Thread: How Could This Happen ?

I couldn't believe when I had to redo my FAL, after letting it lapse while abroad.

(Police also had no record of me ever having had it despite me still having the physical license, which isn't a good thing if they are running our register)

Of 13 or so people on the MSC course only 4 of us had ever handled a firearm, of those 4 only myself and 1 other had been hunting, or even shot more than a handful of times.

I have had a shot fired over me (ex Army so know what it sounds like when danger close), passed within a few feet max.

Yelled out and heard someone probably 40m away gap it real quick. Prick didn't even come check if he had hit me. Heavily poached area so not super surprised.

Another guy burst out maybe 5-10m from me while I was sitting eating lunch and sighted on me. That was pretty fucken terrifying, being ID'd through scope at that distance. At least he had the decency to stop and apologise and was actually a nice enough bloke.

Gave him a bit of a lash about using his scope to identify his target when I was clearly visible without it and he admitted hearing me rustling about and came out aiming at the sound.

Bumped into him at a shitty middle of nowhere Pub a few years later and he recognized me so it at least put the shits up him a bit.

Pretty sure there was supposed to have been a "practical handling" aspect introduced into the process already IIRC?