We’ll be holding our Annual Meeting and Election of Officers for fiscal year 2020 on Monday, September 16th, starting at 8:00 PM.
At press time there were still several open slots for the Executive Officers, but the Director positions were filling up fast.
Normally we change the locks on the night of the Annual Meeting as members must be current with their dues in order to get a new key. This year we have extended memberships for one month as we were late in getting renewal notices out to the membership. Therefore “Key Night,” when the locks change, will be at our October meeting.
News Around The Club
Pistol News
We held a Steel Plate match on Saturday, August 24th that attracted eight shooters. The course of fire was the same as our prior match; six Falling Plates, three large Standing Plates that were double-tapped and eight Swinging Plates which forced a magazine change as the match was revolver neutral, meaning only six rounds max. could be loaded in a semi-auto.
No prizes, just bragging rights — a great afternoon of fun for only five bucks.
Photos here.
Cowboy News
The Gunnysackers held a Cowboy Shoot on Saturday, July 21st on an extremely hot and humid day, which probably kept many pistoleros and pistoleras away from the range and somewhere cool. Seven stages were shot before heat and humidity took it’s toll.
Another shoot was held on Sunday, August 25th. The turn-out was light for this shoot as many of the Gunnysackers were competing in the New Hampshire State Shoot, plus the weather forecast was for showers in the morning — which we got.
An abbreviated posse of five cowboys spent a couple of hours ringing steel targets whilst shooting various stages — not quite church bells calling the faithful to worship, but close.
Photos here. If you look carefully at the
close-up photo of Ron Rice shooting a lever-action rifle, you'll notice that he has two ejected cases on the brim of his hat with a third about to land!
Elsewhere, our Gunnysackers have been shooting all over the place including PA and KY. Nantucket Dawn, aka Sue Lennon, took 1st in her category while shooting in KY.
Fall Work Party, Sat. Sept. 7th
Our Buildings and Lands Chairman, Ernie Foster, is organizing a Fall Work Party on Saturday September 7th from 8:00 am until noon.
Items on the agenda are:
- Trap field lawn care
- Driveway maintenance
- Wood splitting and stacking
- Front gate painting
- Outside clubhouse maintenance
- General cleanup
The plan is to tackle items affecting Trap first so Trap shooting can start at 10:00 am. Bring gloves, glasses and hearing protection.
Please contact Ernie Foster at 617-620-0999 or
erniesales@websteronesource.com for more information.
I Am The Majority
On April 3rd, 2018, resident Mark Robinson gave an impassioned speech at the Greensboro, NC, city council meeting in support of the Second Amendment. This speech is the best four minutes you’ll ever watch about how important gun rights are to the majority of American citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwf3d7hP9g
Remembering The M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle:
A Favorite of Bonnie and Clyde
by Friedrich Seiltgen – Jul 18, 2019
This article appeared in Gunpowder Magazine
The Browning Automatic Rifle, or as it is correctly pronounced, “B-A-R,” was another legendary design by the weapons genius John Moses Browning.
Browning created the BAR chambered in 30.06 in 1917 for the U.S. Expeditionary Corps. The BAR was a replacement for the French Chauchat used by U.S. forces at the time. The BAR was also designed to be carried and fired from the hip in a new concept known as “walking fire” or “marching fire.” Created by French forces, the theory was that soldiers armed with the BAR would cross “No Man’s Land” and lay down fire on enemy soldiers in their trenches to keep them pinned down. Then the rest of the unit would launch an infantry charge to finish them off in hand-to-hand combat. Although the BAR would not see much WWI service, the BAR and the walking fire tactic would see use in WWII under the command of Gen. George Patton.
The BAR, with its machined receiver, was extremely reliable, but the lack of a belt-feed system and the use of a 20-round box magazine would limit its role somewhat, as the gun needed frequent reloading. The BAR was something in between a battle rifle and a squad automatic weapon. The BAR would end up as more of a Light Machine Gun (LMG).
Prior to the BAR, approximately 16,000 8mm Chauchat rifles were transferred from French inventories to U.S. Forces. The Chauchat was not a very reliable weapon and prone to malfunction. The guns were modified to fire the U.S. standard 30.06 cartridge and renamed the 1918 .30 Chauchat. Due to poor engineering, the rifles became even more malfunction prone. The U.S. reverted to the 8mm versions as they were considered reliable in comparison to the modified version.
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