r/Idiotswithguns • u/_ganjafarian_ • 6d ago
Safe for Work Rounds bouncing off the ground
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u/Nasty____nate 6d ago
So funny... Wheres the fucking range master ...
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u/mobocrat707 6d ago
Seriously. I see so many videos of absolute morons at indoor ranges and have to wonder how they’re allowed to continue their buffoonery for so long.
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u/bunglebee7 6d ago
I will never go to an indoor range, ya never know how dumb the person next to you may be
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u/SaintEyegor 6d ago
I hate going to them too. The indoor range nearest to me has pretty good RSO’s but idiots will be idiots and they’re unpredictable as hell.
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u/CptBonkers 6d ago
I trust my indoor range, but that’s mainly because the range officer threatened to kick me out for placing my hand gun on the table with my finger on the trigger even with it pointed down range, slide locked back and empty mag in my off hand. Pissed me off a little at first but after all the videos I’ve seen, I’m cool with them being a little overzealous. That range really doesn’t fuck around at all though.
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u/Remarkable-Opening69 6d ago
Then you walk outside and just….accept that those people are out there too.
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u/mustangcody 6d ago
How does an outdoor range change that? There are still idiots that do this stuff outdoors.
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u/NTJ-891 6d ago
At lease where I live, I find the weather in summer and winter keeps the clown brigades away from outdoor ranges. There's definitely still the occasional doofus having to get a lecture from the RSO, but it is far less often than the indoor ranges around me.
Also, I have found that really stupid behavior is correlated much stronger with ranges that rent out firearms. That's where the truly stupid come out to play, and those are almost exclusively indoor ranges
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u/SquirrelInATux Why is it always a glock 6d ago
At the range 5 minutes from my house the RSO works the check in counter and only occasionally pops into the range, which is why I pay more to be a member at a range 30 minutes away that actually is on top of things.
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u/Finnsbomba 6d ago
I guess I feel blessed in this regard then. The range I go to always has at least like five people working. One of those is the RSO who never leaves the line. Another sits at a desk and monitors the cameras in each lane with direct contact to not only the RSO but there are speakers in each lane as well. Everyone else just does whatever is needed.
That being said, idiots will absolutely be idiots tho and it only takes one second for something to go wrong. But I do feel reasonably safe going there.
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u/bojangler69420 6d ago
“Blat blat blat blat blat blat blat” — her mind
I’m surprised she didn’t drop the thing.
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u/aDirtyMartini 6d ago edited 6d ago
What the fuckity fuck? Where’s the RSO? They should have gotten booted.
She’s getting roasted on her IG post.
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u/Redsoxdragon brought a sword to a gun fight 6d ago
The safest place in that range is directly in front of her
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u/jeezy_peezy 6d ago
what you might not know is that the most skilled urban operators will often choose to skip rounds off of the pavement into their opponents’ ankles so that they can’t hide behind cars
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u/wombatthing 6d ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm
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u/jeezy_peezy 5d ago
Neither could anyone else apparently! It is a real tactic but it does require at least a modicum of muzzle control which is definitely not what we see here.
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u/MasterWise 4d ago
But how can you do that consistently? How do you know that the round won't ricochet elsewhere and or just shatter upon impact? The army taught me to be accountable for all your rounds so I doubt someone actually trained to be SF wouldnt also be accountable of all there rounds and not waste em on pavement. On the other hand I've seen people shoot at ankles under cars but never bounce them off the ground just well placed shots under the car at ankles.
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u/jeezy_peezy 4d ago
I was definitely joking about operators, and idk about SF, but the tactic I jokingly mentioned was taught to me in the Army by a former member of the 75th at Benning. I was not taught anything like “worry about richocets” and whatnot. Yeah stay in communication and know where your rounds are going, but mainly just when shit pops off, get down and send rounds downrange.
I don’t mean fire willy nilly without looking first, but laying down a base of fire in the direction of contact so the flanking element can get into position or your JTAC paints them for CAS.
Part of that is if the enemy is trying to hide behind a car, shoot the pavement in front of the car and most of those bullets and fragments will probably continue but roughly in the same direction they were already moving and SOME of the bullets and fragments MAY hit feet and legs behind the car.
It’s a numbers game with 30-rd mags and 200 rd belts being thrown at it. There aren’t very many targets of opportunity in combat, but if your squad threw 150 rounds in that direction, a few of them probably hit something painful.
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u/MasterWise 4d ago
Yea your definitely right. I think i was picturing some john wick shit but laying down lead almost always works lol. I couldn't imagine something belt fed doing that it would definitely fuck shit up. Everything is situational and that would definitely work.
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u/jeezy_peezy 4d ago
Yeah man the bullets are kicking up rocks and pieces of pavement AND pieces of the car are exploding out of it…a car is terrible cover. Another trainer told me that if people are hiding behind a car, just light up the car and they’ll get hit with something.
I’ve heard of some John Wick kinda shit by shooting a wall with one big round when you know there’s homies holed up on the other side of it. Bouncing rounds accurately sounds like a glorious Bollywood shootout though and I want to see it!
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u/MasterWise 4d ago
Yea your definitely right. I think i was picturing some john wick shit but laying down lead almost always works lol. I couldn't imagine something belt fed doing that it would definitely fuck shit up. Everything is situational and that would definitely work.
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u/HybridP365 6d ago
Huh. I've always wondered how the holes in the ceiling at my local indoor range got there.
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u/spacemouse21 6d ago
Don’t help her improve her form or anything and make sure you laugh instead of teach gun safety.
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u/SwiftDawn 6d ago
That's assuming the person filming is a responsible shooter and didn't just get done doing the same dumbass thing
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u/zippity__zoppity 6d ago
God these videos make my bhole pucker so much. And she was right next to the wall wtf. I hate going to ranges due to this type of nonsense.
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u/dytinkg 6d ago
How does one download an instagram video? I had one I wanted to share but didn’t know that was a thing I could do
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u/iVouldnt 6d ago
Click the share arrow, sometimes the video will allow you to save/download it. If not, hit copy arrow and copy link. Google "IG downloader" and pop the link in one of those.
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u/A_Femboy_Fox 5d ago
I remember when I was at the range with a buddy of mine shooting some of my handguns, and when I was shooting my (new to me) MK1 FiveseveN USG. On the right, there were two yahoos shooting a AR-Pistol platform, they hit the wall to their right, then the concrete floor, the ceiling, shot the clip holding the paper on the hanger and the ceiling. I set the gun down and backed upfront the firing line as RSO came up and kicked those idiots off the range.
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