The Amazing NRA

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Here at Pistol-Training.com headquarters we have been relaxing and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather. No doubt someone heard that I wanted to continue riding my motorcycles for a bit longer this year and was kind enough to make it happen.

I needed a break from writing, and these past weeks were the first “vacation” I have taken since resuming Todd’s work on the blog. It has been nice but it is time to get back to writing, so I think the time off did its job. For the holiday’s, the NRA sent me a gift. I have been waiting for my High Master card to show up for over a year and when I saw the letter from the NRA, I thought it might be here. Actually, I had given it no thought whatsoever, so when I saw it was a classification card, I was surprised and slightly stoked.

When I opened the letter, this is what I found.

Not only did they get my classification wrong, they got my address wrong and amazingly, they also got my division wrong. I have never shot anything but Production Optics in a sanctioned match, but I guess Production Rimfire is close enough for the NRA. Amazing, but it gets better. I don’t normally use this space to run down things that I don’t like, but notice the box on the card that says to contact them immediately if anything is wrong. At the bottom of the card, under my tasty chocolate treats, you can see a blacked out rectangle. It looks like a national security redaction to me, lol. Under that black box is the contact info for the NRA.

I assume they changed the contact info and didn’t want people to try and contact them at an incorrect email or phone number. Yet they didn’t include any updated contact info. And they wonder why no one thinks they’re doing a good job.