Many years ago I went with a good friend of mine to take the hunter safety course for shotguns. He just gotten out of the army and had actually gotten some kind of sharpshooting/marksman type of award. From what I remembered it was a small class and since he was former military they kind of cut him some slack, class was very relaxed.

 

So, he proceeds to pass the test and they went to the live fire portion, they let him use his 12ga and in this case they gave him 5 shots at flying clays (not skeet just slow flying clays) and he missed all 5. They then placed 1 clay on the ground about 20 to 30 yards out and let him have at it. He shot 3 times and missed all 3. The instructor asked if he was shooting blanks!

I just got back from The Bullet Hole (the Colt & girlfriends Hi-Power are still smoking) and I witnessed stupidity of a whole new magnitude. Two guys were sharing a port and shooting a Glock. They were probably about 4 ports to our right, and their target was peppered to say the least (about 1 - 2 foot "groups"). All of a sudden, not 1, not 2, but 3 lights came crashing down in their lane. Ceasefire was called, and the RO went out to assess the damage and clean up a bit. While he was out on the range, the genius decides to remove his gun from the port, put it in battery, and dry fire it, all while sweeping the line. He then put it in the box, and walked out, following the RO. I so hope he is banned. I was going to conduct a citizen's confiscation. LOL

 

The lesson here is, don't bring a friend to the range until you can safely operate your own firearm! These people give shooters a bad image.

I have seen about 5 bulbs go falling at the Hole. Not quite sure they are from friendly fire but from vibrations knocking them loose. Happens way too often there. One time one of the idiots working there tried to charge the guy $300 for a new bulb. The RO seemed confused and looked around for a few moments and just pointed at some guy "YOU". "You shot the bulb"!

I could see them becoming loose and falling, but there are also a whole lot of marks on the ceiling, so a percentage of them have to be legit. lol

Lol. I think your right on that one, too.