LoneRider wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:03 pm
no bloody wonder theres a divide between scopes and peeps with no nothing dumb asses like this oxygen thief allowed to have a license
how dare the cunt belittle the achievements of a top class shooter,just cause he doesnt use a scope....
There is so much wrong with this post it's not funny.
Disclosure(Yes I shoot f-class).
I am a member of a club that when I joined had only 5 members. Now it's one of the biggest of the sydney metro clubs. At the same time we're watching other clubs on the verge of disappearing.
In the inter club grade series we previously couldn't field a single T/R team now we can field 2.
How did we achieve growth in the face of general decline?
Simple... we promoted the sport and the club in a way that appealed to what the potential new members were looking for. That is Scopes! Scopes brought in the new members and many of them later decided to take up T/R because T/R appeals to them. Others stick with scopes because that's where their interest lies.
I've seen many recent prize shoots where scopes outnumber peeps. Hell i've even been asked to fire the lucky prize shot for top shooter. Yep a scope shooter.
The NRAA doesn't have it's head up it's arse. But some of it's members do.
It's posts like this one by LoneRider that drive new blood away from the sport and is instrumental in killing it off.
The future of the NRAA is one where there is mutual respect for all disciplines.
To anyone thinking of trying long range shooting don't take LoneRider's post as an indication of what the NRAA are like. Contact your local club and give it a go. It's a great sport and there is sufficient variety in the disciplines to satisfy most people.
