OK, that's a fair point. However, the element of that £1+ per shot for the marker is 18p including the butt supervisor. And while Century butts is a swamp, it isn't a cesspit. But there are other TR overheads that CSR doesn't have. The difference may be less than the unaccounted 47p/shot.John MH wrote:Don't try to comare cost on a shot for shot basis between TR and Gallery. Most TR matches have to factor in the cost of a marker, Gallery does not, nor do any other self marking disciplines such as CSR; I have had this debate before with the Shooting Divison who often suggest that CSR matches much cheaper in comparison to TR based on the number of shots fired, which works out currently at about 50p per shot compared to £1.00 for TR, but forgetting that the competitors have to self mark in the cesspit that is Century Butts.
Please, whatever your discipline, be assured that I and everybody else on the Shooting Committee believe that it costs too much. We honestly have done all the simple stuff to drive price down, and are now into the realms of complex, difficult and unpleasant measures, as well as jacking prices up everywhere the Trustees think the market might stand it, or where we are making a loss and the decision is to make the event pay or to scrap it. Somehow we have to balance the books. Once the finances are on an even keel we can work on driving prices down, or at least holding them while inflation bites. But the game at the moment is medium-term survival.
That, I think, brings us back to the opening post and the purpose of the thread. Any more bright ideas to get the bills down?
Iain