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andyd1179
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Hya Guys,
With watching a number of Forums to do with Benchrest Shooting and the competitions that go on around the world it seems difficult to get associations to come together support Rimfire Benchrest shooting for the shooters that belong to them and take part in.
There are so many different classes now because the sport has grown but seems in some way it has almost out grown itself, that it’s difficult to put on large events to cover all the disciplines in one go. There are 4 major events in a 3 year period that shooters can take part in or can make the team for.
Nationals
European Championship
World Championship
World Postal
There are so many associations around the world that are involved in these competitions but all run different rules from local level, European level and World level. For the European and World level you have to make the team. The way it stands at the moment is that the World Championships follows the year after the European’s, financing for two events one after the other is almost impossible for the European shooters to do both as most shooters have to find the finance to pay go to such event and have to make hard decisions on which one to finance for means the team side of things suffer, this could also be said for other countries.
At present we have the ERABSF and the WRABF, from what I can see is that the WRABF has 15 nations that are part of it and all the European countries that are part of the organisation are also part of ERABSF. Getting sponsorship for the events is an almost impossible task, I know as I have been involved in this in the pass but how can we help the shooter get involved in high profile shooting and raise funds to put these major events on?
Well one idea that I have to put forward to the Benchrest community is that a number of postal events are run each year were shooters from any level can take part in and the entry fees are then put forward to these major events run by WRABF and ERABSF. To make it fare the ERABSF would have to make their European an open championship so as to be fare to all countries to take part.
There could be a postal event for each of the different disciplines held at a local club level i.e. unlimited, light varmit, hunter and so on for Rimfire and Air Rifle held on a certain date all around the world, obviously at weekends. It would have to be different dates for each of the disciplines and cover not just 50m but also 25yd.
If something like this was done then Benchrest shooting could be almost self supporting which would help each country that was to hold the major events each time and also bring the cost down of such an event. postal events are not complicated to run but can help drive the sport forward if those that were involved thought slightly outside the box.
If you charged say £15 entry fee ($24/€17) and had say 15,000 shooters from all over the world taking part in just one postal that would come to £225,000 a year and that is just one postal event ($363,552/€256,324)
This is just an idea; there may be others that could come up with some other idea to raise the profile of the sport around the world and to bring those associations together to think about the future of our great sport.
AndyD
With watching a number of Forums to do with Benchrest Shooting and the competitions that go on around the world it seems difficult to get associations to come together support Rimfire Benchrest shooting for the shooters that belong to them and take part in.
There are so many different classes now because the sport has grown but seems in some way it has almost out grown itself, that it’s difficult to put on large events to cover all the disciplines in one go. There are 4 major events in a 3 year period that shooters can take part in or can make the team for.
Nationals
European Championship
World Championship
World Postal
There are so many associations around the world that are involved in these competitions but all run different rules from local level, European level and World level. For the European and World level you have to make the team. The way it stands at the moment is that the World Championships follows the year after the European’s, financing for two events one after the other is almost impossible for the European shooters to do both as most shooters have to find the finance to pay go to such event and have to make hard decisions on which one to finance for means the team side of things suffer, this could also be said for other countries.
At present we have the ERABSF and the WRABF, from what I can see is that the WRABF has 15 nations that are part of it and all the European countries that are part of the organisation are also part of ERABSF. Getting sponsorship for the events is an almost impossible task, I know as I have been involved in this in the pass but how can we help the shooter get involved in high profile shooting and raise funds to put these major events on?
Well one idea that I have to put forward to the Benchrest community is that a number of postal events are run each year were shooters from any level can take part in and the entry fees are then put forward to these major events run by WRABF and ERABSF. To make it fare the ERABSF would have to make their European an open championship so as to be fare to all countries to take part.
There could be a postal event for each of the different disciplines held at a local club level i.e. unlimited, light varmit, hunter and so on for Rimfire and Air Rifle held on a certain date all around the world, obviously at weekends. It would have to be different dates for each of the disciplines and cover not just 50m but also 25yd.
If something like this was done then Benchrest shooting could be almost self supporting which would help each country that was to hold the major events each time and also bring the cost down of such an event. postal events are not complicated to run but can help drive the sport forward if those that were involved thought slightly outside the box.
If you charged say £15 entry fee ($24/€17) and had say 15,000 shooters from all over the world taking part in just one postal that would come to £225,000 a year and that is just one postal event ($363,552/€256,324)
This is just an idea; there may be others that could come up with some other idea to raise the profile of the sport around the world and to bring those associations together to think about the future of our great sport.
AndyD