doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com How many shoots would you attend in a year?

I don't think there's a better place on the web to ask this question,

But, "How many shoots where your total cost of attendance from beginning to end exceeds $500.00, do you attend?"

I am willing to attend 3. 1 spring, 1 summer, and 1 early fall.
I don't see myself attending a winter shoot, nor more than 3 (of this type) during the other seasons, all well spaced due to logistics.

When I add in the other fundraisers, and regional "Pop in for a steak" shoots, I max out at a total annual number of a dozen or so.

This is just a marketing type question to spur some conversation.

Good question. We try to attend between four and six, supplemented by visits to local courses in the tri- state NY area. Some like the Parker fun shoot in April at Addieville are day, albeit long, trips, others like Haussmann's are two- three day affairs. We hope to make Rock Mountain in September an annual affair, like Hiddden Hollow, bookending the summer, preceded and followed by local day trips. Cost is always a factor but quality or fun is too, and we no longer go to events that are less fun. For us getting off Long Island is the most difficult task, as is returning, and we often bypass NYC and take the ferry from CT.

I hadn't thought about regional cost differences. Getting a hotdog in Manhattan could go over $500.00 LOL

I just wonder if stacking shoots weekend after weekend undermines interest.

The southern in April, the North East and Great Northern in June and Duluth in July. Would like to attend some of the September shoots but my dogs won't let me!!! Also do some of the bigger shows around the country.

None for clays. whether open as to shotgun choices, or limited to side-by-sides. That $500 buys me three tower released shoots at our area pheasant club, held on Saturdays from Jan through April-- 10 stations around FULL CIRCLE, GOOD SAFE TOWER FOR THE guys who get the roosters and hens airborne, great dog work, lunch and a fine pick-up hunt apres lunch. No booze, safety rules and zones of fire strictly enforced, and all guns must be open and unloaded between stand and en route to and from the clubhouse to the shooting field. You are guaranteed birds, picked and bagged in Zip-Lok bags to take home, and pen raised pheasants sure taste better than those skeets do-- And way cheaper that a 4 day trip in Nov. to SD--

I get my off-season practice on barn pigeons and crows and starlings- clays are great, and SC is a social game like golf- but no clay thrown by a machine can replicate the flight of a blue rock pigeon who has just side-slipped away from a charge of No. 8 chilled- IMO anyway.

Here in the lower part of Michigan you can attend three shoots, April, May [ mine at Lapeer ], and June, that are one day shoots for less than $500 total. Each are in the $50 entry price range and they include shooting and food. Don't get no better.

RWTF; That sounds like a heck of a deal!

R.

Well for me and my shooting partner (Rich) we go to the Southern to see old friends and the vendors and then have a fun shoot at Drakes Landing Thursday all day, Friday and Saturday morning and then back to Deep River, Haussmann's and the Great Northern (this is a not to miss shoot) in June and then we are thinking Rock Mt in the fall. Locale shoots maybe a half a dozen or so, but those are all fun shoots, one day shoots

Dozens and dozens ..... and they pay me!

Until recently I was picking up on an average of 60 days per season and getting the equivalent of $55 per day. Now I'm just doing some beating (no dog) so the pay is less.There was a time when I was buying 7-9 days per annum driven or walk / stand days.

I can't add in the pigeon shooting because CZs formula doesn't allow cost neutral days, but that was around 35 days afield per annum. I could exchange 11 pigeon for 25 Express cartridges, so that was a fair deal.

Eug

You and I are so lucky Eugene!

People that don't go to shooting facilities to shoot, really shouldn't bother to respond.

I'm more curious about someone that goes to clay shoots as an entertainment/shooting event and spends more than $500.00.

I like to shoot, so, I shoot regularly. I know many collectors do not, and people essentially age out of this venue. $500.00 is a good hurdle rate for the discussion.

I heard that by comparing email lists, it was found that there are actually less than 100 traveling SxS aficionados nationwide. That means that competing extravagant shoots are pitching to the same people week after week for relatively little to be gained.

That list doesn't include whatever dependable regional pool a club draws from. They aren't above the hurdle rate for costs to attend. My club is very comfortable running a good shoot that serves 65 people or so on 1 day every spring, and people seem to look forward to it as a kind of season launch.
But again, mostly locals/regionals attend.