Dear Friends of Shooting Sports:
My staff, family and I have embarked on a road to install a shooting
facility that rivals any in the world and is open to all the public
and our national teams. In this process we will have a facility
with the venues that allow shooting all the events contested in the
Summer Olympic Games, Sporting Clays, American Skeet and American
Trap as well as recreation shooting in those disciplines and rifle &
pistol. America does not currently have a facility which is able to
host all those events on one site with large enough venues to also
host the world competitions that will make our teams competitive and
that is centrally located in Texas.
To date we have installed the skeet & trap portions of the shotgun
venue. Overlays include five International Skeet fields, five
International Trap fields, three American Trap fields, five American
Skeet fields, one Sporting Clay practice field and up to eight
Sporting Clay competition fields and several 5-Stand fields. We
have begun construction of the 10 Meter Air Rifle & Air Pistol venue
(Air Hall) and the initial dirt work of the 50 Meter and 25 Meter
ranges.
To complete this dream we need to finish all of the rifle & pistol
venues, improve the roads and parking, upgrade the shotgun venues to
include 2 more American Trap Field overlays and landscaping. To
date my family, the City of Kerrville and the State of Texas Parks &
Wildlife Department have collectively invested approximately $2.4
million dollars in this project. An additional $4 million is needed
to complete the project in a way that will make America proud. That
is a great deal of money and I hope you are asking yourself how in
the world can I help?
We are launching the “Take My Dollar, Make a Dream Come True”
campaign to help raise the money needed for this project which is an
IRS approved 501(c)3 charity. This, board of director run,
corporation is able to issue charitable contribution letters to
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There are nearly 300 million people in
the United States today and reportedly over 80 million of those are
shooting enthusiasts. These are everyday folks who either own a
firearm or shoot regularly. In a 2005 survey of outdoor activities
2.1% of those responding stated they played tennis at least once per
year, 9.2% played golf once per year and over 24% shot a firearm at
least once per year, more than double the combined second and third
place outdoor activities.
During his presidential run Mr. Obama raised over $3 million dollars
in one day and $55 million in the month of February 2008 alone for a
total of over $650 MILLION DOLLARS! Senators Clinton and McCain
raised vast sums of money for their campaigns as well. These monies
are from the same regular Americans who own and shoot firearms.
If only a portion of the folks mentioned above respond, we will be
as successful.
We are asking two things of you today: Send us one dollar, just one
dollar, to help make this dream and the dreams of many athletes come
true. Second send this to all your friends and family and ask for
their support as well. With a small contribution from the 80
million sportsmen & sportswomen in the United States we can build a
facility and program we all will be proud of.
Jack N. Burch II
Executive Director
Hill Country Shooting Sports Center, Inc.
1886 Cypress Creek Road
Kerrville, Texas 78028
830-995-5118
www.takemydollar.com
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