marlinguy wrote on Apr 26^th, 2026 at 4:46pm:


You got it Val, that is the BIG NUT traveling and competing in most matches. Driving long distancesu is not very accomodating to a shooting discipline that demands steadiness and unwavering nerves. Not if you're doing it on a budget. One reason I asked Westerner a while back on how he does it especially in the big Western states

Rick

burntwater wrote on Apr 26^th, 2026 at 9:17pm:

We never had any problem getting donations:

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We just gave up asking for them when the membership decided that no one really needed any more stuff.

When I mentioned sponsorship above it was, or should have been, with reservations. Let me explain. Donations or cash coming in will always aid an organization,(s) like ASSRA & ISSRA however it needs to be governed and directed to best advantage for the association. This is not always as easy as it may sound. Promotional efforts can be ticklish when orchestrated from within the membership as too many times it creates rift's within the group. Seen it many times in the marine trades and yachting world where you can't get two dozen commercial fishermen to even agree on where to hold a meeting or the time ! With a bunch like this made up of highly skilled experienced members with decades of experience it's doubtful, I hope I'm wrong. 

About sponsors. Well they will certainly take care of promotion that's what they do. But with most of them there always seems to be mission creep where after a while they like to write the rules and change the market appearance of the association. That won't stand here I'm sure. Honestly a high quality and researched publication like Joe has built with our Journal is probably as good as it gets considering cost and his dedication. But it has a very limited distribution which would definitely have to be increased at club and regional levels. A Utube site would probably address this nicely but I don't know. Again I'm just spitballing but food for thought

One last thing and I'm not promoting this just throwing it out but almost every shooting sport reacts favorably to reactive targets, be it broken clays, plates, bowling pins, gongs, eggs, running deer, or cowboy shoots with different hand made stage props, etc. Of course accurate scoring being the nucleus of Schuetzen has to have paper targets but nothing tickles a shooter like knocking over plates and pins or hearing a gong off in the distance. There wouldn't be a ballon business if you couldn't pop em. 

Rick