deerslayer
Milforum Swamp Dweller
I'm beginning my freshman year at LSU this August, and I'd love to start doing practical shooting. In the 70s LSU had a team for marksmanship, but all I could find was the ROTC shooting team- not what I'm looking for.
Now, naturally, I probably can't put up a want ad saying "Shooters wanted", but I thought about talking to the incoming freshman ROTC folks and selling the concept of a practical shooting team at LSU.
My plan is to find some freshman ROTC cadets at LSU and try to restart the shooting team LSU had in the 1970s- I got the idea from an article in the Louisiana Sportsman. The Dept. Of Mil. Science is remodeling the range to take pistols up to .45, but you can only use their guns. I'm willing to talk to the range operators and the department with any interested potential shooters and sell it like this:
By having a team that participates in not just regular range shooting but practical shooting, and going around the region competing, your cadets get more practical experience in weapons handling that would come to bear more in combat than a normal firing line session. We have the range here at LSU, why not use it for that? I'm willing to pull targets and help them rebuild the range.
Personally I think having an LSU-affiliated practical shooting team composed of the mil. science department is a great idea, and practical, considering that in five to six years these same guys may find themselves in a real tactical situation.
As far as getting the word out, I'm willing to put up info and listings on Facebook and similar places, and to speak, along with any interested folks, to the department directly about this possibility, and maybe bending the range rules so that school competitors can bring their own firearms, provided they stay cased (LSU doesn't allow CCW yet) until the students are on the firing line. Naturally, I can see this causing quite an uproar, and I'm probably not going to get far on the BYOG part.
As I see it, the facility is there; the core of shooters is there; it's a practical idea, and the skills the shooters learn could prove useful in later life, since my target group is likely to see combat.
Any help/ideas/advice selling this idea and getting the word out?
Now, naturally, I probably can't put up a want ad saying "Shooters wanted", but I thought about talking to the incoming freshman ROTC folks and selling the concept of a practical shooting team at LSU.
My plan is to find some freshman ROTC cadets at LSU and try to restart the shooting team LSU had in the 1970s- I got the idea from an article in the Louisiana Sportsman. The Dept. Of Mil. Science is remodeling the range to take pistols up to .45, but you can only use their guns. I'm willing to talk to the range operators and the department with any interested potential shooters and sell it like this:
By having a team that participates in not just regular range shooting but practical shooting, and going around the region competing, your cadets get more practical experience in weapons handling that would come to bear more in combat than a normal firing line session. We have the range here at LSU, why not use it for that? I'm willing to pull targets and help them rebuild the range.
Personally I think having an LSU-affiliated practical shooting team composed of the mil. science department is a great idea, and practical, considering that in five to six years these same guys may find themselves in a real tactical situation.
As far as getting the word out, I'm willing to put up info and listings on Facebook and similar places, and to speak, along with any interested folks, to the department directly about this possibility, and maybe bending the range rules so that school competitors can bring their own firearms, provided they stay cased (LSU doesn't allow CCW yet) until the students are on the firing line. Naturally, I can see this causing quite an uproar, and I'm probably not going to get far on the BYOG part.
As I see it, the facility is there; the core of shooters is there; it's a practical idea, and the skills the shooters learn could prove useful in later life, since my target group is likely to see combat.
Any help/ideas/advice selling this idea and getting the word out?