On another post a statement was made ( they already have it. HoF very few people care.) I feel this was a very sad, shortsighted and a counter productive statement by any trapshooter.
Basicly the HoF is the history of our sport. If anyone has no interest in the history of trapshooting why would they want to even participate in the sport let alone waste their time making a statement such as this?
My take on where the national HoF should be is as follows. I believe that wherever it is located it needs to be advertised to try to draw in people from the general public and not somewhere that is mostly unknown to anyone outside of the shooting sports. Over all the years that it has been at Vandalia it has been unknown to most people other than ATA members. With Vandalia being listed as the Crossroads of America many more people would have visited and enjoyed the HoF if nothing more than highway billboards each way from Vandalia along the interstate highways 70 and 75 would have advertised it and if it would have been included in many of the what to do brochures in the Dayton area.
My opinion only, but why does it need to be at the site of the Grand American where only shooters will see it? A few locations that would be good for it is to remain somewhere in Vandalia, Ohio on property that the HoF owns. (It does not own it's present location.) It already has in place there a good and knowledgeable person in charge of daily operations. At the Cardinal Center on deeded property that the HoF would own right along interstate 71 and be visable to the thousands of vehicles that travel past each day. Another very good location would be in Virginia close to the NRA Museum. If it is built on property that it owns I believe there would be many people willing to donate funds to help it become a reality. Wherever it goes it needs high visability, advertising and property it owns.
Definitely I don't want to see it put in storage without a solid plan in place to have it on display again very quickly. If the history of our sport is dismantled and put in storage without a plan for a home I fear that it will be gone forever.
This is only my opinion. There may be an uninformed few that realy don't care, but I don't believe that many trapshooters are of that opinion. What is your opinion?
Dave
Basicly the HoF is the history of our sport. If anyone has no interest in the history of trapshooting why would they want to even participate in the sport let alone waste their time making a statement such as this?
My take on where the national HoF should be is as follows. I believe that wherever it is located it needs to be advertised to try to draw in people from the general public and not somewhere that is mostly unknown to anyone outside of the shooting sports. Over all the years that it has been at Vandalia it has been unknown to most people other than ATA members. With Vandalia being listed as the Crossroads of America many more people would have visited and enjoyed the HoF if nothing more than highway billboards each way from Vandalia along the interstate highways 70 and 75 would have advertised it and if it would have been included in many of the what to do brochures in the Dayton area.
My opinion only, but why does it need to be at the site of the Grand American where only shooters will see it? A few locations that would be good for it is to remain somewhere in Vandalia, Ohio on property that the HoF owns. (It does not own it's present location.) It already has in place there a good and knowledgeable person in charge of daily operations. At the Cardinal Center on deeded property that the HoF would own right along interstate 71 and be visable to the thousands of vehicles that travel past each day. Another very good location would be in Virginia close to the NRA Museum. If it is built on property that it owns I believe there would be many people willing to donate funds to help it become a reality. Wherever it goes it needs high visability, advertising and property it owns.
Definitely I don't want to see it put in storage without a solid plan in place to have it on display again very quickly. If the history of our sport is dismantled and put in storage without a plan for a home I fear that it will be gone forever.
This is only my opinion. There may be an uninformed few that realy don't care, but I don't believe that many trapshooters are of that opinion. What is your opinion?
Dave