Well put Buelhunter! Running a business isn't easy. I own a business that runs 7 days a week, 365 days a year! As a business owner myself we need time to ourselves too and believe me your never going to make everyone happy. A person can only do there best, thats what I strive for and allot of the times I go over board trying to go the extra mile for everyone and end up getting crapped on anyway cause it still wasn't good enough!! Until one is married to there job like some of us are, don't be too quick to judge on work ethics!!

I would suggest Hooters Night every Wednesday night.

i think its pure laziness. id have tournaments for sure

Let me put this another way.......

Ya know.....nevermind. I didn't intend for this to be a complaint.....but a question.

And how old are you?

Come on Rory! Your better then that to say this. I'm sure you don't mean it as it read, thats not your style from what I've seen of you on here!

I did have 2 full time shops in 2 different towns & indoor lanes from 1974 to 1980. From 1965 to the full timeshops I had a evening hour shop & full time job. 15 years. Full timeshops had leagues 4 nights per week after Nov. & one was 15lanes & the other 20 lanes.I also had (usually) 2 indoor tounys a month on Sundays through ALL the winter months.I averaged a 14 hour day 5 days a week & 8 on Sat.. Dedication it takes. It was not like working to me but unless your family is into it, it can be tough on that part of your life. I also had rented timber that I had a 28 target outdoot range for my SHOP CLUB MEMBERS & a tourny there twice a month plus outdoor league twice per week. I had 2 full time workers & 2 part time.
DON'T condem anyone for how they run their own business, no matter what it is-FEW are dedicated enough to make it.
I retired from being a Steelworker of 32 years also. Part time shop owner, full time steelworker 15 years. Vested my time & went into the Archery Business (remember, back then IllinoisDID NOT have the archers/bowhunters of today). 6 years of 7 days a week took it's toll. Closed up everything & went back to the steel mill, NOW RETIRED. I bowhunted LESS when in the Archery/Bowhunting business. I regret nothing & have experiences that I will cherish forever with MANY being with my customers. When I see someone venture into business, I only admire them & wonder IF they have what it takes. MOST, do not. I went into independant Bowhunting Video production in 1990. I still do a few every year or two but I DO LOTs of BOWHUNTING with this phase of my business. It's NOT LIKE A JOB EITHER & I have NO ONE telling me what I have to do for the camera. I have had a great & wonderful Archery/Bowhunting Journey-2008 is the start of my 52nd year in the sport.
Black Bears, Caribou, Elk, Whitetail, Mule Deer, Wild Hogs, Buffalo, Various Exotic Animals have fallen to my Bow-38 traditional & 100+ with the compound. That is not my success story though. The success is seeing my family, kids & Grandkids join me in the field to share in a great sport. Success in having known so many great people (& a few - holes too) & sharing fun time with so many. There is SO much more to this sport than how he runs the shop or a bloody arrow.
OH, I made more $$$ in 40 hours at the Steelmill than 70 at the shops...

if it was easy, anyone could do it

I would never ever put work before family, even if I owned my own business. I work swing shift and as bloodcreek can verify, we miss enough of our kids activities as it is. I can see where a shop owner would not want to be away from his family 3-4 night a week, but if the demand was there he could hire someone to work part time and keep the shop open.

Those numbers actually never add up cut and dry. You probably would have to have the place jammed to make any real money. I can tell you as a small business owner after the first couple of years you see where you can make money and where it is like volunteering. I do agree the 3D range in Pfafftown should be open at least one night or Sunday to pull in people from further away. I can't see how he is paying his bills there.