Shootin' Matches - Cash Prizes!

[Werewolf]

Just wondering out loud here and thinking about 2 years into the future...

I've often wondered why there are no shooting matches with cash awards - at least none that I'm aware of.

Seems to me that an IPSC style or 3 Gun type match would be an ideal match to hold with a cash prize. The prize would come from entry fees.

If one were to own 30 or 40 acres and had a private range on their land would there be some legal impediments to holding a cash prize match? If so what might those impediments be? How would one go about finding out what those impediments might be locally (yeah right - the sheriff - he'll know).

If it were me setting one up the prize money would be 80 to 90 percent of the entry fees. 1st place would get half, 2nd place 30% and 3rd place 20%. Everyone else would just have fun.

Still wonderin' - seems like a thing one could arrange and run when one became retired.

 

[AJ Dual]

They have trap and skeet shoots for a cash purse all the time...

 

[Navy joe]

Pack your bags, Florida Open next month, 1,000 to Open and Limited winners, 500 to Production and L-10 winners, cash payback shoot-off, huge prize table. It's very common for big matches to pay. Did they not, big shooters wouldn't go.

At a club level sometimes there is a gift certificate to win, sometimes match credit, sometimes a donated sleeve of primers. Often our club will run a full payback shotgun or rifle side match paying the first three in open or limited.

The impediments to having a prize match on your land are in order your neighbors, the county planning board, and the EPA. If your neighbors don't care, the planning board okays an organized club and you find out what hoops you have to backflip through for the EPA I'd say you'd be in there.

That said, money paid into at a club shoot of any kind is better spent buying new equipment for the club. Wanna have fun at a club match for prizes? Have a raffle each month for a gun.