Boy Scout Shotgun Merit Badge

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Guys,

I'm running the shotgun merit badge for our local scout troop. Do you know of anyone that would be willing to donate shotgun shells, 12Ga and 20Ga. I think this is the best way to get younger people involved in our local gun clubs and shooting in general. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
 
Auburn resident here

If there's anything I can do to help you on this, let me know. Like if you needed me to pick something up for you cause you can't make it to their business hours and meet you somewhere, etc.
 
We had good luck with w-mart donating to the 4-H young shooters prog we have here. Also, contact the manufacturers directly with a letter and any pertinent info. Most are willing to support the cause, especially with young shooters being the issue. Heck, it is an investment in their future business after all, right?
Thanks for contributing your time working with the Scouts and molding the next generation of shooters!
 
About 15 years ago in Houston we had good luck by getting permission from local shooting ranges to put up a sign and a collection box for shotgun ammo (as well as .22). Tons up people put in half full and full boxes from the previous dove season and other shells they had laying around. I'm not positive, but I think we also got Academy sports to donate some shells. In the end I don't think we paid for anything and there were a lot of us shooting.

Good luck with it.
 
I'm an Eagle Scout myself, and i passed the shotgun merit badge with flying colors. Good luck to you and thanks for your contributions!
 
If Bass Pro won't help, try Gander Mountain. And please, please give those scouts shotguns that fit them. Better to use a NEF single-shot that fits than an 1100 that doesn't. Good luck and keep up the good work.
 
Thanks All

Thanks for all the the good info guys. CNY Cacher, thanks for the offer, but I'm only 45 min. away in the Peoples Republic of Tompkins County. ripcurlsm, that's a hell of an accomplishment, being an Eagle Scout, I'm one also as well as my two sons. I keep telling them it's not the end of the road, it's time for them to give back to all the other scouts that are coming through the ranks now.

As a side note I contacted Dick's Sporting Goods and got an e-mail from corporate that I need to fill out a couple of forms, wait three months, and they would give me a decision:banghead: . On the other hand with Bass Pro, I received and e-mail back with in an hour and a half, with an offer to donate two cases, and give us a cut rate on the other 6. Thanks again for all the help.
 
I'd go with the Bass Pro offer.

I'd also try going right to the manufacturer. Write and ask for a specific number of cases and tell them how many Scouts will be shooting. They may well send you a few cases. A couple or three cases won't break them.

(Yeah, if *everyone* asked, the manufacturers couldn't afford to give it away, but I doubt they receive that many legitimate requests from Scout groups and 4-H groups.)
 
About 15 years ago in Houston we had good luck by getting permission from local shooting ranges to put up a sign and a collection box for shotgun ammo (as well as .22). Tons up people put in half full and full boxes from the previous dove season and other shells they had laying around. I'm not positive, but I think we also got Academy sports to donate some shells. In the end I don't think we paid for anything and there were a lot of us shooting.
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Great idea!

Sort of like having a canned food drive right outside a Hormel or Del Monte factory! :D
 
I have no advice. But as an Eagle Scout and shotgun merit badge holder I thank you. That was my favorite merit badge and thanks to the great instruction for shotgun and rifle shooting, I developed an appreciation of firearms that I hope to pass to my children someday.

Keep up the good work with the Scouts.
 
As an Eagle Scout, a Scoutmaster and hopefully at somepoint in my life, the father of a Boy Scout thanks. I don't know how the parents manage around here. I have trouble getting myself to the meetings on time with all the other things I am doing.

Second, if you can find a place to donate shotgun shells, please let us know here, I would like to support any organization that supports the scouting.
 
Good on ya. I ran the shotgun range as the Shotgun Director last summer at Camp Steiner. Shotgun is not a quick and easy merit badge, but it ends up being one of the scouts' favorites.

Wes
 
As a instructor and merit badge counceler, also the PROUD father of TWO Eagle Scouts AND a WOLF CUB I commend you. At our last Shooting Sports camp we went through 4 cases of 12ga. and 5cases of 20ga., not to mention 3bricks of 22rimfire, 10lbs of lead and 3lbs of black powder!!! :D I don't know how many arrows were lost! We had 22 boys qualify in shotgun and 20 qualify with 22. Everybody got a chance to cast a lead round ball and load and fire a caplock rifle, many more than once.:D
It does my soul good to hear of so many Scouts that continue to stay to help others attain thier rank.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas
 
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Bass Pro Shops is going to donate 1 case of 12ga and 1 case of 20ga, and give us a cut rate on the rest of what we need. I hope to make contact today with the manager to see the cost of the rest. All you guys have given me alot of good ideas for the future classes, and the Scouts appreciate it.

In todays age of the shrinking dollar we need more than ever to continue networking with other groups to provide the younger generation the same opportunities to enjoy shooting sports and get the basic skills they need to fight the good fight. Besides the real birds at the range beat anything they would ever experience using a video game.
 
Crosscut, Do you have a Pay-Pal account? If everyone reading this thread would send you $5.00, you wouldn't need to spend your time begging.
You get the account, I'll be the first to donate.
These kids are the future of our sport.
 
When I was a teenager working as a Range Safety Official/Shooting Instructor in a couple of the So Cal Boy Scout camps, we got all of our .22LR donated by Winchester IIRC. I'm not talking a couple bricks, I'm talking cases of thousands and thousands of rounds.

We shot about 3000 rounds a day between instructing and fun shoots. Us range folks used to go down early and practice for an hour or so every day, or if we didn't have anybody on the range we would take some rounds and pick up a rifle and just start shooting to break up the boredom. We used to see who could shoot the thumbtacks holding the targets up, hehe we used to piss Sarge (Never knew his real name, he was just Sarge to us) off by wasting good thumbtacks :). I used to use some ely that was donated to shoot postal matches with, won two years in a row, and placed third my last year before joining the military.

Our Range Master was a retired USMC that had been running the ranges for years and years, so I think he knew who to go to for good donations on ammo.
 
snowtigger

Thanks for the offer. We don't have a pay pal account, however if you contact the Scout Service Center in your area and asked if they had Troops that need money for the shotgun merit badge, that would be great. Be specific about the use of the funds, or like any organization the money will go into general funds. I feel this is another area to start the grass root movment into getting more of our young people interested in shooting sports instead of video games.

Bass Pro Shops will work us a solid deal, and what ever the additional is we can cover out of the troop tresury. I want to set up a fun shoot every month for the scouts to keep their interest peaked, our local gun club donated the use of the fields and the targets, and I'm going to ask them if we can set up a donation box as waterhouse suggested.
 
Hey Crosscut!

I gotta go with snowtigger. Set up a PayPal acct, man, so we can help YOU and YOUR scouts. We're confident you have the motivation to see it through. I don't have that so-called "guarantee" if I donate to the shotgun fund at my local troop. The money might sit and not be used by someone with your motivation.

Setup a personal PayPal acct for yourself, post the email address, let us donate, and then you donate the money/ammo with your name on it! I'm not looking for charitable, do-gooder credit. We'd just like to help. You'd be mighty surprised, I think.
 
OR .......... send us PMs with your contact info and we'll mail checks so that you don't get socked w/ PayPal fees. This may be a better idea if you're not in a hurry.

Remember, some gun owners have LOTS of money to burn and contribute FREELY to the cause!
 
cngerms

PM'd the Troops address. Thanks for the support. We have a number of Hunting and Pistol guys with in the troop, so there's a strong push for the Scouts to shoot at least once in their lives.
 
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