My range has specific rules. No 50 BMG or similar.
Similar would be like a 416 Barrett. It's a private range and the guys who show up are enthusiasts and wear proper hearing protection.
Some people find ARs offensive. Some people find anything over 308 offensive. If loud noises bother you then either spend the $$ on good hearing protection or move to the desert. Since when do shooters start spouting off about noise levels that offend them!!?? It is a loud sport.
Sounds like a water skier complaining about getting wet!

Dean, you are making too much sense and that is not allowed here! The topic is etiquette, and that concept seems to be foreign to many here.

My youngest son (32) shoots a Bushmaster M4.version.with a muzzle device. The flash suppeseor/muzzle break is by far the loadest, most obnoxious brake I've ever encountered. I refuse to let him shoot with in 2 or 3 be benches from me. He just delights in my pain and aggravation.

Samuel,
Yes sir, I been there and done that, hearing aids are about as horrible as going deaf, all they ever did for me is make things louder and I still couldn't hear conversation..Hell, ask anyone here that knows me, I use a lot of whats in my conversation..My wife sez no hearing devise will work in the dresser draw.

I actually have grown to like my deafness, its a quite mild world..

As to etiquete on the range, one should take into consideration of others, but others should have since enough to be wearing shooting protection on the range, if not they should be stringhaultered and gilflurted! In my long years at the range, I have never failed to wear my ear protection and have never pissed anyone off that I know of and the only thing I ever blew off the table belonged to me.

I can't imagine wearing any kind of ear protection when hunting under the conditions I normally hunt under, in the Tanzania heat it would kill me and those that allow voice on the range will not allow you to hear a cape buff or Lion comeing out of the bush or even an elephant that can run through the thickest of stuff and make nary a sound until its too late.

I have been gifted with many hearing devises to test in the African heat and the Idaho snow and Ice, and not one of them stayed on top for more than an hour or two then they went to the pocket or truck, walking with that deadness of sound works on your equalibreum and your ability to maneuver or just walk for that matter. Of course if your sitting in a deer blind in So. Texas in the winter, then fine, they probably work fine there.

To each his own, but I just can't see it.

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Originally posted by ALF:

So it's "bad etiquette" to shoot braked guns at a range / What about short barrelled rifles on a range ? what about a large bore revolver or perhaps a large bore rifle with a big muzzle blast ? Brakes are bad etiquette ??? loud guns are bad etiquette ?

So now we get pissed with each other for shooting guns at a range ? they all make noise / some more than others !

Maybe we should have noise police at the range. Only rifles and guns with X or Y amount of decibels allowed

Exactly my thoughts. This is one of the most obnoxious threads I've seen on any gun forum and it's a sad day when people start complaining about noise in a gun range. Where does it stop? Next it's going to be the smell of powder, wind taking the smoke to the person next to you, the "annoying" people ejecting brass instead of slowly extracting it into their hands, people who don't fire at equal intervals so you feel nervous waiting for their next shot and can't concentrate? I can go on with a thousand fictitious reasons to complain, but you probably got my drift.

+1 for Brian above. Was this about "range etiquette" or whether "which muzzle brakes are bad"?

I do have a muzzle brake on my .340 Weatherby, it is the only braked rifle that I shoot, and when I do, I set up away from others at the range. Maybe I should rechamber it for 300 Blackout. Oh wait, that's a different thread...