Posted by Dave Purcell on
URL: http://oldforum.flyshooter.com.au/FOR-THE-ATTENTION-OF-ALL-FLY-SHOOTERS-tp5708867p5708888.html

Its a shame that the Fly has come to this.

I have not shot  match for a while but I did shoot a few over the years.

For what its worth the Fly was never intended to be a multi gun format ala SRBR and I know Stuart Elliott, John Rawson and Jim McKinley  never intended that when they started the shoot or for the many years it ran without the SSAA BR committee to manage it.

The Fly grew and continues to grow by being unique and any attempt to change over 20 years of history is appalling.

Peter Van Meurs has shot the Fly for years and knows all this is true. PVM mate if your reading this think hard about what you are doing ... its not right and you know it.

As for anyone at other clubs who aided and abetted in changing this wonderful event to SRBR format I say go shoot SRBR and stop interfering in something you know nothing about.

Unfortunately this whole affair reminds me of little Johnny Howard when he forced his opinions on shooters.

Pete if you really believe your right you should have held open meetings after major Fly shoots to allow the shooters to have a vote say on what the majority want.. that's how it was always done in the Fly before, including going over to SSAA.

The only result I can see from this is the end of the Fly shoot in the long term. The NRAA must be looking around grinning at the influx of F Open shooters they are going to get after the dust settles.

A sad sad time indeed.