Did you leave Silhouette or did Silhouette leave you?
Ways in which Silhouette might have left you would be:
The range or match in your area no longer offers Silhouette matches.
If that is the case do you know why?
Did the Match Director quit and no one was willing to take over?
Did target setters become unavailable or too expensive?
Did the match just sort of fizzle out and there were not enough participants to keep it going?
Ways in which you might have left Silhouette:
You moved and there is not a range near you that shoots silhouette?
If this is the case how far would you travel to shoot say 4 matches a season? 25miles, 50 miles? 100 miles? or more?
Did the game get to rule bound and you gave up?
Did the game get too expensive?
Did you reach you goals and then decided to try something else?
Did you tire of the equipment racing?
If you could start with a blank page what would your idea of Silhouette look like? If something changed would you come back to Silhouette? If so what would those changes be?
The reason for these questions is that a small group of silhouetters myself included are working on creating a new Silhouette Association. Silhouette is a lot of fun to shoot so there has to be reasons that it is in decline. We are looking to correct problems that have stunted the growth of the sport and would appreciate your thoughts and ideas.
You might be like me and still shoot silhouette but do so in an unsanctioned match. I grew tired of those who wanted to turn Production gun shooting into short barreled Unlimited shooting. If so would you be interested in a new sanctioned game that included both rifle and pistol, has a good jr format and is more flexible with sanctioned paper and swinger postal matches in addition to the regular steel freestanding target matches?
Thanks for your time
