Why is the attendance at SxS events down?

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This is a timely and informative post for me. I will move to Johnson City TN sometime soon. There is not a sporting clays venue near there so my wife suggested I start one. Not sure that is a great idea after reading all these posts.
David

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Originally Posted by David Dwyer

This is a timely and informative post for me. I will move to Johnson City TN sometime soon. There is not a sporting clays venue near there so my wife suggested I start one. Not sure that is a great idea after reading all these posts.
David

there is a difference between a venue - shooting facility/club

and a specialty shoot at a club which is what i see as the topic here

[Opening Day]

David,
Go for it, you do it right and the people will come, hell look what we did for Drakes Landing and that was a few malcontents upset with Deep River, no advertising just word of mouth and now what do we have 75 or 80 shooters and we are not putting on any "event" just fun shooting which is something I think some of these promoters have forgotten about. Both Rich and I have said if we could only go to one shoot it would be the one in Medford WI, the Great Northern, not because of the vendors as they don't have the pull of the larger shoots but because everyone has fun, the shooters, the organizers the volunteers we all have fun just like at Drakes. Run it that way and the people will come.