Some shooters, like Kevin McCormack and Bill Murphy, have shot since we were in high school with Parkers and Model 21s at out local clubs. It was a slow educational process, but we finally got a few, or more than a few, to spend a couple of hundred dollars here and there on a double gun to shoot at our clubs. Even though the dollars have been spent on double guns that Kevin and I and others showed them, these shooters are not in regular attendance at our shoots, even though there are probably six or seven clubs involved. Today, I went to our pigeon club for a nice 25 bird shoot, had a great time, stopped at a skeet and trap club that is ten minutes from my house, will attend the first shoot of our first fall sporting clays shoot tomorrow. At all of these clubs, side by sides will be shot, but not in volume. If people like Kevin and I had not shown these people that targets could be hit with these guns, and money could be made on these guns, they wouldn't be shooting them. When I was a teenager, there was no one shooting these guns at clay targets in my area except me, and Kevin. Things have changed, but not enough. Get out there and show them your guns.
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