I belong to two clubs.
The first club, as far as shotgun shooting is concerned, offers sporting clays and trap and is just holding on. Money-wise, we are just making a tiny profit. The number of shooters is certainly down. A few of the club's directors have been beating the drum to close down sporting clays for about six years now, and they will likely succeed in doing so by the end of the year. Go figure that I saw one of the directors looking at Parkers at the Vintage Cup!? Nothing is written in stone, but it does look like that will happen. I hope I'm wrong.
The other club, again, as far as shotgun shooting is concerned, offers trap and skeet and is not doing good either but for a different reason. It turns out that the club's president has allegedly misappropriated about $38,000 of the club's revenue. The club's property taxes are unpaid for two years as well as a host of other bills are past due. So, they are in danger of closing too.
