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Sparta shooting complex news - fromtheplaines - 06-16-2015
Hopefully the will figure a way to keep this open
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RE: Sparta shooting complex news - mikereddot - 06-16-2015
Sure wish Red Dot Arms made more dough.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - Dutz - 06-17-2015
They should never have built this in the middle of nowhere.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - AcilletaM - 06-17-2015
(06-17-2015, 07:21 AM)Dutz Wrote: They should never have built this in the middle of nowhere.This is what doomed it more than anything.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - fromtheplaines - 06-17-2015
True but where else do you build something that big. I have been reading more and this is tied in with a whole bunch of other things that the democrats don't want cut. In hopes to get a budget passed, I may have to head down one weekend to check it out.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - mikereddot - 06-17-2015
In one of many forest preserves that Lake Count has spent millions of dollars of tax dollars buying. Build it and they will come, but if noone lives there, it's harder for them to count.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - AcilletaM - 06-17-2015
(06-17-2015, 10:52 AM)mikereddot Wrote: In one of many forest preserves that Lake Count has spent millions of dollars of tax dollars buying. Build it and they will come, but if noone lives there, it's harder for them to count.This complex disproved the adage 'build it and they will come'. This probably would have fared better in Kane county but it was Blago's way of courting downstate voters.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - ssphoto - 06-17-2015
Reminds me of the Mid-America St. Louis Airport, near Scott AFB IL; large airport with grand expectations and never amounted to anything near what they planned.
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - Dutz - 06-18-2015
The only population center is St. Louis and why would someone from MO drive 50 miles into socialist Illinois to shoot, and risk all that entails, when they can drive 50 miles into the Ozarks and shoot wherever they want?
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - fromtheplaines - 06-18-2015
They do alot of big shoots out there like the grand, I think if I heard correctly their trap line is a mile long
Sparta shooting complex news - AcilletaM - 06-18-2015
Yeah, but there are periods in between were it sits empty or there are no vendors there
RE: Sparta shooting complex news - Dutz - 06-19-2015
My understanding is it is not sustaining itself. If it were a business relying solely in income it would be bleeding money and probably closed a long time ago.
Even though it is a gun range and we like that, it is an example of why capitalism works and a command economy does not.
The market did not want this, at least not here.
If you put that up here in the north/northwest suburbs it would be booming (and not from the gun fire).