I have shot at Camp Perry since 1997, both rifle and pistol nationals. It has gotten progressively worse over the years, the facility is substandard on its best day. The pistol targets were old when the Army gave them up in the late 1960's and the NRA spends almost nothing improving them. Unless you are a superstar, you shoot in a mud puddle, with one foot in a sprinkler valve box or on a wobbly bench that is a foot lower than it should be. Starting a couple of years ago, they lock every building and refuse to let you use any restroom on the base. The NRA won't let you in the NRA building. Everything is outside in the rain or you can look at it online if you can get internet.
If you kill it and have a Brian Zins moment, you win $10 bucks. The NRA spends a $100K or more on prizes for the Bianchi Cup and hundreds of dollars on prizes for the rifle and pistol nationals. It is all but impossible to win your class and win your entry fees back at Camp Perry. I've shot there a dozen times over the last two decades and enjoy the trip for the competition and the history of the place. I'll go again just to see my friends, but I have learned to expect horrible weather, a sorry shooting position at a creaking target that may just fail completely during the match. My goal is to shoot my best under austere conditions.
Nothing from the last three visits has made me think the NRA cares in the least about this match. I'm sure with anti-gun Obama running the place the guard is getting more anti-gun every year. One last complaint, they allow the Ohio State patrol onto the base to cruise the parking lots and record the license plates of competitors. I've been sitting on my tailgate eating lunch and seen this first hand. It is seedy and Orwellian. It creeps me out and the NRA does nothing to stop it.