If you don't have to belong to a gun club to shoot, consider yourself very lucky.
I have belonged to a nice gun club for many years, but every now and then, stupidity rears its stupid head.
I brought my H&K P7 to the range today, just to test function, not necessarily accuracy. But, a group of members had set up a bowling pin shoot practice session at the pistol range, and also commandeered the adjacent 100 yd range. It should have been posted on the website and every member should have been notified of the range closure. Never happened. Anyhoo, they said that I, and another member, could use the 200 yd range. OK, what the heck. The other shooter had an M1 carbine and I had the 9mm. He set up a target at 200 yds, and I only wanted to shoot at the berm (his M1 was a 9mm).
We were firing away, my P7 was flawless, then one of the guys from the bowling pin group drove over and told me I couldn't shoot the 9mm at the 200 yd range. I said I was shooting at the berm and he said - he really said - "can those bullets reach that far? I don't think they can." We thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. He said, "Let me see you hit it." What the heck - I fired off six shots and made a smiley face in the dirt - well, not really, but I made a relatively tight group in the dirt. He said, "You only got half of them in the berm." He had coke bottle glasses.
Can you imagine not knowing that a 9mm can hit a berm at 200 yds, while claiming to be a gun person?
Anyways, I ran it by the club president and he said he would have told the guy to go poop in his hat, and thanked me for keeping it calm.