Clay Shooting NOW on
Wednesday Nights. 6 PM. Call Dan or Dave if you have any
questions.
Members and Founders,
April is when we change from
Saturday to Sunday for skeet and trap.
Due to the Easter Holiday,
there will be no skeet or trap this Sunday.
Skeet and trap will resume
next Sunday, April 11, 2010, at 11:00 a.m.
John Thumm
Clays Shooting Changes to SUNDAYS STARTING
APRIL 11TH. 11 AM UNTIL WE ARE DONE.
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FOUNDERS AND MEMBERS UPDATE
February 2009
We have finally experienced some snow melt at the
club!
Thanks to the dedication of Dave Munroe in
particular, and the other members of the Clays Committee, all sharing the
load, these guys beat back the worst winter in recent memory to keep
Five-stand open every Saturday.......and that was no small feat!
Most importantly, we should all thank Ron Robinson
and Bert Stambaugh for graciously employing their heavy equipment to do the
heavy lifting, or pushing as the case may be. Without their help to move the
deep stuff that dumped on us week after week, the club would have probably
been out of action shortly after Thanksgiving. If you know these two
gentlemen PLEASE let them know how appreciative we all are for what they have
done!
The Five-Stand field is open and fully operational
every Saturday at 11:00 AM. Standard closing is 2:00 PM but if no one shows
up by 1:00 then cold and boredom may result in closing early. In any case,
once there, no one is turned away until they're shot all they want to.
SCHOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM UPDATE
The SCTP program had it's first official
practice Sunday, 2/8/09.
It was windy and.......it was cold! The place
was an ice rink. The terrain was frozen as solid as concrete........but the
traps all worked. Ron Robinson and Bert Stambaugh, moving tons of snow in
the process, had again plowed open the circle track around the field to each
trap. Saturdays thaw and the overnight freeze had frozen the plowed berms
as solid as ice and the kids hacked away until we had decent entry ways into
the traps.
The first practice is always an eye-opener with
the new kids. One diminutive little guy gamely stood in the #5 cage and
fired shot after shot at bird #4 to no avail. He got lots of personal
attention from Noel and Trina, but just could not get on target. Stoic,
solemn, he stood in there, he didn't quit. He was cold, his arms were tired
(His Dad was shaking, snot dripping from his nose). We were tired, hands
freezing, backs hurt, slipping and sliding all over the place. To be
honest, from the start we adults probably all would rather have stayed home
where it was warm.
Right at the end this same
little squirt asks "can I try again, just one more time?"
He smashed it! Center hit! Smile on his face
from ear to ear! Little
thing, big payback. The value of some things cannot be measured in dollars.
Noel Hutton and I attended an SCTP clinic in Grand Rapids last Saturday,
2/7.
Beyond shooting a little skeet and five-stand and learning some new
techniques and suggestions in the process from nationally ranked skeet and
sporting clays instructors, we also had the opportunity to meet face-to-face
with persons from the state SCTP program. This was good for a number of
reasons; getting to be on a first name basis being just one of them.
To some extent locally, we may be victims of our own success in that last
year we had 10 SCTP participants and the kids did very well. This year
we've still got the same 10 and also 10 new kids who also signed up. We'll
simply have to manage what we have relative to our budget. SCTP will not be
a financial burden to The Club but, as last year, we are asking for
founder/member donations to the program......money, ammunition, eye/ear
protection, clothing/shooting accoutrements, services, etc. All SCTP funds
are maintained as a separate line item in the Club treasury and are not
co-mingled with club monies. Additionally, this year, each kid will also be
responsible for generating revenue. The coaching staff will help manage
this process, but the kids will each have goals to reach. SCTP will sustain
itself, or it will not exist.
The biggest goal for the team this year is to represent COLSC at the
National SCTP Championships in Sparta, Illinois later this summer. At this
point we are a long ways, financially, from being able to do that.
One of the goals set by the founders when COLSC was started was to develop a
program to encourage and bring local youth into the shooting sports. SCTP
currently is that vehicle. If we don't do that we will without a doubt see
the shooting sports continue to diminish, eventually to the point of
non-existence. This would please a certain myopic segment of our society.
We are all sensitive to the fact that generally speaking our local
communities and our year round population are not known for their
affluence. We don't need any Rah! Rah! Sis-boom-ba!.......flag waving, or
Mom's apple pie, to stimulate a positive response to this club goal; we're
all well aware of our personal responsibilities to our families first and,
then only where we are able, to others.
SCTP will accept any help that can be given and we would like to thank
everyone ahead of time for their consideration. Donations may be sent to
Treasurer John Thumm, COLSC, Box 765, Bellaire, MI 49615, for "The SCTP
Program".
2009 SCTP Schedule
March 7, Saturday, Grand Blanc Huntsman's Club, Grand Blanc, MI
April 4, Saturday, Island Lake Recreation Area, Brighton, MI
May 9, Saturday, Centerline Gun Club, Bellevue, MI
June 20, Saturday, Detroit Gun Club, Commerce Twp., MI
July 11, Saturday, SCTP State Championships, Michigan Trap Shooting
Association, Mason, MI
FOUNDERS AND MEMBERS UPDATE
February, 2009
We have finally experienced some snow melt at the
club!
Thanks to the dedication of Dave Munroe in
particular, and the other members of the Clays Committee, all sharing the
load, these guys beat back the worst winter in recent memory to keep
Five-stand open every Saturday.......and that was no small feat!
Most importantly, we should all thank Ron Robinson
and Bert Stambaugh for graciously employing their heavy equipment to do the
heavy lifting, or pushing as the case may be. Without their help to move the
deep stuff that dumped on us week after week, the club would have probably
been out of action shortly after Thanksgiving. If you know these two
gentlemen PLEASE let them know how appreciative we all are for what they have
done!
The Five-Stand field is open and fully operational
every Saturday at 11:00 AM. Standard closing is 2:00 PM but if no one shows
up by 1:00 then cold and boredom may result in closing early. In any case,
once there, no one is turned away until they're shot all they want to.
USPSA ACTION TRAINING
NOTICE FOR MAY
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Five
Stand WILL BE SWITCHING TO :
Saturdays
for December / Winter. Closed (November) Deer season. Get your Big Buck
in your sights and then - come on over to COLSC on Saturday, December 6
- and shoot clays - if your are lucky or not! Then - football and ice
fishing on Sunday!
Happy New Year 2009
At COLSC Five Stand
Member RK Barton, his daughter Sue
and a friend shot in our first shoot of 2009. Member Trina McDuffie
helped Dave, John, and Doug dig out some of Mother Nature's white stuff.
Cody Hutton a SCTP member also shot a few rounds today.
And remember Summer?!
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