Vendors are a great addition to a shoot and the main reason I go to the Southern cause it sure isn't the shooting there. Ernie has a good vendor turnout as well and good shooting. These shoots are held the same weekends every year and both shooters and vendors can make their plans.
Michigan has a fledgling shoot in early September called The Tunnel of Trees. This is the third year and while they had vendors last year there will be none this year. I asked the reason why and was told "they didn't sell anything". I bought a nice Fox AE 20 from one of them.
The Great Northern is an excellent shoot but vendor participation is sparse there also.
At the end of the day the events need shooters first and foremost to survive. The southern and Ernie's make good on both sides of the event but out of the half dozen or shoots I go to they are the only two that do so.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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