I know what you mean... I went to the range today as a personal birthday present. I typically bring some other folks with me because I love to spread the enjoyment of firearms and the company of fellow shooters. But today, I wanted to sight in my AR and enjoy time alone with my baby.Further, I'm not the one offering my unwelcome and inaccurate opinions at the range, I leave that to others.
I did not seek out opinions of any kind, but I still got 6 or 7 people that walk over and ask the same questions with the same reponses.I get sick of the same tall-tales... for instance, one individual and his buddy stood behind me while I shot, which made me uncomfortable. I tried to ignore it. I shoot a few times and get up to 'rest.' He says "You're pretty good with that thing." I say "Thanks... I like it, it does what I need it to." He than says "Just don't take it to war, it don't kill nothin'.
-- I was nice. I didn't say anything.I could not agree more. My goal is to get land soon! I was only at the range today for about 2 hours... I heard about 5 muzzle direction warnings over the intercom and 1 escort off the range for rapid fire. Public ranges can be scary sometimes.Sapper, the best answer I can give is that you should save some of your gun money and find yourself 20 acres or so out in the country where you can set up a private range.