This hobby leans toward the upper age groups, and old men can get grumpy. At 38 years of age, I often feel that I'm a understudy to the grumpy old man club, and my training is going well, but the "pros" still consider me unworthy of the "Grumpy old man" title as I am still too young. Anyway, joking aside, there is always someone at every club that will get under your skin. Ignore them and enjoy your hobby.

As for the AMA Forum, it is bogus. Way back, the AMA bickering was in the Clubhouse forum. RCU made a special AMA forum for the bickering so we wouldn't have to look at it in the clubhouse. If you notice, the AMA forum gets few posts and the posts are mainly by the same small group of members. The AMA forum reads like a broken record IMO, same old gripes by the same people year after year. Occasionally there is a good topic, but for the most part the Forum posts are junk as they are politically motivated unfounded bickering by grumpy old men. I would suggest to you that the RCU AMA Forum is NOT representative of AMA members. It sure doesn't represent me. I noticed you are in SD... If you ever make it to Lincoln, NE, bring a plane and pay our field a visit. I'll introduce you to a great group of AMA members at our local club.

Cheers.