Retention is a thing, and our sport might seem a mite intimidating.As written above about movies and such to help our sport, I just finished watching The Queens Gambit on Netflix.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...s-gambit-the-true-story-explained/ar-BB1apIS5Apparently chess sets are selling like hot cakes on eBay.
Chess games selling well, but chess is oh so simple to learn and oh so difficult to play
And so with our sport. How many will be playing in next year?
Load your reserve area, clip or magizine, point and shoot. While there is an infinite number of things to practice and learn Joe Sixpack can pick up most modern guns and do ok.
We’re dealing with a gun that can kill you if you screw up the loading.
A gun you can’t take home and toss in the closet until next time.
All the little details
And what do you get out of it after you do everything right, after you buy the funny clothes, after you search the internet to find the stuff you need cause Bobs gun shop doesn’t carry 5/8 flints?
Crappy performance. Short range.
We all got in to this sport because we saw and we wanted. Gun, flint and steel, food on a campfire, blankets on the ground.
We’re talking about teaching wine appreciation to some one who drank rot gut just to get drunk. We’re trying to convince golf players that a leather ball stuffed with horse hair and one heavy wood club is all they need. That throwing paint at a canvas isn’t the same as the Mona Lisa
I think there will always be a few of us that want to play with past technology but even in our ‘happy time’ between the WTBS centennial and the AWI Bicentennial we were always the guys a little off level, one shingle shy of a roof, we were alway nerds.