RANGE RULE OF THE MONTH: 

S3.  The firing line is established by mutual consent of all shooters on a given range.  Never move forward or aft of another shooter on the same range, regardless of the lateral distance.

NEWS

            WE ARE HAVING A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE DUMPING THEIR DOGS OFF AND LEAVING THEM AT THE RANGE.  We are not an animal control center.  These dogs go hungry for weeks at a time.  They are a real danger to members and their guest.  Please DO NOT ABANDON your dog on our facility.  If you know of anyone who is doing so please contact one of the Board of Directors.  This could be a huge liability to us should someone get bitten!

FEBRUARY 2009 MONTHLY CALENDAR

REGULAR CLUB MEETING

There were 40 members present at the January meeting.  We have 16 new members!  Welcome to Tri-State Gun Club!  Happy shooting!!

The meeting was called to order at 1500 hours.

President, Bob Lynch, presided

FINANCIAL REPORT: 

Club Fund:                                                      $22,670.79

Certificate of Deposit:                                                $18,902.94  Has been rolled over

Range Fund:                                                   $  1,527.42

RANGE FINANCIL REPORT

DATE IDPA SPECIALTY MATCH MIL BOLT HIGH PWR USPSA FALLING PLATES TRAPS TOTAL Oct-08 50.00 0.00 No report 90.00 90.00 No report 230.00 Nov-08 45.00 183.00 No report 0.00 70.00 No report 298.00 Dec-08 55.00 210.00 No report 85.00 75.00 No report 425.00 Jan-09 70.00 0.00 No report 115.00 90.00 No match 275.00 TOTALS 220.00 393.00 290.00 325.00 1,228.00

OLD BUISNESS

1. Land acquisition:    Greg Swim is taking care of the land acquisition.  He is hoping to  meet with the gentlemen in March.
2. We now have 20 new plastic lawn chairs on the range.  10 on the pistol side and 10 on the rifle side.  Lets take care of them so they will last awhile. 

NEW BUSINESS:

1. Seventeen people showed up on January 31, 2009 for the work day.    They got a lot of work done, filling sand bags, repairing berms and Hogan’s alley.  I commend them all for their hard work and dedication to our club.  
2. The next work day is scheduled on May 30, 2009.
3. Tom has set up a steel challenge on Bay 3.  Instructions on the proper procedure will be posted at the bay.  This steel challenge is great practice for speed shooting.  Youngsters are welcome to practice as long as a parent is present.  This is a timed event.  The timer will be locked in a box at bay 3.  The combination is the same as the gate.  Please be sure to lock it back up for the next person to use. If we have enough people interested in steel challenges we will try to put together a regular match.

PLEASE!  IF YOU USE THE EQUIPMENT FROM BAY 3 MAKE SURE YOU PUT IT BACK.

4. The FBI training course will take place March 2, 3, and 4^th for qualifications and March 16 thru 27 for competition.  The rifle range will not be open for members on these days.  All other ranges will be open for use.  

RANGE IMPROVEMENTS

5. Covers for the multi-purpose range have been order and should be in place by the end of February.
6. The skeet range will be seeing some new additions also.  Buildings for the new skeet machines are ordered. 
7. A new falling plate rack is on the way.  Ray Dillon has been so kind and patient keeping our plates welded on the old racks.  Thank you Ray for all the work you do.  You are greatly appreciated!
8. When warm weather finally arrives we will be ready!

RANGE REPORT:

FALLING PLATES:   

HIGH POWER/MILITARY BOLT:

January 25,2009, THE 300 Yard Range Memorial Prone Match

Robert Hutchinson               DNF               DNF               200-15*               200-17*               400-32x* Tom Karszas                       DNF               DNF               DNF                     87-1                       87-1x* Dan Ward                           DNF               DNF               193-9                     DNF                     193-9x* REMinder                           193-4              198-5              198-10                  199-11                  788-34x Lowell  Weeks                   198-9               199-10            198-12                  200-14                  795-45x Lindy Bailey                        DNF                  DNF              DNF                     200-17                  200-17x William Barker                    193-4               DNF               DNF                     DNF                      193-4x * "F-Class"

January 11, 2009, THE 300 Yard Range Memorial High Power Match

Josh Bell                              39-0               87-0               81-0               155-1               362-1x Mathew Fitzmayer               93-1               99-3               93-0               197-5               482-9x  REMinder                           94-0               99-4                97-5               185-3               475-12x

MODIFIED TRAP:    Due to lack of participants, January’s match was cancelled.

LADIES TACTICAL SHOOTERS MATCH for January was cancelled due to lack of participants.

IDPA The day started out a little gray, but cleared up for a beautiful day for shooting. 16 shooters showed up to test their skills on 6 courses of fire. Next months match will be run by Norman Stellner, Mike Marler and Dennis Kiplinger on the fourth Sunday. Come on out and enjoy some good friends and good shooting!   IDPA MONTHLY MATCH  MULTI-GUN January 25, 2008 STOCK SERVICE PISTOL EXPERT Gerald Bonds 100.82 1st SHARPSHOOTER Norman Stellner 159.88 1st MARKSMAN Sherry Bonds 165.00 1st NOVICE Lynn Rawlinson 205.57 1st UNCLASSIFIED Anthony Dickens 121.47 1st Matt Fitzmayer 133.39 2nd ENHANCED REVOLVER SHARPSHOOTER Jerry Burch 174.10 1st CUSTOM DEFENSE PISTOL SHARPSHOOTER David Rawlinson 97.55 1st MARKSMAN Grady Wiggins 125.89 1st UNCLASSIFIED Greg Schroll 117.97 1st Mark Popowick 143.01 2nd Garrett Schroll 144.22 3rd Pat Carter 184.61 4th Ramona Cobb 215.35 5th ENHANCED SERVICE PISTOL SHARPSHOOTER David Turner 95.38 1st MARKSMAN John Johnson 118.89 1st

USPSC    Well, we beat the rain and had a great match.  Daniel and Cheryl did a great job of putting on the match.  Everyone chipped in on the setup and cleanup which made everything run smoothly.  We had several new shooters and a large contingency from Tallassee.  We hope everyone had a great time.  Here are the final scores by division: USPSA Pistol Match Date: 1/10/2009   Place Name              USPSA  Class Division     PF    Points   Mtch%    1 Keith, Daniel      A54334   B   Open        Major 587.9120 100.00%    2 Norman, Jim        FY46113  B   Open        Major 556.6430  94.68%    3 Jackson, Johnny    TY39971  A   Open        Major 545.5403  92.79%    4 Iten, Tom          FY26732  C   Open        Major 327.7820  55.75%    5 Keigans, Susan     A63401   U   Open        Major 287.0516  48.83%    6 Kaszas, Tom                 U   Open        Major 102.1621  17.38%      1 Mueller, Dave      FY35753  A   Limited     Major 593.0056 100.00%    2 Ely, Tony          A34715   A   Limited     Major 512.5233  86.43%    3 Siesser, Nick      A52486   C   Limited     Major 505.7650  85.29%    4 Gibson, Don        L2734    B   Limited     Major 430.9462  72.67%    5 Roush, Darryl      TY59806  B   Limited     Major 422.9149  71.32%    6 Keigans, Bobby     A61478   B   Limited     Major 400.6265  67.56%    7 Mathis, Sheryl     A59792   D   Limited     Major 345.1878  58.21%    8 Burton, Mike                U   Limited     Major 242.7137  40.93%    9 Freel, Jonas                U   Limited     Major 238.5626  40.23%   10 Tucker, Paul                U   Limited     Major 206.0679  34.75%      1 Bill, Wills        A53930   B   Production  Minor 580.3914 100.00%    2 Turner, David      A53884   B   Production  Minor 505.9793  87.18%    3 Lee, Jonathan               U   Production  Minor 412.8114  71.13%    4 Schrenker, Tim     A62834   U   Production  Minor 314.7936  54.24%      1 Obrien, Ron                 U   Sngl Stack  Major 595.0000 100.00%    2 Maxson, David               U   Sngl Stack  Major 500.9687  84.20%    3 Kaszas, Troy                U   Sngl Stack  Major 227.0694  38.16%   SPECIALTY MATCH The Jan. specialty match was scheduled for this last Sunday and was to be Cowboy Rifle. Unfortunately only two shooters showed up for the match, so it was cancelled. Thanks to Bob Lynch for being the MD even though the match didn't happen. So the specialty match points remain the same. The February specialty match will be Bulls eye pistol scheduled for the third Sunday with Bill Stokes as MD. Come on out and support the club! The rules are very liberal and you can shoot most anything you bring. All shooting will at the 25 yd line with a .22 match, Center fire pistol and .45 pistol match. Standing, one hand offhand, slow fire, timed fire and rapid fire for a total of 30 rounds per gun. Slow fire is 10 rounds in 10 minutes, timed fire is 5 rounds in 20 seconds and rapid fire is 5 rounds in 10 seconds. Even revolvers are welcome cause that is how it was started.   SEE YOU THERE!