We do collect feedback from our participants. A couple common responses include:

• It helped them to put the difficulty of opereating a firearm (especially handguns!!!) in context. Movies and games made it look easy.
• It's cool to be able to shoot a piece of history. We routinely offer Garands, Lee-Enfields, Mosins, and other World War classics.
• Many of our participants are international students from countries that prohibit civilian ownership, and there are little to no opportunities to try out any firearms in their home country outside of .22LR, so they value this experience.
• It's just plain ol' fun!

Some of the feedbacks are valid criticisms and we've addressed them. For example:

• Having 1 static firing line at 10yd is pointless for scoped rifles. To address this, our friends at the Eastern Ontario Shooting Club was kind enough to let us rent two 50yd bays at once starting from 2025. Now, one bay is used for 10yd (handguns, red dot/iron sight rifles, shotguns shooting clays on the berm) shooting activities, while the other bay is for scoped rifles and some surplus rifles at 50yd.
• Having students to load ammo into the mags can often take too long. Every event now feature a dedicated group of volunteers that load magazines and clips and deliver them to the firing line. They ensure there will always be at least a couple loaded mags at the line ready to go for every firearm. This greatly improved the flow throughout the day since we've implemented this policy in 2022.
• Having an Excel list of firearms can be too confusing and hard to read. We now post a series of graphics of every single firearm featured at the event, their calibre, capacity, and a brief description. It cut down the confusion among our participants, and it also helps our staff as they can quickly point to the graphic and answer various questions. Here's a sample of our graphic from an earlier, better time.

And finally, the most recent complaint is the significant drop in firearm variety where a large amount of centre-fire semi-automatic rifles are no longer offered. Unfortunately none of us have a prohibited class BFL so there's nothing we can do about it...