Keith, or Harry, Have either of you actually been in contact with the Hausmann’s with respect to who you think should be welcome at their shoot? and who should not be?
For the life of me I can’t imagine a single manager of a gun club anywhere in the country attempting to run a shoot (with hoped for international attendance), openly promoting it as the two of you are.
As I said previously, you were doing the Hausmann’s no great service.
I’ve not read a single thing in this entire thread that would make me want to bother to show up over there.
Maybe you should put more effort into saying things like, “Oh, their small bore course is fantastic!”, or, “Man, they have this really cool long range target set up that people with the old duck guns really enjoy”, you know, sell it. Try to get people interested in it.
I’m sure, if at a generic $300 a person out of pocket that the Hausmann‘s lose after reading stuff in this thread, the two of you are probably costing them a few thousand dollars in lost revenue just for site fees.
And of course, the owner of RST who maintains a very large presence at that shoot is losing the cartridge orders that people make prior to the shoot, who then go there and pick them up, but because they know they’re really not welcome they won’t be going.
Vendors losing gun sale revenue? Well, you know, sometimes people go to these events to actually buy stuff.
Perhaps Ernie can pop in and share his ideas on this.
Last edited by ClapperZapper; 01/11/26 11:41 AM.
