We held our Annual Meeting and Election of Officers on Sept. 16th. As all the positions were unopposed, the Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Tom McCusker cast the solitary vote needed to vote in the slate.
For our Fiscal Year 2020 your Executive Board and Directors are:
Executive Board
President: Mike Kinahan
Vice President: Ken Crowell
Secretary: Richard Martin
Treasurer: Eric Page
Executive Officer: Phil Lennon
Membership Secretary: Greg Sowyrda
Directors
Bill Berry
Dave Glancy
Larry (Hef) Hefner
Arty Johannesen
Ron Rice
Key Night
Monday, October 7th will be the night we change the locks. To obtain a new key you must be a member in good standing (paid your dues) and grease the Membership Secretary’s palm with a couple of bucks.
News Around The Club
Trap & Skeet News
Trap continues to enjoy good turnouts on Saturday mornings starting at 10:00 AM and will continue to shoot throughout the winter, weather permitting. There’s talk about expanding to Tuesday or Thursday evenings, but nothing concrete yet. Late breaking news is always posted on our web site under News.
Skeet is once again shooting on Wednesday evenings. For all you upland bird and duck hunters, now is a great time to practice on small, fast flying clay birds so you’ll be ready when the seasons open.
Pistol News
Paul Figuerido, our Pistol Chairman, has done a lot of fabrication work on the pistol range, witness the two steel plate target racks — Thanks Paul!
Please, if you use the swing-out target rack, put it back in it’s stowed position after use.
Look for another Steel Plate match sometime in October, a hard date has yet to be decided. Late breaking news is always posted on our web site under News.
Cowboy News
When last spotted, the Gunnysackers where galloping off in a cloud of dust, headed to New York and Texas to sling lead.
Building & Lands
A work party was held on Saturday, Sept. 9th under omious skys and occasional rain which prevented the gate being painted that day; it’s since been painted a nice shade of Woodland Green.
Other tasks accomplished during the clean-up were: cleaning the interior of the clubhouse, splitting and stacking wood for the winter and changing bulbs on the light towers. Not that we collect junk around the club, but we did take out a dumpster full of trash after the clean-up! Thanks go to those who helped.
Turkey Shoot
Mark your calendars now for our annual, not-to-be-missed, Turkey Shoot on Sunday, November 24th.
Winchester Super-X 17 HMR 20 Grain Jacketed Hollow Point Recall
Olin Winchester, LLC is recalling two (2) lots of 17 HMR 20 Grain Jacketed Hollow Point Rimfire rifle ammunition.
Symbol: X17HMR1
Lot Numbers (last four characters): NB51 and NB61
Winchester has determined the above lots of 17 HMR ammunition may contain no powder charges. Ammunition with no powder charges may result in a bullet remaining in the barrel (i.e., a bullet-in-bore obstruction). Firing a subsequent bullet into the bore obstruction could cause firearm damage, rendering the firearm inoperable and subjecting the shooter and bystanders to a risk of serious personal injury.
Winchester's Product Recall Notice is at this link:
https://tinyurl.com/y2p5zv6e
Crossing The Street, Riding A Bicycle, Kills More Americans Than Rifles Do
by AWR Hawkins
This article appeared on Breitbart News
The left’s relentless push to ban commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles under the guise of safety overlooks the fact that Americans face numerous things that cause exponentially more death than rifles on a daily basis.
Consider Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics from 2017, the most recent year of complete data. The total number of firearm-related deaths was 39,773. Roughly two-thirds of that figure, 23,854, were firearm-related suicides, with the remaining 15,919 being a combination of the approximately 500 accidental gun deaths that occur annually coupled with just over 15,000 firearm-related homicides.
If we break down the firearm-related homicides via FBI crime statistics, we see that handguns were far and away the common firearm for murder. The FBI reported 7,032 murders with a handgun verses 403 murders with a rifle, and 264 with a shotgun, in cases where the firearm was identifiable.
If we take the 403 rifle murders a year and divide by 365 it comes out to 1.1, which means 1.1 Americans die in a rifle-related murder each day. We must not overlook the fact that the 403 murders with a rifle are murders with rifles of all kinds, i.e., bolt action, lever action, breech action, pump, and semiautomatic. If we narrowed the category to only include AR-15s, AK-47s, or similar semiautomatics, the number of Americans killed daily would be even lower than 1.1.
Now, with the aid of charts released by the CDC, as well as CDC special reports, studies by schools such as Johns Hopkins University, crime statistics from the FBI, and coverage from Breitbart News, consider 10 other causes of death that literally eclipse the number of daily deaths involving a rifle:
1. Daily Heart Disease Deaths: 1,773
2. Daily Cancer Deaths: 1,641
3. Daily Medical Malpractice Deaths: 685
4. Daily Accident Deaths: 465
5. Daily Lower Respiratory Disease Deaths: 439
6. Daily Stroke Deaths: 401
7. Daily Alzheimer Deaths: 332
8. Daily Diabetes Deaths: 229
9. Daily Drug Deaths: 192
10. Daily Flu Deaths: 152
For those who argue that rifle deaths ought to be compared to deaths by other voluntary activities, rather than disease, consider the following six examples:
1. Daily Drunk Driving Deaths: 29
2. Daily Deaths from Crossing the Street: 16
3. Daily Distracted Driving Deaths: 9
4. Daily Deaths by Knives and Other Sharp Instruments: 4
5. Daily Deaths from Bicycles: 2.7
6. Daily Deaths by Hammers and Other Blunt Objects: 1.27
Again, the daily number of deaths from all types of rifles combined is 1.1.
