canvasback, I agree with your point of view. We're just going to have to suck it up and keep plodding along.

The qualifying words of my negative view of the future of the shooting sports were "as I know it."

Most of it is gone now, and becoming "more expensive and difficult to do," as forecast above.

A members' survey a while ago indicated our average age is somewhere in the 50s. Many never experienced real enjoyment of open spaces.