New Bullseye shooters?

chiz1180 wrote:

A few other things that can help:
-ditch the elitist attitude
-don't bad mouth the other shooting disciplines
-stop equipment shaming (calling glocks junk for example)

chiz1180 wrote:

Wobbley wrote:A suggestion to implement it.   

Require Tablet/smartphone from each competitor, if the person does not have a tab/phone they can rent one for a $25.00 deposit with $20 returned at the end of the day.  Use your base computer as a Wi-Fi hotspot.  Have scores put in by a program and emailed to your base computer via something like an app like Bullseye Match.  Connect the tablets to your base system each morning .  

The $5 takes care of the maintenance fees and tablet replacement…the $25 deposit is about right to a) encourage people to get their own, and prevent pilferage. Use older tablets that are cheaper.  The functionality needed is minimal.  Just Bullseye Match app, email,and minimal operational items. 

Otherwise the competitor can pull the target and replace them each time.  I have found than marksmen (those who get impacts needing pasters) can really slow the scoring time while they paste all those holes.  So reface with a full face if more than one paster is needed.

As I have plenty of time to maintain a small network of machines on top of everything else going on. I have done the network administrator thing, got the t-shirt. It would only take one failure for the system to not work, I would rather spend match time shooting than playing network engineer while someone waits for their device to get fixed/work correctly. 

The only downside to paper is it can get tricky when wet, but I doubt too many people would volunteer their phone/ tablet to get wet either. 

Some things are better kept simple.

Wobbley wrote:With today’s 15 second attention span, a better approach would be to create a 15-20 second ad with images of 10m and 25m shooters and assorted Bullseye shooters in snippets.  Showing them having fun and being serious.  You have 4-5 seconds per image.  Start with the Turk air pistol guy image.  Narration says “this guy was identified as ‘cool’.  Yup we are”. Then show people shooting pistols at 50 & 25 , then say “Just how cool is that?”

john bickar wrote:

jareds06 wrote:use social media like youtube to get the word out about bullseye and traditional shooting sports.

Jared, you obviously neglected to notice how damn old I am. Apparently my charm and rugged good looks belie my age.

I'm about 15 years too old for YouTube, and about 30 years too old for TikTok.

Colt711 wrote:Holy Crap John, I still think of you as a kid! Where does that put me?