Regarding the silent auction... This year, the club let loose a lot of nice items from their collection in order to put them out into the hands of the members. A good amount of original factory tools and memorabilia. As well as a lot of other high quality contributions from individuals.
A big thank you to the PGCA and other contributors for this!

I'm sorry I missed Allan's coffee grinders. Linda tells me we need more at our house. :):):)

Special congratulations are in order for all those who helped assemble this years annual meeting and banquet. A great deal of effort goes in to making it a special weekend each and every year. The silent auction- along with the raffle gun- are two of the more important fundraising activities we do each year. Big time kudos and thanks are in order to all who volunteered their valuable time to make it successful!

I don't agree with the idea that something was wrong with the choice for this year's annual meeting. While the absence of a few members from the Northeast was noticed, what I noticed, when comparing this year's meeting with last years, is that far fewer members made the trip north this year, than those who traveled south last year. The net return from the silent auction is more indicative of the number and quality of items available for bidding, and has little to do with the number of members present.
While this year's event was held in conjunction with the Vintage Cup, and the number of 'Vintagers' may have been down, the number of those who came through the PGCA tent was encouraging and the display they saw was first class. I can't imagine anyone could find the least bit of issue with the venue, the decorum of the Trappers or the variety of stations. If someone didn't attend, they ought not make judgements and think something was 'wrong'.

I would love to go to one of these shoots but I have a limit on how far I can go and how much time it takes. Can this ever be done in the Midwest somewhere?? It seems that all the big shoots are on the east coast. Thanks, Frank

Our primary intent when choosing a site for the Annual Meeting is not necessarily to hold it in conjunction with a shoot per se, but rather to draw as many Collectors, Collector/Shooters and Shooters only as possible in order to simply have a good representative attendance of all three types of Parker Gun Collectors Assoc as possible. That seems to include having a decent sporting clays range and a great collectors venue as well. The Annual Meeting we held in Louisville two years ago was geographically in the middle of the country and drew only a similar attendance as this year's event.

Umm, Mr. Editor............. did you mean to say that?

I'm all for getting more hooters to our shoots:shock:

Easy for you to say Chuck. Your wife only goes to keep a watchful eye on you. If my wife gets wind that we go to look at hooters, I'll get grounded.
I wonder if that was a Freudian Slip on Dean's part?