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American Boy With a Gun wrote:
How am i supposed to set up targets without bullets flying in my general direction?....im new to this so im just trying to make sure i dont look like a complete moron
We all end up looking like a complete moron sooner or later in life.... it is just part of the human condition.
Ranges that require people set up targets by walking downrange will have someone call a "cease fire" during a lull in the shooting and declare to everyone they are "going downrange".
A wise person makes completely sure everyone on the firing line stops firing/loading/messing with their guns.... and then, usually, several folks go downrange at the same time to change targets.
When everyone gets back to the firing line .... shooting resumes.
A polite person waits for a lull in the shooting... a jerk (and you WILL see one or more of them sooner or later) will just holler "going downrange" and then take off walking downrange without waiting to see if people quit shooting. That same jerk will be highly pissed if someone didn't hear them and fires a round before seeing said jerk walking....... and it sometimes is easy to not hear with ear muffs and a large firing line so listen for that "cease fire" call carefully.
Oh yeah, jerks who just take off walking downrange are dangerous arseholes!!!!!