As much fun as shooting is, it is not too trilling to watch on the tube. That said there should be some coverage,especially for National events and charity stuff. The club should assign a member to contact the media and invite them to cover the event. The club could also have an event or a shoot where the media could participate under the supervision of a qualified member or spokes person.
how to make shooting sports flourish?
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As much fun as shooting is, it is not too trilling to watch on the tube. That said there should be some coverage,especially for National events and charity stuff. The club should assign a member to contact the media and invite them to cover the event. The club could also have an event or a shoot where the media could participate under the supervision of a qualified member or spokes person.
EOHC is shy of that too. It dictates what targets are appropriate for example.
Yet, on a recap (history) of the show "Regional Contact" when one of the hosts announced leaving, there was one host (Joel) participating in a CAS match and shooting a peacemaker 45.
Funny how one bad incident can taint a view for life (Regional Contact wasn't the bad incident).
I've been thinking for a long time about inviting a local columnist out for a milsurp match, or CAS or IPSC with an inpromptu gab session afterward including opinions on how goofy the laws are, safety, fun of the sports, and all that.
I'd have to speak to execs first I guess.
BTW, 3strokes, your post 22? Nope, not eohc, but skeet/trap is on their bucket list.
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I've heard that NBC Sports plans to televise the 3 Gun Nation series starting this fall. A shooting sport using black rifles, tactical shotguns, and hand guns!
Nope, NCRRA Shotgun Section (formerly Ottawa Valley Trap & Skeet).
Part of the problem is the perception people have that you need a $5,000 over-under to do well.
This week, I took out a $400 pump action and scored 22/25. It was my best ever round and it felt REAL GOOD to shut up the snobbish old prick who I was talking to before we started. I told him I had never had a lesson or even competed aside from "loser buys first round" with buddies. He said, "well, if you want to do well, you're going to have to invest in better equipment".
The shooter wins the match, not the gun or the Corinthian leather shell bag.
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ps: I did use AAs instead of Winchester Super X in one round and 4 of 5 birds went up in a puff of smoke where I would have usually fragmented the bird.
Good shells & the right choke (for me, that's a full) make a difference.
This week, I took out a $400 pump action and scored 22/25. It was my best ever round and it felt REAL GOOD to shut up the snobbish old prick who I was talking to before we started. I told him I had never had a lesson or even competed aside from "loser buys first round" with buddies. He said, "well, if you want to do well, you're going to have to invest in better equipment".
The shooter wins the match, not the gun or the Corinthian leather shell bag.
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ps: I did use AAs instead of Winchester Super X in one round and 4 of 5 birds went up in a puff of smoke where I would have usually fragmented the bird.
Good shells & the right choke (for me, that's a full) make a difference.
Golf is a snoozer to watch but somehow people manage to admire the athleticism of these guys walking around a lawn putting little balls in holes.
But I understand.
This weekend my club is hosting an competition (Poco). I wonder if any press were invited? That would be a neat feature for some reporter and would be timely given that Bow and Hunting bylaw adjustment that directly affects that club.
I've heard. Unfortunately I don't get any NBC.
If I had known such a sport existed when I was younger I wouldn't be sitting here wondering, in my early forties, if it will be around in the next generation.
bdft
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Young shooters. I don't know how many times I have seen old farts making snide comments about "starting WW3", "machine guns" or "Norinco junk" when some young buck opens up with his SKS/M-14/M4/1022. I make a point of telling guys "don't pay any attention to that old fart". The sad part is that many times that same old fart stood right beside me, back in the mists of time, with an FN or AR15, blazing away with wild abandon. Let the young guys do their thing and encourage them. Us old farts aren't going to live forever.
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There's a lot that golf and shooting have in common. They are both precision sports where patience is key. They both appeal to people who are interested in the technical details of their equipment. There is a huge mental component to both sports.
At the very highest levels of the sports, both shooters and golfers are athletes. There's barely a hair between first and last at Olympic shooting events.
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At the very highest levels of the sports, both shooters and golfers are athletes. There's barely a hair between first and last at Olympic shooting events.
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Pump or Perazzi, AA or SX, it is the shooter that makes them go up in a puff of smoke! or not! At the end of the round it is not the gun or the ammo or even those puffs of smoke but the most breaks that scores the win.
It is not enough to just focus on attracting new, young shooters. It is just as important to appeal to those that have been in it for a while to the long time shooter as well. The different disciplines really need to band together. The least amount of red tape we put up for each other, the better.
the spank
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Take a kid shooting and get him or her off his computer and game consoles. New blood means young blood, someone had to come up through the ranks for all those years. Technology has let parents become complacent and lazy to teaching kids about outdoor activities such as shooting, hunting, fishing, nature watching. There is no longer a bonding through outdoor activities and building of those interests when Mom and Dad are content to sit by and watch junior play on his or her PC!
Our club has been quite successful at attracting new members, and lately at recruiting younger RSOs, to fill the ranks of those that have left town, usually after retiring. Every Sunday morning that we are open,our junior program provides two free rounds of trap or skeet, as well as two free boxes of shells to be used to shoot those rounds, for children whose parents are members.
It is as simple as multiplication. If everyone encouraged/enabled 2 people to get their PAL and start shooting, and those people did the same, think about how fast we could spread the sport.
I've taken 2 or 3 new people to the range this summer and they intend on getting their PAL asap. It's just that simple.
I've taken 2 or 3 new people to the range this summer and they intend on getting their PAL asap. It's just that simple.
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Brutus
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When I lived in Saskatchewan, seems like every hunting season there was a Hunt for Hunger campaign where licensened hunters and butcher shops donating thier work & freezer space offered for those in poverty, free venison.
