The below is clipped from the Briley website. I find it rather scary that if Sparta and the state of Illinois would do something like this I wonder what they will do to the ATA if something pops up in a year or so because of something or other.
Is putting most of your eggs in one basket like Sparta/State of Illinois a wise choice?
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Briley Sparta Status Report
The Briley Sparta Shoot is on as planned. Their has been a lot talk about the Sparta shooting facility so I thought it was time for a little direct fireside chat as opposed to leaving the shooting community marooned with misinformation and fiction typically found in most internet chat rooms.
Here are the facts; Sparta had planned to start construction of 24 skeet fields in late April with a completion date of mid May. This is presently being done and is on schedule. Sparta had also planned to purchase skeet traps for those fields. Every manufacturer had an opportunity to bid this contract. This process ended two weeks ago. A week later we received a little shocking news! Because of state budget issues, they cancelled the trap order, postponing it until next year. Oh boy! Now what? Pretty hard to have a shoot without traps. NSSA comes to the rescue promising to pull traps out of their skeet houses at NSC, offering to supply most of the traps required for the tournament. Because of the nature and cost of transporting so much equipment for that weekend, our tournament will be limited to 225 shooters-Yes, there will two practice fields available at all times with a total of 17 fields.
There you have it! No doubt it has been very risky changing the venue of the Briley shoot. A risk we at Briley were very willing to take to mix it up a bit and meet shooters in a part of the country to which we never travel. So here we go, stay positive, shoot lots of hundreds, we?re coming north. Get ready!
Thanks,
Cliff Moller
Is putting most of your eggs in one basket like Sparta/State of Illinois a wise choice?
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Briley Sparta Status Report
The Briley Sparta Shoot is on as planned. Their has been a lot talk about the Sparta shooting facility so I thought it was time for a little direct fireside chat as opposed to leaving the shooting community marooned with misinformation and fiction typically found in most internet chat rooms.
Here are the facts; Sparta had planned to start construction of 24 skeet fields in late April with a completion date of mid May. This is presently being done and is on schedule. Sparta had also planned to purchase skeet traps for those fields. Every manufacturer had an opportunity to bid this contract. This process ended two weeks ago. A week later we received a little shocking news! Because of state budget issues, they cancelled the trap order, postponing it until next year. Oh boy! Now what? Pretty hard to have a shoot without traps. NSSA comes to the rescue promising to pull traps out of their skeet houses at NSC, offering to supply most of the traps required for the tournament. Because of the nature and cost of transporting so much equipment for that weekend, our tournament will be limited to 225 shooters-Yes, there will two practice fields available at all times with a total of 17 fields.
There you have it! No doubt it has been very risky changing the venue of the Briley shoot. A risk we at Briley were very willing to take to mix it up a bit and meet shooters in a part of the country to which we never travel. So here we go, stay positive, shoot lots of hundreds, we?re coming north. Get ready!
Thanks,
Cliff Moller