, barrel separated at breach and flew 15 feet forward. Multiple seized Herters steel cased(Tula) 308 rounds from Cabelas, jammed up 3 different rifles. Cabelas stopped selling that crap. It was the only affordable ammo I could find at the time.
My Bad Day at the Range; I was on one lane, and a man was with his children next to me. After squeezing off one magazine, I turned a little and found myself looking into the muzzle of a .22 rifle, held by one of those little kids! I slowly turned and moved the Muzzle away from my face, then the Father pulled the boy to their lane. The Father said nothing to me, or the little gunslinger! This was a GREAT OPPORTUNITY for that father to teach A LITTLE GUN SAFETY!
I have an embarrassing one that happened a year ago. Basically me and my grandfather were out at the range, he gave me his AKM and was telling me to shoot. As I raised the rifle and was about to pull the trigger I saw two people walking out in the firing range trying to setup targets, in my mind I said "oh shit I can't shoot yet there's people out there." So I followed basic gun safety I took my finger off the trigger, and pointed the muzzle to the ground as I turned around and tried to say "Hey I can't shoot yet there's people out there." But my grandfather was freaking out screaming "GET BACK GET BACK" over top of me as I was trying to tell him why I couldn't shoot yet. The people who walked out at the range just stared at us, I felt pretty embarrassed to say the least and is one of the reasons I don't shoot with him anymore.
ModestestMouse If memory serves me correct, I think "get back" was basically telling me to turn back to where I was originally facing. Which I couldn't do of course due to what was mentioned above, looking back to me it just seems like he just wanted to "correct" me to come off as being better than me and come across that he knows more. That isn't the first time something like that happened by the way. I remember he told me a story of a friend he knows shot himself in the leg. With the way he was telling it, he came across as being very superstitious and acted like the gun just fired for no reason. At first I thought maybe he just didn't have a holster, and maybe me moved his leg which caused the trigger to pull. But then he put in a detail that was missing in his story, and I was able to put the pieces together. Basically he tried to draw from his waist/holster or whatever, and he must've pulled the trigger and shot his leg. When I pointed that detail out he kinda just stayed silent, and didn't acknowledge what I said. Guess it didn't fit his narrative.
Yeah, just had one of these on this past Thursday, which was my birthday. I took my daughter and her fiance to shoot. I brought one of my wife's Beretta Storms, a Ruger MK III, and one of my Glocks. The Glock ran flawlessly, except I literally broke a 17 +2 mag. The Ruger shot well, except for the Remington bulk Thunderbolt ammo was not ejecting the casing. Finally, the Beretta had one mag where the spring was sticking and loose causing jams. The second mag worked, but man it was crazy...still a good day.
Got a dan Wesson Bruin in 10mm. It kept failing to feed or getting locked up. This happened many times at different ranges. Out of the blue I realized I was engaging the safety mid shot which would either lock the slide up or slow the action! Something as silly as my grip caused all that grief.
I had taken the boys out shooting, same day the stepdaughter went out on her first date. By the time I got around to cleaning the last of the guns we had out that day it was getting late. Stepdaughter steps through the front door twelve minutes late. Just as I had finished cleaning my 45/70 break action. I looked up and with a straight face I drooped an empty brass into the chamber and I say, I was just coming to look for you. You know how big a 45/70 round is. I was just joking but I thought the boy was going to faint right there.
Had a bad range day. Shoyu buddies maverick 88 with a adjustable stock and Pistol grip. Well he forgot to lock tight it and the the stock worked it's way out as soon as I touched it lol. Then same day I fired my Pf9. Never had a any issues with it in hundreds of rounds this day I fired one shot my front sight popped off. Needed to replace that and then jammed a 10/22 takedown. Never had such an annoying range day. Took 5 and came back on the range and shot fine. Some times that break is needed. Great video guys.
It really does help to put your gun down. Take some deep breaths and find that place in your mind that makes you most happy. When you calm down pick up your firearm and shoot it without putting alot of thought into it.
Picked up a 6 number M1 from CMP. Cleaned and inspected, fired 1 clip of M1 factory American Eagle ammo through it and it double fired, turned out it cocked the receiver almost clean through the back..... they replaced it but still, I’ll never get “that” gun back.........and I agree with your filming, it’s the whole reason I started my channel as well, if I don’t get any subscribers I’m still just as happy making them. Thanks for staying grounded gents.
My worse day on the range was when my son had a Glock model 40 10mm Long slide blow up. It fired out of battery. It blew the trigger out, magazine blew out, frame broke, the case head separated. My son’s arm, hands ,and face were bleeding and I didn’t know what happened. Glock customer service would not fix or replace the gun. I paid $800 for the gun at Bud’s Gun Shop new. I lost the $800 investment. I will never own another Glock. My son had pieces of brass in his face. Fortunately he did not lose his sight or fingers. It was a very bad day. I had a bad PMR-30 from Keltec too. They did replace it at no cost. Keltec makes poor quality guns but they do provide support. Glock does not provide any support, they have a terrible attitude.
J. Rob. because it's a magnificent cartridge and it doesn't get enough credit for it's capabilities. it's a hard hitting round whilst shooting flatter than it's parent case the 30-6
Worst day at the range for me... Uberti .357 mag... Shooting pretty hot loads through it and unknown to me, the screws on the ejector rod began backing out. After a couple hundred rounds, the entire ejector (housing, screws and all) dropped out. It was an outdoor range and we spent a lot of time playing in the dirt with a magnet to find all the parts. Found 'em, no damage done, put everything back together and learned to take some screwdrivers with me and check the screws occassionally.
Many shooters are malformed in the discipline from the beginning, bypassing the flintlock and forming poor habits with rim fires, few youth are rewarded or denied their meals based on their skill at arms, and they fail to regard every cartridge as sacred, their muscle memory and oneness with the firearm is not engrained before moving on to other calibers.Cheek weld, breath control trigger control sight picture sight alignment body position to target, all of this is disregarded and then the rifle is blamed, the spear and arrow never suffered from this much blame. You send the lead to the target, how it is sent is your domain.
Paul Paradis nah, I think you're just a sad little internet troll with no friends or anything better to do. So you try to get a rise out of complete strangers to try and fill that emptiness you feel on a daily basis. And that without making feel as miserable as you do every moment of every day, you probably at this point would've had a sad tug session with your tears for lube before blowing your brains out. But you have not done it yet, because no one will know, or even care til your landlord comes by for your delinquent rent.
Went for a carbine class. Garbage ammo blew up my upper. Then the armorer finished off my lower while getting the case out. Carried my AR home as a box of parts. Pretty bad day at the range. Lessons learned though....
dmgd guds the last incident someone had the wrong caliber brake on their AR and slung shrapnel into the cheek of a guy several feet to his left! y'all be safe out there!
Fall_In_Intrigue. I’m a hunter ed instructor and one of my fellow instructors had a Knight muzzleloader blow up in his face. Permanent cosmetic damage but he is otherwise unharmed
Landen Weaver I started dabbling with muzzle loaders about a year ago, that's always been a concern of mine especially buying used, I won't lie I clench up every time I get a hangfire. My ricochet I caught last month was just a 9 mm off of steel, just a bruise on the knew I kept joking that my wife shot me.
Wow! I took my LCP 2 new out of the box and fired 100 rounds of that same Sig ammo without a hitch. Actually I was quite pleased with the group at about 20 yards. I guess much like people every firearm is a little different.
In my gen1 fullsize M&P9 I can hit golf balls at 30 yards with Winchester White Box. I’ve heard people talk crap about that ammo for more than a decade and my pistol loves it. It’s even the model with the barrel that is suppose to be very inaccurate. I’ve never understood everyone’s complaints and continue to purchase WWB. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it I suppose 🤷♂️
Bought a y1903 Greek Mannlicher-Schonauer. Took it to the range. With PPU ammunition (usually does well for me) I could not connect with anything except the dirt backstop. I moved back to 20 yards or so to make sure the sights were on. Fired a careful aimed shot from a rest. The round I fired printed perfectly over the aiming mark about one inch high. Sideways. (Could tell the bullet by it's profile!) I did some other things (checks), the barrel looked passible, but the rifling was worn bad. I made a sporter out of it. Very little is worse when remembering to take all the bits and pieces to the range (doing load testing) and the cotton-pickin' chronograph will not work. Yes, I did have extra batteries.
Bad day at the range; When I turned 18 I bought a very nice 1918 BSA SMLE as my firsts gun. The first trip to the range some guy sitting a few tables down nicked the fore-stock with his ejecting brass.
You guys mention "bad ammo" and I too have encountered the bad ammo gremlin at the range, but shouldn't a good gun work with any ammo? It would be like buying a pan that only works with certain steak, a car that only works with one brand of gasoline, or a hammer that only works with certain nails. This is especially true for .22lr guns, when you are forced to buy the pricier CCI instead of bulk (for function, not accuracy) its just not as good a gun.
Sizukun1 lol. use a pan designed for gas on ceramic ... and failure. ... put desiel in your multi petrol car ... and failure. ie, everything has limits.
You're taking it to hyperble; I didn't mean to imply diesel in a gasoline car is how it should be, just as I'm not implying a Ruger 10/22 should be able to also fire 7.62. But if I bought an AR15 and it can only run Match grade hand loaded ammo for reliability, then that means its just a well made rifle.
Sizukun1 i think the poibt your trying to make is weird. If your talking about the pistol not working well with certain makes sense because of the mechanism it uses to rechamber. Its kind of sensitive. If your talking about the 1903 all i can say is guns cant fix human error with rounds. Foul case or primers making the gun act poorly doesnt mean its not a well made arm.
No; take .22lr guns. Many manufacturers recommend CCI minimags because they're known to be the best, consistent, and reasonably more powerful ammo. If you sent a gun back for warranty work for FTW, FTF, and cycling problems and they refuse to work on it because you don't use CCI, that means the gun probably has other issues. I understand remington golden bullets are crap, but when I have several guns that run it fine and one specific gun doesn't, then that tells me its the gun's fault.
The other day I drove 45 mins to my range and I had to zero some rifles, one being my new AR15 build and I just put a awesome 18in BCM ionbond barrel in it. When I got to zeroing the rifle I was like ok let me check the screws on my AD recon mount to make sure they are secure and make sure they are torqued down. I used the wrong torque specs on the mount and ending up stripping one of the screws on the mount. I was upset that I didn't get to see how the barrel grouped but i still got a bunch of other guns zeroed. Got my AR build back out a few weeks later and it shoots lights out with my 77gr handloads, BCM barrels are outstanding. Also I sent my scope mount back to American Defense MFG. They have absolutely outstanding customer service they replaced my mount no questions asked extremely quickly they are a fantastic company.
Come on guys. Release the damn videos. If you shoot terrible or the gun runs wacky, let us know. You're giving a false sense of reality only releasing vids where you shoot the ace! Now that you've said that, it gives the persona of gun manufacturers in your pockets. Don't concern yourself about the entertainment value so much. Being REAL will go a long way.
I wasn’t meant to be taken like that. If you watch our videos you’ll see that we mention all the time if there was some sort of previous issue with something. Sometimes if I take a gun out (especially a pistol) and I’m not hitting the right of a barn, I’ll go back the drawing board and assess what I did wrong. Sometimes it’s me...so should I throw a given gun under the bus and basically give you guys the wrong outlook. Which is more of a disservice?
Failure doesn't fly. If it did editing would never have been needed. Most People are WAY TOO judgemental to be able to handle mistakes without writing someone off completely.
Too much trigger in the finger guard...lol. Definitely something I'd say. I always end up swapping words. Great video, guys. I have had plenty of range days that turn out to be somewhat frustrating. It's a great topic for discussion.
So I have a Mossberg 590 that I've put a UTI adjustable stock and pistol grip on. Went trap shooting with some friends from work and they REALLY liked shooting my rig. Well one of my friends got done shooting a set with my 590 and brought the gun close to his chest, pointing the muzzle upwards for safety. When he did this, the stock quite simply slid off the buffer tube, falling to the ground. Come to find out the retaining screws came out and got completely lost! That pretty much caused us to end our range day at Lowe's replacing the missing screws with ones that actually worked!
Hi point are some what reliable just ugly I bought the 45 carbine to burn up some 45 ammo thousands of rounds never hung up other then a few ammo related issues light loads ! They are not much to look at but fun and cheap.it's not my go to gun but it could be!
When i was shooting my AR15 with a cheap red dot sight standing up carrying the rifle. I was hitting steal at 150 yards easily. Once i lay it on the table with my bi-pod. Not one bullet made contact with the steal target. Boy was I confused and slightly frustrated.
Bad range days. Two times I've had people walk down rage, while others on the line are shooting. One old guy, with his wife and kids, walked out on the pistol firing line, to change his target. Ten other people where shooting. I was pulling the trigger, as I saw him walk by me. WTF? Guns are machines, they will fail.
Rarely have bad days at the range, but had one recently. Bought myself a JM stamped Marlin 1894 in 44 magnum for Christmas and loaded up some ammo for it (cant afford to pawn a kidney to buy factory ammo!). On first trip to the range with it I was getting very extreme keyholing and innaccuracy at 15 yards, shots were never closer than 6-8 inches to my point of aim. Was pretty concerned and was wondering if thats why it was on sale (bought it on consignment). So I immediately went and bought some factory ammo and came back and it shot without issues. Eventually figured out that the powder I was using had too quick of a burn rate. So it was concerning at the time but a learning experience in the end.
This year I got a Savage 111 and I zeroed it in about 60 rounds. Alsp happens to be my first bolt action hunting rifle. Each time I would go out I had to make a couple shot around 150 or closer so even be on the paper. So on a $20 box of 139gr whitetail Ispend $15 in getting it zeroed, and $5 having fun. And when I perform as well as the gun can I got a .35 MOA at 400 yards. Got got new rings but have not tried it out.
About a year ago I built my first AR -15 lower and went to test it out at a range somewhat close by. Kept getting failures to fire. Turns out I had the hammer spring in backwards.
Bad ammo. First I had FTE problems with my mini-14. Sent it back to Ruger. They couldn't find anything. Still had FTE problems so I put the gun away in the safe. Unloaded the mini-14 mags and reloaded the AR15 mags. Went back to the range the next month and had FTE issues, then the bolt stuck. Had a primer wedged in there. Inspected the brass on the ground and found multiple cases with blown primers. Factory, brass cased ammo. Not steel or reload 5.56. Blue and white boxes imported from Israel, nuff said. Had red/pink sealant around the primer.
My worst day at the range was, got down there got the 10" steel gong setup, few standing paper targets. Opened the gun bag up to get out the mags to load, discovered no mags at all. No mags for the pistols AR or AK, all I had was the mags for the GSG Firefly 22, then started to shoot it & then it blew up on me. Packed up & went home right after it. Would love to see a huge reel of those bad days you guys have, would be interesting to watch. Love to do what you guys do everyday. Love to shoot but cannot as much as I like cause of the only range in my county really kinda sucks.
Worst day at the range for me was when I had my tavor in its 9mm conversion and I had 2 out of battery detonations and damaged the rifle to the point where it was no longer useable. Thankfully IWI's customer service was amazing and they covered the cost to ship it in and I had it back 4 weeks later good as new. Also when it happened it was interesting how it blew out the mag out of the magwell and so the explosion was directed out the mag well and ejection port and saved me from injury.
Worst day: bought a used Savage 308. After checking alignment visually and with a rod, first shot baffle strike in my 30P-1. Unsuppressed it was hitting the dirt instead of the target at 25 yards. Appears previous owner tried to time a brake with a wrench and pipe. ended up cutting the barrel down from 22" to 16.5" to make it work. last range trip: sighting in Thompson Machine Operative TD. Forgot the tiny allen wrench to adjust the seeall open sight so one group in the corner of the target and i was done. Slapped on the Thor-hd thermal scope and there's a horizontal line across the screen that's a different color than the rest that won't reset. one pixel high and all the way across appears to be a negative of the rest of the picture. Machine gun shoot a few years ago, got 40S&W ammo mixed in with the 45. 40 loaded in my FNX45 Tactical magazine, chambered, and even fired. Didn't hurt the pistol but the bullet did flips through my Osprey 45 and took huge chunks out of the baffles and end cap. luckily the serialized part was unharmed and silencerco customer service is amazing. good as new in a week for the cost of shipping.
I had a couple of boxes of ammo that one of my pistols just didn't like. I turned it into a jam drill. It seemed like every few rounds I was clearing jams of some sort. Take lemons and make lemonade. Learned a lot about clearing jams that day and am better from the experience.
Went to the range with my uncle to sight in his new Meopta scope on his CZ 550 American (.300 WSM). We could not get it to group, but to make matters worse the range's video equipment wasn't working so we had to walk it. We walked that 100m range so many times, and after 2.2km we figured out that the base and rings were all loose just a bit so the scope was shifting with each shot.
I've only had one bad range day: I went shooting outdoors in -37 degree Fahrenheit weather (~-48 degrees with windchill). Earplugs and ear muffs hearing protection shattered in the cold. Your body heat was the only thing that kept the hearing protection from shattering. Due to the cold, the rubber butt pads of three guns cracked. The rubber on the gun cases fell apart. Multiple other things cracked, shattered, or broke. That was the day that we learned that rubber, plastic, glass, and even some cheap metal suffers immensely when it gets crazy cold. I am lucky enough to have not had a catastrophically bad range day.
I have a Winchester M 70 in 30-06. It took me several years to figure out that the barrel was canted to the right about 2 degrees. I had a gunsmith replace the barrel and true the receiver. I went from 2 1/2 group to less than one inch.
Years ago had a Ruger Super RH. The small grip and large frame gave me issues from day 1. I would Left-Low this gun 2 feet at 50 yards. I fought this issue for over a year. Finally, traded it in on a 5.5 in regular RH with a full size Hoque grip. Problem solved, cost me $150 in the trade but worth the money in frustration relief.
Went to help a buddy sight in his 30-06 hunting rifle. We were making some real progress after a box or two, and then the shots/groups started to get progressively worse. We tried even harder with more ammo. Turns out I finally had to call it and look at the gun. Broken scope mount, scope waking all over. After burning a bunch of expensive ammo and with a buddy who got really pissy, it was a bad day at the range...
My wife had a Browning .22LR cartridge explode inside my Victory 22. It did no damage to the gun, but her hand got burnt, and the back of the case came out and cut her face. It was rough.
I seperated ALL Winchester .22lr from my stock. Browning .22lr is manufactured by Winchester. I'm a lefty, and it is the only .22 ammo that spits shit out at my face in any of my semi auto 22s. It= many bad range days
My worst day at the range would've been just after i made some 9mm reloads without doing a full case resize! Was doing an IPSC comp and my gun would fire once then jam, happened 8 times that day due to bulged brass! I eventually got through it, thankfully it was just a club practice! Keep up the good work, love from Down Under!
Finally someone to put it to words..!!! Case and point my dream gun was the kriss vector 45acp gen2...i was finally able to buy one and i hated it..!! The recoil for the thin stock was horrible and the bore access was so extreme for me that i couldnt hit the target at all. It had ar style sights and the bore was almost 3 inches beneath the sights and i couldnt adjust them to hot anything. I traded it in and got s tavor x95 and im in love...keep up the great videos
I was attempting to zero mft buis on a new ar build, and when I was adjusting the front site over adjusted and sent the front site post flying into thick grass. I found something in my cleaning kit that I glued into the site that was perfect. Shot better with that than I had the whole day to that point.
my worst day at the range was my first time to the range. buddy had a ruger p85 and i didn't know how to properly operate it so while i'm figuring out the trigger (im used to shooting glocks and M&Ps) it does fire but the firearm was pointed above the backstop and i sent a round into the woods. i felt so dumb but after that i took the time to look up the manual and see how the trigger was operated on that firearm.
Had my AR15 a couple years back that just wouldn't hold a zero... Took me nearly 50 rounds before I put a wrench on my Burris P.E.P.R. mount, it wasn't real lose on the rail but it was enough. Drove me absolutely nuts...
I believe you are correct when you say it is a mental thing. I have to shoot a handgun a lot to be very good with one and I have to concentrate on what I'm doing. If I lay off for very long it's like I have to retrain myself when I do go out.
It’s actually crazy that this vid came out when it did cause I recently was being really hard on myself for missing tons of shots at the range come to find out when I got home my scope mounts were loose
This is a good video, one of your heel shooting mistakes is what I was doing making me dip the barrel slightly and shoot the target low left. Corrected it with my Kimber .45 auto, thanks. Thicker Rosewood Finger-groove Target Grips to fit my hand helped also.
1. Scope mount was loose, drove home thought barrel was just really fouled. Wasted ammo and range fee.
2. Guy next to you with a 7.5" AR and a muzzle brake throwing un-burnt powder all over you.
3. Arrives to range, left magazines at home.
4. RSO breathing heavily down your neck like it's his first day on the job and yours out the womb.
Nhan Quach 1 happened to me once, happened to be scope in my new red dot that day and I was confused for a while haha
#4 is why most people i know quit shooting at public ranges.
Not to mention idiots sticking their hand and their gun so far up off their post their bullet case fly in your aisle.
Ive had some A-Hole RSOs, but my most recent was the one that spent his time telling stories to people while the whole line was standing around with their thumbs up their ass waiting for him to call cold. not sure which is worse tbh.
1 and 2 haven’t happened to me yet.
3 happened to me once, and I had to drive home and fetch them. Lucky thing is I lived within 10 mins drive. There was also one time I left the optics at home and had to drove back.
4 happens all the time. The RSOs at my local range have a habit of treating everyone as an idiot and yell all the time like grumpy drunks. I’m usually okay with it because I understand they are just trying to do their job and afraid accidents might happen, but it really triggers some other shooters.
I've had days where I can't seem to hit crap. The worst was the day I drove 1 1/2 hours to a range with friends, only to find that I left my ammo home!
robert lapadura It happens. Bought bulk 556 on Black Friday, got out to the range and left the whole box. Still got some pistol in though.
I've done the opposite... brought all the ammo, forgot pistol and rifle back at home.. ultimate horrible range day
I've gone to the range and left all my magazines at the house but had all the guns and ammo
meifert2 just use em as a single shot ☺
robert lapadura i have forgotten my magazines before
Bad day at the range is still better than a good day at work
Unless you work at the range
unless some accidents shit blow up in your face
doug wagner i work for myself and make great money on good days lol i have to disagree lol
Get a better job.
Not unless you're getting some head when you're sitting at your desk
My worst experience was an NRA High Power match at my local range, where my new M1 Garand decided to rip off case rims instead of extracting rounds because somebody **ahem** didn’t clean the chamber well after purchasing. My takeaways after years of shooting:
1. Always take more than one gun to the range
2. Clean your guns well afterwards and inspect them inside and out for excessive wear and tear
3. Make sure that any screws on your gun, sights, etc. are always tightened (using proper gunsmithing screwdrivers!!!). I’ve had action and sight screws back out on numerous occasions, wreaking havoc on the range
4. Use quality ammo or reloads you have followed by the book. I’ve been gassed in the face and suffered reliability issues with super cheap ammo.
Maintain your guns well, be safe, and have fun on the range!
joeman2551 use loctite. Tighten once and never find a loose screw again
joeman2551 I've never understood the guys who are actually proud of never cleaning their guns. I'd rather maintain my firearms like you described and have more confidence in them.
A bad range day is still a good time to me😃
As a new shooter I appreciate this video. I've only been a gun owner for a few months now and I've been shooting very often with my Glock 19 gen 5. I try to make it a point to make improvements each and every session. My last session was the first time I didn't see improvement and it bothered me a little bit. You are probably right when you say you need to focus on having fun first. Good video, keep up the good work. Been watching for almost a year now. You guys have tought me so much about firearms, my favorite gun channel on UA-cam for sure.
The nice thing about being a farmer, or a retired farmer, is that the firing range is right out your back door. But talking about guns you like to shoot, I absolutely love the way my Ruger SR1911S's and my Remington 1911R1S fit my hand and as much as I like shooting them it wasn't until I wrapped my hand around the Ruger Mark IV Competition Stainless that I found the gun of my dreams. I love shooting it so much I wake up mornings hoping that I can make it outside to shoot it sometime during the day. I was disabled in 2003 because of back problems that have steadily become worse and my day at the "range" is any day I can make it outside to shoot. I keep a metal folding chair and a yellow target ball on the porch. I drag the chair down to the driveway and toss the target ball out about 25 to 30 yards, shoot my eight magazines, gather up the target ball and the chair and take them back to their spot on the porch and hobble back in to my recliner happy to have been able to make it outside again.
Cephas Martin Wish you lots of luck.
Cephas Martin God bless brother. I hope one day when I get to be less capable I can enjoy life like this.
There are days all my steel appears to be a 2'' gong!!
I too have a private range (farm). we rarely have bad range days! There has been turd boxes that get brought out and they create problems........yet fun is still being had.
Pretty much our struggle too
Turd boxes? I can haz 'splainin'?
I believe the containers of excrement referenced to be either wonky firearms or other unforeseen difficulties.
FoxVoxDK Noneofyourbusiness turd box very similar to a crap basket.
Too many idioms! xD
Not really my bad day but when people bring their friends/families over at the range with lack of protective equipment, I see a trend that whenever an individual brings his friends over to shoot for the first time, they do not provide proper hearing and eye protection. I'd see the newcomers plugging their ears with their fingers the entire time and when it's their time to shoot, they're a little hesitant to shoot because of the noise. After seeing this multiple times at the range, I always bring a pack of foam earplugs and would offer them for those that need them just to make their shooting experience a little better.
That’s always good, you can also use spent .380 or 9mm shells to use as earplugs. I do it all the time, works great.
I can admit to shooting a SilencerCo Omega 300 win mag can off my Scar 17S. I didn't have it tightened down. It traveled 25 yards downrange when I fired a shot & had a baffle strike as it left the rifle. SilencerCo was terrific during this entire experience. They fully rebuilt my can 100% in about 1 week or less. Top notch company! One of my worst days on the range. Turned out ok in the end thanks to SilencerCo.
Mr FNH I had the same experience with my Silencerco Omega on a 308. The suppressor landed on the 50 yard line. Silencerco replaced it within a week at no cost. They provide outstanding customer service. I own two Silencerco suppressors now.
Want a bad day at the range ? Become the club treasurer then you never get to shoot again , Garuanteed bad day
Want a bad day at the range? Become British and your only experience of being at a range is watching youtube videos.
That's one of the many reasons our fore fathers succeeded from that shitty nation!!! Rights & Freedom!! Your welcome to join..
would be nice, although since 1965 white people can't emigrate to America, only 3rd worlders. Besides, this is my home. It needs fixing, not abandonment. So does the USA in similar but different respects.
lol Im in Scotland ;)
shibby dibby aye mate same here in Aus. Pistols are bloody hard to get hold of and semi rifles are just off limits.
Guys! This gives me a great idea for a video...how about an "IV8888 Behind the Scenes" or "a day with IV8888"? Like start from leaving for the range, maybe some shots while driving there and setup of cameras and mics, add some shots that got edited out, bloopers and outtakes and some closing thoughts or commentary. I think a lot of viewers would love to see how a day in the life would be.
Robb Ramirez Everyone has holes in their socks even IV8888 😂
Bad days at the range remind me of bad days of certain times when I play piano. Sometimes you just can't get much right and feel unfocused, the music just doesn't sound good. Then you come back the next day and things are great. The same thing happens even to the greatest pianists in the world. Same with shooting or any other skill. The brain is a very strange organ.
I had bought a glock 23 .40 S&W and I was getting ejection failures left and right couldnt figure it out so mad because it was brand new. some random person happened to be watching and approched me and told me I was shooting with a limp wrist and i gave him a confused look and he said do you mind course i said nope thinking that it would fail again and to my supprise he fired a whole mag no failures and he gave me some pointers on how to correct it
I would say that is the opposite of a bad range day.
A bad range day would be nobody helping others out
limp dick lol
that's cool you actually listened to him, I've tried to help new shooters before and they snapped at me, as if I was insulting them. "I know what im doing... mind your own business" smh, ok buddy.
I gotta say man good stuff being open minded. Any normal gun nut would’ve gotten in a dick measuring contest.
I'm sure I've given other people a bad day at the indoor range. I was trying some really hot .44 magnum handloads in my Ruger Redhawk (almost a full charge of Winchester 296 under a 200 grain Nosler JHP). Even with a 7.5" barrel, the muzzle flash lit up the whole range and the concussion was incredible. After firing off a few cylinders full, I looked around to see everyone else had left.
You need to make a blooper series
You mentioned golf, I used to play seriously and at the tournament level for around 5 years and NOTHING is more frustrating. I've had days where I was so off shooting that it defied logic but it still didn't come close to golf. I've never had a "bad" day shooting, it's always fun even when I'm left scratching my head.
I’ve only ever gone to the driving range a handful of times. I’ve watched an occasional airing on tv and I really like to play PGA Tour on PlayStation. I’ve come to really appreciate a very well executed shot. It’s almost like magic sometimes.
I didnt really wanna watch this video, we live in the woods, so everyones yard is the "range", but I came and gave it a thumbs up just bc I dont like the crap people have talked the past while, and I wanna show my support, take care guys
smokeymountainrain gotta love the hollers, bubba. We shoot off our porch almost daily.
#4 and I'm posting this early in the video that sometimes air pressures and temperatures might throw your bullet flight off on different days (this is more for distance shooting). Or you had coffee and a monster right after, and your shooting hand looks like the Ed Edd and Eddie cartoon.
Jakaya Wilson This comment wins. By the time i drive the hour and a half to the range I'm jittery as hell. Coffee/monster combo needs to be stopped before it ruins more range days lol
DavyJones'Locker thank you. When your dropping rounds while topping off a mag from shaky hands it's not gonna be a good shooting day. LOL! That barometric pressure talk is more for long range (as I'm sure you know already) but still effects bullet flight. I'll use any excuse though when my wife's with me though, and that one makes me look smart and gives me an excuse simultaneously...... I hope she doesn't watch this video and reads this. Have a good one guys and safe shooting!
- Sir, may i shoot your's 22lr?
- NO? GO AWAY NOW!!!
XDDD
My brother blessed me with his police trade in hk USP in .45 and I LOVE it!
Put a revolver in my hand and it's a great day at the range, 30 yard shots good tights groupings but put a semi-auto in my hand and I'm lucky to hit a bucket at 5 yards away lol anyone else like that?
This is a great topic.
I had a bad dream i went to the range and, when i grabbed my gun it turned into a hipoint and i fainted into a 30ft pit of hipoints.
Chad Manning ouch that sounds like a nightmare...
Chad Manning Lmao.
I actually have 3 high points 9mm 40 and 45 and they are some uuugly Guns. I am working on putting a video together on them.
Bosco’s Gun Talk It's sad you've invested in so much Garbage. Plus, your channel is crap too!
Mr FNH We’ll I didn’t purchase them. My local gun shop let’s me do videos on certain Guns. I don’t think I would ever buy a high point. They are damn ugly... but they go boom. And my channel being garbage is your opinion and that’s ok.
But stay tough internet tough guy 😂
Bosco’s Gun Talk At least it was my ass & not my gun rights. Have fun with your super sad ten-round bullet button wonders.
Love the llight hearted humor in the episode, it would almost male a great end of year "look back and laugh" episode. Love you guys keep up the good work!
Worst day at the range was probably when my buddy was shooting my Shockwave, and had an ND right through the rear window of my car...
Back in 2014 at my last Annual Training, we were qualifying on the M249 SAW, one particular SAW caused a triple feed during quals, it also misfired continually and gave other issues. So I pulled it from the firing line and let it cool, inspected it and found the new gas block (non removable) was 3/4 clogged with carbon. No one had cleaned this SAW thoroughly for a long time, we got the Carbon out and the SAW back up and running but still gave some hiccups. Fun day at the range.
Could you guys do a video on muzzleloaders and differences in effects between .45, .50 and .54 calibers?
I agree 100%. How a particular gun fits can make all the difference. I trained myself to shoot my IDPA glock 17 better than THE average shooter but I can shoot my Walter pk380 like it's an extention of my body and the bullets are subject to my every will, I can even make hits shooting over cover blind, all because it fits my hands so well
Sometimes its best to just pack up and go home. Especially if youre having a bad day and shooting bad.
I had a cap and ball revolver explode in my hand. That was fun. Always remember to make sure the cylinder is tight and locked in place.
Driving 10 miles to the range and too many people there.
David Barnhart I wish my range was 10 miles away... more like an hour.
Matt Fleming Dang!
Yeah, our 'closer' range is about an hour and 30 mins, the 'good' range is 1h 45m. Too many humans living too close arghh
DavyJones'Locker Your right. Too many humans too close!
My worst day at the range in recent memory was having a case rupture in my Sig P320 blowing apart the extractor and cracking the frame. After looking at the other cases shot out of it, they all had similar markings indicating an unsupported case. I’ve since had the pistol fixed and it shot fine after being repaired. Definitely glad I was wearing proper safety gear.
When you started the intro I heard you say Eric and Barry.
Great video guys, this video feels almost like a "Bloopers" video of 2017, of things that gone wrong at the range, and I LOVE IT!
It's my birthday today this is awesome!!
happy birthday
Happy birthday 🤘🏾
Thanks
Brody day Happy Birthday man!
happy birthday mines tomorrow
I've found that the S&W mod 19 shoots light bullets (125 - 145 grain) with odd stabilization patterns. Dead on at 5-10 yards and at 75-100 yards. But it's literally hard to hit a car door at 35 yards. They do great with any bullet over 145grains at any range.
Can you guys do a top 5 patrol rifles or scout rifles? Include like ars bolt action scout rifles other semi autos and stuff
Why not?
Boy did you hit the nail dead center on this one. So many good points.
My example is I recently spent a lot of time creating bullets for my Swiss K 11 . Went to test my rounds ... had trouble going into battery. Followed Text book OAL .Knew after three rounds I had to put the gun down and stop. Had to go home and figure out what happened. Simple fix at home just need to adjust the OAL down a bit. Knowing when to go home is the key sometimes. It was a simple fix at home... but a waste of time to try and fix at the range. .
Just what I needed today
Blew up my new C308 from century Arms a couple years ago, barrel separated at breach and flew 15 feet forward. Multiple seized Herters steel cased(Tula) 308 rounds from Cabelas, jammed up 3 different rifles. Cabelas stopped selling that crap. It was the only affordable ammo I could find at the time.
My Bad Day at the Range; I was on one lane, and a man was with his children next to me. After squeezing off one magazine, I turned a little and found myself looking into the muzzle of a .22 rifle, held by one of those little kids! I slowly turned and moved the Muzzle away from my face, then the Father pulled the boy to their lane. The Father said nothing to me, or the little gunslinger! This was a GREAT OPPORTUNITY for that father to teach A LITTLE GUN SAFETY!
I have an embarrassing one that happened a year ago. Basically me and my grandfather were out at the range, he gave me his AKM and was telling me to shoot. As I raised the rifle and was about to pull the trigger I saw two people walking out in the firing range trying to setup targets, in my mind I said "oh shit I can't shoot yet there's people out there." So I followed basic gun safety I took my finger off the trigger, and pointed the muzzle to the ground as I turned around and tried to say "Hey I can't shoot yet there's people out there." But my grandfather was freaking out screaming "GET BACK GET BACK" over top of me as I was trying to tell him why I couldn't shoot yet. The people who walked out at the range just stared at us, I felt pretty embarrassed to say the least and is one of the reasons I don't shoot with him anymore.
ModestestMouse If memory serves me correct, I think "get back" was basically telling me to turn back to where I was originally facing. Which I couldn't do of course due to what was mentioned above, looking back to me it just seems like he just wanted to "correct" me to come off as being better than me and come across that he knows more. That isn't the first time something like that happened by the way. I remember he told me a story of a friend he knows shot himself in the leg. With the way he was telling it, he came across as being very superstitious and acted like the gun just fired for no reason. At first I thought maybe he just didn't have a holster, and maybe me moved his leg which caused the trigger to pull. But then he put in a detail that was missing in his story, and I was able to put the pieces together. Basically he tried to draw from his waist/holster or whatever, and he must've pulled the trigger and shot his leg. When I pointed that detail out he kinda just stayed silent, and didn't acknowledge what I said. Guess it didn't fit his narrative.
Yeah, just had one of these on this past Thursday, which was my birthday. I took my daughter and her fiance to shoot. I brought one of my wife's Beretta Storms, a Ruger MK III, and one of my Glocks. The Glock ran flawlessly, except I literally broke a 17 +2 mag. The Ruger shot well, except for the Remington bulk Thunderbolt ammo was not ejecting the casing. Finally, the Beretta had one mag where the spring was sticking and loose causing jams. The second mag worked, but man it was crazy...still a good day.
Eric, how much weight have you lost?
Not enough man
Calories have feelings too! lol
Melih A wtf are you going on about
Paraplegic Parakeet hes probabky from iraq...
@@theamericanwellbeing what the hell are you talking about dumb ass?
Got a dan Wesson Bruin in 10mm. It kept failing to feed or getting locked up. This happened many times at different ranges. Out of the blue I realized I was engaging the safety mid shot which would either lock the slide up or slow the action! Something as silly as my grip caused all that grief.
I had taken the boys out shooting, same day the stepdaughter went out on her first date. By the time I got around to cleaning the last of the guns we had out that day it was getting late. Stepdaughter steps through the front door twelve minutes late. Just as I had finished cleaning my 45/70 break action. I looked up and with a straight face I drooped an empty brass into the chamber and I say, I was just coming to look for you. You know how big a 45/70 round is. I was just joking but I thought the boy was going to faint right there.
That's a great story, scarmenl! As the dad of three daughters, that are now grown and married, I can definitely relate! :-) TreeTop
Had a bad range day. Shoyu buddies maverick 88 with a adjustable stock and Pistol grip. Well he forgot to lock tight it and the the stock worked it's way out as soon as I touched it lol. Then same day I fired my Pf9. Never had a any issues with it in hundreds of rounds this day I fired one shot my front sight popped off. Needed to replace that and then jammed a 10/22 takedown. Never had such an annoying range day. Took 5 and came back on the range and shot fine. Some times that break is needed.
Great video guys.
Video on my bday perfect 😍
Happy birthday
Happy birthday bud
Happy birthday
Jonathan A. Boyer happy birthday.
Happy birthday
It really does help to put your gun down. Take some deep breaths and find that place in your mind that makes you most happy. When you calm down pick up your firearm and shoot it without putting alot of thought into it.
Do a video on the CMP 1911's.
Picked up a 6 number M1 from CMP. Cleaned and inspected, fired 1 clip of M1 factory American Eagle ammo through it and it double fired, turned out it cocked the receiver almost clean through the back..... they replaced it but still, I’ll never get “that” gun back.........and I agree with your filming, it’s the whole reason I started my channel as well, if I don’t get any subscribers I’m still just as happy making them. Thanks for staying grounded gents.
I took a dump in my hand
My worse day on the range was when my son had a Glock model 40 10mm Long slide blow up. It fired out of battery. It blew the trigger out, magazine blew out, frame broke, the case head separated. My son’s arm, hands ,and face were bleeding and I didn’t know what happened. Glock customer service would not fix or replace the gun. I paid $800 for the gun at Bud’s Gun Shop new. I lost the $800 investment. I will never own another Glock. My son had pieces of brass in his face. Fortunately he did not lose his sight or fingers. It was a very bad day. I had a bad PMR-30 from Keltec too. They did replace it at no cost. Keltec makes poor quality guns but they do provide support. Glock does not provide any support, they have a terrible attitude.
do a 25-06 bullet balitics review
J. Rob. because it's a magnificent cartridge and it doesn't get enough credit for it's capabilities. it's a hard hitting round whilst shooting flatter than it's parent case the 30-6
Worst day at the range for me... Uberti .357 mag... Shooting pretty hot loads through it and unknown to me, the screws on the ejector rod began backing out. After a couple hundred rounds, the entire ejector (housing, screws and all) dropped out. It was an outdoor range and we spent a lot of time playing in the dirt with a magnet to find all the parts. Found 'em, no damage done, put everything back together and learned to take some screwdrivers with me and check the screws occassionally.
Many shooters are malformed in the discipline from the beginning, bypassing the flintlock and forming poor habits with rim fires, few youth are rewarded or denied their meals based on their skill at arms, and they fail to regard every cartridge as sacred, their muscle memory and oneness with the firearm is not engrained before moving on to other calibers.Cheek weld, breath control trigger control sight picture sight alignment body position to target, all of this is disregarded and then the rifle is blamed, the spear and arrow never suffered from this much blame. You send the lead to the target, how it is sent is your domain.
Paul Paradis big words? Go back to 2nd grade bud.
Paul Paradis nah, I think you're just a sad little internet troll with no friends or anything better to do. So you try to get a rise out of complete strangers to try and fill that emptiness you feel on a daily basis. And that without making feel as miserable as you do every moment of every day, you probably at this point would've had a sad tug session with your tears for lube before blowing your brains out. But you have not done it yet, because no one will know, or even care til your landlord comes by for your delinquent rent.
Paul Paradis I love the way you describe yourself, it's pretty Damn accurate.
Paul Paradis bwhaha that's the best you got? The world is my safe place bud , and you are the true loser.
Paul Paradis another? Don't act like you ever got me mad at you, you're a pathetic internet troll.
Went for a carbine class. Garbage ammo blew up my upper. Then the armorer finished off my lower while getting the case out. Carried my AR home as a box of parts. Pretty bad day at the range. Lessons learned though....
It's only a bad day if someone gets hurt lol
Fall_In_Intrigue ricochets, small cuts and bruises don't count.
dmgd guds the last incident someone had the wrong caliber brake on their AR and slung shrapnel into the cheek of a guy several feet to his left! y'all be safe out there!
Fall_In_Intrigue. I’m a hunter ed instructor and one of my fellow instructors had a Knight muzzleloader blow up in his face. Permanent cosmetic damage but he is otherwise unharmed
Landen Weaver I started dabbling with muzzle loaders about a year ago, that's always been a concern of mine especially buying used, I won't lie I clench up every time I get a hangfire. My ricochet I caught last month was just a 9 mm off of steel, just a bruise on the knew I kept joking that my wife shot me.
dmgd guds, I’ve been cautious around muzzleloader ever since and that’s good your ok coulda been a lot worse
Wow! I took my LCP 2 new out of the box and fired 100 rounds of that same Sig ammo without a hitch. Actually I was quite pleased with the group at about 20 yards. I guess much like people every firearm is a little different.
In my gen1 fullsize M&P9 I can hit golf balls at 30 yards with Winchester White Box. I’ve heard people talk crap about that ammo for more than a decade and my pistol loves it. It’s even the model with the barrel that is suppose to be very inaccurate. I’ve never understood everyone’s complaints and continue to purchase WWB. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it I suppose 🤷♂️
Everyone likes round bottoms 😉
I had to scroll down to see if somebody commented about that first.
Bought a y1903 Greek Mannlicher-Schonauer. Took it to the range. With PPU ammunition (usually does well for me) I could not connect with anything except the dirt backstop. I moved back to 20 yards or so to make sure the sights were on. Fired a careful aimed shot from a rest. The round I fired printed perfectly over the aiming mark about one inch high. Sideways. (Could tell the bullet by it's profile!) I did some other things (checks), the barrel looked passible, but the rifling was worn bad. I made a sporter out of it.
Very little is worse when remembering to take all the bits and pieces to the range (doing load testing) and the cotton-pickin' chronograph will not work. Yes, I did have extra batteries.
I know it's bows and arrows but Archery can be pretty testing at times, you can shoot great then everything just turns to shit.
Bad day at the range; When I turned 18 I bought a very nice 1918 BSA SMLE as my firsts gun. The first trip to the range some guy sitting a few tables down nicked the fore-stock with his ejecting brass.
You guys mention "bad ammo" and I too have encountered the bad ammo gremlin at the range, but shouldn't a good gun work with any ammo? It would be like buying a pan that only works with certain steak, a car that only works with one brand of gasoline, or a hammer that only works with certain nails. This is especially true for .22lr guns, when you are forced to buy the pricier CCI instead of bulk (for function, not accuracy) its just not as good a gun.
Sizukun1 lol. use a pan designed for gas on ceramic ... and failure. ... put desiel in your multi petrol car ... and failure. ie, everything has limits.
You're taking it to hyperble; I didn't mean to imply diesel in a gasoline car is how it should be, just as I'm not implying a Ruger 10/22 should be able to also fire 7.62. But if I bought an AR15 and it can only run Match grade hand loaded ammo for reliability, then that means its just a well made rifle.
Sizukun1 i think the poibt your trying to make is weird. If your talking about the pistol not working well with certain makes sense because of the mechanism it uses to rechamber. Its kind of sensitive. If your talking about the 1903 all i can say is guns cant fix human error with rounds. Foul case or primers making the gun act poorly doesnt mean its not a well made arm.
I can't run Sig ammo in my 10mm. It's not powerful enough to cycle the gun. That's what they mean by bad ammo
No; take .22lr guns. Many manufacturers recommend CCI minimags because they're known to be the best, consistent, and reasonably more powerful ammo. If you sent a gun back for warranty work for FTW, FTF, and cycling problems and they refuse to work on it because you don't use CCI, that means the gun probably has other issues. I understand remington golden bullets are crap, but when I have several guns that run it fine and one specific gun doesn't, then that tells me its the gun's fault.
The other day I drove 45 mins to my range and I had to zero some rifles, one being my new AR15 build and I just put a awesome 18in BCM ionbond barrel in it. When I got to zeroing the rifle I was like ok let me check the screws on my AD recon mount to make sure they are secure and make sure they are torqued down. I used the wrong torque specs on the mount and ending up stripping one of the screws on the mount. I was upset that I didn't get to see how the barrel grouped but i still got a bunch of other guns zeroed. Got my AR build back out a few weeks later and it shoots lights out with my 77gr handloads, BCM barrels are outstanding. Also I sent my scope mount back to American Defense MFG. They have absolutely outstanding customer service they replaced my mount no questions asked extremely quickly they are a fantastic company.
Come on guys. Release the damn videos. If you shoot terrible or the gun runs wacky, let us know. You're giving a false sense of reality only releasing vids where you shoot the ace! Now that you've said that, it gives the persona of gun manufacturers in your pockets. Don't concern yourself about the entertainment value so much. Being REAL will go a long way.
I wasn’t meant to be taken like that. If you watch our videos you’ll see that we mention all the time if there was some sort of previous issue with something. Sometimes if I take a gun out (especially a pistol) and I’m not hitting the right of a barn, I’ll go back the drawing board and assess what I did wrong. Sometimes it’s me...so should I throw a given gun under the bus and basically give you guys the wrong outlook. Which is more of a disservice?
Iraqveteran8888 i see that. I was playing devils advocate. I respect your videos and intentions. Just saying how it may be taken.
Iraqveteran8888 I've watched all of your videos, some multiple times.
Failure doesn't fly. If it did editing would never have been needed. Most People are WAY TOO judgemental to be able to handle mistakes without writing someone off completely.
Nutnfancy doesn't care about trash talking guns. "Subject to change"
Once in a while I have this kind of days. It always kiiiiiills me! You just have to learn to take your loss, walk away, and come back the next day.
Or how about you get harassed by the weekend volunteer range official because you're shooting AKs and not ARs... most annoying experience ever.
Too much trigger in the finger guard...lol. Definitely something I'd say. I always end up swapping words.
Great video, guys. I have had plenty of range days that turn out to be somewhat frustrating. It's a great topic for discussion.
Just ask Nutnfancy!
Nothing tops the Desert of Failure...
I would but I don't have time to watch a feature length part one video.
Yeah, why even bother to with the pause function.. :P
Keepin' it real! lol
Eli Dorsey that was funny. He ate dirt.
So I have a Mossberg 590 that I've put a UTI adjustable stock and pistol grip on. Went trap shooting with some friends from work and they REALLY liked shooting my rig. Well one of my friends got done shooting a set with my 590 and brought the gun close to his chest, pointing the muzzle upwards for safety. When he did this, the stock quite simply slid off the buffer tube, falling to the ground. Come to find out the retaining screws came out and got completely lost! That pretty much caused us to end our range day at Lowe's replacing the missing screws with ones that actually worked!
Thumbs up if you see the Hi-Point.
I didn't see a garbage can nailed to the wall
It right next to chad
Hi point are some what reliable just ugly I bought the 45 carbine to burn up some 45 ammo thousands of rounds never hung up other then a few ammo related issues light loads ! They are not much to look at but fun and cheap.it's not my go to gun but it could be!
BCBoost420 garbage is a stretch. Cheap, god yes.
When i was shooting my AR15 with a cheap red dot sight standing up carrying the rifle. I was hitting steal at 150 yards easily. Once i lay it on the table with my bi-pod. Not one bullet made contact with the steal target. Boy was I confused and slightly frustrated.
Bad range days. Two times I've had people walk down rage, while others on the line are shooting. One old guy, with his wife and kids, walked out on the pistol firing line, to change his target. Ten other people where shooting. I was pulling the trigger, as I saw him walk by me. WTF?
Guns are machines, they will fail.
Rarely have bad days at the range, but had one recently. Bought myself a JM stamped Marlin 1894 in 44 magnum for Christmas and loaded up some ammo for it (cant afford to pawn a kidney to buy factory ammo!). On first trip to the range with it I was getting very extreme keyholing and innaccuracy at 15 yards, shots were never closer than 6-8 inches to my point of aim. Was pretty concerned and was wondering if thats why it was on sale (bought it on consignment). So I immediately went and bought some factory ammo and came back and it shot without issues. Eventually figured out that the powder I was using had too quick of a burn rate. So it was concerning at the time but a learning experience in the end.
This year I got a Savage 111 and I zeroed it in about 60 rounds. Alsp happens to be my first bolt action hunting rifle. Each time I would go out I had to make a couple shot around 150 or closer so even be on the paper. So on a $20 box of 139gr whitetail Ispend $15 in getting it zeroed, and $5 having fun. And when I perform as well as the gun can I got a .35 MOA at 400 yards. Got got new rings but have not tried it out.
About a year ago I built my first AR -15 lower and went to test it out at a range somewhat close by. Kept getting failures to fire. Turns out I had the hammer spring in backwards.
I've had some issues with SIG ammo as well - in firearms that I never have any issue with.
Bad ammo. First I had FTE problems with my mini-14. Sent it back to Ruger. They couldn't find anything. Still had FTE problems so I put the gun away in the safe. Unloaded the mini-14 mags and reloaded the AR15 mags. Went back to the range the next month and had FTE issues, then the bolt stuck. Had a primer wedged in there. Inspected the brass on the ground and found multiple cases with blown primers. Factory, brass cased ammo. Not steel or reload 5.56. Blue and white boxes imported from Israel, nuff said. Had red/pink sealant around the primer.
My worst day at the range was, got down there got the 10" steel gong setup, few standing paper targets. Opened the gun bag up to get out the mags to load, discovered no mags at all. No mags for the pistols AR or AK, all I had was the mags for the GSG Firefly 22, then started to shoot it & then it blew up on me. Packed up & went home right after it. Would love to see a huge reel of those bad days you guys have, would be interesting to watch. Love to do what you guys do everyday. Love to shoot but cannot as much as I like cause of the only range in my county really kinda sucks.
Worst day at the range for me was when I had my tavor in its 9mm conversion and I had 2 out of battery detonations and damaged the rifle to the point where it was no longer useable. Thankfully IWI's customer service was amazing and they covered the cost to ship it in and I had it back 4 weeks later good as new. Also when it happened it was interesting how it blew out the mag out of the magwell and so the explosion was directed out the mag well and ejection port and saved me from injury.
Worst day: bought a used Savage 308. After checking alignment visually and with a rod, first shot baffle strike in my 30P-1. Unsuppressed it was hitting the dirt instead of the target at 25 yards. Appears previous owner tried to time a brake with a wrench and pipe. ended up cutting the barrel down from 22" to 16.5" to make it work.
last range trip: sighting in Thompson Machine Operative TD. Forgot the tiny allen wrench to adjust the seeall open sight so one group in the corner of the target and i was done. Slapped on the Thor-hd thermal scope and there's a horizontal line across the screen that's a different color than the rest that won't reset. one pixel high and all the way across appears to be a negative of the rest of the picture.
Machine gun shoot a few years ago, got 40S&W ammo mixed in with the 45. 40 loaded in my FNX45 Tactical magazine, chambered, and even fired. Didn't hurt the pistol but the bullet did flips through my Osprey 45 and took huge chunks out of the baffles and end cap. luckily the serialized part was unharmed and silencerco customer service is amazing. good as new in a week for the cost of shipping.
I had a couple of boxes of ammo that one of my pistols just didn't like. I turned it into a jam drill. It seemed like every few rounds I was clearing jams of some sort. Take lemons and make lemonade. Learned a lot about clearing jams that day and am better from the experience.
Went to the range with my uncle to sight in his new Meopta scope on his CZ 550 American (.300 WSM). We could not get it to group, but to make matters worse the range's video equipment wasn't working so we had to walk it. We walked that 100m range so many times, and after 2.2km we figured out that the base and rings were all loose just a bit so the scope was shifting with each shot.
I've only had one bad range day:
I went shooting outdoors in -37 degree Fahrenheit weather (~-48 degrees with windchill). Earplugs and ear muffs hearing protection shattered in the cold. Your body heat was the only thing that kept the hearing protection from shattering. Due to the cold, the rubber butt pads of three guns cracked. The rubber on the gun cases fell apart. Multiple other things cracked, shattered, or broke. That was the day that we learned that rubber, plastic, glass, and even some cheap metal suffers immensely when it gets crazy cold.
I am lucky enough to have not had a catastrophically bad range day.
I have a Winchester M 70 in 30-06. It took me several years to figure out that the barrel was canted to the right about 2 degrees. I had a gunsmith replace the barrel and true the receiver. I went from 2 1/2 group to less than one inch.
Years ago had a Ruger Super RH. The small grip and large frame gave me issues from day 1. I would Left-Low this gun 2 feet at 50 yards. I fought this issue for over a year. Finally, traded it in on a 5.5 in regular RH with a full size Hoque grip. Problem solved, cost me $150 in the trade but worth the money in frustration relief.
Went to help a buddy sight in his 30-06 hunting rifle. We were making some real progress after a box or two, and then the shots/groups started to get progressively worse. We tried even harder with more ammo. Turns out I finally had to call it and look at the gun. Broken scope mount, scope waking all over. After burning a bunch of expensive ammo and with a buddy who got really pissy, it was a bad day at the range...
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My wife had a Browning .22LR cartridge explode inside my Victory 22. It did no damage to the gun, but her hand got burnt, and the back of the case came out and cut her face. It was rough.
DJ Hamilton that sucks hope she is ok.
Oh yeah, she was back to shooting the same day. She was more concerned about my pistol than she was herself.
I took every bit of it out of my stock. I won't use it again.
Did you try and kiss her boo boo? It works for me, my wife gets a kick out of it.
I seperated ALL Winchester .22lr from my stock. Browning .22lr is manufactured by Winchester. I'm a lefty, and it is the only .22 ammo that spits shit out at my face in any of my semi auto 22s. It= many bad range days
My worst day at the range would've been just after i made some 9mm reloads without doing a full case resize! Was doing an IPSC comp and my gun would fire once then jam, happened 8 times that day due to bulged brass!
I eventually got through it, thankfully it was just a club practice!
Keep up the good work, love from Down Under!
Finally someone to put it to words..!!! Case and point my dream gun was the kriss vector 45acp gen2...i was finally able to buy one and i hated it..!! The recoil for the thin stock was horrible and the bore access was so extreme for me that i couldnt hit the target at all. It had ar style sights and the bore was almost 3 inches beneath the sights and i couldnt adjust them to hot anything. I traded it in and got s tavor x95 and im in love...keep up the great videos
My Taurus tcp .380 quit firing. Had to send it back to taurus to be fixed by never had feeding problems but some say has happened to like the lcp.
I was attempting to zero mft buis on a new ar build, and when I was adjusting the front site over adjusted and sent the front site post flying into thick grass. I found something in my cleaning kit that I glued into the site that was perfect. Shot better with that than I had the whole day to that point.
my worst day at the range was my first time to the range. buddy had a ruger p85 and i didn't know how to properly operate it so while i'm figuring out the trigger (im used to shooting glocks and M&Ps) it does fire but the firearm was pointed above the backstop and i sent a round into the woods. i felt so dumb but after that i took the time to look up the manual and see how the trigger was operated on that firearm.
Had my AR15 a couple years back that just wouldn't hold a zero... Took me nearly 50 rounds before I put a wrench on my Burris P.E.P.R. mount, it wasn't real lose on the rail but it was enough. Drove me absolutely nuts...
I believe you are correct when you say it is a mental thing. I have to shoot a handgun a lot to be very good with one and I have to concentrate on what I'm doing. If I lay off for very long it's like I have to retrain myself when I do go out.
It’s actually crazy that this vid came out when it did cause I recently was being really hard on myself for missing tons of shots at the range come to find out when I got home my scope mounts were loose
This is a good video, one of your heel shooting mistakes is what I was doing making me dip the barrel slightly and shoot the target low left. Corrected it with my Kimber .45 auto, thanks. Thicker Rosewood Finger-groove Target Grips to fit my hand helped also.