All,
I thought I would share a story of what happened over the weekend. I'll be leaving for the Midwest in another week for some whitetail hunting and needed to sight in the rifle so I went to the range in south San Jose. I can't recall the name but I believe it used to be run by the county. Anyway, on the way in I see a small boar milling around at the tee in the road before you enter the range. Interesting because it was around 10:00 AM. So, I get to my bench and fire my first three rounds and make the neccessary adjustments to dial the 7MM in at 100yds. Next shot was in the X and the following two where touching each other just above the X. Cool...guns all ready to go. I get up and then I hear someone say "look at the pig above the range" I look up and see the pig walking outside the 100 yard target range along a path and then I hear BOOM!!!! The Pig takes a few steps and down he goes! WHAT AN IDIOT!!! The staff proceeds to shut down the range and kept everyone in the rifle section. Since knowone wanted to speak up they brought in a park ranger. After he's speach and scare tactics with no response they brought in a county sheriff along with another park ranger. They described the sheriff as an expert in determining bullet holes and the such (CSI stuff) We waited another 10 or 15 minutes while they got everyone's address, drivers license, make and model of firearm along with the serial numbers. Part of the threat was to confiscate everyone's gun and run ballistic test to determine who done it. They said this would take around 3 months so you could see that this made a few of the people upset to say the least. A few minutes later a gentelman walks to the booth an proceeds to talk to the law enforcement officers and about ten minutes after that they came out and let us go. Not sure if there going to confiscate the weapon but I wish they would! I wonder what this is going to cost him??
On the way out I wanted to see if the pig he shot was the same one I saw earlier and it was. : (
I thought I would share a story of what happened over the weekend. I'll be leaving for the Midwest in another week for some whitetail hunting and needed to sight in the rifle so I went to the range in south San Jose. I can't recall the name but I believe it used to be run by the county. Anyway, on the way in I see a small boar milling around at the tee in the road before you enter the range. Interesting because it was around 10:00 AM. So, I get to my bench and fire my first three rounds and make the neccessary adjustments to dial the 7MM in at 100yds. Next shot was in the X and the following two where touching each other just above the X. Cool...guns all ready to go. I get up and then I hear someone say "look at the pig above the range" I look up and see the pig walking outside the 100 yard target range along a path and then I hear BOOM!!!! The Pig takes a few steps and down he goes! WHAT AN IDIOT!!! The staff proceeds to shut down the range and kept everyone in the rifle section. Since knowone wanted to speak up they brought in a park ranger. After he's speach and scare tactics with no response they brought in a county sheriff along with another park ranger. They described the sheriff as an expert in determining bullet holes and the such (CSI stuff) We waited another 10 or 15 minutes while they got everyone's address, drivers license, make and model of firearm along with the serial numbers. Part of the threat was to confiscate everyone's gun and run ballistic test to determine who done it. They said this would take around 3 months so you could see that this made a few of the people upset to say the least. A few minutes later a gentelman walks to the booth an proceeds to talk to the law enforcement officers and about ten minutes after that they came out and let us go. Not sure if there going to confiscate the weapon but I wish they would! I wonder what this is going to cost him??
On the way out I wanted to see if the pig he shot was the same one I saw earlier and it was. : (
