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I finally had time to spend on putting together a write up and small poster for all the "classic" shotguns we'll have at our RGS Banquet this coming Thursday.

I thought you folks would appreciate them.

The last four

I’m a life sponsor for RGS.

First thing, I want to commend you on your effort to produce such delightful posters for your banquet offerings.

But I have to ask, who exactly comes to your banquet? And how big is it?

I go to many banquets and events per year, and I just don’t see much interest in the vintage stuff. Heck, I was donating cases of RST’s when nobody could get any shotgun shells, and the winners didn’t even know what they were.

As a fundraiser, will those shotguns bring anything close to their market values?

Are they auctions, raffled off, or sold out right?

Thanks!


We had 183 last year. Our attendees are pretty varied. Some will want these guns, some would rather have a Benelli...


We'll find out how they work. Cant grow without change, can't cange without trying new things.


Fair question. Market value isn't important, doubling what we have in the guns is the minimum goal. That works out well for everyone - the person who gets the gun is happy, and so are we.

Some of each, except none are sold outright.

The Webley & Scott is going live auction with that White Diamond O/U.

The Uggie, one of the AyAs, and the Bland are going on a six gun raffle: 40 $20 tickets then we call the winner.

The Dougall is going on a 100 number board. It is a genuinely nice gun and we got it cheap.

The rest will be on silent auctions with starting bids about 1/2 the value I was able to research...all of which is well over what we have in the guns. If they don't sell, we'll use them as prize guns at other events where the return is at least 2X what we have in them.

The best of the bunch is the C. G. Edwards. It’s a wand...even with the 30" barrels. I was tempted to keep it...

Nice. What I'm wondering, after reading the above is, how do you acquire them that cheaply? If I'm understanding correctly, you would have had to buy some of those at no more than $400 each.

Years ago, I was on the board for Pheasants Forever county chapter. i so badly wanted to do this, but could never convince anyone else to give it a try. We had a very large banquet.I think it was the biggest banquet of any chapter in the society most years. But I just could not generate the interest amongst the other board members. Nonetheless, we raised a ton of money and bought a lot of land.

Congrats on putting this together. That is a lot of work, and it is done very well. I hope you rake in a great profit.

Excellent work on all the posters! I especially like the Army and Navy CS&L boxlocks. Hope to own one someday. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

You men can buy all the tickets you can afford if you contact Geoff.
RGS doesn’t discriminate on raffles.

So, if someone wins a raffle on one of the guns, can they take the gun home right then or do they have to have it shipped to an FFL to get it home?

Most are bought at auction.

There was a little resistance with the rest of the committee at first, but I've been frustrated at the lack of real upland guns at our banquets for a long time - it was time to do something about it.

We'll see how it works.

...gotta be at the banquet to buy tickets, or bid on the guns, or in the case of the AyA No. 4 pre-banquet raffle, buy tickets directly from one of our committee members.

We follow all firearms laws and regulations. Way too complex to get into here.

You don’t have the pre-banquet raffle ticket packages for sale? No early bird special two for one on the ticket packages? No Ladies early bird packages? Youth rafflies?

Geez, you advertise here, and then aren’t really making much of an effort to get these guys to send you money.

Everyone of these guys can afford a sponsor package. All you would have to do is put their name on their tickets and throw it in the bin for them.
And no catering or venue costs.

Unless you guys are saying, “you must be present to win”.
I’ve won so much stuff at RGS banquets, that I just give it back to them and tell them to auction it off again.

Heck, I’ve bought their nationwide raffle tickets for fancy guns 30 times.

I appreciate the feedback/input, but I'm not advertising here...I thought folks would find it interesting, and perhaps use it as inspiration to do similar for organizations they're involved in.

if folks are within driving distance, and would like to come to the banquet, that'd be great:

Buy Banquet Tickets Here

We have people coming from Iowa, MN, and MI.

We have one Pre-dinner gun - the AyA No. 4...but state raffle and firearms laws preclude selling out of state or over the internet. Not that most people pay attention to those laws, but we do.

The sponsor gun is one of the guns provided by Scheels - that can ship FFL to FFL...so if someone wanted to sign up for the Non-Attending Sponsor deal @ $250, we'd toss a ticket in the bin for that.