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Yee Haw!! Cowboy Shoot!!
By Russ Edwards (a.k.a. The Chelsea Kid)
Great Season for Rifle Team
By Eric Bye
The first Cowboy shoot of the summer went
well!
On Thursday,
June 17, the Precision Valley Pistoleros held their first shoot of
2004. In spite of “iffy” looking weather, 28 shooters took to the range and
the sound of
shooting echoed up and down the valley.
Stage One, “Ground Hog Day,” introduced the
shooters to the idea that at each shoot this summer, the stage will always
be repeated, just like in the Bill Murray movie of the same name. Most
shoots put out new stages every time, but we wanted shooters to see their
improvement by running the same exact stage for each shoot.
Stage Two, “Take the Money and Run,” had the
shooters carrying their gold and protecting against the low-down no-goods
trying to take it.
The newsletter of the
The Precision
Valley Rifle Team ended the 2004 season on April 9th with its ninth win in
fourteen matches. Our team also had the highest season average in the
league, but came in second to Prosper, with their eleven victories
Precision
Valley Fish & Game Association
Volume
8, No. 3 Summer 2004
We had three shooters in the top ten spots for the league: Eric Bye (5th),
Keith Buswell (8th), and Scott Carroll (10th). A Precision Valley team
member, Sandy Thomas, was
also the league's most improved shooter with more than 34 points over her
last year's average. The league's top new shooter, Tom Elgan, is also from
our team.
The league shows some encouraging prospects for next
year, with both new and returning shooters who performed well.
Congratulations Team! Way to go! 
New PVF&GA
Web Site
Our new
“official webmaster,” John Olmsted, has developed a
web site for the club. Visit the site at
www.pvfga.com. The site contains much of the same information that’s
shown in our 2004 pamphlet, and John has also begun posting these
newsletters on
the site. If you’d
like something posted there, you can contact John at
802-885-1580 or at
vjolmsted@adelphia.net
(Nice job,
John. It was greatly needed and is greatly appreciated.- Ed.)
“Leadership
and learning are indispensable to each other.”
- John F. Kennedy
The Fish and Wildlife Board will control Vermont’s whitetail deer herd for
the next five years under this bill that was
recently signed into law by Governor Jim Douglas. The new law also increases
to 14 the number of members of the
Fish and Wildlife Board.
In recent years, the Vermont legislature has had control of the state’s
whitetail deer population. The new law
addresses long-time concerns of members of the outdoor sporting community
that many legislators know little about
wildlife management or the biology of the whitetail deer, and thus are ill
prepared to manage Vermont deer.
PVF&GA President Mike Currie is eager to serve in one of the new positions
on the Fish and Wildlife Board, and
recently sent a request for his consideration to Governor Douglas. The
club has also recommended to the Governor
that Mike be selected to fill the Windsor County vacancy on the Fish and
Wildlife board.
The Long-Ranger
Outdoor
Range Notes
Every Tuesday is designated as 300-yard Day.
Members who like to do a little long-range shooting
have priority on the range that day, and all shooters
must yield to any 300-yard shooter. The 300-yard
bench sits at the tree line near the porta-potty. For
safety reasons, all other ranges are closed except the archery range while
300-yard shooting is in progress. The
300-yard shooters will indicate that the 300-yard
range is in use by displaying an orange cone, a red
flag, or some other item that will catch the eye of
anyone entering the range gate.
HB515 Passes,
Control of Deer Herd Goes to Expanded F&W Board
Users of the
outdoor range are reminded about the
club’s trash policy contained in the Outdoor Range
Rules: If you bring it in, take it out! This
includes spent brass and shotgun shells,
and any targets.
We remind all shooters to hang targets
properly when using the upright target holders provided on the range.
The proper way to hang a target on the 50-, 100- and 200-yard cross-boards
is to fasten it so that the target’s bulls eye or the anticipated point of
impact is lined up with the space between the cross boards. This helps
the cross boards to survive just a while longer.
Also, don’t hang targets on the metal upright posts.
The 50-yard uprights have survived for several years but will have to be
replaced soon, due to irresponsible shooters who seem to be curious to know
whether their caliber of choice will penetrate the concrete-filled steel
pipe.
Junior Marksmanship Program
Plea
A .22 rimfire
rifle has been donated to our Junior
Marksmanship Program.
Only problem is, the rifle
lacks the aperture sights that
are used in the program. One
of our members is willing to drill and tap
the rifle and install the sights at no cost to the club, but the sights for
this gun cost more than the program can afford.
If
anyone has a set of sights, (front globe and rear aperture) that will fit a
Remington Targetmaster, model 510, and would be willing to donate them to
the club, it would be greatly appreciated.
Contact Al Nass at
802-484-5418 or via e-mail at
asnass@earthlink.net if you have a set of sights for this rifle that
you’d like to donate.
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 Kids’ Hunting Togs Sale/Swap Set
Young hunters
who need some warm clothing for the
fall hunting seasons can visit the clubhouse on Sunday, August 15 from 9
a.m. till noon to check out a variety of new and
“pre-worn” clothing
and accessories at the club’s fifth annual
youth hunting clothing swap/sale.
Shirts, jackets, and boots will be available
at no
charge. We will accept donations, however, and we’ll
use any profits from the sale to fund the club’s youth programs.
Swaps are welcome, and anyone wishing to
swap a clean, serviceable item of hunting clothing or
footwear for an item the club has on hand
may do so.
To make arrangements to donate items for the event,
call Sue Currie at (802) 886-2666.
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Our Heroes!
By Carl & Cheryl Breuning
It was a nice
cool night in April. We had just attended the regular April meeting of the
Precision Valley Fish and Game Association. Carl was doing the honors of
driving home from
the meeting, as I was extremely tired. He
decided that we should try the dirt road up to Wellwood Orchards rather then
go the long way into Springfield, Vermont and cross the Connecticut River
into Charlestown, then head toward Newport, our hometown.
We started up the road and, knowing it was
“mud” season in Vermont, went slowly to test out the road. Carl felt it was
firm underneath the dirt so we continued up the hill towards Wellwood
Orchards. About 100 or so yards from the final bend in the road, Carl saw a
muddy spot, but was sure he could make it through fine. Well, “the best laid
plans of Mice and Men,” as the saying goes, soon found us buried in mud up
to the hubcaps right dead center of the road. We put on our emergency
flashers and sat there hoping someone would come to our rescue, as neither
Carl nor I could walk to the nearest house to get help.
Enter our Heroes! Bob Topolski was the first
person to come on the scene. He said if someone else couldn’t help us, he’d
go back to the clubhouse and get us some help. Next came our hero number
two, Doug Hinkley. He stopped, assessed the situation, said he had some
chains at home and would go and get them. Bob said he would stay with us and
make sure we were safe; all this, while Bob’s car was overheating. Doug
returned in about 20 minutes, tied the chain to the back of the car and
yanked us out of the mud. There was no place to go around so we had to
back down the road. Doug drove ahead and we used his lights to guide us to
the first driveway and we turned around and headed back into Springfield.
It’s an honor to have
members like these two gentlemen in our Association. Thanks Bob and Doug.
You won’t be forgotten.
Merci…
…to John Olmstead (again) for creating a
nice, informative website. You can also get the latest news and the
latest newsletter on this website. It is:
www.pvfga.com.
…to all of our members who serve on committees and serve as chairpersons
of all of our disciplines.
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Partial Activities Schedule
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8/6 – Hunter Education Course
begins
8/7 – State Muzzle Loading
Championship 9 a.m./
Monthly Meeting 7 p.m.
8/14 – Cast Bullet Shoot 9 a.m.
8/15 – Clothing Swap/Sale 9 a.m./Sporting Clays 12:30 p.m.
8/19 –
Cowboy Action Shoot 4 p.m.
9/11 – Monthly Meeting 7 p.m.
9/12 – Sporting Clays 12:30 p.m.
9/26 – Hunting and Fishing Day
at Outdoor Range
10/2 – Monthly Meeting 7 p.m.
10/9 – Fall Woods Walk
Muzzleloader Shoot 9 a.m.
10/17 – Sporting Clays 12:30
p.m. |
11/6 –
Monthly Meeting 7 p.m.
11/7 – Trap Shooting 12:30 p.m.
(Winter schedule begins)
11/14 – Trap 12:30 p.m.
11/21 – Trap 12:30 p.m.
11/28 – Trap 12:30 p.m.
12/4 – Monthly Meeting 7 p.m.
12/5 – Trap 12:30 p.m.
12/12 – Sporting Clays 12:30
p.m.
12/19 – Trap 12:30 p.m.
12/25 – Christmas Day – Outdoor
rifle range closed to firearms |
“Don’t
Fence Me In” set everyone up with moving and shooting over fences at the
targets.
We welcomed a number of fellow shooters from
the area as well as number of new junior shooters. Those of us “old”
cowpokes had fun introducing these newcomers.
We had
lots of compliments on how the stages were designed and how wonderful it was
that the shoot was local and little traveling was involved.
Many
thanks to Dick Lillian (a.k.a. Alibi Ike) and Al Nass (a.k.a. Jerry Atrick).
The next shoot is scheduled for Thursday,
August 19, with registration starting at 4:00 p.m., a safety meeting at 5:00
p.m. and shooting to start immediately following.
 Get
the Lead Out!
The second cast bullet shoot of the year is scheduled for Saturday, August
14, 2004 at the outdoor range. For more information contact
George Trombly at
Ins
and Outs of Range Trash
Hang ’Em Right
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