A little off topic but we did have 100 animals out for club members to shoot at. Thanks to Doug, Bob and Ron for helping out. The weather and food was fantastic and I am sure we will do the event again. It was great to see families out. Mothers, fathers and their kids. It is quite interesting for us to see the different perspectives on shooting sports.
One area that drives me a bit bonkers is the desire to call a firearm a weapon. A firearm is not a weapon and less used in such a way such as a fist, a baseball bat or a car! We sure don't refer to our car as a weapon? Or heaven forbid a baseball bat!! Soap box away.
It was all good. Excellent weekend. Unclear if the silhouette program will grow from it but I think there are many folks who now hold a much higher respect for the lowly price point rimfire rifle. I will say there were a number of heavy trigger "semi-auto" price point guns that showed up. I let some use an accurate gun with a light trigger and WOW! They started to hit what they were aiming at. Cheap rifles do shooting sports such a dis-service.
The big suprise to me was the huge success of the air rifle demo set up. I think Bill is still asleep after that long day. He brought every size of air rifle, BB gun known to man. Had simple targets and some hard targets. Every time I was up by the club house there must have been two people at the line shooting. All walking away with a WOW look on their face. No noise, no recoil and look at those can's spin! Next year I should bring my resetable silhouette airgun targets.
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