Millcreek Rifle Club

Member Safety Survey Results - Most common safety issues

“Other” responses in the previous two charts included:

Most violated rules:

• Actions not open while people are down range, not waiting for our seasoned member not making it back before turning the warning lights off
• Not getting behind red line during cease fire. Not leaving slide open at cease fire.
• Lack of communication at a pistol range
• Non-use/improper use of flags, especially on high power range.
• At one time automatic fire was against rules on all property
• Not verifying that all shooters on the line are aware that range is going cold. I was shooting at 300 yard steel targets when someone on the furtherest side of the range wanted to go down range, I was still shooting when the alarm went off. When I looked up, to verify that it was our range going cold, I still had my rifle with a round in it and the person at the other end was already walking down range.
• Automatic fire; exploded firearm pieces with blood trail
• Person approached me while carrying his pistol, even though it was empty and locked open I did not know that.
• Unsafe handling of a handgun.
• Full auto at 25 yard range

Most noted safety concerns:

• Boyfriends with girlfriends on the range handling firearms with others downrange and unwilling to acknowledge they were not behaving in a safe manner. Patrons were 100% wrong but unwilling to accept input.
• either automatic or bump stock fire on the far west ranges (are cameras present there)
• An adult and a teenager arrived on 100 yard rifle range, said nothing to anybody, activated siren/lights while other shooters were in the middle of strings of fire, and immediately walked downrange to hang targets without giving anybody a chance to make their weapons safe. Once these individuals started shooting, they were less than cooperative with allowing anybody else to go downrange to change or remove targets.
• Guy tail gated me in and then flipped me off
• Someone actually began firing while I was downrange on the 25 north range. I had all warning signs and sounds in place.
• I had a guy try to proceed down range while we were shooting. No warning or communication.
• Using unapproved target frames
• Shooter practicing on 25 yd line at 10-15 yards and not willing to let others shoot at 25
• Not realizing someone was still down range
• Possible "switch" on a pistol auto fire on non LE Range