Sorry for a rant so early in the day but here it comes
I was at Little River shooting range on the weekend which if you're not familiar with it has a wide tin roof over it which is great at reflecting sound directly into your brain...
There was a cease fire while everyone's setting up and a pair of guys there waiting for the time to shoot. They were just shooting some rimfire stuff while I was on a .308
Anyway the ceasefire ends and I get back on my bench and let my first shot go.
In the mean time, these two idiots are just dawdling round, no ear muffs, oblivious to the fact that the range is hot again apparently.
After the first shot the guys got a bit of a start and are holding their ears and carrying on. One of them comes over to me and is asking "God, what are you firing in that thing".
I tell him it's just a regular old .308 and he's going on about am I shooting hot loads, or integrated brake or this or that, basically anything that would make it unusually noisy and my fault if I read the guy correctly...
Here's a wild idea... When your on a shooting range, put some *&#%$^ earmuffs on
Rant over. Sorry