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Wahooo .... quality instructors they seem to have at that Moscow's range...
Next stag-do I might actually go ten pin bowling

After watching the video what amazes me is no one seems to show any concern for the victim, the instructor just wanders off, the child's mother walks off and the child just walks to his mother and they both walk off, surely the first Thing would have been to ensure the gun is now safe and then rush to the victim to see if anything could be done, there seems to be more than meets the eye on this one.

Primer wrote:After watching the video what amazes me is no one seems to show any concern for the victim, the instructor just wanders off, the child's mother walks off and the child just walks to his mother and they both walk off, surely the first Thing would have been to ensure the gun is now safe and then rush to the victim to see if anything could be done, there seems to be more than meets the eye on this one.

Nope, not really a surprise. There are some places in the world, regardless of their appearance as modern, progressive, polite societies, where really, deep down, life is still very, very cheap......

Sad to say but Sim is right about life in Ruskieland.. And not every country is so obsessed with range safety as we are.

Familiarity - or stupidity - breeding contempt?-

Lack of safety procedures in Russia..I'm shocked..

Having worked for a UK based, Russian Civil Aviation Company in the past, (with my photographers hat on) I would agree with the general shocking Russian cavalier attitude to safety, more interested in smoking and drinking than basic safety procedures with everything they do...........

Luckily for everyone involved, the UK CAA, Customs and the Canadian Bombardier test Pilot involved did not share the "Vodka shrug, you worry too much" attitude to airworthiness to say the very least!!!

I could tell you stories about this Russian business that would truly shock you.....very odd bunch of people.

The lesson is.....NEVER WORK FOR RUSSIAN COMPANIES!!

huntervixen wrote: The lesson is.....NEVER WORK FOR RUSSIAN COMPANIES!!

Never a truer word spoken!
The one that gets me wary is when a sentence is finished with.....
"My friend"
It invariably means "I am going to try and rip you off at every conceivable opportunity"