I know this forum is small when compared to places like Snipershide and Long Range Hunting forum; which you could say are both national/international sites but those sites have advertisements from many of the shooting sports industry leaders. Often representatives or owners from companies like Manners Gun Stocks, Vortex, Bushnell, etc. chime in to answer customer questions or give updates of coming new products.
Now I’m not expecting this type service from Okla. Shooters Assoc. but why isn’t there support from Oklahoma companies like many of shooting ranges, firearm shops, gunsmiths, etc.? We’ve had Ryan Sears from Gene Sears Shooting Sports on here promoting Banner Range but other than that very little repeat action. We have two premier custom rifle smiths here in Oklahoma, Jon Beanland and Stewart Rifles but most wouldn’t know it. Has the site owner reached out to locally owned shooting sport businesses to seek advertisement and/or participation in this forum? I would think a business owner would like to interact here giving information on sales, deliveries, new products, etc.
Maybe the site traffic here is considered too small to generate customers for locally owned businesses or the traffic that is generated is more related to politics, general discussion, and stupid stuff therefore negating businesses interest in advertising here?
100% agree. I stated something similar about local businesses. Which are vastly underrepresented here, unlike this sites major competitor Armslist. I do think there just isn't enough user base to warrant them being active on here. But its a 2 way street. Contacting them is the first step in a mutually symbiotic relationship.