Berrien County Sportsman s Club, Inc. Newsletter

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1 Berrien County Sportsman s Club, Inc. Newsletter 2985 Linco Road, Berrien Springs, MI Volume 22 Issue 9 September 2017 Membership Meeting Next Membership Meeting is Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 7:00 p.m. Funding and Support for the BCSC Jr. Rifle Program and Jr. Shotgun Program is generously granted by the NRA Foundation. CHECK US OUT ON FACE- BOOK Be sure to visit BCSC Youth Programs on Facebook and follow our youth archery, shotgun and rifle programs. Thank Antlerless deer license application results now available The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that antlerless deer application results are now available. Application results and leftover license availability can be found at mi.gov/deer. Any leftover antlerless deer licenses not issued in this drawing will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 10 a.m. EDT until license quotas are met. The 2017 antlerless deer license quotas for each DMU also can be found at mi.gov/deer. Please note, DMU 333 has unlimited antlerless licenses that may be purchased without application beginning Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. For additional information, the 2017 Michigan Antlerless Deer Digest is

2 Attention: Range Users Club range rule 2.22 states: Always police the range, any range, and clean up brass and mess after you re finished. This includes Archery, Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun ranges. Compton Volunteers Needed for 2018 We are in need of a couple of volunteers to head up the pavilion concession during the 2018 Compton Tradition Rendezvous. Dates for 2018 are June 13 through 17. It has come to the attention of the elected officials that we have some members and/or guests that are not cleaning up after themselves when leaving the club ranges. The main violation is large amounts of cartridge cases just left in piles on the ranges. It is your club and your re- The pavilion plays an extremely important role in the shoot by providing drinks, food and dessert for attendees and campers. If you are interested in finding out more about what s involved, please contact: Jay Steinhauser,

3 Sight-In Days Get ready for deer season! Sight -In days are Nov. 4 and 5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This event is open to the public. Cost is only $5 per gun. Sight-ins will be at 50 and 100 yards. This is a good opportunity to invite potential new members to our club. Al Foster will be chairing this event. Questions? Contact Al Foster at (269) ARE YOU SPONSORING, COORDINATING, OR SUPPORTING AN ACTIVITY AT THE BERRIEN COUNTY SPORTSMAN S CLUB? If it is happening at Berrien County Sportsman's Club, be sure your event gets into the monthly club newsletter. Let the BCSC newsletter help you get the word out to our members. The Club Newsletter is Now All-Digital If you are not currently receiving the newsletter via , send your name and address to: editor@bcsportsmansclub.com This will assure that you are getting your digital copy of the newsletter each month. If you do not wish to give us your , you may also download a PDF of the newsletter from the club website at: We look forward to seeing families enjoying the club together. Children under 18 are included under their family membership. Children18 or older may enjoy the club as guests. However, in order to enjoy full membership privileges and access, family members 18 and over must purchase their own membership. 3

4 The CMP Mission To Promote Firearm Safety and Marksmanship Training With an Emphasis on Youth September CMP Shoot The Poker Shoot on Aug. 13 was a success. Two of the four hands of Poker were won by Ryan, making him the Top Poker Shot for the match. Ryan is a new member and this was his first shoot congratulation s to him. It was discussed with the attendee s as to what they would like to shoot in September. They decided upon a CMP Shoot, so here are the important facts. warm, and hearing protection and proper eye wear will be needed. CONTINUED The shoot usually takes approximately 3 to 3 ½ hours, so you should be home in time to take your sweetie to lunch. If you think about it, bring him or her with, let them shoot, and that will save you the trip back home. Report All Poaching On Sept. 10 the sounds of fall will be in the air at the rifle shooting range. The CMP shoot will start at 8 a.m. and there will be plenty of room for marksmen (markswomen) of all ages. We have a great time. Bragging usually dies down after the first round of shooting. We will be shooting 52 rounds of ammunition. Two rounds will be for sighting (more if required). The cost is $10 if you bring your own rifle and ammo; $50 if you use a club gun and ammo. Most folks bring a shooting mat, bring some water as it may be 4

5 New Members for August Welcome to the Sportsman s Club! Please introduce yourselves when you come by we ll always be glad to see you and your family! MARK AND LYNDA ACKER ST. JOSEPH JOAN AUSTGEN & MARCOS PEREZ GARY, IN WAYNE AND DOT BELKE ST. JOSEPH Your Ad Here Call Notice: Due to low turnout, the club will no longer be having monthly potlucks. JEFF BENEDICT STEVENSVILLE SEBASTIAN PIRIZ BUZO NILES GREGORY CONRAD JR NILES NICHOLAS & CONSTANCE LESCH ST. JOSEPH Marketing and Public Relations Experts WILLIAM RUDMAN STEVENSVILLE BRYCE SCHADLER ST. JOSEPH MIKE AND JANET SHENKER STEVENSVILLE Cean@classicpressroom.com

6 RANGE SAFETY CLASS IDPA shoots are the second Saturday of each month. Shooting runs from 8 a.m. to noon. Come on out NEW MEMBERS, BRING YOUR PISTOLS New members! Come on out with your pistol on Thursday nights and enjoy shooting with some of the old members. We would like to meet you and have you use our indoor pistol and rifle range. We will help you with your shooting skills for when you decide to take the club s monthly CPL class. Range Orientation begins at 7 p.m. in the BCSC clubhouse. Monday, Sept. 11 Monday, Oct. 2 Monday, Nov. 6 Jeff Herman Sheryl Hausman Jim Essig Firearm & Archery Safety Rules Number 9.1: Club members are not permitted to use any range unsupervised unless they have completed the Club s range safety class. Firearm Safety Rules and Guidelines Course PLEASE VISIT OUR ADVERTISERS! WE APPRECIATE THEIR SUPPORT! If you are not a current CPL holder, you will need to be sure to separate your ammunition and firearm and place these two items in different parts of your vehicle when transporting your firearm. The clubhouse range opens at 7:00 p.m. 6

7 CHAIRS FOR SALE The Club is selling excess chairs. We have 40 metal, folding chairs at $1 each. If you are interested in purchasing chairs, or know of anybody who is, including nonmembers, contact Jerry Hebner, Plan now for your Michigan bird hunt in the fall Michigan s grouse season runs Sept. 15 to Nov. 14 and Dec. 1 to Jan. 1. Woodcock, a migratory bird, have an abbreviated season, Sept. 23 to Nov. 6. To hunt grouse and woodcock in Michigan, hunters need a base license. To target woodcock, they also need the free woodcock stamp. Everything can be purchased online at E-License or at one of the many license agents across the state. Millions of acres are open to public hunting in Michigan, and there are many more locations to hunt. Use mi.gov/mihunt, an interactive map application, to plan adventures anywhere around the state. If you have questions, call a DNR Customer Service Center or contact the DNR Wildlife DNR Southwest Lower Peninsula Fishing Report St. Joseph: Anglers found chinook and lake trout in 75 to 160 feet and deeper. The fish were scattered so anglers are working a little harder to find them. Perch fishing was fair for those drifting in 50 feet. Pier fishing was slow. South Haven: Had good salmon fishing in 110 to 120 feet. Most were using white paddles and spin-doctors with green flies. Perch were caught in 55 feet but they are scattered so fishing was a little more difficult. Grand Haven: Boat anglers caught salmon 70 to 140 feet down in 120 to 220 feet. A flasher/fly combination worked best with green or white flies. Fish were also taken on yellow or green meat rigs. The thermocline was about 70 to 80 feet down. Smaller boats are fishing inside 120 to 150 feet and the bigger boats are going out deeper when the weather allows. Most of the fish caught were salmon. Pier fishing was slow. Muskegon: Salmon were caught 60 to 140 feet down in 120 to 240 feet on a white flasher with green or white flies 7

8 NEWSLETTER ONLINE You can read the Berrien County Sportsman s Club Newsletter online every month by visiting the Club s Website Select the NEWSLETTER box in the NO VEHICLES ARE TO BE DRIVEN ONTO THE RIFLE RANGES. THANK YOU. BERRIEN COUNTY SPORTSMAN S CLUB RANGES The Berrien County Sportsman s Club includes a variety of ranges to meet your shooting needs. This includes indoor and outdoor archery, indoor and outdoor rifle and pistol, along with black powder, 25, 50, 75, and 100 yard ranges, handgun tactical and bowling pin ranges. A 200-yard rifle range is available for special Michigan Gun Owners was established in 2002 as a website and incorporated in 2003 with the mission to educate the public and encourage grass roots activism on a state-wide level through various outreach programs and a popular community forum on the internet. Michigan Gun Owners has become Michigan s fastest growing, grass roots gun rights advocacy organization. NOTICE TO MEMBERS The Berrien County Sportsman s Club does not allow slide fires, trigger bumps, or any actions that attempt to mimic a fully automatic firearm. Thank you for your cooperation. NEWSLETTER CORRECTIONS Did you find an error in the newsletter? Please the correct information to editor@bcsportsmansclub.com for publication in the following month s newsletter. Thank you. 8

9 Salmon fishing is heating up on Lake Michigan Lake Michigan has had a tough couple of years, especially as it relates to fishing for salmon. After a few years with a low population, fishing really picked up this past spring. Anglers on the lake experienced limit catches of coho and Chinook salmon thanks to some improvement in the numbers of bait fish available. Lake Michigan has experienced some historic low bait levels in recent years due to harsh winter conditions, less available nutrients resulting from invasive quagga mussels, and over predation from salmon and trout. But Mother Nature, working as she normally does, provided more moderate temperatures the last couple of winters that have allowed bait fish like alewife, smelt, bloaters and lake herring to reproduce and survive. "The 2015 and 2016 year classes of bait are much better than previous years," said the DNR's Lake Michigan Basin Coordinator Jay Wesley. "These bait fish are helping to support the improved salmon fishery this year." Natural resources managers responsible for Lake Michigan have been aggressive to balance the number of predators in the lake. Recognizing both the recent low bait numbers and the increase in Chinook salmon and lake trout natural reproduction, professional managers have reduced the stocking of Chinook salmon, lake trout and brown trout throughout the lake. Please sign in at the clubhouse when coming to shoot, fish or use the archery range, as per the club "Sign In Policy. Shooters should note the type of ammunition and Report All Poaching RAP Hotline: Red Arrow Highway Stevensville, MI "There have been four significant lake-wide stocking reductions going back to 1999 to compensate for changing bait numbers and 9

10 It s your year to grouse and woodcock hunt With grouse and woodcock hunting season openers just around the corner, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that now is the time to make plans to spend some days in the woods. This is your year for a fall adventure, said Al Stewart, DNR upland game bird specialist. The 18 GEMS across the Upper and northern Lower Peninsula are waiting for you and your shotgun to flush a few birds. GEMS (Grouse Enhanced Management Sites) are large blocks of land, open to hunting, that have hunter walking trails winding throughout. The sites are managed to have young timber, which makes them ideal places to hunt and see wildlife due to the thick cover and great food sources provided. Michigan is nationally known for great ruffed grouse and woodcock hunting, but with millions of acres of public land to explore, hunters might not know how to get started, Stewart Hunting outside of Michigan this fall? Be aware of NEW regulations For those who plan to hunt outside of Michigan this fall, it is important to note that regulations related to the importation of harvested cervids (such as deer, elk or moose) have changed substantially. Hunters who harvest a cervid in any other state or province can bring back only the following cervid parts into Michigan: Hides Deboned meat Quarters (legs that do not have any part of the spinal column or head attached) Finished taxidermy products Cleaned teeth Antlers Antlers attached to a skullcap cleaned of brain and muscle tissue Hunters need to realize that the new importation regulations apply to any location they hunt outside Michigan, not just those states and provinces that have chronic wasting disease, said Chad Stewart, Michigan Department of Natural Resources deer and elk specialist. These changes have been put in place in hopes of keeping potential cases of CWD from unintentionally being brought into Michigan. CWD is a contagious neurological disease affecting members of the Cervidae family, including deer, elk and moose. It attacks the central nervous system of infected animals and results in emaciation, abnormal behavior and loss of bodily functions. There is no recovery. The infectious agents causing CWD are prions, which are nonliving proteins that can 10

11 BUSINESS OWNERS Are you a business owner? Do you sell a product or provide a service? Advertise in the Berrien County Sportsman s Club Newsletter. Over 400 family homes are exposed to your business every month when you place your business in your club s newsletter. To advertise in the next newsletter, Contact Cean at editor@bcsportsmansclub.com IN GOD WE TRUST "No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." Samuel Adams to James Warren, 1775 Officers/ Board Members/ Chairpersons President Jim Hausmann Vice President Jason Grimm Secretary Treasurer Sheryl Hausmann Director 2 yr. Al Hemerling Director 3 yr. Dan Bacchiocci Director 1 yr. Les Herrman Director 2 yr. Matt Center Director 1 yr. Mike Kechkaylo Director 1 yr. Jim Wojcik Director 3 yr. Curt Novotny Director 3 yr. Cean Burgeson Director 2 yr. Margo Howley Caretaker Jerry Hebner Archery Dan Jennings Bldg./Grounds Jim Howley Campground Les Herrman CCW Registrar Jason Grimm Fishing Jeff Jones Hunter Safety Dan Jennings IDPA Dale Herter Jr. Rifle Robbee Center Jr. Shotgun Membership Gayla Snow Newsletter Cean Burgeson Pistol Martin Prillwitz Public Relations Cean Burgeson Range Safety Jim Essig Rentals Jim Hausmann Rifle Gene Herrman Trap & Skeet Tom Holt Webmaster Wayne Sample CORRECTIONS If any of the above information is incorrect, please contact Cean Burgeson, Newsletter Editor at: 11

12 Berrien County Sportsman s Club 2985 Linco Road Berrien Springs, MI nd and 4th Wed. at 10 a.m. September Range Orientation 7:00 pm 5 Executive Board Meeting 7:00 pm 7 Range Orientation 7:00 pm 9 IDPA Rifle 8:00 am 11 Board of Directors Meeting 6:30 pm 20 MEMBERSHIP MEETING 7:00 pm 25 Hunter Safety 6:00 pm 26 Hunter Safety 8:00 am 28 CCW Class 6:00 pm 30 CCW Class 8:00 am Monthly Club Events Trap & Skeet Sundays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Pistol Every Thursday at 7 p.m. Fishing Every Day AEP Tactical Range Wednesdays at 8 a.m. Retirees October Range Orientation 7:00 pm 3 Executive Board Meeting 7:00 pm 9 Board of Directors Meeting 6:30 pm 14 IDPA-Rifle Bays 8:00 am 18 MEMBERSHIP MEETING 7:00 pm 25 Hunter Safety 6:00 pm 26 CCW Class 6:00 pm