The little poll on the general competetion forum showed only the crappy websight and the lack of ranges as the problems with FRIDPA, and Tom Freeman had some great observations about other culprits. Our last Clear Creek match had only 16 shooters.

So, we have a new websight. I have tried some searches, and I am finding it easier and easier to stumble into info on FRIDPA. As far as there not being enough ranges, I can't agree because we can't even fill the two we have. So here is the question and the crux of my post: what do we do now? What is the next step in fixing this thing and getting participation back up to a reasonable leveL (which I will arbitrarily define as, say 30-40 like it was a couple of years ago). In addition to new shooters, we have dozens if not hundreds of experienced shooters who are now staying away in droves. We have a mostly new board, we have several very "new people oriented" shooters such as Tom, and the politics seems to be calming down.

So what is it? Is it the stages? Is is holdover from all of the strife? I wonder if we need to do a little marketing. The BOD can't do it all, would the general membership be willing to ask thier Gun dealers of choice to hand out cards or flyers with gun purchases or something of that nature? What about a gun show booth? Would that even help?

I worry that at the current participation level, CCCSC is going to decide that we are not bringing in enough revenue to justify the range time. Within the bounds of constructive criticism, I think a little brainstorming would be healthy. BTW, it was good to see you back at the CC FRIDPA match, Tom.

-Matt Freeman, FRIDPA BOD