VickiMcc wrote:ALAN NUMBER ONE HERE, WHERE HAVING ENOUGH TROUBLE GETTING PEOPLE TO ATTEND PRIZE MEETING , AND UR UP HERE PORKCHOP SAYINGTHAT WHERE NUMER ONE AND WE ARE GETTING HELD ,BACK WHAT DO U THINK IS HOLDING US BACK.HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I WONDER
Trouble getting people to attend prize meetings??? What's holding us back???
Perhaps it's the FACT that the majority of F-Class shooters are not ex T/R shooters and for them Prize Meetings are a completely alien concept.
Perhaps it's the FACT that prizes for F-Class at prize meetings are typically lower than for T/R shoots and people just aren't motivated to enter.
Perhaps it's the FACT that F-Class has not been graded and because it's a sport that lets you have fun with whatever equipment you have, you get a lot of shooters that are really just B Grade shooters. They have no interest in competing against a pool of A Grade shooters.
Perhaps it's the FACT that your average Saturday shooter has zero interest in prize meets or competition of any kind. The reason we can have 20 people turn up to shoot F-Class weekly but cannot put together two 4 man teams for a grade shoot.
Perhaps the thing holding us back is the people who cannot recognise these issues; that F-Class is not made up of people who have a long history of active competition.
Perhaps it's the FACT that no one takes the time to promote the sport for newcomers and everyone assumes that people already know everything that they need to know. How the hell does a newcomer develop and interest in OPM's when no one actually takes the time to explain what the abbreviation OPM stands for?
There are plenty of web sites out there. How many of them devote space to actually explaining anything in a way that a beginner can understand?
And that only gets the ones with net access.
How many publications have you seen explaining OPM's and prize meets? Hell, it was poorly communicated that the NSW Queens was going to be graded this year. I know a few that would have gone in had they know that it was going to be graded.
There are a lot of reasons for lack of attendances at OPM's and there is a lot of factors holding us back.
But not having F/TR is not a reason for either.
I won't be surprised to see people reasoning that not having F-TR is the reason for bindies in the grass on the mound and the real reason we couldn't get 4kg bottles of ar2208.
Its also the reason for those unexplained fliers and the reason why some match barrels are dud's. I'm pretty sure that the guy I saw with some pierced primers a while back was because of he wasn't shooting F-TR.
What else can we attribute to the lack of F-TR?
all too true, in some instances, sadly.
Barry I'm not sure that too many of us who like living where we are should consider promoting F/TR. As those of us who don't believe in the inevitability of the impending failure of F Std to be superceded by F/TR, have been told to find another planet or subsequently to move to another country, neither of which I have any intention of doing. 
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