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A charitable HFH event to make a profit for the NRA, does not sound quite right. I organised and ran a successful event at Bisely but had no offer or sought any discount from the NRA on the range hire as I suspect given the NRA's current financial situation the answer would have been no.christel wrote:Team up with HFH (just an example) and organise a charity event?
Quoted as it's such a good post. You could also change NRA for my local club, very friendly but I still feel out of place. How many other clubs are like this, probably quite a few.Tower.75 wrote: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 wrote: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.Ginger wrote: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).Watcher wrote: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?
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
Watcher wrote:
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.
Thank you, almost bit my tongue off thereIainWR wrote:JohnJohn MH wrote:UKPSA are a bunch of control freaks, they won't let the NRA 'Control' their discipline.
And with respect, why should they? It is not an NRA party, *NRA have no view either way on the discipline*, NRA do not claim to run GB teams in their discipline.
If UKPSA wish to subordinate themselves to NRA I am delighted to discuss the process. But I (and by extension the NRA) make no claim to have the right to control their discipline. We have a disparate and fractured sport. The NRA is in the process of writing a procedure that will identify who sits where. But we make no claim to compel anyone to join us. Our classification of organisations will be published in April. Any organisation who thinks they have national status and wishes to be included can email me with a statement of their position. I have already included every NRA affiliated organisation and everyone else I personally knew of at time of writing.
Iain
Not quite sure i'd agree with * * but i don't want to get into that. 
Good post Tower.75.Michael Sproul wrote:Quoted as it's such a good post. You could also change NRA for my local club, very friendly but I still feel out of place. How many other clubs are like this, probably quite a few.Tower.75 wrote: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.
