Monday, December 26, 2011

Gun Blogger Rendezvous 2012 Dates Announced

The contract is now signed for the 2012 Gun Blogger Rendezvous. The dates will be September 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th of September. This is the second week in September, as usual. It is also the same weekend as the Reno Balloon Races.

The Rendezvous will be at the Silver Legacy Resort and Casino in Reno, where it's been for the last few years. We will be moving a few doors over to a larger Hospitality Room, but only a few doors away from where we were last year. The new location has the possibility of opening up into a larger size, which allows us some growth area for the future. Plans are to follow the basic schedule of last year's Rendezvous, but there will also be a few changes, and possibly some new things too, but it's still; way too early in the planning stages to make any announcements about that.

Every year I get a few emails asking why the Rendezvous can't be held on a different weekend, as that weekend conflicts with (fill in the blank). Reno has some sort of major event going on almost every weekend, and hotel prices vary widely depending on the demand for rooms. The week after the Rendezvous is the Reno Air Races, for example, and it's tough to get a room at all, let alone a group of rooms at a discount. Later in the month the weather starts getting colder, and it starts getting miserable at the ranges when we go shooting. Earlier in the year it seems that just about everyone is busy just about every weekend. In short, we are on the dates we're on because it's the best compromise, taking all the different factors in to account. If the dates happen to conflict with something for you, we're sorry about that, but there isn't a single day in the year that doesn't conflict with something for somebody, so we try to pick the best possible dates we can get.

Someone always asks "Why not put the Rendezvous in (his home town)? ", or "Why not move it around to a different city every year, like the NRA Convention?" The short answer is that it's an amazing amount of work to put on an event like the Rendezvous, and where the NRA has a good sized staff on the payroll to organize the convention, the GBR has only an unpaid staff of KeeWee and I, along with the much appreciated help of a few blogger volunteers. To move to a different city  means re-inventing just about every detail, and moving it every year means starting almost from scratch every year, and that's way more work than I can handle.

We all hope that the Gun Blogger Rendezvous dates will work into your schedule and that we'll see you in Reno in September. If you've never been to the GBR, perhaps this is the year to give it a try! We always have a grand time, and for spouses not so interested in the gunny side of the Rendezvous, there's also lots of other things in Reno to see and do, so come to Reno in September, and have a ball!

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At Monday, December 26, 2011 1:11:00 PM, Anonymous Aaron said...

Mike, this past September was my first GBR, and I'm rarin' to go to the one in 2012.
I think Reno is an awesome place for our group - I don't think I'd have it any other way.

 
At Tuesday, December 27, 2011 8:07:00 AM, Blogger Kevin said...

I'll do my best to make it seven-in-a-row, Mike!

 
At Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:16:00 PM, Blogger Skip said...

Skip will be there too, for the whole weekend this time.

 
At Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:51:00 AM, Blogger BobG said...

I hope to make it there again, if possible. I had fun at the last one and enjoyed meeting the people that attended.

 
At Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:09:00 PM, Anonymous joe in reno said...

It appears the Silver Legacy may be defaulting on a $142+ million dollar note. You might want to watch them in case you need to move the event.

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012302090033

 

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