Guys,
I by the way am not Sharron but her husband as she is rather intim idated by the comments she has read on this post since we returned from holidaythis week.
To [put you all in the picture. We have both taken up shooting again after several years away from the sport as a mutual pastime we could share and as we were a little wary of listening to everones GOOD advice joined your forum on basically to read the posts and understand what was happening in the sport. Hence we have not done any posts, but read almost ALL.
We saw the competition and my wife sent off a cheque in secret as I have always enjoyed clay pigeon shooting and she though it would get me back into it if I had an incentive (ie won!!). However after she sent off the cheque she could not enter the site for a couple of weeks and she thought she had been conned which she told me when we were away and we just wrote it off.
After this she was contacted by an american guy saying she had won and to contact the moderator on the forum. He was very pleasant but we still felt uneasy due to the history and was expecting to be told we had to pay some money to get the prise sent out or something.
We now know that this is not the case and it was just a combination of circumstances that has caused the misunderstanding and my appologies to John who got the sharp end of my wifes tongue on the phone when all he was doing was sorting the problem out.
Sadly however what has turned out to be a great prize is spoiled by people who sadly judge others rather than accept the fact that people buy tikets in a raffle to win prizes and the whole idea of a raffle is anybody can WIN!!
Thanks John for all your help and I will call you back tomorrow to discuss what I need to do. Also thanks to the forum for wat is a grat prize and I hope the charity did well. I will , hopefully with my wife, keep posting and will try to send in some phots of us using the gun. But do try to keep the intimidationg posts out, it does not help anyone.
All the best.
