£75-£60-£50 in AA/AAA less in A, B & C get shop vouchers.So how much prize money are you expecting for this £32 - £35? None at all perhaps? Or maybe £10? Just a thought.
£75-£60-£50 in AA/AAA less in A, B & C get shop vouchers.So how much prize money are you expecting for this £32 - £35? None at all perhaps? Or maybe £10? Just a thought.
...the £45 entry shoot up here is £5 pay backSo how much prize money are you expecting for this £32 - £35? None at all perhaps? Or maybe £10? Just a thought.
Thats how to make a ground buzz! Go for for it you crazy spendthrift! Shop vouchers? FFS.£75-£60-£50 in AA/AAA less in A, B & C get shop vouchers.
They've made a fair crack of it for at least 30 years that I know :baby: in the current format of ground and shop in one location for maybe 20 years. They have at least 6 full time staff with numerous long standing part timers; their monthly wage bill must be around the £15k+, not saying they make it all from clays but some keep telling us there is nothing in guns and ammo they must be doing something right.:fie: Hampster if you had a ground and ran it like that you would be bankrupt inside a month!
If you had 12 AA class shooters, 17 A class, 37 B class shooters and 58 C class shooters and you paid out how you said I doubt that you would be out of hospital in time to run your second shoot! :crazy:
AAA is only for International competitions or major classics.
Think that vouchers, free entry, or any other non monetary prize is not allowed within the CPSA registered prize fund ruling, it clearly states that the differance between competition & birds only is to be paid back within each class........Thats how to make a ground buzz! Go for for it you crazy spendthrift! Shop vouchers? FFS.
Not wishing to bust into the Horne thread it would be interesting to get both shooters as well as ground owners views on what exactly a round of reg ESP ought to cost ?
I have lately paid between £30 - £38 for a 100 bird, anything over £35 makes me look around trying to spot the hot spa facilities so when looking at a splash fest portaloo :bad: , muddy fields for access as well as parking, the mind kind of goes fuzzy even before trying to make a judgement as to target quality.
My favourite shooting ground which by blissful coincidence happens to be clean, with a spacious log cabin, alcohol and eating facilities, hard parking, just off the main road, flush loo and hand washing, open Sundays gun shop, good scorers, huge towers, TWO different birds per stand and excellent quality targets that represent your average, charges £30 for members and I believe £32or4 if not. Their only slip is the fact they only have 10 stands as a very busy couple of extra stands are always running for beginners.
So you can imagine my surprise when I have to pay £38 anywhere, let alone some twice a month site.
This " before text means quote, this " after text means unquote. Perhaps you were being ironic ?Chanonry old chap, perhaps you should add £25 to that £50 and complete a C.P.S.A. Referee's course. Perhaps then with a good deal of practice, you may be capable of being a, (and I quote) "A half-wit Referee" (unquote) and then when suitably insulted, you too could collect your £50 and make your lonely way home.
Of course you could just shoot for the pleasure, as do we lesser mortals and save yourself some money.
Thought that would elicit a response from you !How does £45 for 10 stands with 9 refs sound? (Scottish registered shoots are all subject to a £4 per head levy)
Always having the odd dig Phil, and always ignoring the reality that we don't all live within a two hour return drive of other excellent grounds. Nor are you prepared to hear me repeatedly saying I have a life outside clays.Maybe you should travel a bit further afield to see what else is out there ..... :mp3: :mp3:
Always having the odd dig Phil, and always ignoring the reality that we don't all live within a two hour return drive of other excellent grounds. Nor are you prepared to hear me repeatedly saying I have a life outside clays.
How ironic that we don't see your good self on my patch.
I do travel a bit farther afield once or thrice a year, often get to experience and shoot different and dare I say even better targets but very rarely do I experience better facilities so forgive me if I don't do 5 hour runs every Sunday and spend an extra £50 on fuel.
Yes, occasionally. The thread title and content though is about asking shooters and ground owners their views of what a round of reg ESP ought to cost, compliment accepted leasantry: but it isn't about me.Im happy to travel.......are YOU !!!
tI agree with what Hamster said above. :thumbsu:
My only thought about this would be, do the grounds like, Greenfields, Churchills, Southern Counties, Garlands, and the like, see the shooting as a means to attract customers through their facilities (shop/food etc) and can afford to look at the shooting side as something of a loss leader, because they make sales through the other side of their business?
The site that is just a shoot but nothing much else, has to pay for itself entirely from entry fees.
Looking at Majors like The Classic, British Open etc, with trade stands, catering, transport and other entertainment (pool shoots/have a go stands) seems to me to be good value as it offers an "all day entertainment" package. :biggrin:
Same event as you Deershooter. Trouble is we all perceive things differently according to the size of the chip on our shoulder.British open sporting what event did you attend
Deershooter
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