BlueCore Shooting Center - Lakewood

[Irving]

I asked and they said that they are employees (the guy I was talking to said he worked there part time) and that they try to get a bigger group to go every time to help get the name out. They were good shots.

[Vanniek71]

Who are the guys that show up to the IDPA match in Dumont to advertise (by wearing their hats)? I had some of them in my group this month.

I was out there this month but sans any BluCore gear. The other guys were likely Mike and Sean, they started as members and then have come on board to help run our competition night shoots.

Jayock if you would forward that email string to me at kris(dot)v(at)blucoreshootingcenter(dot)com I would appreciate it.

[Vanniek71]

I asked and they said that they are employees (the guy I was talking to said he worked there part time) and that they try to get a bigger group to go every time to help get the name out. They were good shots.

Of course we want to get the name out there but more importantly we just love to shoot! Was a fun time, I usually shoot up at NCIDPA but I had a blast on sat out in Dumont.

[J]

Will do. Ill put them together, have them to you tomorrow.

What stage did you start on Kris?

[Vanniek71]

I was in the squad that started on stage 1.

[J]

Ahhh. I started on stage 3.

[Irving]

I was in the squad that started on stage 1.

I believe you were in my squad then.

[SuperiorDG]

I will say, both my father and I, who are members and shoot both rifles and pistols, we're quite less than pleased that during your LONG period of rifle range downtime gave us only the options of having no rifle range, or suspending our entire membership while it was down. We tried asking for a 50% extension based on downtime, so if rifle was down for 4 months you would add 2 months to our membership. We felt this was more than fair, since the rifle range is double the cost of pistol, so during those 4 months we were losing WELL more than half the value of our membership.

The response we got back was to the effect that your owners didn't care, and had enough members, and were "not raising rates yet to make up for it". In fact, we were specifically told that you were still getting renewals, so you didn't care. I can say that a place I liked a bunch at first lost a bunch of my favor with that attitude.

We weren't sold the memberships under the stipulation that we would have no rifle range for a full third of our membership. And feel quite cheated by it.

Honestly, I hope someone else comes in and gives some competition. I feel that being the only game in town, you don't have to fight to be the best and can be complacent. I like your facility, but feel like mud with how that went down.

I've being felling the same way. My membership just expired on 8/8/12 and I don't know if after paying for a full services membership last time and not having full service for I think half that membership I don't know if I want to re-up. The rifle range before the shutdown was in bad shape. If you went there when it was raining, which is why you go to an indoor range, half the lanes didn't work. I just don't know what to do now, I'm looking into other options.

[J]

After reading back through the emails, it appears that Eric, one of the owners was the one that responded to our last inquiry.

The gist of it was that they were held up by permits, and blaming Lakewood. Ok, I believe that, but why not make sure the permits are acquired before shutting down and starting renovations? The range was down just over 5 months. Each time a schedule was promised "in the next couple of weeks" and that continued for months.

His email continued to include "These are the only 2 options. They are both fair and equitable." and "Most of the original members that signed up w/ us last April have already renewed this year". He denies our request, saying "We are not prepared to extend memberships for the period of time that the rifle range is closed." Continuing "Because we now have so many members, when we re-open the rifle range, we'll be doing a membership hike".

I think this email response disappointed me most of all. Since ownership is already aware of this, and was the responding employee, I'm going to assume that pleading with one of the managers will not yield fruitful results.

[Vanniek71]

Send it to me, I can be a really squeaky wheel when I want to be.