I wonder what funny thoughts people have had about my shooting when I've been working on something at the range. I'm sure when I'm practicing weak-hand-only shooting, the person next to me (who can only see my target, not me) is wondering why I'm so bad. I'm sure, when I have worked on raw trigger speed or been experimenting with how different grip pressure or grip arrangement impacts sight tracking, somebody listening and looking at the target would think "that guy is shooting way too fast... what a waste of ammo." I'm sure that, when I come in to the range for the third time in a day and put two quick magazines (perhaps without even running a target downrange) through the gun then leave, someone who wasn't there for my first two visits may wonder what I think I'm accomplishing by quickly emptying two mags into the backstop... without knowing that I'm just completing a function check after some repair or part replacement or ammo change.
Without knowing what and why someone is doing what they're doing at the range, it's pretty much impossible for me to know whether their approach is sensible or foolish (barring readily-apparent safety issues). Of course, I don't know why I'd even want to try to judge. I'm more of a live-and-let-live guy, I guess.
Maybe my attitude comes from years of being a golf nut before I got into shooting. I naturally hit a pretty high ball in golf and tend to turn it left.... something that a lot of not-great golfers simply cannot do. Many is the time I would be at the range and working on trying to hit the ball low or get it to move right by a controlled amount and, against my wishes, revert to my usual shot.... and get some verbal encouragement from the guy (never a gal... always a guy) in the stall next to me. "There you go, that was a good one! Keep it up, you'll get there!" Of course, I'm sitting there fuming and cursing under my breath because I was trying to do precisely the opposite. That has made me very wary of "judging" how others are doing when I don't know what they are trying to do.