Notice how many negative posts about about brrc ?
Notice how few negative posts about Silverdale ?
Notice how many posts skeetgunner has defending brrc ?
Notice how few posts defending Silverdale ?
Do the math -
The answer is obvious -
It certainly is. But its not the answer you'd expect. If new shooters weren't frustrated with our admission process and posting rants about it here on CGN, would they even know that Silverdale exists? In aprox 80% of the cases (not scientic, just cocktail napkin math), RangeBurlington was their
first choice. There's a reason for that. Given our location in the western GTA/GNA, I wonder what effect streamlining admission would have on other ranges membership base? We really need to get a GIS guy to crunch some usage patterns and demographics for us.
If you take a close look at the negative comments about RB (and not just in this thread), many of them are from out of province; people that have never been members and are relying on hearsay. The really ironic ones are from the Quebec members. How's "Law 9" working out for you boys?
we need to do what we can to ensure new shooters are accepted and introduced tot he sport as quick as can do,
We're growing an average of 240+ shooters per year, for the last three years. And we've implemented retention policies to reduce our churn rate; helping members to say with the club. Family, spousal and Junior memberships are up too. Our gross annual growth rate is bigger than some clubs and ranges total membership base. Three years ago, we'd lose more members due to churn than some other ranges had total members.
Its all well and good to accuse RB of being a bureaucratic, political, or Fudd club. When you're one of the clubs at the top of the pyramid, you expect to get some shots taken at you. But at the end of the day, the question remains, "How's
your club/range doing?" There are clubs where you have to buy shares. There are clubs where you have to shoot on probation for a year. There are clubs where you can only shoot once a week, or during daylight hours, or only with another member present. There are clubs that cap their total membership or cap specific section membership. And there are clubs that cost hundreds of dollars more per year, for less access and shooting time. That's not our policy or approach. We are assisting new shooters into the sport as quickly as we can, while maintaining an appropriate "standard of care" and due diligence.
