What do banquets end up costing you???

Rembrandt

Well it seems like the banquet season is here,....Friends of the NRA,.....Pheasants Forever,.....Ducks Unlimited.....Whitetials Unlimited.....Safari Club banquet....Turkey Federation......this is getting a little pricey trying to attend them all. Tickets for meal and membership alone average $50 for each one, and that's before buying raffle tickets or bidding on auction items. How much do you folks spend on these things?

nunn

I spent about $600 at the last Friends of the NRA banquet, but I had a good time. This is all I had to show for it. One pocket knife, one cap, one duffle bag, and one "personal massager" given away as a door prize. Still it was a good time.

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shane

I guess you guys have me out classed here becouse I've never been to any of those banquets.

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varmit hunter

I only go to one a year.The NWTF,It is a very smal chapter.I have picked up some real good deals.Usualy will spend betwen $500 to $600 on two or three items.Withen six months somebody will offer to give me more than I paid for each item.Would be great to have saxonpig there in a advisery capasity.But I am sure I could not afford his expertice.

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idsman75

Hey nunn, if you can pass the ASVAB I can forge a birth verification document that will show you are under 35 and then I can take you for a private massage at this great little place down in Panama as a basic training graduation present.

Judge Dread

idsman75,than means you gave $10 to the kidto show you the PIPELINE route to the pic up point HE HE HE !

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ysacres

At the DU bancquet last year I spent $150.00 But won the early bird prize, a nice print.At the RMEF $ 200.00 and got a hat for being the second higest bidder on a gun safe. my buddy paid $100.00 for dinner and raffle tickets and won a Remington 700 .308

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gunnut

Past spring the wife and myself went to a local NWTF banquet, ended up costing about $1400, had a nice time and ended up with some nice prints etc... Cant wait till spring turkey season

DaRoosta

I usually attend two or three per year. Usually the local chapter of the Oregon Hunters Association ($100), the Rocky Mtn. Elk Foundation ($100) and Ducks Unlimited ($100). Each is well worth the dinner donation. I usually find one item I really like at each and bid like crazy to get it, even if I am seriously overpaying. I usually end up with a nice print or something else to show for it. I won a nice little Marlin .22 with camo stock this year. The DU banquet is coming up right after I get back from elk hunting, so that's something to look forward to for sure. I would estimate I probably spend about $1000-$1500/year on these banquets. The only problem is when you go to the table to pay for the auctions you won and you have to ask what you bought. That's happened on more than one occasion. A good time is always had by all and I would seriously recommend supporting any and all local chapters of these foundations if you've never attended.

Andrew Adams

I agree that these dinners are a really good time. I usually go to the friends of NRA and a local one called the Mill Stream Conservancy. Seriously though, other people should pick up my ticket, since I am the best luck in the world. The people I sit with win everything, while I win nothing. at last year's NRA banquet, I was sitting with my Dad, Uncles, and Grandpa, and all of them were winning so much that everyone was looking over at the table getting pissed. I sat there all night and won a ball cap.I've been going to these two for almost ten years, and have never won much. Can't complain though, last year my Dad won three guns off of the main raffle that comes with his dinner ticket. I think he felt bad for me, because the Marlin 22WMR somehow found it's way into my hands, when I'm sure that it wasn't my name that was called.The only thing I've ever won was a Mossberg 835 Ulti-mag, but that was in a PFSC gun raffle, not a dinner.

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idsman75

Judge Dread--That means I paid off a taxi driver to take me to a place of ill repute that was secure and had police protection in Panama City. However, the ONLY thing I got was a massage even though much more was offered for the same price. I had been doing a lot of heavy lifting helping with the efforts to redeploy back to the states after 6 months in Central America. The massage was much needed. I even got to pick my masseuse out of a room full of them.

Rembrandt

Andrew, I know just what you mean by not winning anything. Been going to the Pheasants Forever and DU banquets for about 15 years now....spend about $200-$300 at each one, got a couple boxes of shotgun shells and a bag of dog food.....That's about $6000 over the years on just two organizations. They each have about 500 people attending each year....maybe I need to look for banquets with less competition. All I really want is to win just one gun....I'd even settle for a Jennings.......