UPCOMING & PAST EVENTS NOVEMBER, 2016

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1 5680 Montana Creek Road P. O. Box Juneau, Alaska UPCOMING EVENTS UPCOMING & PAST EVENTS NOVEMBER, 2016 THE NEWS LETTER OF THE JUNEAU GUN CLUB NOVEMBER MULTIPLEX on FRIDAY, : Due to this weekend s 2 day special youth state wide shoot which is being held at our club grounds, we received permission from PITA to hold this month s Multiplex shoot on Friday, So that all can shoot this event, I realize that many trap shooters will work on Friday, so I will open the club and traps from 11:30am until 2:00pm. I will re-open the club and traps from 4:00pm until all shooting is complete. Hopefully this will give all the opportunityto shoot during day light hours. The PITA Multiplex is a 3 event trap shoot. Fifty birds will be shot (at) from the 16 yard Singles posts; the participants Handicap yardage and pair of Doubles. We will shoot for scores against other down south clubs (and perhaps Ketchikan) and for Lewis type class monetary winning s. So please come and enjoy the sport of Trap Shooting. ALASKA SCHOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM (SCTP) SE FALL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT: On Saturday and Sunday, November 5 th and 6 th, the JGC, Junior Trap Team will be the host team for the 2 nd annual SE Fall Tournament. For that reason, JGC will be closed for member and public shooting on those two days. This two day event features 100 singles, 50 wobbles and -pair doubles for a 200 target event. An optional 5-Stand event will also be held. This event is sponsored by USAYESS (YOUTH EDUCATION in SHOOTING SPORTS) and Alaska SCTP (SCOLASTIC CLAY TARGET PROGRAM). Opening Ceremonies at 8:30am on Saturday and Shooting starts at 9:00am Saturday and Sunday. Concessions will be available all day. A BBQ will be held Saturday night at the Club. Club member volunteers are needed as scorers and RSO s. Please sign-up at the club counter. The tournament is expecting approximately 50 athletes entering the events. Up to 30 participants will be from around Alaska. Athletes are coming from Anchorage, Haines, Sitka, Petersburg, Ketchikan, Wasilla, the Kenai Peninsula, and other Southcentral areas. NOVEMBER 8 TH, PLEASE VOTE; Regardless of your political choice, execute your privilege as an citizen of these great United States and vote for your desired political leaders.

2 NOVEMBER 11 TH, VETERANS DAY; Please remember this day and our veterans. If you are a veteran, THANK YOU. If you are not a vet but know some, please thank them for their service. NOVEMBER 12 TH, ND SATURDAY REGISTERED TRAP SHOOT; Our November 12 th registered shoot is an PITA event. ATA cross registration will be permitted. This will be a 300 bird event, consisting of 100 Singles (shot first), 100 Handicap and 50 pair of Doubles. Sign up, trap field set-up and squad placement will be from 8:30am to 9:am. If there are new registered shooters, a safety meeting and orientation will be held. The first squad will be to their posts at 9:30am. The events normally lasts until 2:00pm+ (or so). You can shoot one, two or all three events. The first 100 target entrée fee is $ The entrée fee cost for each additional 100 targets is $ The cost for cross registration is $6.00. These are fun shoots, so come on out and have some fun shooting clay birds and enjoying the computation. NOVEMBER 19 TH, the 2016 JGC S ANNUAL TURKEY SHOOT FOR ALL OF JUNEAU; Once again the Juneau Gun Club at our facilities, the Juneau Shooting Sports Foundation, and the Juneau Archery Club at the ADF&G Hunter-Education facility will offer the citizens of Juneau, and our visitors, a chance to win a Thanksgiving Day Turkey. This year s event will be on Saturday, November 19 TH, from 10:00am until 3:00pm. JGC s Thanksgiving Turkey shoot has been an almost continuous community event since about Again this year, as per the last 10 or more years, we are joined by the Juneau Shooting Sports Foundation and the Juneau Archery Club holding a joint Turkey Shoot event at the ADF&G Hunter-Education Facility, better known as the indoor range. Fifty and more turkeys will be awarded to the skilled and/or lucky individuals participating in this year s events. The year s games of chance will include non-conventional trap, card and bubble shoots, Annie Oakley and more! Heading up the JGC Turkey shoot will be our club s directors. Of course JGC will be looking for volunteer members to help the club directors put on this event for our fellow club and community members and visitors. We will need about 14 JGC members for a 2.5 to 3 hour morning or afternoon shift to act as line and safety officers and general all-around help. Four of the volunteer s will work inside the club selling the tickets for the games of chance, while the others will work the shooting lanes. Please sign-up at the club counter or give the club a call ( ) or me a call (789-90) or . Your help is needed to make this a successful community and club fund raising event. We do have a good start of volunteers with our directors and caretaker. Please come out and help make this event a success and win a turkey for your Thanksgiving Day table. A volunteer sign-up sheet will be at our club counter

3 PAST EVENTS: 2016 ANNUAL MEETING; October 6 th saw our annual meeting held per the club s bylaws. 17 members attended. Chip Verrelli, our treasurer, reported our club to be in good financial health even with the loss of our past pull tab provider, the Viking Bar. Caretaker Carter reported on M & O activities while President Mer Chant Thompson summed the past years activities. Through Mal Menzies Mona Yarnall reported on last years league and gave the members 2 options for this coming league. The members choose a 12 week league program, 10 weeks of shooting and two work weeks. The Captains meeting will be 12/1/16 and the first week of league will be Thursday, 12/8/16. There will be a 2 week break for the Christmas/New Year holidays. Mona also reported this will be her last year of running the winter league. She asked members to volunteer their help with this year s league and consider stepping forward to run the league. Several comments were offered by members during the open comment section of the adgenda. The most notable was for membership renewals be allowed by on-line methods. This will be looked into. A director s nomination and election was held. Members Verrelli; Thompson; Godkin; Kappler; Bertholl and Menzies were nominated. Warne Bertholl withdrew from his nomination and the remaining 5 were elected for the year. An election of club officers will be held by the new directors on October th. Hall of Fame nomination by President Mer Chant Thompson was made naming Mal Menzies the honoree. The present members supported the nomination JGC OFFICERS ELECTED; On October the newly elected directors meant to elect officers and conduct a limited board meeting. Mal Menzies was elected President; Jerry Godkin was elected Vice President; Chip Verrelli was re-elected Treasurer; Mark Kappler was elected Secretary and Mer Chant Thompson elected Past President. PAST DIRECTOR WAYNE BERTHOLL HONORED; For his past 10 years and more of service to Juneau s Gun Club, Wayne Bertholl was presented with a cover of Trap & Field magazine. The cover honored Wayne for his past and continuing service to JGC.

4 TRAPS 2 & 4 ARE RE-BORN; As reported last month, with the very generous donations by the Alaska s Territory Sportsman Association and member Jan Van Dort, Trap house 2 had installed a brand new PAT Trap. We have been shooting on it for over a month. Hopefully you noticed the thank you sign on the trap house. The old trap 2 was taken this last week, cleaned and dressed and placed in Trap 4 s house. The trap that old trap 2 replaced was our oldest and most used trap, having thrown almost 1 million targets. [We will not speak about how much work was done keeping trap 4 going.] All this effort was made by a few selected members led by Wayne Bertholl. We all must thank Jerry Godkin, Fred Wilson, Pete Hudson, Mal Menzies and Rick Carter for their volunteering on this work effort. The old trap 4 will now be re-built and stored by volunteer Jerry Godkin with others helping as requested. It will then be ready for use, if needed. A Pat Trap body that has many parts which were borrowed, sits in our back room area and will be placed on E-Bay and the Alaska List with hopes that we will also gain something for it. OCTOBER S MULTIPLEX RESULTS; Octobers Multiplex had a good turn-out with some good shooting as shown below; Shooter information Event 1 Eve nt 2 E v e n t 3 Score Last name, first name Yards Sg ls 1st 2n d Hd cp 1st 2n d D b l s Sco re Hoa Wayne Bertholl 20 x x x Forrest Bowers 22 x x x Robert Gregg 20 x x x Malcolm 22 x x x Menzies Brice Norton 19 x x x (Jr. Mbr.) Mer"Chant Thompson 20 x x x

For the sub gauge shooters, their scores were; Shooter information Event 1 Last name, first name Gaug e Sgl 1st 2nd s Robert Greg 20 x 18 23 41 Mal Menzies 20 x 21 21 42 OCTOBER S REGISTERED SHOOT

5 For the sub gauge shooters, their scores were; Shooter information Event 1 Last name, first name Gaug e Sgl 1st 2nd s Robert Greg 20 x Mal Menzies 20 x OCTOBER S REGISTERED SHOOT RESULTS; On what was a beautiful, clear, early fall day, with temperatures ranging from 37*F to 48*F, 10 JGC members registered to shoot this month s trap computation. Three events were scheduled, Singles, Handicap and Doubles. The event results were; SINGLES, 10 ENTRIES: A class; Pete Hudson, 97/100 event and class winner; B Class; John Morris, 96/100, class winner: C Class; Mer Chant Thompson, Wayne Bertholl and Jerry Godkin all shooting a 95/100 with Mer Chant winning a shoot-off for class winner; Mal Menzies, 93/100; Steve Kikendill and Fred Wilson, 92/100; Garret Hermann, 91/100 and Chip Verrelli, 83/100. HANDICAP, 10 ENTRIES: Short Yardage; Mer Chant Thompson, 92/100, Event & Class Winner; Steve Kikendill, 87/100; Jerry Godkin, 85/100; Garret Hermann, 84/100; John Morris, 81/100; Chip Verrelli, 83/100; Wayne Bertholl, 79/100; Mal Menzies, 78/100 and Fred Wilson, 75/100. Mid Yardage; Pete Hudson, 85/100, Class Winner. DOUBLES, 10 ENTRIES; B Class; Pete Hudson, 86/100, class winner; Forrest Bowers, 39/50; C Class; Fred Wilson, 89/100 Event & Class Winner; Wayne Bertholl, 76/100. D Class; Mal Menzies, 84/100, class winner; Chip Verrelli, 79/100; Steve Kikendill, 76/100; Garrett Hermann, 75/100; Mer Chant Thompson, 71/100 and Jerry Godkin, 61/100. It must be noted that Garrett Hermann was our only Junior Trap Shooter. HIGH OVER-ALL; PETE HUDSON, 268/300 (89.3%). RUNNER-UP; Mer Chant Thompson 8/300 (86.0%) Mer Chant Thompson Pete Hudson

6 2016 GRAND AMERICAN SHOOT ; On a state wide basis, only a limited few Alaskan trap shooters ventured back to Sparta, IL for the ATA Grand Championship. This year, among the limited few was Birchwood Shooting Park (Anchorage Area) member C.W. Floyd. Many of our Juneau members know C.W. from his participation in both the Alaska PITA and ATA Championships. In this year s 14 Event Grand, C. W. Floyd won the Senior Event Class in Event #5, Trapshooting USA Handicap, SHOOTING a 99/100. He also placed high in several other events as reported in the Trapshooting USA Journal and by our out-of-town member and former ATA President Dave Kaiser. JGC sends our Congratulations to C. W. Floyd.

P. O. Box Juneau, Alaska Montana Creek Road. February, 2015 UPCOMING & PAST EVENTS

P. O. Box Juneau, Alaska Montana Creek Road. February, 2015 UPCOMING & PAST EVENTS P. O. Box 32444 Juneau, Alaska 99803 907 789 9844 5670 Montana Creek Road UPCOMING EVENTS February, 2015 UPCOMING & PAST EVENTS WINTER LEAGUE & CLUB HOURS; Winter League continues to go well, even with