Tank Ride, thanks for the follow-up reply.
A tank alone apparently isn't enough to draw people to a fund-raising shoot, although I'd thought that it would be enough of a draw for people who would spend maybe $50 or $100 on ammo, Tannerite, junkyard cars, burgers, hot dogs and other things to at least make the cost of the tank a break-even.
I question whether even that amount of money is possible.
When I talked with a couple of the core WCCA volunteers last night, we agreed that an event like this would require at minimum 50 volunteers: range safety officers; people to sell the tickets and record contributions; people to work the grills barbecuing burgers, brats and hot dogs; at least one volunteer independent trucker to haul the tank and pull whatever oversize load permits are required; people to buy and haul ammunition for all the various guns to the site, and then try to return the unused ammo; people to bring their exotic or semi-exotic guns to the event and help others shoot them; people to remove the gas tanks from junkyard cars and help transport them to the event; and, lastly, people who would come back the next morning and help clean up the mess, and help load pieces of blown-up cars onto trucks to be taken back to the scrapyard.
I just sent out an email last night asking everyone on our email list--which numbers anywhere from 4,000 to 40,000 recipients (numbers vary depending upon how many emails are forwarded)--to spend half an hour, an hour, two hours, or however much time they could afford outside the NRA convention distributing flyers for our July 18th fund-raising banquet featuring Massad Ayoob.
Four people volunteered. That's it.
I have some choice words to say, but I'll keep them to myself.
If I could be guaranteed 50+ volunteers to do all of the above and then some, and if I could be guaranteed that people would show up and spend $50 or $100 instead of $5 or $10, and if I could be guaranteed that volunteers would help in the enormous advance effort to put an event like this together...yeah, I'd still consider it.
After the response to last night's email, though, I just don't think there are enough people in Wisconsin who want concealed carry badly enough to do anymore than talk about it.
I know the WI folks here on THR are totally committed, so please don't take that as a slight.
Thanks to Jim Keenan and Kentak for pointing out the obvious.