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2000-07-09 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sadly the post about awful prize money for rifled arms competitions is all to true. Who's fault is it? Look to the NRAagain! Over the years they have through stupidity, snobbery and sloth done so much damage to our shooting sports. can you really im

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2000-07-09 Thread shootist
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm all for it, more money to win would defintely mean more people shooting. > I'm not too sure about this. Yes, bigger prize funds will probably see more People shooting but is this the way we want to see the sport going? I don't think I want to see this happenin

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2000-07-10 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I'm not too sure about this. Yes, bigger prize funds will probably see more People shooting but is this the way we want to see the sport going? I don't think I want to see this happening. I want shooting to be about shooting *not* simp

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2000-07-10 Thread Matthew Wright
From: "Matthew Wright", [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this topic raises a number of important points and I'm glad it was raised. I tend to agree with Jonathon, I've often thought that most shooting and fieldsports are relatively cheap compared to many other pursuits. All manner of expensive sports

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2000-07-11 Thread Tom Charnock
From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Big prize money will get more NON shooters interested in taking up the sport. But who will put up the money, and it will need to be for a few years to get the numbers higher. It will get little TV etc in meantime. A Negative thought, even our trade sup

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2000-07-11 Thread shootist
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The question is, where is the money going to come from? > The only place it can come from. Entry fees and club sub's. Unless you can get a few sponsors on board. J. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2000-07-12 Thread Ken
From: Ken Wyatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] We raise prize money by using an "entry fee" for comps, one recently had the winner taking home one of the AR15 jobby's. it was an open comp but the main prize was withdrawn due to not enough entries. what more do you suggest we offer? My club has facilities t

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2000-07-13 Thread Jonathan
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In all this discussion of the Great British Weather, range availability, courses of fire, prize money, sponsorship, TV coverage etc we do seem to have overlooked, perhaps more fundamental, reasons why people do not come into shooting - or do not stay.

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2000-07-11 Thread shootist
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think Matthew is talking lots of sense here. When it comes down to the bottom line, the simple fact of the matter is that we need to attract more People into the Sport. The problem with this as I see it is, a) Many clubs (especially those shooting full bore rifles

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2000-07-12 Thread jim.craig
From: "jim.craig", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since the discussion seems to be centering round how to attract people into the sport, I'd like to expand a bit on the suggestion from a previous correspondent about the use of airguns. Today's airguns are a far cry from the toy-like guns you may remember