Harry,
You are doing their club no great service.
Running shoots is the entertainment business. Nothing more.
For the club to have a successful shoot, they have to cast the broadest net. And that means that all are welcome.
Once the shoot starts to pick teams and take sides on politics or religion or money or any number of other things, all that does is make the potential catch of the net smaller.
So which is it you want? To go to a shoot where nobody talks politics and you have 250 shooters, and the club makes a years worth of thei capital Improvement budget off of their visiting guest? Or do you want to go to a shoot where it’s the same group of grumpy old men standing around wondering how they can chisel the 26th target off the skeet field?
Again, running shoots is the entertainment business. Every club should do everything they can to make sure that it is easy for their guests to come to their club, spend money, and enjoy themselves.
I’ve been to shoots where visiting guests were given a button that said visitor with a big smile on it, so that everybody on their grounds knew that this person doesn’t even know where the bathroom is.
Clubs that are embracing of visitors do well, clubs that are cold toward visitors generally don’t.
