the sportsman newsletter · 2019-04-25 · may 2019 the sportsman newsletter page 3 board meeting...

April showers bring May flowers so they say. Itis actually still April as I pen this missive and Idon’t know about you but I can use a little moresunshine. Nevertheless, it is spring and summeris right around the corner. With that said, theactivities at our range will get much busier ingeneral as we have added several additionalfestivities to our agenda. Let me list a few inthe order of event. Sunday June 23rd from noonto 3:00pm is our club picnic. Once again wewill be sponsoring a drive to collect toiletrieslike socks, towels, toothpaste, diapersetc. with a special plea for kid’s bicy-cles. This donation drive goes to theDomestic Violence Services ofSnohomish County. It should be notedthat we do this in conjunction with theSnohomish County Prosecuting Attor-ney’s office. This started last yearwhen one of our members who worksin that office asked how they may be ofassistance. It is a wonderful partnershipthat I hope will endure for many yearsto come. So please if you have anyitems to donate bring them by range.We of course always welcome moneydonations as well for this worthy cause.

In July the second weekend specificallyis our annual 3D archery shoot. Therest of the range is closed to other ac-tivities but this event is very popularand generally draws a considerablecrowd of archers shooting on our walkthrough range at life size targets ofvarious animals. It’s a good tune up forhunters and is a pretty good walkthrough exercise as well.

Speaking of hunters you’ll note a pic-ture included in this article. For thoseof you who don’t know her this is apicture of Patty Webster and the prizehog she recently shot in Texas. Patty isthe wife of Gary Webster our mostrecent past president. Gary and I aswell as three others went to this hoghunting ranch back in 2014. Gary likedit enough to take a trip on his own andfrom all reports they had a very good time on

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

PRESIDENTJoseph Rinaldi (206)[email protected]

VICE PRESIDENTMichael Wichser (206)[email protected]

2nd VICE PRESIDENTRobb Stack (206)[email protected]

TREASURERTami Gramer(206)[email protected]

CORRESPONDING SECRETARYPing Look (206)[email protected]

RECORDING SECRETARYDale Sieg (206)[email protected]

CHAIRMAN TRUSTEESJeff LeMoine (425)[email protected]

CHAIRMAN ELECTDavid Levinson (206)[email protected]

TRUSTEE (2 yr)Jim Thompson(206)[email protected]

TRUSTEEJim Dinnie (425)821-4028

TRUSTEELarry Mallory (425)820-3582

PAST PRESIDENTGary Webster (206)963-6065

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

ARCHERYKen DeLeone (425)[email protected]

RIFLEMartin Morehouse (425)[email protected]

HANDGUNJo and Milton Schneider (425)[email protected]

SHOTGUNAndrew Gough (425)210-0148Dave Elliot (425)330-0560

HUNTER EDUCATIONHoracio Delgado (206)[email protected]

FIREARMS EDUCATIONRichard Ripley (206)[email protected]

LEGISLATIVEVacant

YOUTH ARCHERYMichael Wichser (206)856-1190

YOUTH RIFLESteve Olheiser (425)[email protected]

YOUTH SHOTGUNMark Silver (206)[email protected]

President’s Message

The Sportsman NewsletterOfficial publication of the Wildlife Committee of Washington Volume 19 Issue 51031 – 228th SW, Bothell, WA 98021 tel:(425)375-2205 May 2019

http://www.wcwinc.org

SAFETY IS JOB ONE!

this hunt. So, you are probably scratching yourhead as to why I am mentioning this experience?Well, it has to do with the fact that you can winand opportunity to go hunt this ranch as well. Atthe rifle office and the shotgun shack there aretickets for sale. For a mere $20.00 you can takea chance to win an $800.00 hunt for two at thisranch. It is great fun believe me. So take thetime and check out the poster and consider en-tering the drawing. There will be four ticketsdrawn to win at our members meeting in 2020.

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President’s Message Continued

WCW Board Meet-ing Minutes – April3, 2019

Meeting called to order at 7:02 PM by Presi-dent Joe Rinaldi.

Present board members:Joe Rinaldi (President)Robb Stack (2nd Vice President)Tami Gramer (Treasurer)Jeff LeMoine (Chairman Trustees)Dave Levinson (Chairman Elect)

Jim Dinnie (Trustee)Soo Drechsler (Trustee replacing Jim Dinnie)Jim Thompson (Trustee)Larry Mallory (Trustee)Dale Sieg (Recording Secretary)

Absent board members:Mike Wichser (Vice President)Gary Webster (past President)Ping Look (Corresponding Secretary)

Committee Leads and Facilities Managerpresent at meeting:Mark Silver - Facilities ManagerMartin Morehouse - RifleKen Deleone - ArcheryDave Elliott - ShotgunJo Schneider - PistolMilton Schneider - Pistol

Guests:Robert HaverstockSoo DrechslerBrett Grant

Guest Topics:No guest topics this week.

Committee reports:A brief review of the Archery Committee’s,Shotgun Committee’s, Handgun Committee’s,Rifle Committee’s, Corresponding Secretary’s,Operations Manager’s, Trustees’ and Treasur-er’s reports follow. The full versions of thesereports are listed elsewhere in this newsletter.

Archery Report:Ken Deleone presented.Ken presented the number of the differenttypes of targets they need for this fiscal year.The total dollar amount will be about $8,000.Joe Rinaldi mentioned he is okay with spend-ing the money if we have enough people usingthe bow facility to pay for them.

Handgun Report:Jo Schneider presented.Jo presented the numbers for the special use,results of the different competitions and plansfor future competitions. A suggestion wasmade at the committee meeting to post infor-mation about how people can obtain specialuse. There was also a suggestion to includethis information on our website. There wasalso a suggestion to have an emergency contactnumber at the entry gate in the event of anemergency. The board recommended peoplecan knock on the door of the care taker’shouse. The committee received a special ac-commodation request for a renewing memberthat was unable to make a committee meeting.Joe and Milton are developing a special pro-gram with a test that can be used in such rarecases.Next, we discussed how we can increase fe-

male participation in the club.

Rifle Report:Martin Morehouse presented.Martin presented the special use attendance.He said there is still confusion about howpeople get their special use. Special use isnot easy to find on our website. Martin sug-gested we add a button for a member’s areawhere we can host information about specialuse and other things. Martin proposed weconsider portable targets for range 1. Thecommittee is investigating this idea.A member suggested we allow animal targetson range 1. Larry Mallory mentioned animaltargets is already allowed.There is a request from the committee forsetting up the air rifle target system in theclub house on April 11th and taking it downon June 27th.There was also a request for the club to ordera Lab Radar Chronograph.Martin also presented his proposal for anenhanced hunter sight-in event. The tools tosupport this would be about $165. We dis-cussed how the event would work. JoeRinaldi said we need to close on defining theevent by the next board meeting.

Shotgun Report:Dave Elliott presented.Dave provided updates on attendance at therecent shotgun events. Dave also presentedupcoming events. Everything is in processfor the upcoming PITA shoots. AndrewGough made the 2018 High Overall Averageteam for Washington PITA in B class.

Operations Manager Report:Mark Silver presented.Mark suggested each of the committees pro-vide a retrospective of last year and a view ofthe upcoming year at the member’s meetingnext week.Mark scheduled several multi-state concealedweapons classes on the club calendar. Theywill be held on the second Thursday of eachmonth.

Corresponding Secretary Report:Dale Sieg presented the report.April newsletter viewing is down from lastmonth. It went from 22.62% reading to17.30%.The information page for the Youth IntroShooting Day will go live on April 15th.In building the Youth Intro Shooting Daypage, Ping discovered the current websitetheme is limited in terms of adding new ele-ments beyond basic pages. She will beginexploring other more versatile themes for ourwebsite.

Trustees Report:Dave Levinson and Larry Mallory presented.

Least I forget to remind folks pleasemark your calendar for August 17th. Thisis the Intro to Youth Shooters Day. Thisis being co-sponsored by the NationalShooting Sports Foundation. All young-sters between the age of 10 and 17 ac-companied by their parent will be admit-ted free. This day will provide them withthe opportunity to learn firearm safetyand the chance to shoot various firearmsas well as archery equipment. It is mysincerest hope that this day will contrib-ute to the learning curve of youngstersabout the joy of responsible gun owner-ship and use. So, please if you knowsomeone who might be interested in ex-posing their child to the proper under-standing of the shooting sports pleaseextend this invitation.

Lastly, I’d like to remind that MichaelCox the owner of Safe Insight has offeredto re-open the Ladies Night for pistolagain which will be starting up real soon.Please refer to our website for more in-formation. This event is also going to beforecast on face book as well. In addition,our newest female board member SooDrechsler has promised to re-start theLadies Shotgun event again starting verysoon. Of course for those of you whowant to learn the plethora of wide rang-ing activities going on at our fine facilityyou can always refer to the calendar onour website. As a matter of course it is agood idea especially if you are planningto come to the range on a day when it isclosed for a tournament.

Let me leave you with this thought. Iknow yard work is important and so areother home improvement projects. Butgoing shooting is more fun. Life’s shorthave fun first!

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Board Meeting Minutes Continued

Rimfire Benchrest

Rifle Match

marketing and grant writing. Joe feels it istoo expensive for us right now. Bothell HighSchool Programs has advertising opportuni-ties for our club. Joe suggested we sign upfor their publications. This will cost $385 fora quarter of a page ad for the year. We willmove forward with this.

Joe moved for $1000 be allocated to fund theequipment needed for the hunter sight-in andchronograph. Dave L. second. Motionpassed.

Robb read a proposal for the voice over of theshotgun video.

For the Good of the Order:No topics were discussed.

Jim Dinnie moved to adjourn at 9:58 PM.Larry Mallory seconded. Motion passed.

Respectfully submitted by Dale Sieg, Record-ing Secretary.

distributed in prize money. Competitors mayenter rifles in both divisions with a $10 entryfee required for each Division. For completematch details see the May 4th calendar event.

Match Division competitors will shoot bothtargets beginning at 9:01am with a 45 minutetime limit. Sport Division competitors willshoot afterwards starting at about 10:15 andwith a registration deadline of 9:40am.

Each of the two targets will have standaloneresults and cash awards so those competitorswho don’t shoot well on the first target haveanother opportunity to finish in the money.

Shooters may use either a bipod or bags tosupport their rifle stocks and rear rest bags areallowed.

Wind flags will be set up prior to the begin-ning of the match.

To be eligible for one of three season endingtrophy spots, the competitor is required tocomplete a minimum of 16 targets.

In this month’s match there were ten competi-tors in the Match Division and nine in theSport Division. Welcome to newcomers GaryLotterman and Mason Towne.

In Relay 1 Match Division, Kevin Kelloggwas the winner with a score of 247 6X. DavidWild placed second at 238 2X with ErnieSnyder finishing third place with a score of236 5X, Brian Lapinski was fourth at 235 5X,and Ted Larson fifth with a 234 2X. In theSport Division, Sam Boggess won with ascore 223 3X. Newcomer Mason Towne wassecond with a score of 221 0X and Keith Wil-son placed third at 213 2X.

In Relay 2 Match Division Ted Larson scoredhis first win of the season with a score of 2415X. Brian Lapinski was second also with ascore of 241 4X. Ernie Snyder was third againat 239 4X with Kevin Kellogg in fourth with ascore of 239 1X. In the Sport Division, KeithWilson finished first at 233 3X. MasonTowne finished second again with a score of225 4X and Sam Boggess finishing in thirdplace with a score of 220 1X.

Our goal is help new shooters develop theirskills with the platform of a stable bi pod andammunition that will shoot most accuratelywith their rifle. Some of the Match contestantsbring their extra F Class bipods or loan theones they are using in the Match Divisioncontest and along with their rear rests forSport Division contestants to use along with avariety of rimfire ammunition provided forfree to tryout so they could improve theirscores. Contact the Match Director if you are

Larry attended the Washington State RangeCoalition (WSRC). This is a coalition in-tended for uniting gun clubs in Washington.At the event, they discussed working withlocal police departments. They also dis-cussed getting more females engaged. Theydiscussed creating a 501c7 organization sowe can lobby in Olympia. Interlake openedtheir ladies’ night to non-members. Onetakeaway Larry had from the meeting wasasking the members what things they wouldlike to see changed at the club and what theythink of the club. Interlake also asks mem-bers what skills they have that could helpwith these things they say should change.The next WSRC meeting is April 24, 2019.

Joe asked Dale to connect with Ping to dis-cuss a strategy on communicating with mem-bership, external communication, etc.Inventory order for this year has been com-pleted. Working on insurance renewals.Should be turned in within a couple weeks.Larry estimated we have about 900 members.

Treasurer's Report:Tami Gramer presented.We discussed the POS system. There arestill issues with the system. Joe asked Larryand Dave to get together with Ping and Tamito contact NCR and finally resolve the issues.Larry suggested we figure out a way to trackthe number of people we are waiving theinitiation fee for. Joe will do this.

Old Business:We discussed the signage status. The signwill be ready for pick up tomorrow.We reviewed the poster and handouts for theYouth shooting day.We reviewed the poster for the hunt we areraffling. We will start selling tickets nextweek at the member’s meeting. The rafflewill start next week and run for one year untilthe membership meeting in April of nextyear. Robb suggested we sell the tickets atthe local gun shows too.We briefly discussed changing the rangetime. Jim T. suggested the pistol range openat 9am. We will continue reviewing rangehours options.We discussed social media advertising. Joesaid this needs to be a priority. Soo men-tioned she posted something related to shot-gun on Facebook and it reached about 1500people and got about 37 shares within a veryshort period of time.The Bothell Police Department is interestedin the possibility of using the range. Joe istalking with them.

New Business:We discussed Lee Mozena’s proposal for

Rimfire Match Report for April 2019

Effective with the November 2018 match, theUnited States Bench Rest (USBR) 50-yardrimfire target will be used. Each target con-tains 25 two-inch diameter bulls plus threesighter bulls. The scoring system is based onwhere the bullet touches the inner edge of thering of the bull. Only one shot per bull isallowed. In the event that two shots land inthe target, the lower scored one is counted.Each of the rings is .125 inches wide beyondthe .1-inch center bullseye so even a fraction-al miss can adversely affect the shootersscore. “X” s will be recorded and will beused for tiebreakers only.

This is the link to how to score the target:https://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328392

Copies of these instructions are also availablefrom the Match Director.

The competitors are separated into two divi-sions, Match for rifles designed for matchcompetitions typically costing $700 or morelike those manufactured by Anschutz andSport for rifles designed for target and sportshooting like those manufactured by Ruger,Savage, and CZ.

The entry fee is $10 with two dollars pershooter for target expenses and the balance


Shotgun hours of operation

Mon ClosedTues 5:00 to 9:00 pmWed Noon to 5:00 pmThur 5:00 to 9:00 pmFri ClosedSat 10:00 am to 5:00 pmSun 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

1st Mon Members Only 5-9pm3th Mon Members Only 5-9pm

Pistol hours of operation

Mon Noon to dusk (max 7PM)Tues ClosedWed ClosedThur ClosedFri Noon to dusk (max 7PM)Sat Noon to dusk (max 7PM)Sun Noon to dusk (max 7PM)

interested in using one of the bipods or receiv-ing free ammunition.

Sport Division contestants may also shoot inthe Match Division contest for the twodollarcost of targets provided there are open bench-es to get some extra practice using the bi podsand free ammunition.

The scores are posted under the Events tab onthe range website. Contact me if you have anyquestions about this match.

Matt Daly425 [email protected] .

Orientation

The following new member applicants at-tended Orientation this month and receivedtheir membership cards.

Thomas DeuelJohn FinanTyler and Charity GleghornVijaya Lakshmi GottapuScott MilnerChris PerishoJohann SigurjonssonNoah StewartAndrew TraskDan Wickersham

Welcome to the club.

WCWPremier/EnhancedMembership

In an effort to recognize those WCWmembers who put an extra effort withtheir time or financial support, a volun-teer recognition program was passedduring the October 2018 membershipmeeting. A donation of $100.00 or morein excess of your annual membershipdues or 50 or more volunteer hours in acalendar year will fulfill the requirementfor being a "Premier Member".

You will need to fill out an applicationavailable from all committee chairs andattached to this newsletter as well. Asticker on your membership card willidentify your volunteer support. Thisrecognition involves a minimum amountof record keeping and implementation.Additional recognition may be availabledepending on participation.


Treasurer's Report:Tami Gramer presented.Tami present last year’s actual num-bers to last year’s budget and thebudget for this coming year.A member asked if the number ofmembers was constant from last yearto this year? Yes.A member asked if the club has inves-tigating advertising? What about dis-counts and incentives? We are look-ing into Group-On, social media, web-site improvements and other advertis-ing options.Ted Hudlow moved to accept thebudget for this coming year. KenDeleone seconded. Passed.

Finance Committee Report:No report was presented.

Worth noting:The Board of Directors would like togive a special thank you to Jim Dinniefor his time served as a Trustee on theBoard of Directors. The board provid-ed Jim Dinnie a plaque and specialaward.

Old Business:Dave Levinson brought up the need toapprove the Articles of Resolution ofthe Board of Directors.Ted Hudlow moved to approve theArticles of Resolution. Jo Schneiderseconded. Passed.

New Business:Soo Drechsler was introduced as thenew Trustee replacing Jim Dinnie.Tami Gramer asked for Dale Sieg topresent the new list of board members.

President - Joe Rinaldi1st Vice President – Mike Wichser2nd Vice President – Robb StackTreasurer – Tami GramerCorresponding Secretary – Ping LookRecording Secretary – Dale SiegChairman of Trustees---David Levin-sonChairman Elect – Jeff LeMoineTrustee---Jim ThompsonTrustee – Larry MalloryTrustee – Soo Drechsler

Joe Rinaldi mentioned we are puttingtogether a Youth Shooting Introduc-

Annual MembershipMeeting Minutes –April 10, 2019

Meeting called to order at 7:30 PM byPresident Joe Rinaldi.

Present board members:Joe Rinaldi (President)Mike Wichser (1st Vice President)Robb Stack (2nd Vice President)Tami Gramer (Treasurer)Ping Look (Corresponding Secretary)Dale Sieg (Recording Secretary)Dave Levinson (Chairman of Trustees)Jeff LeMoine (Chairman Elect)Jim Dinnie (Exiting Trustee)Jim Thompson (Trustee)Larry Mallory (Trustee)Soo Drechsler (Entering Trustee)

Excused board members:Gary Webster (past President)

Guests:None

Guest Topics:No guest topics this week.

Reading of the last Board MemberMeeting minutes:Dan Barton moved to dispense the read-ing of the last Board Member Meetingminutes. Dave Levinson seconded.Passed.

Reading of the last Members’ Meetingminutes:Dan Barton moved to dispense the read-ing of the last Members’ Meetingminutes. Dave Levinson seconded.Passed.

Committee reports:A brief review of the Archery Commit-tee’s, Handgun Committee’s, Rifle Com-mittee’s, Shotgun Committee’s, Opera-tions Manager’s, Corresponding Secretar-y’s, Trustees’, Treasurer’s and FinanceCommittee reports follow. The full ver-sions of these reports are listed elsewherein this newsletter.

Archery Report:Ken Deleone presented.Ken highlighted members’ accomplish-ments over the last year. Ken mentioned

they are looking to replace some indoorand outdoor targets. He has made a recom-mendation to the board.

Handgun Report:Jo Schneider presented.There is a new special use program. Shedescribed how it works. She also sharedrecent events and future events.

Rifle Report:Martin Morehouse presented.Martin shared the number of participantsand events held over the last year. Thecommittee is looking for people interestedin becoming an NRA instructor. The clubwill be holding a rifle sight in event. Theyare looking for volunteers. We will also beholding a youth event this summer. Thecommittee is looking into portable targetsand electronic targets.

Shotgun Report:Dave Elliott presented.Dave shared last year’s events and dis-cussed the success of several members.Dave also shared events that will be heldthis coming year.

Presentation of awards:Volunteer of the Year – Ron Orr andRonaldi HananthaGerard Loop Award – Vic AlverezCoach of the Year – Mike Wichser

Operations Manager Report:Mark Silver presented.Mark shared we now have a yearly mainte-nance schedule. We have completed in-ventory. We have ordered all ammunitionand shooting supplies for this coming year.We have started classes for ConcealedWeapons permits and the I-1639 certifi-cate. We have also started a shooting qual-ification program. The new club sign willbe installed soon, and we will be movingour flag pole. We will be cleaning ourindoor traps and are looking for volunteersto help.

Corresponding Secretary’s Report:No report was presented.

Trustees’ Report:Dave Levinson presented.Dave shared events from the last year.A member asked what our tax rate went upto? It went from 10.3% to 10.4%.


Annual Meeting Minutes Continued are not prepared to rent firearms.

One of the members complimented theclub for the improvements they havemade over the last couple years.

Larry Mallory suggested all memberspost something good about this club(for example, increasing the roundcapacity limit in magazines on the riflerange) on their social media with weget home tonight.

Ted Hudlow moved to adjourn themeeting at 9:56 PM. Seconded by JoeRinaldi. Passed.

Respectfully submitted by Dale Sieg,Recording Secretary.

tion Day on August 17th. Joe asked themembers to encourage people to come.We also welcome volunteers. If you areavailable and would like to help, pleasecontact the board.

Joe also presented the club will be rafflingoff a hunt. We will draw tickets for fourhunts. One ticket provides an opportunityto win one of the four hunts. If you pur-chase more than one ticket, you could winmore than one hunt. We are starting tosell tickets today (April 10th). The draw-ing will be the Members’ Annual Meetingin 2020. You can get tickets at all therange offices. We will also be sellingtickets at events like gun shows. A mem-ber asked if this was for members only?No. This will be open to the public.

A member suggested providing a coveredshooting area in the shotgun range.Another member suggested we provideheating in the handgun range.

We discussed the range hours. A sugges-tion was made to change the handgunrange hours to be from 9am to 7pm versusnoon to 7pm. The board will be consider-ing these options.

We discussed how the club should com-municate with members. Some memberssuggested we send out short emails withchanges happening at the range. For ex-ample, announcing the increase to 10rounds in a magazine on the public riflerange.

A member suggested we increase theprice of using the range for the public toincrease incentive for people to become amember.

Another member suggested we add a noteto our hours on our website stating weallow 10 rounds in a magazine on ourpublic rifle range.

Another suggestion was for the club toemail the members asking what they likeabout the club and suggestions they haveto increase public use and membership.

Robb Stack presented a concept of addinga series of signs along 228th. What do

people think? Someone thought it wouldbe better to spend money on the comfort ofthe range (covered areas, heaters and etc.)before we spend money on signs.

For the Good of the Order:The annual picnic will be on June 23rd. OnJuly 4th, Dan Barton will drive a Jeep witha trailer in the Bothell 4th of the July pa-rade. He wants to hand out 400 fliers andneeds four volunteers. Dale Sieg volun-teered. Dan still needs 3 volunteers. TedHudlow said there are banners in the backroom. If you are no longer using a bannerthat is yours, please remove it.

A member asked why we do not rent fire-arms? There are a lot of things we need toconsider before we do that. For now, we


Highpower Rifle Match

April 14, 2019 High Power

The newsletter editor had to wake mefrom a spring nap to make the deadlinefor newsletter publication. I cajole thesecharacters to line up for a photo, so theleast I can do is pen a few words to gowith it. We have target sheets at theready to use as portraits should anyonebe in a witness protection programthough apparently none are as we seesmiling faces, well mostly.

Not a bad turn out for a Kenmore re-duced range match, 7 competitors. Re-duced range (100 yards) is the best thatwe can do yet those who participate willtell you it isn’t easier. As a comparison,this correspondent drove to Okanogan toparticipate in a CMP Game 200, yardCourse B 50, round match. At that eventthe turnout was 15 competitors, 2 werejuniors.

Back to the reduced range, you wouldn’tthink that from the scores these guysshoot that it is easy. Two pin winners,

Robert Shuey, a gold pin in the modernmilitary category and Brian Schremp,earned a bronze pin for the new for thisyear – “Unlimited Modern Military”rifle.

We learned from this match that one ofthe competitors is a Mauser Mechanic.Andrew Hermer got Milt Schneider’sSwedish Mauser running. As I under-stand, the issue was that the bolt hadn’tbeen assembled properly. Thanks An-drew, from me and Milt!

May’s match will be an NRA ApprovedMatch the First Sunday, May 5th, as theSecond Sunday, is Mother’s Day.

There is no match scheduled for June.We’ll pick up the program on July 14th

with an NRA Approved Match.

For other High Power Opportunitiescheck the Washington State Rifle andPistol Association Web Site - https://wsrpa.org/rifle/rifle-competition-schedule/

Last, don’t forget that there are a coupleof rare opportunities, the CMP SmallArms Firing School and the CMP RangeOfficer Course at the Douglas RidgeRifle Club, near Portland on the second

DonationsWe receive many donations during thecourse of a year …..and we are verygrateful. While we are not a charity anddonations are not charitable contribu-tions for tax purposes, all donations areput to work improving the facility andits operations. This month we received:

$107 DonationKevin Miller

$100 DonationDan Ivanoff

$50 DonationKaren AshWilliam HambidgeRobert HarmonRichaed JohnsonRichard RexdalDavid RodriguezMatthew RussellDaniel Schlegel

$41 DonationD. Reid Hargiss

$40 DonationsCorey O’Neal

$39 DonationsDaniel Wick

$35 DonationsRandall Lowell

$20 DonationsAdam DufresneLance MacaffreeMargart SingbeilDavid Thiele

$10 DonationsThomas Walzer

Thanks!

weekend of June. For more informationand to sign up, check the CMP Website(http://thecmp.org/training-tech/small-arms-firing-school-training/) and thefor Douglas Ridge Rifle Club Website(http://www.douglasridge.org/)

See you on the range.George G. Smith


Matt Daly was shooting a SavageModel 12 in 6mm BR, probably thebest rifle you could choose for ourfactory class matches. He’d sold itonce but fortunately was able to buy itback. Here are Matt’s scores for eachof the four matches (targets) we shot.91, 92, 89 and 94 points.

Thanks to Matt for helping put up allthe targets throughout the morning.Our next match is May 18. Several ofour shooters were down in Sacramentoshooting in a national long rangematch. Jeff Locke did particularly wellat 1000 yards, finishing first in scoreand second in group, that’s out of 41shooters! Fantastic shooting, Jeff!Maybe he’s learned a little bit at ourKenmore matches. Best of all, Jeff isalways incredibly helpful to anyoneneeding assistance in shooting thoselittle groups and high scores. We’relucky to have him at our range that’sfor sure. Any questions about ourmatches, call Richard Nicol at 206-784-1093.

April Benchrest Match Report

We only had enough shooters to fill onebay this morning. It was supposed to besunny but it was cool and overcast in-stead. Which was actually okay since thatmay have kept the winds and the miragedown somewhat. Breezes were light butchangeable and required one’s attention.We were happy to see Josh Shaw with usagain, this time shooting his new benchgun, a beautiful 6mm BR put together in afirst class way by the folks at Kelbly’s inOhio. His is a Panda action with integralrail for scope rings. A real nice setup. AndJosh shot it very well right off the bat. Weshot all matches at 300 yards and this wasour first match of the regular shootingseason when we begin competing for theShooter of the Year trophy. As usual therewere mostly 6mm rifles on the line butthere was also a 7mm-08 and a 30 BR.

I’ll go through all the custom class scores

first and then record Matt Daly’s scoreswho was the only shooter in the factoryclass. In match one Richard Nicol was firstwith 102 points, Rick Graham was secondwith 101 and Dan Kjelland, fresh from hisbig win down in Tacoma the previousweekend (Congrats, Dan!) was third with ascore of 100. In match two, Josh Shawcame in on top scoring 101 points, Danwas second with 100 and Richard and Ricktied for third with 98 points each. Mr. Con-sistency, Dan shot another 100 for firstplace in the third match. Richard and Joshtied for second with scores of 99 and Rickshot another 98 for third place. In the lastmatch, Rick shot the best score, 100 points.Josh and Dan both had 98 points for sec-ond place and Richard was third with a 96.The winds were kind of deceptive. For themost part is was fairly calm but a suddenbreeze could easily throw a shot out of theten ring if the shooter wasn’t paying atten-tion. At 300 yards you learn a lot and youlearn to be careful. Our range slopes up-wards and past 100 yards it’s fairly ex-posed, unlike at 100. If you can shoot goodgroups at 100 you still have to learn therest of the game, which means learning todecipher that pesky wind.

Independence Ranch is offering a buy one, get one free wild hog hunt trip offer. Each hunting trip includes meals and comfortable accommodations. The hunts are conducted at night from elevated blinds and during the day there is a walking, stalking hunt throughout the property. Please refer to the Independence website or call the Ranch Boss at: 409-370-3137 for more information. The Ranch is located in Waelder, Texas approximately one hour south of Austin and about the same distance from San Antonio. Both cities offer a great deal of Texas hospitality that would make a fantastic southern holiday. Don’t miss out on this opportunity.

Types of hunting equipment allowed are: Shotgun, rifle, pistol, bow and arrow, and crossbow.

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO YOUTH PROGRAMS AT KENMORE RANGE.

SPONSORED BY WILDLIFE COMMIT TEE OF WASHINGTON

KENMORE RANGE • 1031 228th St SW • Bothell, WA 98021 • (425) 481-8686

Must be at least 18 years old to win. Need not be present to win but your presence is encouraged.

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