{"id":100393,"date":"2018-04-14T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-gun-and-sportsman-show-runs-through-weekend\/"},"modified":"2018-04-14T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T22:22:39","slug":"cortez-gun-and-sportsman-show-runs-through-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-gun-and-sportsman-show-runs-through-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Gun and Sportsman Show runs through weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=322c2332-3f2a-40b9-ae11-fa915e95af91&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=322c2332-3f2a-40b9-ae11-fa915e95af91&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=322c2332-3f2a-40b9-ae11-fa915e95af91&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=322c2332-3f2a-40b9-ae11-fa915e95af91&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"The three-day Cortez Gun and Sportsman Show ran through Sunday at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. The event hosts about 2,000 patrons a year.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The three-day Cortez Gun and Sportsman Show ran through Sunday at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. The event hosts about 2,000 patrons a year.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The three-day Cortez Gun and Sportsman Show ran through Sunday afternoon at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gayel Alexander, manager of the show for four years, the event has been well attended, but she did not yet have final numbers. About 2,300 people attended in 2017, Alexander said, and she expected a similar or better turnout this year.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s show hosted about 120 vendor tables.<\/p>\n<p>This show is also the only gun show sponsored by the Four Corners Rifle and Pistol Club, according the club\u2019s president, Kelly Ellis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a traditional gun show,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the proceeds of the show \u2013 \u201cseveral thousand dollars\u201d \u2013 goes to the Four Corners Rifle and Pistol Club\u2019s Junior Shooters program, Ellis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club is very heavily into the Junior Shooters, educating them on how to shoot, the proper way to shoot, the safety, and they extend it on to women,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cTheir whole thing is about educating the public on safety and not being a victim, learning your surroundings, being smart like that, very proactive \u2013 that is their main community outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Four Corners Rifle and Pistol Club also supports the local National Rifle Association\u2019s Women on Target program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are nonpolitical. We seek participation by everyone,\u201d Ellis said.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Junior Shooters program, the club also supports shooting competitions. \u201cThere is target shooting, and it is a discipline sport,\u201d Ellis said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Gun and Sportsman Show ran through 3 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>helps support gun club\u2019s Junior Shooters program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,568,13,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-events","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100393"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}