Quote Originally Posted by zooma View Post
...... so we have always been able to include anyone that wanted to take part - this has never been a problem so shooting at anytime in the month has no advantage over shooting in a specific week as far as this is debate is concerned.

Inclusion is not the issue - motivation seems to be lacking........

Rivvy has more experienced pistol shooters than we have in our small club and they would probably not get as many "match nerves" as our relative newcomers or your newcomers would have on a designated "match night" so it should make no difference to them either way - but the less experienced club members from both clubs will notice a significant difference.

Name them please... our top pistol shooters have around 2 years RECENT AIR PISTOL experience each; Paul (Hippo) Wray has only started back in air pistol after a 15/20 year break; Steve (in the afternoon ) Wright last shot free pistol in the early 1980's; John (hospital) Ward only took up "Olympic" style one handed pistol last year; Carl Stott bought a Steyr LP2 18 months ago; Shaun (ding dong) Bell started serious pistol shooting Oct 2013 with our coaching course; etc, etc, It's either natural talent, quality coaching or just luck, but all these guys have improved over Dorset, SPA, MPL, CCL and club handicap events this year......
And Ian's right, match nerves do come into the equation; however we have a team ethic with encouragement, advice and coaching freely given, and it seems to be paying dividends.

Just let all your members shoot what they want, when they want and send Ian the scores by the last day of the month......

Simples

ATB
Mike