Hmmmm..... I've never had pig before but I reason that it has to be something like bacon and ham combined. *LOL*
Yeah, Dewey is cool, I've never had any issues there before, it's only "signed" as you go down into the spillway. My CCDW instructor knows the ACoE guy over that area, says that he can be a hard-ass even though he took classes from him. *LOL*
If we did Dewey Lake there are only 3 picnic shelters that I'm aware of over there. The one you mentioned, not sure of the condition of it, it's been more than a few years since I was up there. The other one is around the lake on the left near a small boat launch that's also on the left. The last one I'm aware of is "Picnic Hollow", it's on this side of the dam and outside of the "signed" area. I'll talk to some folks about that one. I know it's in the best shape of the 3 and it's used regularly and has bathroom facilities. Granted, if we actually end up following through with a pig roast, I figure we'll need a pit to do it in and those grill would be too small; just guessing.
The issue as I see it right now is getting enough people on-board to really make this thing fly, if we do the pig roast. I know when I was trying to get the EKOC thing going, I kept pitching the idea of an OC get together for awhile on the local level to no avail. There just weren't enough folks around here that wanted to be a part of it and so I had to expand the idea to that Ashland area to get some folks involved.
Start asking around but don't just run out and ask every single person you might run across, we want people but we DON'T want people that might end up causing problems or creating trouble. We need responsible folks that are really interested in OC/CC. The folks don;t have to currently be "weapons" people, just those that have a real interest in it and would like to hang out, talk and ask all the questions they want. *LOL* I don't mean to sound like a "downer" about that but I'm well aware of the implication if we ended up with some "Billy Bob" yahoo that likes to tote his Granddaddy's old WW 1 pistol and just has to pull it out and flash it around. We want responsible folks like ourselves. I know you folks already know all this but I just wanted to voice this one major concern. Not only do we NOT want to create an issue and have a bad encounter with local LEO's but we also want to create a good public image of the responsible gun owner when and if we encounter others to talk with.
OK, I guess the first thing we need to decide on here is if you folks want to go for the pig roast idea or start out with something simple and work towards that goal. If we want to work towards the pig roast, then we'll need to know the financials. How many people at what cost per person, things like that.
Personally, being that this is a firt time around for this idea on the local level, I think we need to keep it simple but still see how many folks we can get mobilized for a basic Meet & Greet. That will give us some idea how well we would do with the goal idea. If you folks would rather do this M&G at a restaurant, I know of a GREAT BBQ place in Prestonsburg where we could do it or if you'd rather just grab something in Prestonsburg and meet up at the lake we could do that.
So folks, what is it be?