Raffle to Benefit HS Shooting Team

[GRAYWOLF]

Best answer I can provide is that the meeting is scheduled to start @1900...They are usually a little slow to start (this is the booster club made up of the parents). I do not know the agenda to know if that is the only business or first business or what.

Personally, I would expect the drawing to be first business (after all tickets collected), but to not happen before 1915.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

I just talked to the Pres and he is estimating a total of 400-500 tickets sold. Great news for those that bought tickets...improves the odds to somewhere around 1:80-1:100.

The meeting is being held at a local BBQ joint, so he is going to try to grab a customer that walks in the door and offer to buy their dinner if they will draw the tickets...that way the drawing is not done by anyone affiliated with the group.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but, for those of you that are local, our FFL is Eagle Gun Range in Lewisville.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

Well...none of the tickets I sold won...sorry everyone!

 

[Rbracy]

Well...none of the tickets I sold won...sorry everyone!

Oh well $'s to a good cause! Hope they raised enough money to accomplish their goals!
Rick

 

[GRAYWOLF]

yes a great cause and no one walked away empty handed.

Enough money was raised to cover all obligations related to the raffle (this includes funding an endowment account in exchange for donated guns). The endowment account will fund team activities for years to come.

Thank you, everyone, for all your support.

 

[M1Garand]

...Damn, if only I had come here earlier; I would've gladly bought a ticket. Sorry. Hopefully you raised a good amount of money! We need more HSs to include shooting sports.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

I'll still sell you one!!!!

Youth Target Foundation is the organization responsible for bringing it back. Right now it is just clay targets/shotguns. We are working to include pistol here locally. It looks like it is going to have to be done as a club outside of a school affiliation (for now).

SCTP is the national organization for clay target and their Siamese sister SPP is the pistol organization.

This is only the second season of YTF and HS Shooting teams. It is growing exponentially...really faster than YTF can manage (with regard to practice facilities). We have schools clamoring to form their own teams but are having to hold them off until we can find/build facilities to accommodate everyone. It is really great to see and be a part of it at this stage.

 

[GRAYWOLF]

If anyone is interested in seeing what this money funds and will be in San Antonio this weekend we will be having the State competition at the National Shooting Complex

Maps, Directions, Hotels : NSSA-NSCA

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Guess I'm too late, lol......