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1 November/December 2014 TAFT SPORTSMEN S CLUB Taft Sportsmen s Club, PO Box 1245, Taft, CA info@taftsc.com (661) JC Chitwood Junior Pheasant Hunt The J.C. Chitwood Memorial 20 th Annual Junior Pheasant Hunt sponsored by the Taft Sportsmen s Club will take place Saturday and Sunday November 15 & 16, The application for this free hunt is on the next page and all hunters with a Junior Hunting License are eligible to apply. The Taft Sportsmen s Club also needs volunteers to help with this annual event. We need dog handlers, registration volunteers, and general helpers to help put on this two day event that serves nearly 200 junior shooters. If you are interested in volunteering for one of the last club volunteering events of the year, please contact Tom Brown at If he doesn t answer, leave a message and he will return your call. INSIDE THIS ISSUE PAGE 2014 Junior Pheasant Hunt 1,2 Annual Awards Qualifications 3 Memberships 3 Meeting Minutes Online 3 Annual Awards Qualifications 3 Condolences 3 Gate Combination & Range Etiquette 3 Annual Banquet & Awards 3.22 Action Shooters 4 Weekly Trap Shoots 4 Taft Sport Shooters 4 Practiscore Match Software 5 5 th Annual TSS Zombie Match 5 Taft Shooter s Challenge Start Paying Your Club Dues Now! 6 Club Calendars 7,8 Business Card Displays 7,8, Membership Application Business Card Application 11 Club Elections Tuesday December 23, 2014 Scenes from previous Junior Pheasant Hunts:

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3 Taft Sportsmen s Club Memberships The club membership has increased to 310 paid members. Remember that club dues are effective for a calendar year, so be sure to pay your 2015 dues. You can find more information on our website at Please note that your membership expiration date is printed on your address label on this newsletter. Please do not let your membership expire. If you think there is an error, please contact us and we will help get it figured out. Page 3 Meeting Minutes Online Interested on what happens at the monthly meetings and board meetings of the Taft Sportsmen s Club? Well now you can read the public records of these meetings online from our website. Go to for a listing of the meeting minutes as well as the club constitution and by-laws. Condolences Jimmy & Karen Chitwood s uncle Dennis Chitwood passed away recently. January-14 means January 2014 aka over due! Annual Awards Qualifications This is a reminder that the revised TSC Constitution & By-Laws require awards candidates to attend one General Meeting and two work parties. One of the work parties must be completed by August 1 st. These requirements will continue to be enforced. Long time TSC member Charlie Brown passed away on August 2. A card was sent to his wife Fran. Club Elections Club Elections will be held on Tuesday December 23 rd at the general meeting at Pizza Factory at 6:30 PM. If you are interested in running for an officer or board position, please be sure to attend this meeting. Gate Combination Change & Range Etiquette The gate combination is will change to **** on Saturday November 1, Please remember, do not share this gate combination with anyone. If someone asks for the gate combination, do not give it to them. If they are a member, they receive their newsletter with the combination and they can always contact Wes Morris at info@taftsc.com or and he will verify their status and issue the combination. Additionally please do your part to read and understand the range rules and also to take care of your range. You can find the range rules at and they will specify who has range priority on which days and how to interact with other club members. If you bring targets to shoot, please remove them from the range when you are finished. We have trash cans available, please use them. NO GLASS SHOULD BE SHOT AT THE RANGE AT ANY TIME! If you witness people abusing the range, please call us at If it is a serious enough violation, please call 911 and report range vandalism or an unsafe situation and then contact your club. Annual Banquet & Awards Just a reminder that the Taft Sportsmen s Club Annual Banquet and Awards Night will be Saturday January 17, The festivities start at 6 PM. Ticket prices and details will be in your January newsletter.

4 Page 4 Taft Sportsmen s Club.22 Action Shooters 4 th Saturday of the Month Do you have a.22 rimfire rifle or pistol you wish you out on what is turning into one of the most exciting would go out and shoot more often? We have a events at our range. reason for you to shoot it at least once a month at Zach Morris runs the our.22 Action Shooters Matches! timer for junior The stages are designed to not require more than 10 shooter Seth rounds to complete (unless you miss) and you can Taylor use any.22 rimfire rifle or pistol. Juniors (under 21) during an Action always shoot for free and adults are only $20 or $15 Shooters with club membership. Match. We shoot every 4 th Saturday at 9 AM so don t miss Trap Shooting 1 st & 3 rd Thursday of the Month Trap shooting is the 1 st & 3 rd Thursday of the month at the TSC Range. Shooting starts at 4:30 PM and lasts until everyone is done. In addition to the Thursday trap shoots, we have monthly youth trap shoots on the 2 nd Saturday of the month at 9 AM. There is no cost to juniors and we can also provide firearms and ammo is always provided. Just bring your parent and come on down for some trap shooting fun! Trap shooters stepping up to the line to shoot at the weekly Trap Shoot. Taft Sport Shooters 3 rd Saturdays Taft Sport Shooters has their matches on the third Saturday of the month. Show up for registration at 8:30 AM and shooting starts at 9 AM. Cost is usually $25 for non-members or $20 for TSC members or for shooters with military ID. Juniors (under 21) and first time ladies shoot for free and get free ammo! Mainly we will be shooting Fabulous Ferrous Fracas with the occasional IDPA or Tactical Shotgun Match. To participate all you need is a handgun, at least three magazines, holsters, and about 200 rounds of ammo. You can get more details at A new junior shooter draws and fires while Safety Officer Jeremiah Morris runs the timer and Match Director Joe Little observes during an IDPA Match.

5 Taft Sportsmen s Club Page 5 Practiscore Match Software The Taft Sport Shooters recently learned about a ipad/android app that integrates with the Internet to provide complete and accurate match score reporting. Practiscore can track your competitor s results in real time and publish the match results online with the click of a button. TSS plans to loan the ipads to the.22 Action Shooters and also use the ipads for taking credit cards at the Fireworks and Sporting Clays shoots. The TSS learned about the software and had purchased three ipads later that week. They used it in the last IDPA match and the scores were posted online by about noon immediately after the match was over. TSS score guy Wesley Morris reported, The whole program is a huge step forward in scoring. You can pre-register for the matches and start squadding and the results are fast and accurate. This is the only A Pam Binns keeps score on the ipad while Wes Morris runs Mark way to score any kind of match. Potaczala through a 3F stage. 5 th Annual Taft Sport Shooter s Zombie Match Everyone had a great time at the 5 th Annual Taft Sport Shooter s Zombie Match held on the night of October 25, This year s match incorporated a little bit of everything the Taft Sport Shooters regularly shoot. This match included using the pistol for a Fabulous Ferrous Fracas stage, an IDPA stage, and a general steel stage. Then a final stage of shotgun rounded the match off. There were a variety of different divisions to shoot. Top: Squad 1 poses after the match with their shotguns. Left to Right: Wes Morris, Chris Powers, Ben Powers, Jonathan Collado, David Struckoff, & Jacob Frahm. Right: Joe Little gives the pre-match briefing under the Halloween lights.

6 Page 6 Taft Sportsmen s Club Taft Shooters Challenge 2014 The 3 rd Annual Taft Shooter s Challenge (TSC) 2014 will be held on Saturday November 29, 2014 at the Taft Sportsmen s Club Range. The Taft Shooter s Challenge is a timed, team shooting competition that also incorporates Geocaching into the course of fire. Geocaching is a global treasure hunt that involved hiding geocaches and posting their coordinates online for other geocachers to find. The TSC involves four stages of shooting a.22 LR rifle or pistol. When the competitor completes a stage of shooting, the team is given the coordinates of a nearby Geocache that they must go find. After finding the Geocache and the secret code phrase in the Geocache, they return to the Taft Sportsmen s Club Range and once confirmed are allowed to go on to the next shooting stage. The team that completes all four stages in the fastest time wins. There will be two competition classes: rookie and veteran. The rookie class will involve easier Geocaches to find and the veteran class will involve more difficult Geocaches. There will be first through third place trophies for each class as well as individual shooting awards for the fastest shooters on each stage. There will also be first to find prizes in each Geocache. The cost is $40 per team and you can have teams of 1-4 people. All ammunition and firearms are provided with your $40 entry fee. You can find more information on our Taft Sportsmen s Club website, Facebook, or at Scenes from Taft Shooter s Challenge You Can Start Paying Your Membership Dues Now! Membership dues are $40 for a calendar year, that means no matter what time you join, they last from January 1 st through December 31 st (just like a fishing license!). However, anyone who joins in the months of November or December, will have their membership extended through the next year. So encourage your friends to sign up today! You can renew your dues anytime and we will just add another year to your membership.

7 Taft Sportsmen s Club Page 7 October ~ November 2014 ~ December Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 CCW Renewal TSC Range Trap Shooting 4:30 PM 7 8 CCW Initial TSC Range Junior Range 9 AM 2 PM 2nd Dove Season Opens 9 D13 Closes Fabulous Ferrous Fracas 8 :00 AM Trap Shooting 4:30 PM Action Shooters 8:00 AM General Factory 6:30 PM Taft Shooter s Challenge :00 AM 30 Notes:

8 Page 8 Taft Sportsmen s Club November ~ December 2014 ~ January Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Trap Shooting 4:30 PM 5 6 CCW Renewal TSC Range Junior Range 9 AM 2 PM Trap Shooting 4:30 PM Fabulous Ferrous Fracas 8 :00 AM nd Dove Season Closes 23 General Factory 6:30 PM Action Shooters 8:00 AM Notes:

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12 Taft Sportsmen s Club PO Box 1245 Taft, CA Phone: (661) Fax: (661) info@taftsc.com Please note your membership card is printed as your address label on your newsletter. Your 2014 membership card is attached. Membership Cards Junior Pheasant Hunt Application Be sure to look in this newsletter for the 20 th Annual JC Chitwood Memorial Pheasant Hunt Application on Page 2! Pay Your 2015 Membership Dues Now! You can pay for your 2015 membership dues now and your new expiration date will be 1/1/2016. We re on the Web! Visit us at: mensclub See Page 11 for how you can advertise with us!