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Nothing will ever make those who hate us and our want to go shoot anything we want ever like us. Even if we saved a thousand children with our evil weapons, they still wouldnt like us.
Cleanups are nice and keep our shooting grounds well kept and more enjoyable, but other than that they will never do anything to make people like us :p
Dude, you need to relax. Not everyone is an absolutist. There are shooters/hunters that may feel us black rifle folks are a bit unusual. I'm not talking about trying to convince Sarah Brady.[Eek3]
This is my .02 on some of the points made. First off Roger runs this site as a hobby not to make money. The man has a full time job and a life you must remember places like arfcom is a full time job and done to make a living. This is just a local hobby site if you will, not an international site like arfcom. If anybody wishes to make a donation as I and others have done to help pay for the site PM Roger and he can give you the address to send funds. This is a small site and I do not agree with a paying only members area. I have made many friends over the years on this site and do not wish alienate somebody from a certain part of the site.
The club shoots Marlin puts on were never intended to be formal shoots. They are family shoots that allow us to hang out with friends, meet new members, shoot the bull and sometimes have a BBQ. Many members bring their family including their kids or dog. It is a great way for people to take their youngsters out shooting. It also warms me and other members hearts who own MG's to poison our youth with those bullet hose weapons of mass destruction.(At least thats how Sarah Brady sees it which makes me even happier).
That being said if any member wants to have a formal shoot you are more than welcome to put one on. Any member of this site can hold a club shoot of their own post it in the club shoot section. Pick a date, time, location and discription of the shoot. Anybody that can or wants to come will. There is no site rule that says only Marlin can have club shoots anybody can. The only rules are site shoot rules, the shoots must be conducted in a safe manner all saftey rules apply. All activities must be legal other than that have at it.
Those of you that want to shoot competition go to "Shooting Sports and Events". If you go look you will see that there is always some kind of match you can go to IDPA, IPCA, 3Gun Tom puts on steel matches it is endless. Most of the people that attend these matches are also members of this site so I guess in a way you could call them "formal club shoots".
I am not knocking anybodies ideas they are all great I am just giving another perspective.
Thanks, Tim.
I would say HunterCO was right on the money with that.
The North/South shoots that Marlin has are great, we always look forward to them.
I just wish I had the time and scratch to do even half the shooting events and classes members offer on this site. I enjoy this place 'cause "it is what it is"!
And with that ,thanks to Roger and his band of henchmen for all the blood ,sweat and tears that's put in.
Also Colorado AR-15 Shooters should stay,it's just cool!
But hey, that's just my opinion...okay,Tim did all the work but you get the idea. [Beer]
The best thing to improve the site? Would be for everyone to give me a gun for free. I would feel much better, And I would LOVE the site a LOT more! [Tooth]
Other than that? Let's follow the KISS standards... We are doing fine guys![Stooge]
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lol, J/K. I think the site is great the way it is. Members here have organized cleanups and put together free training in the past on their own initiative. If you want to do something that has value to you, all you have to do is post up and offer to lead the charge.
I would really,REALLY like my free guns please. GUYS? HELLOOOOO?
lucky for you, the DNC is in town this week, you can go hang out with your type!Quote:
Originally Posted by reddevil1111
Work toward getting the word out.
I never heard of this place till I was introduced to ar15.com
as a group, we like to be covert and not in the eye of the public. I don't know if many people are wanting to change that, but if as a group, gun owners can be seen as a greater majority who all have a large voice to be heard, they will get more respect and could potentially frighten any idiots wanting to come up with laws and rules to restrict us and not keep them in office.
As for this website, I would try to work with RMGO a bit more. It seems a lot of the members here are RMGO members.
A re-name might be in order as well. a lot of fudds out there don't want to be part of a ar15 club, but would join if it were colorado hunters and shooters or something like that. Hunters are a big player in colorado as well. I think the name limits people a lot.
Expanding on the forums would be great as well. It seems a lot of people, myself included keep to just a few different forums and go about their merry way. we could all try to expand our horizons.
Also, just putting the word out on other sites like sniperhide and ar15.com and silencertalk and other places like that might draw in more people.
An organized shoot once a month for everyone would be nice. something centrally located would be great, or maybe 2 spots. somewhere in N. CO springs and another one north of denver.
do something once a month or every other month. try to keep it off the gun show schedule and then have flyers out. Tell them to bring their kids and make it a family day. if there is a charge, make it cheap. I am sure someone could expand more on this, but its a start.