Etiquette - Shooting someone else’s Target?

[Mack243]

So I was at a 200m range over the weekend with my freshly painted steels (the range is a BYOT)
During zeroing in a new scope the guy beside me proceeds to shoot at my targets, without first asking.
I held my tongue, so as not to offend.
But do enlighten me on your stance with range etiquette. Do you shoot at other’s targets?

 

[Stalker62]

Do you shoot at other’s targets?

 

[Klenchblaize]

It's OK provided they hit the 10 ring.

K

 

[Stalker62]

It's OK provided they hit the 10 ring.

This may explain why the bloke on my right always seems to win... where as I never hit my target...

 

[Tim.243]

So I was at a 200m range over the weekend with my freshly painted steels (the range is a BYOT)
During zeroing in a new scope the guy beside me proceeds to shoot at my targets, without first asking.
I held my tongue, so as not to offend.
But do enlighten me on your stance with range etiquette. Do you shoot at other’s targets?

Fair game is a mates pigeon........shoot his in return.

 

[Tim.243]

This may explain why the bloke on my right always seems to win... where as I never hit my target...

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If that is retirement then I will keep working

 

[Smellydog]

Saves on ammo

 

[sauer]

Next time jist say to him I’d prefer if you asked first !
Taking **** if you ask me

 

[tim@tcs]

I’d unload and then invite him to repair my targets

 

[timbrayford]

So I was at a 200m range over the weekend with my freshly painted steels (the range is a BYOT)
During zeroing in a new scope the guy beside me proceeds to shoot at my targets, without first asking.
I held my tongue, so as not to offend.
But do enlighten me on your stance with range etiquette. Do you shoot at other’s targets?

Absolutely not!

 

[Foxyboy43]

Hmmm.
Only done it once (to my knowledge) when I thought a good pal had finished and gone home leaving an old card in place. I was zeroing my new scope and put a lot of rounds down range after I thought everyone had gone - until he returned and we went to change targets - his was next to mine and had a postal competition sticker on it and was of course his best card! Still he took it well - though seeing a seventy-something shooter lying on the ground sobbing and pummelling it with his fists almost brought a tear to my eyes.
We are still pals but I will never put a card up when he is about, one can’t be too careful you know…

 

[palmer_mike]

At my current club (and 2 previous) it’s expressly forbidden to shoot a target not in your lane.

 

[Dalua]

At my current club (and 2 previous) it’s expressly forbidden to shoot a target not in your lane.

Not an uncommon range-order - which would preclude this behaviour.

If this is a pay-and-shoot range, the shooter might not be aware of such a range-order (assuming there is one) and/or might have assumed that OP's steels actually belonged to the range and so were fair game?

I think I'd have asked politely that he desist.

 

[tim@tcs]

I’ve enjoyed somebody else shooting on my target at Hythe during an APWT. I had to hide the mag of ammo I didn’t use until I could swap it with someone else! My first marksman score ever!

 

[nun_hunter]

If they were aware it was bring your own target then absolutely not and I'd be ****ed off. I definitely would have said something after I realised it wasn't a one shot accident across lanes.

 

[Jamouk]

Must admit used to shoot target a long time ago on a range where the target boards were held on by clothes pegs used to shoot with a good friend , could be 30 mins between change targets , I used to shoot his clothes pegs off with the first couple of shots used to drive him mad

 

[chriswjx]

If it was a BYOT range, I presume he'd have brought his own targets too...

 

[Pedro]

It only happened to me once. Many aeons ago when on the MOD range in South Wales whilst an army cadet shooting Lee Enfields. The lad next to me confessed by mistake he'd put 3 rounds into my target. So I felt I had to then put 3 into his. He was a rubbish shot but strangely he scored better than me that time for some reason. (Not that I'm anything special, but I think he was one of those that closed his eyes when he let one off).

 

[kenbro]

Tell him…actions have consequences.
Then really try to offend him.
Kb.

 

[Rusty Gate]

So I was at a 200m range over the weekend with my freshly painted steels (the range is a BYOT)
During zeroing in a new scope the guy beside me proceeds to shoot at my targets, without first asking.
I held my tongue, so as not to offend.
But do enlighten me on your stance with range etiquette. Do you shoot at other’s targets?

Let him see you walk out his front door when he comes home from work