RE: Texas group still around?
Which Texas group? The NTXBG is alive and well, and, in fact we have a battle tomorrow. Held our 6th annual national event, NABGO (wich, this year, was the venue for the AusBG World Championships as well. If you are talking about Region 4 of MWC, they held their National championships in Houston this summer.
We, in the NTXBG, have been going through some teething issues on getting our newsletter and such coordinated on our new web site and format over the last year or so, sadly. Last month's battle report was written on a timely basis, but does not have the newspaper to appear in.
There has been an issue with getting guns which slowed things down a bit, but Strike Models took over Swampworks and BDE RC, and is re-engineering the Big Gun style ones and making them easier to manufacture, so all the old Swampy and BDE RC stuff is coming available again - and much more (thanks to the tireless efforts of Steve and Keri at Strike).
Does that answer your question?
Cheers,
Wreno