Shawnee & Billy B
The
"If you build it they will come" theory is valid, that's just the way it went here.
We announced in 2010 and folks began over course of year, began to contact & join us.
We held our 1st. NCOWS sanctioned first shoot in the State, in 2011.
However, I might suggest a bit of caution reaching out unsolicited ( your doing fine here on the BB and attending SASS shoots looking for like minded folks though)
The reason, (or at least what happened to me
)
About 12 years ago, I was provided a contact list of NCOWS members in the State, there was about 11-12.
No posse' and no shooting dates.
Using this list I send mailings and called a few when Phone numbers were provided.
Strangely, in one such call I was greeted with some hostility.
The person, was gruff, demanded "where I got his phone number " and when I told him, proceeded to inform me I had no
business disturbing him
and that NCOWS
should not have provided
"his" info....
Maybe he was having a bad day, or just fed up with phone solicitors in general ? no clue ...
I apologized, and was left puzzled.... I only mention it here because, I was taken aback, it took the wind out of my sails
I decided there was a protocol, and I adopted the
"Build it and they will come" approach.
Since then I have not experienced anything remotely like that one FELLOW !
A
Wanted poster style flyer I made , gave my contact and was posted in some Gun shops & our shooting range, were SASS & muzzle-loaders already had a large following.