We do a lot of product testing at recreational and private shooting ranges for our speed loaders and magazine loaders. We believe that any time you go to the shooting range, you need to put your big kid shorts on and take responsibility for your actions, acknowledging and following range etiquette and safety. Today we’re compiling a few of the biggest shooting range mistakes and etiquette faux pas that we see.
- Don’t do the side slide swipe! What is this? The Side Slide Swipe happens when a shooter tries to rack the slide of a semi-automatic pistol. The natural motion when facing your target at the range to rack a slide is to point the gun to the left, grasp the slide with your left hand, and rack, right? The only real problem with this method is that your gun is pointed directly at all the shooters to the left of you.
- Don’t let that itchy magnet finger get in the way, either. Apparently the best way to scratch your index finger while at the range is to rub it around the inside of the trigger guard. We know that index finger trouble is hard-wired into our human DNA because we see it all the time – how many people have you seen picking their nose at red lights?
- Don’t be a back seat shooter. These are the ones that hang back too far behind the shooting line so that the muzzles of their various firearms are actually behind other shooters on either side of them.
