The new, totally redesigned www.TexasShooting.com will be launched in February as part of a new program to promote all types of shooting sports. This will be a statewide effort and it will be offered at no cost to everyone in the shooting community. A planning meeting will be at held 2:00pm on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Since this will be a statewide effort, it will not be necessary to come to PSC to attend. At this point, I plan to use http://www.GoToMeeting.com and we can have up to 15 different locations around the State. We will have one meeting location at PSC and I am currently working on at least two more in the Houston area; one north of town and one west of town.
We also need locations in other cities throughout the State. Each meeting location will need Internet access, preferably with a large monitor or projector, depending on the number of people in attendance and a telephone with speaker phone capability. If you would like to be a meeting host , please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and provide your name, contact information, proposed meeting location and the number of people you can accommodate. We will make the final location selections based upon the input we get from volunteer coordinators.
This is an exciting new concept and approach to getting people into the shooting sports. Whether their interest is purely recreational shooting, self-defense, or competition, they will be impacted by this new approach. It is imperative that we ban together to promote the "fun side of shooting" to people who own guns, but never take them out of the closet or drawer. The more people we can attract, the stronger we will be as a political community and the stronger the shooting industry will be from an economic standpoint. This new project will not be solely for IDPA shooters, or pistol shooters in general. We need every shooting sport/discipline represented.
Who should attend the meeting. Here is a short list of people I think would be beneficial to the effort, but this is by no means an all-inclusive list:
- Match Directors & staff for all shooting disciplines
- People involved in youth shooting sports of any type (not just matches)
- People involved in ladies programs
- Boy Scout/Girl Scout Leaders
- Firearms instructors
- Shooting range owners
- People active in informal recreational shooting (a/k/a plinking)
- Individuals willing to promote the shooting sports informally (You don't have to have a title, just a desire to help!)
- Gunsmiths & others in a shooting or gun-related business
- People willing to share their experiences by writing articles (ex. the two father/daughter articles recently posted on www.TexasCHLforum.com)
If anyone wants to email me about this project and/or meeting, I can be reached at
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With your help, this project will be successful and we will provide a great resource for current shooters to use in inviting non-shooting gun owners to get active in the shooting sports, whether formally or informally. This increase in sport shooting activity will benefit us all by helping to build a larger, stronger and more active political base, as well as strengthening the shooting industry.
There will be different slogans used for this effort as time goes on, but the initial "campaign slogan" is Sport shooting is fun -- Give it a shot! (This pun is intended.)
Get involved and let's work together to grow all of the shooting sports!
With your help, this project will be successful and we will provide a great resource for current shooters to use in inviting non-shooting gun owners to get active in the shooting sports, whether formally or informally. This increase in sport shooting activity will benefit us all by helping to build a larger, stronger and more active political base, as well as strengthening the shooting industry.
There will be different slogans used for this effort as time goes on, but the initial "campaign slogan" is Sport shooting is fun -- Give it a shot! (This pun is intended.)
Get involved and let's work together to grow all of the shooting sports!
Chas.
