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Josh, now that the catalog is done what will you do with all of your spare time?
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In my opinion rare, usual and quality collector side by sides are cyclic however the differential price points over the last ten years has shown substantial gains. I personally don't believe the next ten years will be as aggressive but I'm wrong on many of my ideas and time will tell.
However I enjoy traveling and shooting at different clubs over multiple states and my long term concern is I'm observing a tremendous reduction in the number of shooters and how free rounds they're shooting. I've shot multiple days in San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix and Tucson in the last three months and never once waited for a station at Sporting Clays, Trap, Skeet, Bunker or Wobble trap. All these clubs mentioned how they are throwing fewer birds, we probably didn't start with side by sides but got their because of our appreciation for shotgunning. Part of this issue is components and shell pricing but we need to be generating the next generation of US!!!!! |
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The softening of the prices and the easing of number of rounds being shot can be explained by the results of the PGCA Survey. 70% of the folks are 60 or more years old
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Gray is certainly the color of choice for hair at the Vegas gun show. It also works at the Rod Run car show in West Yellowstone. Not so many kids interested in 32 Ford roadsters.
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Recruitment is the answer, is it not?
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In my experience the people who shoot a lot are not necessarily always older, they were just smart enough to dollar cost average buying flats of shells over the past decade and are sitting on huge stock piles so they can weather these prices. I keep buying as I see flats become available (more on the shelves now than in a long time) and over time feel it will keep me shooting. My comfort level is a certain number of flats that I will not put into print, while I know guys who are sitting on PALLETS of shells and still buying aggressively. I think if you're waiting for $7 boxes of shells you should sell me your guns, but I am seeing $10 boxes all the time now. I do load RST hulls for my SxS but that is a very small percentage of what I shoot, opting to shoot regular 1200fps 2 3/4" in my VH guns. When a round of sporting and 100 shells costs $100 you're not getting many new shooters to enter the ranks. That's more than a round of golf around here, and I wouldn't pay $2 to golf.
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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;378576] Recruitment is the answer, is it not?
As for recruitment, I see it at my club coming from the most implausible of places: competing clay shooting teams from Harvard, and Northeastern Universities, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From whence springs the interest with these metropolitan college students, I have no idea, but should find out. It is true, nevertheless, that the old guns and old cars appeal mostly to the old guys. Here is a photo of one of my former shipmates from the petroleum transport industry, not a gun “collector" and has not hunted in many years, but retains a few firearms, including a Belgian hammer gun. He worked full-time as a merchant mariner into his mid-70s, and now as a widowed 79-year-old retiree, visited us here in Massachusetts a few weeks ago, after leaving his home in Alabama on a one-month-long, 16-state, 5,500 mile single-handed, auto trip in a rented vehicle (not his 1937 Business Coupe that you see here).
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