[Shooter 2.5]

Brother, I am not grumbling, but suggesting a better use of our resources! Thanks for the tip.

You're not grumbling. It reads like grumbling. Let me check. Yep, you're grumbling. You should have spend the time to call the no solitation number from the magazine if you wanted the mailings to stop. If you thought about it, the mailing work or else they wouldn't do them. While you and some others are grumbling about getting off the couch to throw a letter away, there are those who get out their checkbooks to send money.

Try an experiment. The next time you get a letter, send a little amount of money. Each and every time you get a letter. Do it for a year. Then you might feel like the rest of us who get irritated by the 76 million gun owners who won't join the NRA because of a million stupid excuses. You can also get really irritated by the moron Freeper who posts thirty year old "failures" of the NRA because they weren't a lobbying group at the time.

[kerryusama04]

I'm really sorry if it sounds like grumbling. That wasn't the intent. My idea here is to shift resources to reach the other 76 million gun owners and bring them in. I had no idea this would be received like this or I wouldn't have posted it. Going back to the well of those of us who donate is obvously a good tactic, but this tactic obviously isn't reaching the other 76 million.

Jumping on my case because I dare suggest out of the box thinking isn't going to reach those other 76 million either.

[freedomlover]

Shooter, I happen to agree with a lot of what the guy says. I have been an NRA member all my adult life but for a long time I had a lot of resentments due to the daily mailings that filled up my PO box to overflowing in a week.

They are better recently but IMHO they still are some of the most aggressive mailers. You may be right that the tactic must work for them but notwithstanding your allegiance to the NRA you have to expect them to understand they are going to get some pushback and alienate some members.

If I had any suggestions it would be to increase mailings as the member's time accumulates. I signed my wife up recently and in the first month she was suprised by the amount of mail she got.

If that's grumbling at someone's sacred cow, so be it. I welcome your response after I get back from the range in a few hours to pattern my new dbl ga 410

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