[Cold Spring]

Just my take on things.

Of course this is only the 2nd time Hopkins did the Vintagers event, but Hopkins has been putting on well run sporting clays tournaments for twenty or more years and surely knows how to do the shooting part. The question is: was Hopkins doing the event as per parameters set forth by the new Vintagers organization, or was Hopkins in the driver's seat and using the Vintagers name and goodwill to promote its own (Hopkins) SxS shoot?

Said another way, was this a Hopkins shoot or a Vintagers shoot? It seems the answer is the latter as there were Vintagers flying signposts at the entrance driveway to the club and none of the promotional posts I've seen either here or elsewhere were originated by Hopkins management or staffers.

If in fact this was a Vintagers shoot, the feedback and improvement ideas should be addressed to the Vintagers organization, not to Hopkins as some of the posts here seem to propose. I'm sure Hopkins will do whatever the Vintagers contracts for, and do it well, and I believe that the future improvement of this event lies primarily with the Vintagers leadership. Let's not chase the wrong rabbit.

One last comment, it didn't help that there were three competing events last weekend and the weekend before. And those of us in the north who didn't have other obligations and wanted to shoot or see some of the larger vendors before they travelled to Hopkins, had other options closer to home.

Again, all this is just my take fwiw.

frank