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Funny Scene at the Range
« on: June 03, 2009, 11:47:43 PM »
So, my local range sits at a pretty low elevation.  When the snow melted and we got some heavy spring rains it flooded the place pretty good.  There have been pumps in place for weeks to drain it, and it's working, but we still have a couple of really shallow ponds out there.

And a family of ducks have taken up residence in one of them.

About 15 yards in front of the trap house.

Cracks me up every time I go out there.

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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 12:28:06 AM »
Feed them bread/doughballs spiked with anti-depressants, as those are surely some suicidal waterfowl.
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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 07:52:00 AM »
We have a couple wood ducks that took up residence in a dying tree fairly close to our trap range too. They don't seem to mind the Monday night trap league at all. I'm hoping that they push the little ones out on a Monday night so we can watch momma wood duck escort them to water.


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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2009, 08:00:42 AM »
Deer like to graze at the edge of the woods below the various trap ranges at Bull Run Shooting Center in NOVA.  They're out of the way from typical trap loads (they're a bit more than 100yds away), but it's still amusing to see them hanging out within "hunting" range.

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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2009, 08:12:31 AM »
Deer like to graze at the edge of the woods below the various trap ranges at Bull Run Shooting Center in NOVA.  They're out of the way from typical trap loads (they're a bit more than 100yds away), but it's still amusing to see them hanging out within "hunting" range.

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Last fall I was at the range with a couple friends and we were sighting in various firearms for the upcoming Iowa deer seasons. I was looking down range and there was deer standing behind the target my friend was getting ready to shoot at. I started yelling and he started cursing at me then he realized that there were a small herd of deer standing down range at a 100 yards. It was tempting to have real targets but they all got a pass.

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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2009, 08:45:18 AM »
Couple weeks ago I was shooting some .357 off the bench at 25 yds and caught movement behind the target. A deer was browsing leisurely at about 80 yds. Had to wait patiently. Same day a couple hen turkeys were clucking in the brushy ravine behind me.

2 yrs ago in late Summer I was settling in for a shot at the 500yd gong, scope cranked up to 10x. Suddenly a NICE rack streaked thru the field of view. Looked up to see big buck bookin' it across the range about 300yds out.

I always keep my camera handy going in and out of the range, ya' never know whatyou'll see.

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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2009, 09:08:26 AM »
One summer back when I was a Boy Scout, I spent a lot of time at the rifle range because ammo was free that year (donated by the National Guard, I believe).  So, being all I could shoot, I tried to shoot all that I could.  One afternoon, I'm on the line firing my ten shots when someone starts yelling "cease fire!"  We all stop and back off the rifles as we were told to do.  And here comes a cow wandering onto the range over the backstop, wanders down between the positions and the targets, and starts grazing.  Turns out a dairy farmer had property that butts up against the camp, a couple of cows found a sopt where the fence was down, and came over to have a look.
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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2009, 11:13:49 AM »
This thread is useless without pictures...
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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2009, 11:16:41 AM »
This thread is useless without pictures...

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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2009, 11:36:01 AM »
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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2009, 12:27:27 PM »
It was tempting to have real targets but they all got a pass.


We were doing familiarization fire on M2's when a really stupid deer wandered onto the range.  It got lit up by all eight M2's before range control could cease fire.

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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2009, 02:11:31 PM »
We were doing familiarization fire on M2's when a really stupid deer wandered onto the range.  It got lit up by all eight M2's before range control could cease fire.


I heard this story about a bunch of army recruits here who were out on excercise. They only had rifles, tents and such with them. No food or water. The idea was that they were to live off the land by eating roots and whatnot. Someone spotted a moose wandering by. They figured since they'd been told to live off of what they could find, so they shot the moose, butchered it, ate it and buried the leftovers. Somehow, their officers still found out and had them re-taking the excercise...this time without being issued with any live ammo :laugh:.
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Re: Funny Scene at the Range
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2009, 04:39:31 PM »
this time without being issued with any live ammo :laugh:.

Like that'd work either.  Sheesh...