Sobering night at range

[GMAN12]

OCI's would help and should be mandatory. (open chamber indicator)

[Shyster]

Well, the club has updated their range safety procedures. A flag must be in the chamber at all times when not at the shooting stage.

[yocan]

Well, the club has updated their range safety procedures. A flag must be in the chamber at all times when not at the shooting stage.

butterfly effect shyster if you had been there he would have missed his leg.

anyone know how he's doing?

[Shyster]

Perfectly fine he was back shooting two weeks later. Kicked my ass too.

[jmoser]

Well, the club has updated their range safety procedures. A flag must be in the chamber at all times when not at the shooting stage.

If you have never seen this done just use bright orange weed wacker line.

Universal caliber fit, flexible enough to go in the smallest .22 autos. You can wrap a 1" loop at one end and secure with a small zip tie if you want to be fancy, plus it keeps the breech end from falling thru bore.

Oh - and there is a reason the RO commands I use are

Slides back
Magazines out
Cylinders Open
Guns on the Bench
Flags [OCIs] in
Step back from the line

and I DO look in every chamber and magwell . . . . not gonna happen on my watch. Really helps the RO having Hi-Vis flags in every chamber; speeds up the 'safe' check too.

Please be safe !!

[langenc]

Punch a hole in a milk jug cap and 'tie' that onto one end of the L shaped weed wacker. The milk jug cap makes the weed wacker 'wire' much easier to see when checking the line to see if they are in place.

[cwo4uscgret]

a colored zip tie looped through itsself also works well.

[MotoMitten]

Punch a hole in a milk jug cap and 'tie' that onto one end of the L shaped weed wacker. The milk jug cap makes the weed wacker 'wire' much easier to see when checking the line to see if they are in place.

We have done a similar thing with fishing line and wiffle golf balls.

[ekick]

It sounds like he was carrying all that stuff, including his pistol, in a big pile like taking a load of laundry out of the dryer. Not a great idea. Many years ago I learned the hard way never to hold a gun and ANYTHING ELSE in the same hand. Luckily that was also with a .22 (a target pistol with a match trigger, naturally).

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I often here how the "unloaded guns" are the ones that are involved in the accidental shootings..

I am going to have to borrow that one!! I would also have to add that it seems like the carrying of so many things was a big part of the problem. I know that ranges can be extremely safety oriented, have the slide foward, either on a flag safety or even just closed, empty would have helped avoid the issue. Glad to hear that he was ok.