Author Topic: H&R/NEF Calendar (Read 3301 times)

demented · « **Reply #30 on:** November 05, 2011, 03:20:04 PM »

I didn't vote, figgered the oldsters here should have what they wanted, but will certainly take at least one.

Dinny · « **Reply #31 on:** November 05, 2011, 03:25:43 PM »

I just noticed this Sticky!!

I would go for one!

Here's a few pics for consideration.

Maybe DHumbarger will be along with a pic of his 375 JDJ.

Thanks, Dinny

thejanitor · « **Reply #32 on:** November 05, 2011, 05:07:04 PM »

I want one if we can keep them below 20.00 w/shipping. Thanks thejanitor

scratchmark · « **Reply #33 on:** November 06, 2011, 01:29:10 AM »

ill take one also. have to see what ive got to take pics of.

PHATINJUN · « **Reply #34 on:** November 06, 2011, 02:26:48 AM »

I would take at least one. Kurt

cwlongshot · « **Reply #35 on:** November 10, 2011, 01:07:57 PM »

Are you looking for gun picture submissions?

CW

LONGTOM · « **Reply #36 on:** November 10, 2011, 02:56:45 PM »

CW: I am not sure we are quite at that stage just yet.
I have not been in touch with the lady at the print shop as I had hoped due to the death of
my youngest sons fall baseball coach and a very good friend to me also.
He was only 22 and a great kid!
I should be able to get with her the first of the week.
Sorry for the delay guys.

LONGTOM

tacklebury · « **Reply #37 on:** November 11, 2011, 12:37:28 PM »

Condolences to you and his family. 8( Hard to hear of a young man going out...

cwlongshot · « **Reply #38 on:** November 11, 2011, 12:43:24 PM »

OUCH, at 22??? That hurts, VERY sorry to hear. Thats FAR too young.

CW

LONGTOM · « **Reply #39 on:** November 15, 2011, 02:59:19 PM »

Thanks for the thoughts for the young man and his family.
I am sure the family would thank you also.

Now, back to the point at hand.
I was able to talk to the lady at the printers and have some solid info for you now.
The calendars are done on card stock which is much thicker than just plain paper but not as stiff as cardboard.
The pages will bend.
The size is 8.5" x 11" standard size of a sheet of printer paper.
Pages would be white with black grid lines and numbers along with any wording such as the month and days of the week.
Again, standard way of doing them.
There would be 13 pictures total (1 for each month on the opposing page) along with a cover page, all in color with about 1/2" white border all the way around the photo.
So really the pictures would be 8" x 10.5" done in landscape style.
A separate clear sheet of thin plastic is used to protect the cover.
We can put a description below each photo of 1 line, (black lettering at 12pt font size) as long as it is no longer than the photo.
In other words, what ever will fit in 10.5" at 12pt font size.
This should allow us to have room for a brief description of the gun along with the members screen name.

The back of the calendar would be plain white.
The spiral wire that holds all the pages together would be black and allows the calendar to fold over in half and still lay flat.
She broke the price down in two different quantities.
The first quantity was for 1 to 99 calendars at a price of $8.05 each.
The second quantity is for 100 or more at a price of $5.60 each, a great savings if we can sell that many.
I have heard that shipping could cost about $2.00 each plus the cost of the envelope to ship them in.
Not sure, would need to check into that more.
Of course we need to add in a couple of bucks for the GBO site to help it out.
Looks like we should be able to deliver them at a price below $12.00 or $13.00 I would think.

Can anyone think of anything I may have missed?
With the ones I would take we are already over 20 committed so far.
Not bad for not even knowing what it was going to cost.
I think now that we have a better idea of the cost members may be more willing to step up and commit.
I would be willing to take care of the ordering on my end and pay for them with the understanding that I would be reimbursed the actual cost.
I want nothing out of this dollar wise.
I would then ship them to whoever it is that would see that they were delivered (mailed).
Maybe a committee as suggested earlier.
I would think the orders from members would need to be paid in advance to be sure we have enough to both fill and pay for the printing cost.
Maybe a special account on GBO to send your payments to.

I am not sure how this might work and I will leave these matters up to (again) whoever???
I think the best way to choose the photos would be a vote by the members after their photos were submitted.
The lady did say that the clearer the photo the better the calendar would turn out so please, take the best pics you can.
She also said they would need to be in either JPEG or TIFF file format
I think we need to run this by GRAYBEARD (Bill) for his ok before we go much farther.
That is about all I can think of at this time except may I suggest that we use the GRAYBEARD site homepage LOGO as the cover of our first calendar.

LONGTOM

tacklebury · « **Reply #40 on:** November 15, 2011, 03:03:10 PM »

Sounds great to me Longtom. You thinking of starting a thread for pictures to be posted and do a vote per member where we pick 13? or something like that?

LONGTOM · « **Reply #41 on:** November 15, 2011, 03:13:26 PM »

I guess something like that.
After we make sure GB is for it and we can get other members to help out.
I don't think I want to try and do it all myself.
Matter of fact, I am sure I don't.

ps:

Not sure what happened to the font size and all in the other post.
Sorry, it looks hard to read to me.

LONGTOM

Dinny · « **Reply #42 on:** November 15, 2011, 03:19:57 PM »

LT,
Thanks for all the info and leg-work you've been doing. Since my wife bought a new camera, external flash and tripod, I think everyone should send me their most prized Handi rifles and I'll take the pics.

When the calendar is done, I'll try to get the Handis back to everyone, if I haven't moved to Mexico first.

I'll take two!

Thanks, Dinny

tacklebury · « **Reply #43 on:** November 16, 2011, 11:28:57 AM »

ROFL

Sourdough · « **Reply #44 on:** November 17, 2011, 08:13:10 AM »

I'd like to see some well used guns with charecter as well. All my Handi's are well used, some don't show it, but others do. Them's good looking guns.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #45 on:** November 17, 2011, 08:22:13 AM »

Quote from: Sourdough on November 17, 2011, 08:13:10 AM

I'd like to see some well used guns with charecter as well. All my Handi's are well used, some don't show it, but others do.

Like the one that spent a few days at the bottom of a river!!!

Tim

Catshooter45 · « **Reply #46 on:** November 17, 2011, 08:36:00 AM »

I agree Sourdough. New is pretty, well used has a charm all it's own.

Cat

Usmcrip · « **Reply #47 on:** November 17, 2011, 05:47:19 PM »

I will take two as well just tell me where to send my money

jon f · « **Reply #48 on:** November 17, 2011, 10:07:07 PM »

I'll give you $20 for one , as long as you don't mind posting it to Australia. Payment would be with a bank cheque payable in US dollars.
Jon

cwlongshot · « **Reply #49 on:** November 19, 2011, 11:05:36 AM »

I like it!

I say 20$ with the balance going to the board.

I have a pic from this years deer, was suggestd I submit it.

Or my oldest "Handi"

CW

LONGTOM · « **Reply #50 on:** November 21, 2011, 04:18:56 PM »

I have sent a PM to Bill (Graybeard) to see what he thinks about this and asked him to let us know.
I know time is getting short in order to have these for the 2012 calendar year but I think we are still OK if we don't wast much time.
I don't want to jump the gun here but if GB does agree to this, I think all payments should be made to GBO and marked calendar funds.
The same way we make donations to the site.
Also we will need to start getting those pics to vote on.
This will have to be done in a fairly short time frame in order to get them out by the first of the year.
I guess a thread just for pics could be set up for members to post their photos to along with a very short description of the gun and their screen name used on GBO.
This would run for a short time then a vote would be taken to see which makes the cut.
Again, working on a short time frame???
We will have to remember that the lady at the print shop said JPEG or TIFF file format only and the better the quality of the pic, the better the calendar will turn out!
We still need lots more members to commit to buying these before we go out on a limb for the price of 100 calendars !!!

LONGTOM

LONGTOM · « **Reply #51 on:** November 21, 2011, 05:52:42 PM »

I just got the go ahead from Graybeard!
Thank you Bill !!!
OK, on with the show.

WE NEED THOSE ORDERS.
We have to sell at least 100 to do this at the price we want to be at, $12.00 or $13.00.
I will check tomorrow on the postage and see if I can get a better idea what that will average and let you know.

LONGTOM

quickdtoo · « **Reply #52 on:** November 22, 2011, 04:35:01 AM »

Put me down for two LT, thanks.

Tim

cwlongshot · « **Reply #53 on:** November 22, 2011, 05:29:54 AM »

Same here I'll take two!!

CW

necchi · « **Reply #54 on:** November 22, 2011, 06:29:08 AM »

Why don't ya start another thread/sticky for orders only, you'll get a proper count without all the discussion?

I'll take 1.
If ya git stuck with extras I might spring for a second, but times are tuff here too. Heck last year the Bank wasn't even giving any free ones out,,

LONGTOM · « **Reply #55 on:** November 22, 2011, 01:02:02 PM »

OK, I think I have the final cost of these including shipping.
price break down:

1-Calendars are $5.60 @ if we order 100 of them.
2-Add .60 cents if we add the major holidays to each month.
3-.90 cents for the envelope to mail them in.
4- $1.85 flat rate to ship one calendar to anywhere in the US except Alaska & Hawaii. I forgot to get those.
5- $2.00 donation for the GBO site for letting us do this and to help keep the site going.
This comes to:
$10.95 total shipped
Let's just call it $11.00 to make it easy for now.
While I was there I did check on a few other shipping costs.
Anyone wanting more than one calendar then the shipping would raise accordingly.
If you want two then the shipping cost would be $3.70.
If you take at least three then we would use the USPS flat rate envelopes at a cost of $4.95 which would save you money.
I am not sure how many will fit in a flat rate envelope at this time, maybe four or five, just guessing???
I will try to find out as soon as possible!
To Canada it would be about .50 cents extra each (unless you took three or more) to ship.
To Australia it would be about $3.00 extra each (unless you took three or more) to ship.
These costs are keeping everything at a bare minimum.
Just to make sure everything is covered I would say a finial price of $12.00 shipped anywhere in the 48 US states.Extra where needed.

Now, as to how we are going to get this done.
A couple of members have offered to help in different ways and this is surely appreciated.
The only problem I see is this contains making payments back & forth between us to make sure all get reimbursed for whatever cost they may incur.
I am not trying to be the head guy on this but I don't see any way to keep the costs down except for me to do the main leg work.
Maybe someone could keep a running total of the numbers sold along with who they were sold to, how many to each member along with their shipping info and screen name for each.
It would also be very helpful if they could put them in a nice neat list form or spreed sheet and then send it to me.
This would make addressing the lables a lot easier!!!
Any takers?

I think I will take necchi's advice and start a new thread for orders only.
You will need to give your name & address info along with the total number of calendars you want.

I will also start a thread for you to post your gun pics along with a short description of it and your GBO user name.
This will have to be keep to a single line with a maximum of 84 characters including spaces using a
#12 font.
example:
H&R Handi 45-70 with custom 16.5" barrel and custom Lam wood with scope Love 2 Shoot

Hope this meets with everyone's approval.
I hope I have covered everything and while doing so I have not offended anyone.
Suggestions are welcome.

LONGTOM

Catshooter45 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 22, 2011, 04:19:38 PM »

Tom,

Sounds great to me. Some thoughts for you. I have run over a dozen group buys, thus, I would say make the price $15 per calendar. You are having to get all this going in sort of a rush and it's easy, very easy to miss something. If you do and don't charge enough the problem them comes out of your pocket. If you end the whole buy with nothing unanticipated and have money left over, send it to the board. Win, win. This is what I did and it worked out well. I could be wrong but I don't think that $15 is too much.

Also please link any other threads you start for this buy to this thread to help us in not missing them.

Just suggestions, you do what you feel is best. Good luck! And thanks a helluva lot!!

Cat

LONGTOM · « **Reply #57 on:** November 22, 2011, 04:54:46 PM »

Thanks Cat.
They are good suggestions.
I just don't want to scare anyone off.
I know funds are still tight for a lot of people and with the holidays coming they might pass us up for other things.

How do you link the different topics together?
I have never tried to link something before.
Never mind.
I did it on the first try!!!

LONGTOM

LONGTOM · « **Reply #58 on:** November 26, 2011, 05:19:34 PM »

If you would, please post all photos to the H&R Calendar Photo Submitting Thread from now on.
This will save a lot of work trying to copy & paste from one thread to the other.
Here is the link to the other thread.
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,245555.msg1099417724.html#msg1099417724

Don't forget to add a brief description.
Description must not exceed 84 characters including your GBO screen name using a #12 size font.
All photo must be either JPEG or TIFF file format only.

Thanks
LONGTOM

Poll

Let's have a Calendar of our own!

Author Topic: H&R/NEF Calendar (Read 3301 times)