Czechnologist
Concerned Citizen
- Mar 9, 2016
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I had one bad experience at HTC I've never had at any other range. I was shooting a Sig 226 22lr. There was a casing that failed to eject stuck in the chamber. The 226 breaks down in a heart beat and as soon as I started was stopped. Everything was pointed down range etc.. So I explained the problem and since they wouldn't let me take it down, asked it they had a 22 rod to poke out the brass from muzzle end. I litterally wait near 10 minutes why the RSO keeps asking for a rod via talkie. Finally it comes , and naturally he had to be the one to remove it, would not let me. Well, he was not a finesse kind of guy and he'd just push the rod in , so the rod would get stuck in the casing. So then when removing the rod, it would just jam the casing back in to the barrel. He then pulls out freaking 3 or 4 inch tacticool folding knife and is about to dig out the round through ejection port of a pricey gun, when all the F I need to do was break it down. I stopped that quickly, packed up and left. Broke the gun down in the lot, took the casing out and drove away..
Literally had the same thing happen at Cresap a couple of years ago. Had an FTF using WWB 230gr FMJ that got so jammed in the breech of my P220 that I couldn't get it out. I dropped the magazine and started to field strip it when one of the RSO's came over to help. He was very apologetic. He told me that the rules stated no field-stripping of guns on the firing line but that he could assist with clearing the jam. He got a cleaning rod and pushed the defective round out. I appreciated it. No big deal. I asked him why and he said that for safety and liability purposes, only RSO's were allowed to disassemble firearms on the line.