I'm running into a situation at my range that's begun to get on my nerves. My work hours have shifted recently and so I've been going during the late afternoon. Well these seem to be the nagging-guy-with-nothing-better-to-do hours.
Over the past few weeks I've repeatedly had my practice disrupted by people wanting to give me unsolicited advice on my technique a/o use of firearms. This is more than a few friendly tips or opinions, it's persistent and has become intrusive and distracting.
For instance, one guy recently commanded me to give up shooting DA w/ my revolver during rapid and sustained fire series at 25yds. I shoot about 96% in these stages. He did this while looking at a nearly clean target and then proceeded to tell me to focus on the sights and squeeze the trigger. Maybe he thought that I'd missed the target entirely
Another had been harassing me for using a sling rather than a bipod w/ my AR in prone. I shoot HP, during which I'm usually wearing a coat and am shooting a match AR service rifle. This guy apparently doesn't know anything about HP and dislikes like my coat because it doesn't present a 'tactical advantage'.
I don't even want to get into some of the comments that have been directed at me for shooting pistols one handed.
I suspect that some of what is motivating this is that I'm a bit younger than other people at the range during these hours. But these men aren't old, just a decade or so older than I am. The 'old' guys actually tend to know what they're talking about and don't harass me.
It just seems that, for whatever reason, the range gets a lot of blow-hards in the late afternoon.
moral of the story: bother to understand what someone is trying to accomplish before giving them advice - and be polite enough to listen to them when they try to explain why they're doing what they're doing.
Over the past few weeks I've repeatedly had my practice disrupted by people wanting to give me unsolicited advice on my technique a/o use of firearms. This is more than a few friendly tips or opinions, it's persistent and has become intrusive and distracting.
For instance, one guy recently commanded me to give up shooting DA w/ my revolver during rapid and sustained fire series at 25yds. I shoot about 96% in these stages. He did this while looking at a nearly clean target and then proceeded to tell me to focus on the sights and squeeze the trigger. Maybe he thought that I'd missed the target entirely
Another had been harassing me for using a sling rather than a bipod w/ my AR in prone. I shoot HP, during which I'm usually wearing a coat and am shooting a match AR service rifle. This guy apparently doesn't know anything about HP and dislikes like my coat because it doesn't present a 'tactical advantage'.
I don't even want to get into some of the comments that have been directed at me for shooting pistols one handed.
I suspect that some of what is motivating this is that I'm a bit younger than other people at the range during these hours. But these men aren't old, just a decade or so older than I am. The 'old' guys actually tend to know what they're talking about and don't harass me.
It just seems that, for whatever reason, the range gets a lot of blow-hards in the late afternoon.
moral of the story: bother to understand what someone is trying to accomplish before giving them advice - and be polite enough to listen to them when they try to explain why they're doing what they're doing.