Following on from the "Odd things you have found at the range" post.
I just wanted to share this with you.
Her in the UK my shooting club has the use of a 1200 yard range that is about a 45minute drive from my house and we get to use it a couple of times a month. It is in a rural location surrounded by farm land with woodland on one side but the only problem is that there is an ancient right of way (footpath)across the range at about the 300 yard point. Needless to say that we have to post sentries on both sides of the range with radios to halt shooting if anyone wants to cross , which is a rare occurrence. One particular day we were shooting from back @ 1000yards and the "Stop, Stop, Stop!" signal was squawked from the radios, we made safe our rifles and waited, only to see a man staggering across the range with a large roll of carpet on his shoulder! Apparently the sentry had seen him coming down the footpath and informed him there was live firing on the range ahead but the detail was due to finish in approx 5-10 minutes so why doesnt he have a breather from his heavy load (the sentry even offered to make him a coffee). This guy was in no mood for small talk and was very insistent that it was his right to carry on unhindered and the risk to his well-being did not even come into the equation, so off he trotted.
We just sat there totally bemused from what we were witnessing and wondered how far this chap had to go with his precious cargo!
Deer wandering across the range and Pheasants walking across the sand trap are a fairly regular occurrence but the man with the carpet was hopefully a one-off