Some are just too stupid to be allowed to shoot a firearm. I was at the range yesterday. The guy next to me was complaining that his Weatherby wasn't shooting as well as it had in the past. I looked at his case and he had shot a full box of 300 Win Mags in his 300 Weatherby. I pointed this out and his comment was they are both 300 mags and the 300 Wmag were a lot cheaper. After about 5 minutes of not getting him to understand I called the range officer over. He failed as well. But, he did require him to stop shooting.

I can see how a newbie might have difficulty with this type of thing, I guess the 300win could be mistaken for 300 mag ammo of winchester manufacture. But the inability or unwillingness to learn and understand definitely is reason to keep him from shooting. I can't imagine how frustrating it must have been explaining it and him just not letting it through his thick skull. Good thing you have a range master to kick the person out. was the guy pretty mad when he was told he couldn't shoot?

Red

Some penny from Italy.....
First (lightly bloody):
load a 6.5x55 with the correct weigh of Norma 204 using instead Norma 201 powder. Rifle a C.Gustav. Over 6000 atm developped. Result the area where serial numer is printed on action, teared from it and stopped in the mouth of the shooter and reloader. Some tooth lost. Any other damage for him and for the next people. It was his first reloaded cartridge. He confused the box of 201 with the box of 204.

Second (bloody):
Bench rest rifle, a fat cartridge that do not enter in the chamber.
If the action do not close, thought the genius, some hammer hit can help. At the second or third hit the event: the rifle shooted, the not closed breechlock rear shooted crushed four fingers, avoided a people for few inches and stopped in a wall 20 meters far from the bench. This genius worked to maintain his gun licence, and few years later killed a man with an "unloaded" pistol. He finally lost the licence and died some years later.

Third (not bloody): a without powder cartrige shoouted, a bullet in a Marlin L.A. 44 magnum barrel and another shooted as nothing has been happened. Result: only a destroyed lever action for overpressure, and the genius trying to claim a construction problem.

Fourth (not bloody): a rifle leaved close on the bench, to change the target, a donkey shooter. Getting back repeated several times that he do not understand why only 5 holes on target with 6 shots.
The sixth has been shooted in the roof of the shooting line. We had to repair it to avoid to shoot under the rain . He still do not admit his error.
The range officers are like dobermann with him.

bye

That patch is actually a patch. It is held into this person's ceiling with a piece of wire that goes through the hole in the plaster.
JCN