2013 PGCA Annual Meeting Silent Auction Results

[Big D]

So --Dean's keyboard is missing the "S" and "M"?

Hmmmm

[Bindlestiff]

I guess I disagree with the view point on no shooting and not attending. I have attended several PGCA meetings that were in conjunction with gun shows (no shooting) and had a wonderful time. I can shoot any week of the year near home but I only get to hang out with Parker enthusiasts at the PGCA sponsored events.

Sure, the shooting is fun but for myself, it's the friendships made that draws me to attend. I observe that many at the PGCA annual meeting don't shoot but only one or two rounds but do hang out in the tent visiting with friends that they only get to see at these events.

Personally, the high point for me is the banquet, not the shooting. If you don't attend because there is no shooting, you are missing out on a good time.

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Robin Lewis

I guess I disagree with the view point on no shooting and not attending. I have attended several PGCA meetings that were in conjunction with gun shows (no shooting) and had a wonderful time. I can shoot any week of the year near home but I only get to hang out with Parker enthusiasts at the PGCA sponsored events.

Sure, the shooting is fun but for myself, it's the friendships made that draws me to attend. I observe that many at the PGCA annual meeting don't shoot but only one or two rounds but do hang out in the tent visiting with friends that they only get to see at these events.

Personally, the high point for me is the banquet, not the shooting. If you don't attend because there is no shooting, you are missing out on a good time.

Another thing I would like to point out, we had the same number of members at the meeting this year and also last year as we did at Louisville so Jent it is more then just shooting.. The LC Smith boys did an interesting meeting last year at the OGCA show (very nice show and central too), they setup a sporting clays shoot at one of the clubs on Friday before the show and then had their meeting and the show. Something to think about.

[C.O.B.]

First off I have never attended an annual meeting. IMHO combining it with a gun show such as Louisville or a shooting venue such as the Vintagers makes good sence.

The attendance seemed to be on a par with previous years with somewhere around 50+ participants so once again IMHO it was a successfull event.

I don't know how someone can say this wasn't a successfull event if they didn't attend

[6pt-Sika]

I'm not a member so this really is none of my buisness .

However ...........................................,

If I were a member a sporting clays course would not be a selling point for me .

Having shot skeet and trap for a good many years I still have a target shooters mentality and don't like shooting sporting competitively just for the simple fact that I'm 100% sure a 100 straight is out of the question . But then my years of 100 straights on the skeet or trap field aren't what they used to be either .

Anyway "if" I were a member something other then a sporting clays venue would be a better draw for me personally . Perhaps someplace like the Homestead in VA or the Greenbrier in WVA . Or Pinehurst in Carolina .

Actually a PGCA meeting/shoot at the Homestead or Greenbrier would be intresting something in the shooting of say 50 skeet , 50 trap , 50 5 stand and 50 Sporting Clays .

[Dean Romig]

The primary idea is to provide a venue of interest for the Collector while not leaving the shooters out. What I'm saying is that we don't decide on a venue for our Annual Meeting based primarily on what it can offer the shooters. In 1993 the PGCA was founded as a 'Collectors organization' but renewed interest in shooting old doubles over the last few decades has brought many hundreds of new members on board and we are delighted to have them and learn from them as well as from our very savvy Collectors. Probably the best way to "please most of the people all of the time" is to provide a venue which might offer something for those on both ends of the spectrum.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

The primary idea is to provide a venue of interest for the Collector while not leaving the shooters out. What I'm saying is that we don't decide on a venue for our Annual Meeting based primarily on what it can offer the shooters. In 1993 the PGCA was founded as a 'Collectors organization' but renewed interest in shooting old doubles over the last few decades has brought many hundreds of new members on board and we are delighted to have them and learn from them as well as from our very savvy Collectors. Probably the best way to "please most of the people all of the time" is to provide a venue which might offer something for those on both ends of the spectrum.

Thats all good and fine so why not consider one of the places I mentioned and see if you could coordinate it with the Fox Collectors and LC Smith Collectors associations and bring all three together ?

I'm sure you could find enough so called "expert collectors" that would be willing to give seminars on their own area of expertiese . Hell I'd even be willing to come to the Homestead or Greenbrier as a guest speaker and tell some self proclaimed lies of my own LOL's !

And of course send invites to certain venders !

Maybe even make it a team challenge type thing etc etc .

I suppose my idea's versus those of others explains why I usually prefer to be a GDI

But then it's like I said in my earlier post , this is none of my buisness !

[Bruce Day]

Its two days drive for me to the Southern , three to Rhode Island. That's two days enroute, two days return. If I fly, its one full day and haul one gun, drive then I can haul many more for exhibit.

So last year we ran the PGCA exhibits at the PF and NRA shows, that's close to $1000 each time, each person , and it was a two day drive to Houston. After all the talk about how the PGCA never does anything beyond the east coast and how much people would like to see a Parker exhibit, the PGCA membership turnout at the NRA show and who came by the 50 gun Parker exhibit was more than mildly disappointing. There were even those who lived less than 40 miles away who had complained about the PGCA not doing anything in their area who did not show. The NRA show and Parker exhibit was a major event with evening dinners after and I counted less than 20 PGCA members who identified themselves among close to 200,000 in attendance.

Over the years , seven years of Pheasant Fests, and two of NRA shows, I figure we have brought the Parker and PGCA message to close to one million firearms enthusiasts, made close to $50,000 for the PGCA and cost the association almost nothing. We've sent the Parker message out through free radio, television and print advertising paid for by the NRA or PF....who knows how many people that went out to.

So I'm surprised when people say that the PGCA is involved in only one or two events per year at the Southern or Vintagers. I guess our efforts don't count.


Louisville is a one day drive, Ohio is one day. Much easier for me to make those, and I would. Most members are east coast but occasionally there is a good Parker out here in fly over country.

[Big D]

[Bruce Day]

Originally Posted by John Dallas

John, maybe I'm dense but I don't understand. Is me saying that the PGCA has had yearly major events beyond the east coast beating a dead horse?