Re: Mexican nationals
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 5:46 am
Thanks for that report, Pat. You and Elisabeth are great ambassadors for Silhouette.
A few conclusions that can be drawn from your report.
1. Private ownership of ranges by individuals. The land/range owner does not have to ask anybody in a club permission to do anything. He has no scheduling conflicts with other events within a club. If he wants to build or change some structure on the range he just does it. Only a few people in the U.S. seem to understand this concept.
2. If you want to hold a national event at your range, you put a team together, train and win. You get the match at your range the next year. No applying to a sanctioning body. No whining on a forum. No posturing about why a range close to you is better than a range 1200 miles away.
3. I am fairly sure that these ranges in Mexico have no insurance of any kind. Why? Because nobody is going to sue anybody over anything. Everyone at those ranges can be trusted. I would imagine if a person is not a safe shooter they are simply escorted off the premises. This goes back to #1. One person owns the whole facility. There is not a committee to vote to remove the unsafe person from the range.
4. Drinking and smoking on the range during the match. Not a good idea for too many reasons to list here. After the last shot is fired each day, sure, relax and have fun.
5. See 1,2 and 3 above. There seems to be NO bureaucracy at any level in Mexico.
A few conclusions that can be drawn from your report.
1. Private ownership of ranges by individuals. The land/range owner does not have to ask anybody in a club permission to do anything. He has no scheduling conflicts with other events within a club. If he wants to build or change some structure on the range he just does it. Only a few people in the U.S. seem to understand this concept.
2. If you want to hold a national event at your range, you put a team together, train and win. You get the match at your range the next year. No applying to a sanctioning body. No whining on a forum. No posturing about why a range close to you is better than a range 1200 miles away.
3. I am fairly sure that these ranges in Mexico have no insurance of any kind. Why? Because nobody is going to sue anybody over anything. Everyone at those ranges can be trusted. I would imagine if a person is not a safe shooter they are simply escorted off the premises. This goes back to #1. One person owns the whole facility. There is not a committee to vote to remove the unsafe person from the range.
4. Drinking and smoking on the range during the match. Not a good idea for too many reasons to list here. After the last shot is fired each day, sure, relax and have fun.
5. See 1,2 and 3 above. There seems to be NO bureaucracy at any level in Mexico.