From: "Clive Marshall-Purves", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Surely the major players, i.e. the Manufactures, and Importers, could
be persuaded to put up a decent JOINT cash prize.
UKú 10 û 20 K spread between them as prize monies the venue and
publicity would follow fairly easily. The BBC might even ta
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professional football, tennis, motorsport, boxing etc on
TV does indeed attract a lot of couch potatoes, but
professional golf, snooker and darts clearly must be
encouraging more participation.
I think the general rule to be implied is that the more
the equipment costs
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I don't think they need to be in the hundreds
of thousands to encourage competitions, I think a few
hundred quid would be more than enough, as opposed
to the usual cheap plastic trophy.
The question is, where is the money goin
From: "Nik Jones", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Nicholas Jones", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How many people are realistically going to be 'bribed' into taking up
shooting with big money prizes? How are people going to find out? There is
money to be made in many sports, all of which are more familiar to most
people than shooting and so more acc
From: Ken Wyatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do we honestly want people to come into the sport just to
win a couple of bob?
One problem I have noticed is that new blood aint coming
through, when i'm 93 (god willing) the same bunch of old tarts
will be sharing a brew with me, we'll just be older tarts.
If
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps the main reason for the decline of target shooting is the lack of
money involved. I don't mean from a participation side, where it is a great thing
that hundreds of people every weekend borrow a club or (more risky legally)
another members rifle, shotgun or pisto
