It's always a risk when I speak up,
The PRS and Shannon specifically has stated, He demands Loyalty, so knowing all the players first hand it's not hard to mobilize a campaign against me. As Scott noted, that email was not meant for the public but it started out first paragraph attacking Scott.
The Jersey letter, as even referenced here, they are still mad at me over that, and honestly I had no dog in the fight. They just know it was a pet peeve, so much so when people started grumbling at RO when the incident was happening in real time. Gardner told me, he said to Sikes, wait til Galli hears this ... they know.
I have been attacked, I know it, my reputation is not what it was the moment I spoke up about the PRS. I would wager 99% of those who popped into the community in the last 6 years only knows me for my dislike for match shooters. That in itself is a complete twist, they spun it to frame me as some Troll, which is fine. I can take it otherwise I would have not posted this.
Because I am BOLDER than most, that real hate they have is in the fact I have done more than they have, and my size says I should have never done any of it. What people don't realize is, I hear all of it. Even in their cliques I have such a long history here, there is always one person in that group who will tell me. People talk, I hear about the coordination to suppress things I am doing. Hell they had people rewrite my history who are younger than my daughter.
I honestly think it will change things and I will tell you how,
1. It open eyes, so those thinking about it, can think again.
2. it shows there are options and people are open to them
3. It does correct course in small batches,
If you take this post as one incident, it could be considered a waste of bandwidth, but when you look at the last two podcasts, the conversations about competitions with Scott, Phil, and Pete, people would realize there are changes taking place.
Maybe you didn't know there are is a WyPR Series now, that is working with a Montana Series, as well you have a CA series, the Best of West, you have the Border Wars, these are all small regionals that are cropping up.
If people understand the History of the sport, they can better steer it in the right direction. This was started a practical sport, working rifles, running and gunning. Now we have Barricade Benchrest, the practical side of things have been replaced by bench rest style execution. Left alone, I honestly believe we'll see air actuators, the goal is moving towards completely removing the shooter in everything but pointing the rifle at the target. Everything is being driven towards something else.
The calls for a Summit are being answered, people agree. Let's fix it while we can. Nobody is saying eliminate it, we are saying reset it back to something more practical, more free and open, and less driven by Cliques.
Segregation within the group is what pushes the divide between the groups.
We should have these uncomfortable conservations, we are small enough, we are agile enough if we want to be.
I think 2015 was the first time I went to a 2 day match. I became a MD for our local club in 2016.
