For all:
Wow, I didn't expect this thread to generate such response, but as we all know safety at the range is of paramount importance to all of us.
I am always conflicted to criticize anyone's competency or performance at the range as I have not been shooting all that long, despite my moderately advanced 36 years. I'm sure that at some point in my first range outings I was the bumbling idiot standing on the line. I was fortunate to have some good folks help me out at the range and was lucky enough to take a great pasic pistol class through a local IWLA chapter.
It's a fine line between holding the mark on safety and being a snob who believes that "since you don't behave and do things the way I do....you're wrong".
For the record, there were lots of other rentals shooting that day. There were boyfriend/girlfriend combos, 20 somethings out for some "guy time", some solo ladies trying guns on for size. There were all things they could have done better (like the one boyfriend who decided to introduce his GF to shooting with a model 1911
) but they were not behaving.....oddly, shall I say.
I do not want to become a gun bigot who believes that no one but me is as qualified to shoot and I agree that our sport should be open to all.
I posted this experience to sound out our cumulative experience and, by golly, it's working