The, "don't eat your own part" is actually quite funny,
Takes courage to say something unpopular with these guys, they attack at the drop of the dime and will sweep things under the rug before the last car leaves the lot.
I have been accused a lot of "dividing" the community, yet they never really look at the situation, just the part they see which usually comes after a bunch of talking that gets ignored out of convenience. Then the shooters start in with the gossip, ignoring the facts, forgetting how things go there, etc. I hear a lot how out of touch we are for pointing out the facts. My favorite is how irrelevant I am in all this,
If I'm irrelevant, and nothing I say matters, why do guys start entire posts and write memes about it? Can't be for just entertainment, I mean again, still nobody wants to acknowledge or explain the rise and growth of the NRL. The first year the PRS guys would say, "Who" now not so much. Clearly, that did not start because of me complaining.
I have pointed this stuff out of since day one, it was never started for the right reasons, and everyone let it continue down the wrong path. When something is good it does not get bought and sold 4x in 5 years.
Thesis,
We let sponsors pick and choose who gets what all the time. We have stages designed for them where the winner gets the prize. We have let on-site sponsors find the guy with the worse rifle and reward him with a new one. I have given prizes throughout the field including the last place like I noted above. If a sponsor is not on site they will leave it up to me to pick a worthy, marketable candidate. We gave LawnMa on here a Barrett MRAD at one match as he deserved a rifle, and Barrett was the title sponsor. In fact last year most of the on hand prizes went to the juniors, the regular guys got cash.
I have given rifles to women before any other match, I have brought in junior by the squad and not to be a complete dick, but there is very little that we did not do before the PRS existed. Rifles Only started this stuff in 1996 to 1998, the pictures are on the wall. We started the Cup in 2003 and have had matches every year since. That is 9 years before the PRS existed.
The funny thing everyone forgets, the day I was asked about the PRS for the very first time, as it started its life through discussion on here. I was in the Shout Box and I said, it should have been free for all until established, and the screams of capitalism came out. Yet they had no product, no matches, they never even approached matches about the early registration, they just assumed. Which is why I refused to help. I saw it a fake reason to put a group between the Shooter and the MD for no reason at all, well there was a reason, to match money because matches sold out in 1 minute. They saw the growth and popularity and said, "how did I get a piece of that too"
Even today after paying off all the partners for the last sale, there is no way to make the money back. Too much was paid by a wide margin, which good on the guys who bought shares, but the current owner, he is probably stuck with it unless someone with deeper pockets takes it. Even then he bought nothing but a name and website with a list of shooters.
The politics of it all sucks, and if you think i am the one responsible for "eating our own" you have a lot of learning to do.
Takes courage to say something unpopular with these guys, they attack at the drop of the dime and will sweep things under the rug before the last car leaves the lot.
I have been accused a lot of "dividing" the community, yet they never really look at the situation, just the part they see which usually comes after a bunch of talking that gets ignored out of convenience. Then the shooters start in with the gossip, ignoring the facts, forgetting how things go there, etc. I hear a lot how out of touch we are for pointing out the facts. My favorite is how irrelevant I am in all this,
If I'm irrelevant, and nothing I say matters, why do guys start entire posts and write memes about it? Can't be for just entertainment, I mean again, still nobody wants to acknowledge or explain the rise and growth of the NRL. The first year the PRS guys would say, "Who" now not so much. Clearly, that did not start because of me complaining.
I have pointed this stuff out of since day one, it was never started for the right reasons, and everyone let it continue down the wrong path. When something is good it does not get bought and sold 4x in 5 years.
Thesis,
We let sponsors pick and choose who gets what all the time. We have stages designed for them where the winner gets the prize. We have let on-site sponsors find the guy with the worse rifle and reward him with a new one. I have given prizes throughout the field including the last place like I noted above. If a sponsor is not on site they will leave it up to me to pick a worthy, marketable candidate. We gave LawnMa on here a Barrett MRAD at one match as he deserved a rifle, and Barrett was the title sponsor. In fact last year most of the on hand prizes went to the juniors, the regular guys got cash.
I have given rifles to women before any other match, I have brought in junior by the squad and not to be a complete dick, but there is very little that we did not do before the PRS existed. Rifles Only started this stuff in 1996 to 1998, the pictures are on the wall. We started the Cup in 2003 and have had matches every year since. That is 9 years before the PRS existed.
The funny thing everyone forgets, the day I was asked about the PRS for the very first time, as it started its life through discussion on here. I was in the Shout Box and I said, it should have been free for all until established, and the screams of capitalism came out. Yet they had no product, no matches, they never even approached matches about the early registration, they just assumed. Which is why I refused to help. I saw it a fake reason to put a group between the Shooter and the MD for no reason at all, well there was a reason, to match money because matches sold out in 1 minute. They saw the growth and popularity and said, "how did I get a piece of that too"
Even today after paying off all the partners for the last sale, there is no way to make the money back. Too much was paid by a wide margin, which good on the guys who bought shares, but the current owner, he is probably stuck with it unless someone with deeper pockets takes it. Even then he bought nothing but a name and website with a list of shooters.
The politics of it all sucks, and if you think i am the one responsible for "eating our own" you have a lot of learning to do.