Went to the range again today. As usual we moved one of the seven shooting benches to the side on the rifle range so we could shoot from positions. For the first hour we were the only ones there and my wife, son and I had a great time shooting. Next, a group of three friendly hunters came and were using two benches.
Then comes the grumpy old guy. He goes over to my wife and son who are shooting 22lr at 25 yards prone and tells them that if the benches were meant to be moved they would have been on wheels. I go over and he tells me we need to move our stuff and put the bench back loud enough for one of the hunter guys to come down and tell the guy that the club has no issue with us shooting prone there. Grumpy guy suggests we shoot from in front if the firing line!
Grumpy guy just keeps saying we need to put the bench back and I could tell he had all day so we put it back and moved our stuff to the side and shot from the side but that put us behind a little hill so we couldn't see our targets very well through the long grass on the side of the range. Son said he didn't want to shoot anymore (who can blame him ) but my wife and i continued to shoot. The grumpy guy sat next to us watching us most if the time. We were not sure why but would guess he was looking for safety issues but we are very safe with muzzle control and even use chamber flags when not shooting.
Later he came over and said that we should ask that they put a concrete pad in where we were shooting prone. I explained that the grass was fine and better than concrete if we could see.