Apparently my rifle is too loud??

[runamuk]

Muzzle blast, hot brass down your shirt....it just doesn't get any better    a day at the range....actually sounds real good right now

It was a great day at the range. I figure the anti-muzzle blast crowd would have appreciated a little blast. It was muggy under that cover. A little breeze seemed to help.

The thing that amazed me was the guys shooting the AR's and the 10/22's just raining emptys on the folks next to them. Loading mags underneath giant signs that say "Load one round at a time" then just banging away slinging brass all over the guy sitting next to them.

every range ive been to never had that rule. just no rapid fire being at least 1 sec per round

I hate that rule they have there. Keeps me from taking my 10/22 there. Usually the rangemaster is very controlling...that was not the case yesterday and there was even 2 rangemasters working yesterday.

At the Evergreen range we shoot pistol in the same area as rifle...or did when I was going there so the whole rapid fire thing thats a new one to me  .....3 magazines 10 rounds each bang bang bang bang bang bang.......stopped and reloaded after blasting through all 3 or at one time I would have the 357 so go through 6 in it and a magazine in the 10/22....yeah I had some fun days at the range...no one running down range when hot no one really complaining about brakes etc.....was always a pretty decent crowd down there and the rangemaster was a good guy 

was where i learned a pushup bra and low cut shirt is a painful idea and not good rangewear....hot brass dance for sure 

[huntitup]

I have break on my 338 RUM that is loud but when the momment of truth comes you or anybody next to you will never notice

[Special T]

My father in law belongs to a range down near battle ground. At the end of each table the have a 4x8 sheet of plywood hanging with shag carpet on either side. Its all puke green and blue if i remember correctly. I think it absorbs a TON of noise and eliminates the hassle of being next to some one with a muzzle brake. I surprised to hear the Kenmore doesn't have such an easy inexpensive fix. 

[Buckmark]

My father in law belongs to a range down near battle ground. At the end of each table the have a 4x8 sheet of plywood hanging with shag carpet on either side. Its all puke green and blue if i remember correctly. I think it absorbs a TON of noise and eliminates the hassle of being next to some one with a muzzle brake. I surprised to hear the Kenmore doesn't have such an easy inexpensive fix. 

No room at kenmore between benches, heck they would squeeze a few more in there if they though they could...
I think i need a 10/22 with a muzzle brake and a sissy pad on it... 

[thinkingman]

I have break on my 338 RUM that is loud but when the momment of truth comes you or anybody next to you will never notice

I have a good friend with a Weatherby 30-378 with a brake.
We elk hunted Packwood a few years ago and I mentioned I hoped to not be anywhere close to him if he touched one off.
Two years ago he got an elk and a mule deer...two shots=30% hearing loss.
Permanently.
And that was in open country.
Braked rifles under the cover of a range are brutal.
If I'm there with my 7yr old son, we leave until the boomers stop.

[timberghost72]

At the Kenmore range they have 2'X2' plywood boards that you can put up so your semiauto brass won't hit the guy next to you. I was there last Thursday night and the guy next to me was shooting his AR and the board worked nicely. Only one round got by it and hit me. He actually apologized about that.

I don't mind the muzzle blasts to bad on the larger rifles or braked rifles too much. I just time my shots between them. What I find more annoying is the 18 to 20 something year old kids. When I was there last Thursday there were a group of them making a ton of racket, yelling crap and just acting like idiots. That was much more distracting than big rifles. I usually go down there after work at around 4:00 and there are never more than 5 people. I won't ever go there on the weekends. I'll go to the one on Ebey Island on the weekends.

[Biggerhammer]

I waited till the guy next to me shot before I shot. He was joking around with me about it. Him and his .243

Anyway...I've been shooting that thing at the range for 3 years or so now with no complaints. Maybe I was on borrowed time.
 

You wont  have to worry about any complaining untill next hunting season, right now your just dealing with the sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo and cal a 8" group @ 100 yards , good to go.

You want some entertainment! Grab some popcorn and a chair, spend a couple hours watching most of the clowns that show up to zero their rifles 5 days or so before the deer opener at the # No 2 Canyon Gun Club in Wenatchee. I have seen it all, scope cuts, 7mm Magnum fired through a .300 Win Mag, rifles dropped of benches. IT GREAT! the rest of the year I pretty much have the range to myself during the week days.

[haugenna]

I always wear muffs on plugs. 

[87Ford]

sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo

The last group I shot at a hudred yards with "factory" cartridges out of my 270 wsm measured .865"  That's good to go for me...  Nothing wrong with factory fodder.

Braked rifles under the cover of a range are brutal.
If I'm there with my 7yr old son, we leave until the boomers stop.

I don't blame you for leaving with your young son.  I hate the braked rifles.  I do expect it though and put up with it.  It is a gun range after all.

[Biggerhammer]

sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo

The last group I shot at a hudred yards with "factory" cartridges out of my 270 wsm measured .865"  That's good to go for me...  Nothing wrong with factory fodder.

Braked rifles under the cover of a range are brutal.
If I'm there with my 7yr old son, we leave until the boomers stop.

I don't blame you for leaving with your young son.  I hate the braked rifles.  I do expect it though and put up with it.  It is a gun range after all.

You have but two choices:

Put up with it.

Leave.

I'll enjoy my brakes, you enjoy your factory ammo.

[FC]

sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo

The last group I shot at a hudred yards with "factory" cartridges out of my 270 wsm measured .865"  That's good to go for me...  Nothing wrong with factory fodder.

Braked rifles under the cover of a range are brutal.
If I'm there with my 7yr old son, we leave until the boomers stop.

I don't blame you for leaving with your young son.  I hate the braked rifles.  I do expect it though and put up with it.  It is a gun range after all.

You have but two choices:

Put up with it.

Leave.

I'll enjoy my brakes, you enjoy your factory ammo.

Informal ranges are always great, you get to give the guys shooting brakes a taste of their own medicine and scoot back about 5 feet behind the firing line before you start shooting. 

The entire premise of this thread is so condescending it's pathetic. Brakes are obnoxious to all except the one shooting them, the smack talking about ammo preference or safe queens is dumb too. If it makes some people feel superior that they load their own ammo then hooray for them, some of us have other hobbies besides shooting a gun that is too big for us (requiring a brake ) and trying to squeak out that last thousandth of an inch of group size. 

[87Ford]

sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo

I find it amusing that you feel "sissys"(sp) shoot factory ammo, yet you apparently have a brake on more than one of your rifles.  So, let me get this straight; sissies shoot factory ammo and "tough guys" need a muzzle brake...lol.    

[Biggerhammer]

sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo

I find it amusing that you feel "sissys"(sp) shoot factory ammo, yet you apparently have a brake on more than one of your rifles.  So, let me get this straight; sissies shoot factory ammo and "tough guys" need a muzzle brake...lol.

Give it some more years and by chance you may advance in the firearm/ reloading world and see the light untill then. I suggest you plug up and put on muffs, check and see if you have a pair  because my muzzle brakes on super magnums will always be there. 

[FC]

Too good not to sig.

[thinkingman]

sissys and their safe queens that show up with their factory ammo

I find it amusing that you feel "sissys"(sp) shoot factory ammo, yet you apparently have a brake on more than one of your rifles.  So, let me get this straight; sissies shoot factory ammo and "tough guys" need a muzzle brake...lol.

Give it some more years and by chance you may advance in the firearm/ reloading world and see the light untill then. I suggest you plug up and put on muffs, check and see if you have a pair  because my muzzle brakes on super magnums will always be there. 

Biggerhammer,
If I didn't know better, I'd say you are BigStick signing in under a different ISP.
If you want to manup, I'll offer you a few rounds of my handloaded 300wsm 200gr Partitions...you can get nice and comfy behind my 6.5lb Tikka, I'll take off the Limbsaver for you to enjoy the full effect.
Muzzle brakes?...pulleeeeze....Grow a pair.
And leave your hearing protection behind.