4mesh,
Just a clarification...you posted
"Not to speak out of school, but the payment penalty beginning a month ahead of the shoot seems a bit excessive to me. jmho. Especially considering there's only 3 days notice here about the shoot. At PA for the WO, we did that only for the last day entries. An easement on that might attract more entrants. Again, jmho"...I thought I remembered something about this a while back, so I searched the forums and found that, as I thought, Tom posted on another thread about the Nationals on May the 20th
"Fees: One gun $75.00 if pre-registered by August 1st. $85.00 after August 1st or weekend of match. Two guns $125.00 if pre-registered and $135.00 after August 1st. Junior shooters are half price. This includes a championship t-shirt and one lunch ticket."
Unless my math is wrong, that is alot more than three days. But anyway, as best I can remember we ( meaning IBS 1000yd clubs ) have always had a 30 day or so pre-registration. This was done to encourage shooters to sign up early so the clubs could have money to help with prizes and such. I remember from being around conversations from PA shooters that they have a massive bank account up there. That is great, and I hope it is true, but that allows alot of flexibility as far as this goes, so I am sure you can understand why it is done.
I also am pretty sure the form was on the IBS site and the Ohio site before the first of July.
-----------------------Jeff