Last Friday I was doing my usual "rest and relaxation" at the gun club range. Had a target out at 200 yards and was working on some loads to get nice tight 1/2" groups. After a brief break (to BS with some other shooters) I looked back through my scope and noticed a big fat robin looking for worms on the ground in front of my target.

I figured he'd fly away after my first shot over his head. Nope, I was wrong. Just went about his business as if nothing happened. I kept shooting.

After several rounds apparently the robin had his fill of worms so he flew up to the top of the post supporting the "target boards". He sat there within a foot of the target I was shooting at, literally 12" from the target dot itself.

My "evil angel" was saying "DO IT! Just move the cross hairs and pull the trigger. You can always claim that it was an errant round". On my other shoulder my "good angel" was saying, "HEY! It's a robin and you don't shoot those. Now if it was a Starlng or Crow, you'll be forgiven" Then I realized that "Bad Angel or Good", I'd get a lifetime ban if I shot the bird, regardless of type.

Now I'm thinking of putting some oil from a Sardine can on my targets. So far nobody gives a crap if we shoot at flies that stop to feed. Got a beetle last year and nobody complained.

Resisting temptation is a bitch.

Think that's tough?
I was at a 50 cal, 650 yard shoot and a herd of deer, with many bucks, casually walked into the middle of the range to graze.
They never even flinched.

Lol...well that brings to mind a funny range story...

In the mid 90s my USMC unit got its first ground mount 240G machineguns. We took them to a range on base and set up 4 guns on the berm. We were shooting at assorted targets out to about 500-600m when a buck appeared at the treeline to the left, my guess was at about 800m. He started to saunter across the back of the range from left to right, not in any big hurry.

In a booming voice, aided by a megaphone, the RSO (range safety officer) bellowed, "DO NOT SHOOT THE DEER."

Junior enlisted Marines, in general, will take the opportunity to do something crazy even if it means an ass chewing later. So there were 4 tracer streams that immediately converged on the deer. That little North Carolina buck (deer are really small down South compared to here) woke up to the fact that he was in trouble and sprinted for the far right side of the range. No one hit him...anyone who's shot machineguns a bit knows it's very tough to hit a moving dog-sized target at 800+m so we weren't too surprised. We must have poured 200-300 rounds at him.

No one got their ass chewed, even the RSO thought it was pretty funny, he only belted out the warning to cover his ass in front of the brass on hand.

Lol. Military funnies.

Deer walk out onto the rifle range at RFGC frequently. Damn things are not concerned at all. I went out to shoo a couple of them off and the Buck dropped his head on me....Didn't charge, but it was a warning.
I went back to my Bench and considered planting a 175 SMK in his ear to adjust his attitude....but that "Ban and member revocation" thing stopped me.

No way you could have claimed that was an errant round deadshot....they know how you shoot, you would have been "busted".

Deer walked on to the upper berm of the lower pit at Greenwater pits...

We almost accidentally shot it and it didn't care that bullets were flying around it... and it just calmly walked away

Hunting fail- deer licks the barrel of the gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_sLF3OBtc8

We were out shooting at my cousin's farm in Deer Park last weekend. They have a steel target range set up going out to 100yd. As we're blasting the targets, a rabbit comes hauling ass out of the range, bullets whizzing right over its head. Apparently this is their "adopted" rabbit that just started showing up and hanging out, eating whatever they feed it, and doesn't run away when everyone shoots. It stopped right in front of our bench, sat there as we kept shooting, and then casually took off,.

About ten years ago I was working in Phoenix and got into shooting bows again. I picked up a nice bow and headed out to Ben Avery to play around. I ended up meeting a guy that shoots a lot of FITA competitions and was pretty impressed with the kind of shots they can make. We are talking shooting quarters at 90 meters. I was spotting for him and he was teaching me a few things and there was only one other guy out there. All of a sudden a ground squirrel starts running across the burm about ten feet behind the target, without hesitating the guy says "watch this" and knocks the squirrel off the burm, while it was running!! The other guy puts his stuff down and a few minutes later he walks over to us. He says, damn, that was the most impressive shot I have ever seen, here is your ticket. Turns out he was a Game Warden that was out practicing. That little trick cost the guy 300 bucks. I don't remember what the ticket was for, but something about a license and out of season for the particular breed yada yada yada.

Setting on a ridge during Muzzle loading elk season in Teanaway, watching a 6 point laying in the snow 30 yards away. I finally threw snow balls at him to get him to move. It was Cow, Calf and spike only area. Talk about an exercise in self control!!!!!!