Quick Range Etiquette Question.

[jdewolf]

There are a lot of these "noise" threads lately. It is nice to see new people taking an interest in shooting, but GUNS ARE LOUD. If the noise freaks someone out... maybe shooting isn't for them. I have noticed that is is a little harder to concentrate on my target when someone is shooting a rifle or a magnum next to me, but they have every right to shoot a gun that is louder than mine.
- Guy shooting 357 upset with guy shooting 308.
- Guy shooting 9mm upset with guy shooting 357.
- Guy shooting 22 upset with guy shooting 9mm.
Where do you draw the line on what's appropriate... it's all relative.

True at some point a line must be drawn. What is that line and where should it be drawn? No clue. Just sucks for her that they were firing handgun & rifles, and thus were on the rifle side. Personally for a new shooter I wouldn't subject them to that. Although I did make that mistake with my sister... so there is a lesson to be learned from all this.

Your right, we should make silencers legal again

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[SJgunguy24]

Your at a shooting range, guess what happens at a shooting range?

Deal with it and be prepared for what happens, guns = loud noise.

[NorCalRedneck]

I was at an outdoor range a couple years ago sighting in my .22 and here comes a guy next to me with a .460 Weatherby. Every time he fired that thing it made me jump. It wasn't like he was popping off a round every second so it didn't bother me THAT much but hey I'm a GUN range and there are going to be loud noises. Deal with it.

[41M]

The ranges I go to have improved their rental eyes and ears. I seen new shooters using rental ears, some of which are very cheap models, that they do not have adjusted properly or a thick earpiece on rental eyes cause the hearing protection to sit far enough off a shooters head to not function as well as they should. A new shooter may not even realize that their equipment is not working as intended and in an indoor range the noise can really up their anxiety. I have extra quality ears and eyes that I take whenever I take a new shooter, I even have some eye protection sized for smaller shooters. I also encourage new shooters to use plugs and muff type hearing protection together. In general it sounds like you represented our sport well.

[SFgiants105]

Lol. Some people just scare easy.

They were lucky they don't go to indoor ranges that allow .50 BMG.

My friend was shooting his Glock one lane over from a guy with a Barrett who just so happenned to time his shots with my friend's. The shockwave from the muzzle brake literally shook the safety glasses! lol.