Let me preface this by saying I am far, far from a good shooter. I don’t have natural talent or skill. I am however experienced enough to generally know when I shank a shot, especially if it’s an egregious flinch or over control or bad trigger yank etc.

So I’m at the range today banging away with my Glock 48. I dropped a couple shots low’ish, like 3 out of the 10 ring into the 9. I run 50 rounds roll my target in and there is a shot WAYYYY low on the paper, like the bottom. I am like 98% sure that one were’nt me.

By God I think somebody else managed to get a round in my target. Good lord man, you might need a new hobby.

I've seen that happen on agency quals before. Full-size silhouette targets set at least three feet apart and some dude still manages to shoot his neighbor's . And stupidly you can still pass as long as you got enough of your other shots on target.

This happened to me in rifle school during testing qual.

There was one round outside the target area. I tried to explain to the instructor that it wasn't mine and that there are the required number of shots inside the target area and that was all the rounds I had in the magazine.

He made me redo it. After I was done, the guy next to me started laughing and told everyone that errant round was his and he did it on purpose.

At what distance? Hitting the wrong target at 7 yards would be impressively poor shooting.

I had a guy set himself up next to me on the rifle range and just start popping rounds off without waiting for the next cold range to hang his targets. I thought it was odd until I looked at the targets I had hung during the last cold range.

I've been to public ranges and watched people hit the ground under a target placed 7 yards out 4-5 feet off the ground. Slow fire. That's scary as hell, and one of the the reasons that I try really hard not to go to public ranges. I'd happily offer to help them out if I was working there as a staff member, or if they asked, but as just another shooter on the line I don't really feel like it's my place to butt in and offer unsolicited advice as long as their muzzle is staying downrange. I just have a hard time getting comfortable shoting next to somebody like that because I figure if they're that bad at shooting then their gun handling is likely to go really wrong at some point, too.

When I've seen it happen at work it's typically at the 25 yard line, which is a little better, but still inexcusable.

I was a little over 10 yards. So not far. I mean maybe it was me but like I said I can usually tell if I shank a shot that will land far closer to my POA much less way the hell off the reservation. I mean I wasn’t just blasting bill drills as fast as possible or anything like that.

I've seen crossfiring but it was on a rifle range at 600-1000 yards. 10 yards would be pretty bad. I did see a fool intentionally fire at a 10 yard target two lanes over, blowing a divot out of the indoor range wall.

While on the rifle range for re-qualification several US Army soldiers (2 on each side of her) fired into my wife"s target.. She was the only female green suit soldier assigned to Ft.Greely, Alaska (1974) at that time.... There were 4 female medics that wore white uniforms and worked in the base medical dispencery at that time.... She ended up with about 10 more bullet holes in her target than she had been issued.... Range officer made her re-shoot to certify qualification and she was sucessfully qualified...... Her rank was Spec 5 / E-5 and her duty assignment was secretary for the post Education /Library Center..... My rank was Staff Sgt E-6 and was assigned to the cold weather test section (a section chief) where new equipment that had been submitted for testing in the field / actual soldiers hands / under severe Artic weather temperatures (-50*F and colder were not out of the realm) ( -82*F pure temp and -127*F chill factor was the most extreme that I witnessed).. These items had been cold chamber tested under labratory conditions... My job was to put it in the field and in the soldiers hands to see if it at least met and or exceeded expected performance... Some passed with flying colors and some failed miserably. ............................ drill sgt.

20 some years ago, Ohio had just passed a CCW law. It required a ton of steps to get approved. I was one of the early applicants, so I had to take the safety classes and range time in order to meet the requirements. During the range time on day 2, one of the individuals in the class did not pass. The requirements at the time, if I recall correctly, was 50 rounds on target (this may be wrong. You had to bring 100 rounds, then you were scored on NRA standards at the time). Target range was no more than 7 yards. I don't think I had ever practiced at such a close target! This guy could not hit enough rounds on paper with a revolver to pass! I kid you not. How do you miss at that range!!!! We are not talking bullseye! Just get it on paper. I was speechless after that day.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
After I was done, the guy next to me started laughing and told everyone that errant round was his and he did it on purpose.

What did he say after you punched that asshole in the nuts?

We had just gotten a new Chief. Came from outside the department. We wound up beside each other at qualification.

When they were scoring targets, I had a group you could cover with your fist.

His group was just a little bigger. A couple strayed into the 9 ring. But. Very good.

He looked at my target. Looked at his. Looked back at mine and said..

“Sergeant? That’s really good shooting…”

“Thanks boss…you too…”

He looked back at his target…

And I said “Hey boss? I’d like to apologize for a couple that got away from me and hit your target…”

“He smiled and said “Sergeant? You’re gonna go far in this department…”

I did this intentionally a few weeks ago.

There was a group of young guys at the bench next to me who got yelled at a few times for breaking the rules. Touching their stuff on ceasefires twice, once while I was checking my target and more or less directly downrange from them, and once for stepping forward of the line to chase brass. RO didn't notice that they had set up a target in my lane at the 50 yard line in addition to the one at the seven yard line (you're only supposed to set up one at this range and the slots for them are clearly numbered for the lane) and since I was sighting in some PCC's at 25, I was confronted with a choice: talk to the guys while they couldn't do anything about it and get to not shoot until the ceasefire, rat them out to the RO, or deal with it another way.

I didn't have a lot of time and wasn't feeling social, so I chose the comedy option of sighting in my PCC at 25 and then checking my zero at 50 using their generously supplied target. I was denied the satisfaction of them checking a very confusing target with a plethora of extra holes in it because on the next ceasefire, they simply left and didn't even bother pulling their targets. I cleaned up for them. I guess they didn't like getting "hassled" by the RO.

Childish and petty, I know. Save the typing chastising me. But it amused me nonetheless.

It's been several weeks now, but a similar experience. Range stalls close to one another, my target at 10 yards. And while reloading noticed my target moved. Huh, I thought. Then when I pulled it back in there was a hole way the heck in the lower left.

Maybe we’ve all had this experience. I was shooting my Mini-14 when all of a sudden noticed I was printing some nice 9mm holes. The guy next to me was shooting his 9mm, but strangely his target was untouched. Coincidence?

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Originally posted by Chowser:
After I was done, the guy next to me started laughing and told everyone that errant round was his and he did it on purpose.

Had that happened on a range I was running, it would have been considered a grossly irresponsible safety violation. He would have been gone then and not permitted back until accompanied by a supervisor—if at all.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
I've seen that happen on agency quals before. Full-size silhouette targets set at least three feet apart and some dude still manages to shoot his neighbor's . And stupidly you can still pass as long as you got enough of your other shots on target.

Exactly. Seen it myself more than once. Flinching/slapping so hard that one or two of their shots hit their neighbor's target (typically the far right side of their left hand neighbor's target when shooting at the 15 or 25 yard line).

Totally missed the "bad guy", hit the "little old lady" next to him, and yet still pass because of the overly generous scoring rules.

I put a round on another instructors target (handgun)from about five lanes away. She had carved out a spot the size of a soup can in the center of her target and I dropped one into the scoring guy in the corner.

Rosalie was perplexed when they ran all the targets into the firing line. Someone started laughing and then we all did when she chuckled. The chief scoring them gave her a “200” minus zero because I had actually hit the scoring target in the 5 ring.

She was a good sport about it and shot mine when she figured out it was me, during our M16 qual later after lunch.

I used to HATE going to the range with my agency. They made a lot of DEI hires, which mostly didn't affect me, but some of the females....I've had nearly twice the number of holes in my target as I had rounds, seen the range office nearly get shot (5.56 between the legs), and had a stupid, stupid woman manage to insert a magazine backwards and nearly get the round chambered.

I remember shooting a duty handgun match at a Company shooting contest, the range was outdoors.
I usually used to win these matches.
Shooting next to me was a shooter who was one of the better shooters.
I could see my target after about 50 rounds was just one large hole in the center, no way to count bullet holes.
When I went to retrieve my target I saw a bullet hole off the entire scoring target area low to the left corner of the paper.
I was stunned about the miss. I still believe that the guy next to me shot that hole to sink my chances of winning.
That one shot cost me 1st place.

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Originally posted by Loswsmith:
What did he say after you punched that asshole in the nuts?

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Had that happened on a range I was running, it would have been considered a grossly irresponsible safety violation. He would have been gone then and not permitted back until accompanied by a supervisor—if at all.

It was a guy from a neighboring PD, he was just paying me back. During one of the drills, when he went to kneeling to reload and I had to move up to cover him, I let go a good long fart while he was kneeling to reload.