you know what they're building?
One thing they really need to fix is the overhead lights. I had a friend shooting a rifle, brass ejected and hit the fluorescent bulb overhead, thankfully he was standing to one side and broken glass showered down. No protection wrapping the frickin lights overhead!
Thats been there for awhile. As much as people like to complain about the strict RO's at the NRA, strick RO's save lives.
From what I understand that isn't actually a bullet-impact, but rather one of the carriers that was being taken down for maintenance broke loose and hit the glass right there. As the glass is apparently $1400 to replace, they opted to leave it there.
Agreed; I have a sheet of paper I like to print out and plunk down on an offender's table while he's not looking that reads "PLEASE KEEP GUNS POINTED DOWNRANGE. THANK YOU!". If no other rule is followed, keeping the guns pointed downrange will minimize any potential damage. If it's the floor or the ceiling or even the walls downrange that takes a bullet due to improper handling, it's better than the alternative.
Is "thumbs-not-on-same-side-of-the-gun" a problem? That's how I was told to shoot my J-frame...
Not for revolvers, but for semi-autos: a couple weeks ago a guy was shooting in the lane next to me with his weak thumb behind the slide of his Glock 19, and I didn't stop him before he pulled the trigger. I watched the slide go back into the knuckle of his thumb joint. I winced, but he kept on shooting, and when I looked back he was doing it again. I stopped him this time, but the damage was done--he was oozing blood from where the slide got him.
Remove any chance the slide will get you by keeping them both on the same side; you fight the way you train, and you train the way you fight. If you end up needing your gun in a defensive situation, will you have the presence of mind to remember to keep your thumb away from the slide? Or will you be more concerned with the threat?Ah, that makes sense. Every time my husband fires his 22A, I have to remind him to keep his thumbs off the slide. Maybe if it bites him, he'll remember. I think I cross thumbs on it, too, but I'm nowhere near the slide, because I watch for that.
Not that I fire his 22A often - I prefer my wheel gun.
True. But the odds of the 22A being my sidearm in an emergency are pretty slim. It doesn't take as many rounds of 38 or 357 (from my 60 or hubby's Rossi 461) to get someone's attention. :lol:Riana wrote:Remove any chance the slide will get you by keeping them both on the same side; you fight the way you train, and you train the way you fight. If you end up needing your gun in a defensive situation, will you have the presence of mind to remember to keep your thumb away from the slide? Or will you be more concerned with the threat?Ah, that makes sense. Every time my husband fires his 22A, I have to remind him to keep his thumbs off the slide. Maybe if it bites him, he'll remember. I think I cross thumbs on it, too, but I'm nowhere near the slide, because I watch for that.
Not that I fire his 22A often - I prefer my wheel gun.
Well, us wheel-gunners don't really need to worry about that (my sidearm is a S&W Model 10), but we seem to be few and far-between; it seems that 90% of the handguns at the range are semi-autos...and 50% of the people using them seem to be newbies, especially on weekends.
(we're veering a little off topic here, but I suppose the main intent of the thread--to notify us that the NRA range will be closed for a couple weeks--has been satisfied)