The gun club I belong to has opened its gate in the past to the Scouts. Over time though, people start doing other things and forget about bringing in the Scouts.
However, we recently had interest from Scout Troops in two counties and said, sure, come on in. We will be having some Scouts there to set up targets (metallic and reactive) and also sell food as a Scout Fund Raiser during matches, and others will be coming strictly to learn how to shoot.
Last year started a High School Trap League with the help of the local High School, Illini West, and the Scholastic Clays Trap Program and we have the team using our grounds to train and for matches. It has worked out beautifully and the trap team actually made a $12.00 profit over the year from the money we gave them to start the program (buying shotguns, gear, birds, shells, etc...) In Illinois and some other states, I know that trap is a competitive sport for the state school sports associations.
Its' always nice to have somebody too young to buy alcoholic beverages come into the club because we don't have to argue with them about leaving the beer outside the club grounds!
(alcohol strictly prohibited here!)
The Doc is out now.
