Ideas needed ASAP

[Christel]

Team up with HFH (just an example) and organise a charity event?

[Mike357]

Living in the wilderness up here in Scotland, I agree with Dromia that Bisley is the spiritual home of shooting in the UK but the NRA needs to make it's presence felt further afield.

Why doesn't the NRA take competitions on the road? Why don't they organise something at Diggle? What about F Class/McQueens etc NRA events at Blair Atholl. Two civilian ranges within an easy drive of huge chunks of the population!

I appreciate funds are limited and land for a full bore range away from Bisley is hard to come by but what about the NRA securing and building more 100 yd ranges further north? Old quarries are plentiful and make great smallbore and gallery rifle ranges or even indoor 100m ranges. You can have a lot of fun at 100m!

[Christel]

You saying that Mike357, I was told some time ago that there are ranges out there in the country that are in danger of being shut down because they are not being used. The NRA ought to look at that and perhaps take ownership (lease perhaps?) of one of them?

[Gaz]

Make it with loud rock music & fun zombi-ish targets. Something fun that would appeal to "younger" generations ... The average age of shooters is quite depressing and a worry for the futur of the sport...

I can already hear the howls of outrage from the blazer-and-tie set! Something like this would bring the younger generations to shooting in their droves. Have a day's firing at fall-when-hit snap targets at 200, with a live band on the field behind the NSRA and a cheap beer tent as soon as the shooting finishes. Throw in a one-off discount for a year's NRA membership taken up on the day...

I've suggested this to Karen on Facebook already but for the forum - social media. I have to say, the automatic Twitter feed thingy tends to get me on here a lot more than I'd actually go my bookmarks or whatever. There's plenty of fun to be had in using Facebook, Twitter and all the rest to actually give the NRA a presence amongst the computer-literate generation; at the moment there's little or nothing out there.

[Strangely Brown]

CSR day for historic class only (most CSR shooters have a No4 lurking in their cabinet)
AM, do a CQB on Siberia followed by the traditional 200 + 300 matches PM.
Followed by falling plates on Pirbright early evening.

Contact the CSR Rep (Paul Hunter)(link on the NRA website) and ask. If the range space is available the NRA will sell it.

Iain

This is now being looked at and hopefully a range date will be forthcoming!

[Strangely Brown]

Team up with HFH (just an example) and organise a charity event?

LERA have already done one of these for a legal company in the Guildford area (proceeds going to HFH).
I believe another may take place?

[froggy]

+1,
Gaz, don't forget a shoot on reactive targets for the finalists

[Ginger]

How about a programme of working with the Scout Association at HQ level to introduce shooting to the Scouts.

A Scout weekend at Bisley?

How about identifying and engaging with the heads of sport in every Education Authority and ultimately in every school?

Scouts already have a shooting badge, if my boys group are anything to go by they don't have a clue where to start or skills to teach them. Maybe the NRA / NSRA should sponser an outreach by offering air rifles at cost and a simple competion, and to bring the cost down to the scout unit let them use a NRA target that they can print out (yes I know you will not get any copyright money on it, but spend to invest and the spend on the target would be small).

Because they can only do the shooting badge when they are in the scouts I just had to get my boys hobby badge in the cubs with target shooting my .22lr

Introduce it as education working with the police, so the police can do there gun / weapon talk and then the shooting side is about handling guns correctly to enforce to the young people that they are not toys.

http://www.scouts.org.uk/supportresourc ... 26,359,508
Has the NRA thought of giving this training FoC (nasty phrase the the NRA I know), to members of gun clubs who sign up to assigning scouting units?

http://www.scouts.org.uk/supportresourc ... cat=26,415

Maybe help and guidence offered to the local units via local clubs with the backing of the NRA

http://www.scouts.org.uk/supportresourc ... 7-shooting

[Tower75]

If a "younger" chap's opinion is worth anything.

The NRA is very intimidating and seems very "closed". Ok, I'm sure once you get going and you've been there a few times and become a "face" you're fine, but for a newbie to Bisley we are completely lost. I personally have found no "open door" policy and you're kinda on your own and expect to either work it out for yourselves or join a group of "faces" that know what they're doing.

I'm 25, there's about three people in my club that are younger then me - discounting kids that are 8 and are brought by their dad etc, the avarage age of the clube is something like 52. Our sport WILL die if new blood is not brought in.

It is time to face facts that things need to change if shooting is still going to be here in 20 years time.

My age is your ideal target age. We're not too young that we cannot learn and gasp the concepts of safety and firearm control and we have friends that we can encourage too.

I suggest a more "open door" policy, "want to shoot? come and meet our staff who will teach you all you need to know and teach you about firearm control" etc. Make these things fun. Falling targets, reactive targets - organise a volley fire and a bayonet charge, something.

[Watcher]

How about a programme of working with the Scout Association at HQ level to introduce shooting to the Scouts.

A Scout weekend at Bisley?

How about identifying and engaging with the heads of sport in every Education Authority and ultimately in every school?

Scouts already have a shooting badge, if my boys group are anything to go by they don't have a clue where to start or skills to teach them. Maybe the NRA / NSRA should sponser an outreach by offering air rifles at cost and a simple competion, and to bring the cost down to the scout unit let them use a NRA target that they can print out (yes I know you will not get any copyright money on it, but spend to invest and the spend on the target would be small).

Because they can only do the shooting badge when they are in the scouts I just had to get my boys hobby badge in the cubs with target shooting my .22lr

Introduce it as education working with the police, so the police can do there gun / weapon talk and then the shooting side is about handling guns correctly to enforce to the young people that they are not toys.

http://www.scouts.org.uk/supportresourc ... 26,359,508
Has the NRA thought of giving this training FoC (nasty phrase the the NRA I know), to members of gun clubs who sign up to assigning scouting units?

http://www.scouts.org.uk/supportresourc ... cat=26,415

Maybe help and guidence offered to the local units via local clubs with the backing of the NRA

http://www.scouts.org.uk/supportresourc ... 7-shooting

I'm a scout leader up in East Lancs and I'm 'on the case' as it were. I'll shortly be approaching the NRA to aks what they can do to help me.