Ideas needed ASAP

[EagerNoSkill]

Some great ideas above :cheers:

Some more ...

CORPORATE SHOOTING DAYS
Setup a package of "fun with gun events"
Arrange "lite training that is also fun"

More than the clay pigeon days
Besides income we will get exposure to new potential members

ACTION EVENTS WITH 22 lr pistol carbines
A whole variety can be provided

SIBERIA 300
is totally under utilised
Action Shotgun & Action Carbine maybe

Signage on the roads would help
Bisley is another

[IainWR]

NRA shooting show, not somebody else running it.

Courses in different disciplines

Accomadation for general public (maybe not a great idea)

Try and tempt a big shop to setup on site, Sportsmans, etc

Ability for affiliated club members to upgrade to full membership

Some form of rifle trial or try scheme. Would need a range of rifles to be kept in tstock, but would allows several rifles to be tried under supervivion with an eye to buying from a shop or the range itself.

NRA shooting show - well maybe. The audience for the NRA Open days is a bit over 1000, which is a bit thin to attract exhibitors in the conventional show sense of us providing the facility and them paying £X00 for it. But if we just said you can have a space for the day for £X0 or thereabouts, we might get some bites.

Courses in different disciplines. Agree absolutely (I am XO Shooting Committee). But that is core activity - "The encouragement of marksmanship" - we are supposed to deliver that as the charitable end, not as a moneymaker (though if the market would stand both it would be great).

Accommodation for gen public - no principled objection, but we cannot get planning permission, and I suspect that is a given.

Big shop - planning problem again - if it had a direct shooting connection maybe (could we persuade Holland & Holland to move out of central London??), otherwise forget it.

Affiliated members upgrade - interesting - please expand on what would be expected.

Try scheme - has definite possibilities - and yes we have over 100 guns for hire including some interesting early 20th century military arms - I will definitely take that one forward and K can have the credit.

[EagerNoSkill]

Oops lost ability to enter

Overall more footfalls will be advantageous to the clubs

We need to activate and get going fun days

BRING A FRIEND
BRING YOUR KID
DAD VERSUS SON
HUBBY VERSUS WIFE

I would love to get my 2 girls shootin 9 and 14 help by creating an environment and my spend at horse riding schools Alton towers and game stores can come to Bisley

I know we have legal constraints but we must breach the ignorance and get people involved
:cheers:

I love shooting .... But the kindred people in the sport are more amazing

We play with physics maths science geography metallurgy. We bed to maximise this

[John MH]

What about reducing fees and Range Hire Costs? As I said a gamble but worth considering.

[IainWR]

+ 1 for .22 F class or even Tactical Precision but thats not even in this country yet [ as far as I know ] , but with anything someone has to be out there organising and setting up these things , and details of new ideas has to get out there so people can find out easily what is available , especialy to atrract novice shooters who may be put off by thoughts of elitist organisations .

Dave

Again, as XO Shooting Committee, please explain - what's Tactical Precision? We are about to publish the formal list of Disciplines Controlled, Rcognised and Acknowledged by the NRA. If TacP wants to be on the list please get in touch with me in my NRA Committee persona asap to see if it falls into our Discipline set. This is purely an admin thing - we are trying to get a handle on what's out there and who runs it.

Iain

[IainWR]

. That resource of knowledge could be easily transported to the regions through courses, training weekends and summer schools at regional facilities and ranges. Organising such a national programme through the regional reps and the using NRAs central administrative capacity could generate income as well as increasing the potential for new members and starting the NRA to fulfilling its claimed national role.

Hi Dromia

I would love to make this kind of thing happen. With the greatest respect to some good people, it will need a more dynamic input from some of those who connect the NRA central organisation to the places north of Watford and west of Bristol. That is a matter for the members and their votes.

Iain

[ovenpaa]

Jagtfeltskydning or hunter field sport shooting is basically a series of stands with targets at anything from 70m to 300m. The targets are animal shaped, so Deer, Boar, Hare, Pheasant etc. The distances are unknown but ask the person next to you and they will tell you!

Some are moving and some are fixed but this is down to the CoF on the day.



Classes are Hunters, Ladies, Veterans and Experts. Crossed sticks and aids are provided for all classes apart from Experts where you need to supply your own if indeed they are allowed. To make things interesting you move around in groups and one stand may have a log to act as a rest however it is suspended on ropes so it moves, you are limited in time and you have five other people also shooting at the same time and using the same log as a support. Some targets are exposed on report so first shot is a moving deer at 90m and second shot is something very different at anything from 70m to 230m and the exposure time is very limited so no time to fumble with elevation or tables, you just have the time to shoot..

Targets do not have obvious scoring zones on so you need to know animal anatomy.

Finals in the DK national are the top ten shooters from the above classes. Course of fire is at a deer shaped target without visible scoring zone.

300m prone 5 shots no support
200m Kneeling 5 shots no support
100m standing 5 shots

Final is 5 shots from a prone position in 30 seconds, however you are standing with the rifle on the deck when the buzzer goes so you have to get down, shoot and reload 5 times in the 30 seconds, making sure you are shooting at the right place on your target.

Jagtfeltskydning apeals to all shooters, not just the hunters as anyone with a suitable rifle can shoot, typically in DK they will only allow 6,5mm X something as they are the hunting calibres used but I see no reason why a .308 could not be used either, what they are trying to do is keep everything on level field.

That is a very basic description.........

[IainWR]

Hunting Field Shooting competition - Huge in Scandinavia so organise a UK championship

What is being done with the Olympics? Any chance of a small revenue from that or getting hold of any of the equipment that will be redundant come the end. I appreciate a lot is more NSRA related but what about the Skeet stuff?

Hi Ovenpaa

HFS Competition - again, I'm XO Shooting Committee - tell me what it's about. If there is an international aspect in Europe - great - I am on a mission to encourage international competition and it is easier if the opposition is in Europe rather than the TR circuit of South Africa / Canada / USA / Australia / New Zealand / Kenya / West Indies, wonderful and life-enhancing though touring there has been.

Good call on the Olympics. If there is a legacy to be picked up we should take it whichever way it comes. And I will settle for 0.1% of £9Bn any day - £9M would revolutionise the sport!

Iain

[John MH]

More 300m ISSF facilities then? And wouldn't it be better to relocate any Olympic legacy out in the regions other than Bisley.

[ovenpaa]

Iain, see my last post, that gives a brief introduction.

I have to say the final is as good a spectator sport as I have ever seen and the way the tension grows with the crowd is amazing, equally the groans of dismay when things go wrong. The favourite for the finals put his first five rounds in the wrong end of the deer target! The pressure was on I guess.......... :G