The crowd enjoying lunch after the LCSCA 2024 Spring Shoot. The fella looking at the camera next to Frank Finch, and his wife or girlfriend, were the only non-old guys.
This is discouraging, and I've done my part trying to get med students and friends into shooting and bird hunting, but IMHO this is the new reality.
I intend to enjoy my old guns as long as I can, with the old shooting friends that remain, but have significantly thinned the herd.

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LOTS of upper Midwest folks come to Arizona to retire, bringing their shotguns, and when they can not longer shoot, a grandson walks into Cabela's looking to trade for a black gun. Some pretty nice doubles show up, but the interest for them is limited. I think William Larkin Moore is doing fine, but they ARE in Scottsdale.

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