The Future May Be Brighter Than We Think

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Which is another way of saying... these young shooters will fill the eventual void for us as a shooting fraternity. We are facing our mortality..

Fixed it for us Dean..... At the ripe older age of 74 I truly hope there will be younger folks to fill our numbers and keep this wonderful sport of shooting/hunting perpetuated.

[MarketHunter]

By God! We're gonna beat these anti-gun sunsabitches at their own game with kids like this! There ain't much good news in the world today but this is certainly some worth reading.

[Mike Franzen]

That’s great news! I wonder how many states allow high school sponsored shooting teams?

[Stan Hillis]

The 4H shooting program is full bore in GA. I helped sponsor a team of young men who went to Kansas, as I recall, a few years back and won first place in the national sporting clays competition. They have now moved on to shoot in college, at GA Southern college, and nearly beat us in a shootout a couple years back for first place at a charity shoot at our local sporting clays range. There was a team shootout and I think our team beat theirs by just a bird or two. They're tough, I'm telling you.

I'm thrilled to see it.

[Jerry VanHorn]

In Arkansas there are many High School Teams. Here, in Highland, the team places in the top 3 most years. The community and the local gun shops support them...

[Larry the Gun Guy]

I think Destry is right, this is the answer to the future of our passion. Getting involved, by people like us who have the knowledge and background, will be key to keeping the shooting sports alive. And maybe getting involved is donating money to support these young folks and a little time to help out with some of the shoots. There's way more good in the world than the 5% of whiners that are on the 5:00 news every night, but it takes getting involved to have the 95% show up. This is an article from some of the shooting games in Minnesota, another place that according to the news is gone to the creeps, but it's not so. This is really good stuff. Here's a quote and an article about their shooting success and safety.

https://time.com/longform/high-school-shooting-teams/


As for safety: more than 70,000 students have fired 42 million shots since 2008. No one has reported a single injury, according to the league. At Spring Lake Park, coach Hanselman tells students to consume no sugar within an hour before a shoot, lest hyperactive teens grow even more jittery on the firing line. At every school in the league, students are required to earn a firearm–safety certificate to participate on the team. “We always enforce that every time you pull that trigger,” says Josh Kern, -assistant coach for Badger-Greenbush

[Mills]

My niece was getting a shooting lesson yesterday, so hopefully another to join our ranks

[Bruce Hering]

Through the efforts of the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) 4H and some other programs we are seeing a major participation jump in numbers of youth actively shooting.

As to schools allowing teams, it all depends on the districts and their "political Position". I know when we approached our board of trustees at Southeastern Illinois College there was no hesitation for the go ahead for a "team" to be formed and with some scholarship dollars. We went on to wil National championships as a team and as individual shooters in both SCTP Collegiate and ACUI (which is a collegiate competition).

However, locally I know of one HS team that is not connected to their school because school administration would not allow it. So the kids and parents formed an outside the school team, met all the necessary guide lines and "presto" there was a team which by the way had about 15-20 members. They are strictly trap shooters.

What I have seen and must say I am pleased with is more schools both HS and college are fielding teams shooting all disciplines. This means they can compete in the HOA side of the team shoots.

I do think our future is brighter and hope it will continue. If you want to see it in action check out the SCTP HS Nationals and look at their numbrs and team geographic distribution.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bruce Hering

However, locally I know of one HS team that is not connected to their school because school administration would not allow it. So the kids and parents formed an outside the school team, met all the necessary guide lines and "presto" there was a team which by the way had about 15-20 members. They are strictly trap shooters.

Bruce, are they allowed to shoot as a team in what is otherwise a school event?





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[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Bruce, are they allowed to shoot as a team in what is otherwise a school event?.

Dean: Yes, as I believe the SCTP rule states something on the order of "Clubs" as well as school named teams.

I'll check that.... be back later.