I joined, then left.
Facility: Friendship is rundown. Maintenance is hardly a priority. Rustic is one thing, this is another. Buildings in disrepair, roads, fences, etc. The shooting lines are not up to spec for a professional organization.
Government regulations for accessibility not withstanding, if you have any physical impairments, the place is a nightmare. In a wheelchair?
Good luck.
Wait for the attacks to begin upon this and other negative commentary. Their defenses are feeble, and telling.
There is little to no outreach targeting women, children, and other ethnicities, especially, I might point out, indigenous/native/Indian tribes and peoples.
It's like an AARP convention of white guys.
I shoot/have shot in many, many disciplines.
Look to the CMP as a pretty good model of inclusiveness. A recent photo of a shoot had a family member in a burqa watching their kid shoot. (Watch the rude commentary here), among hundreds of kids competing.
I shoot at Perry at matches with over a thousand shooters in just one day long match. And I watch teen girls regularly score in the very top tiers.
This sport/hobby needs to include the come as you are, be it converse sneakers, yoga pants, and inline firearms or buck skins and traditional/original firearms.
This critique is not limited to the NMLRA, but many other BP organizations that are stuck in their ways, snobs with attitude, full of disparaging remarks for this or that, blaming everyone, refusing to look inwards.
People aren't leaving these sports, they're just leaving or just simply not joining these rigid, out of step organizations.
