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Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate Here's what is going on this month. Central Kansas Gun Club August 2015 Newsletter Quote of the Month UPCOMING EVENTS Los Angeles and Ho Chi Mihn City have declared themselves to be sister cities. This makes perfect sense. Both are large metropolitan centers formerly occupied by Americans. September 14, 6:30p Board Meeting Club House Jeff Cooper 1920-2006 September Board Meeting: will be held at the club house at 6:30 P.M. on Monday,

September 14. Any interested party is invited to attend. You are again reminded that henceforth attendance will be taken at the monthly and quarterly meetings and at the end of the year these names will be entered for a drawing for a gift card. The card will likely be sporting related. It's your club, after all, why not show up and see what is going on? And you can sign up for the drawing while here. Membership Committee: Proposed membership changes will be posted to the website when we are able to regain admin rights. No new memberships will be accepted or processed before the tentative date of January 1, 2016. When the new proposals are on the website, current members can make their thoughts known to the board at the next quarterly meeting. Two Items of Interest: One is offered as a public service, the other as a public flogging. On August 8 an alert member found a couple of.32 ACP cases on one of the north pistol bays. They were very badly bulged, nearly to splitting. Obviously someone has a pistol with an unsafe chamber. So a warning to anyone who happened to be firing a.32 ACP on the north bays on that date have your piece checked by a qualified gunsmith. On the same date the same sharp-eyed member found a whole series of those little nails with plastic washers that someone had used as aiming points, doing damage to one of the 2X4 frames on the north pistol bay. These were a different color than the XO uses for holding backers. Quite a few of them were hammered into the framing in a line, edge-to-edge, with very little spacing in between. These were not used as target holders but obviously used with the express purpose of using them as aiming points in

the framing wood, damaging the framing in the process. No lectures. You can't fix stupid. Club History: Once more we appeal to anyone who might have any memorabilia related to the history of the club to please consider sharing it so that we can build as complete a history of the club as possible. Material you wish to keep can be copied and the original returned. This is a project we should have begun years ago, but after several abortive attempts it is now time to get serious. As time goes by more and more material will be lost, older members will be lost who can identify people in pictures, etc. Please dig through your old stuff and consider sharing. Material should be sent or brought to Jerry Maxfield, 3 Wheatland Drive, Hutchinson, 67502. Youth Program: Youth will shoot these events at these times. Shotgun: Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:15 PM on the west trap field through September 24, 2015. Small Bore (rifle and pistol): Wednesdays 6:30 PM & Sundays 1:15 PM on the plinking range May 6 through September 30, 2015. Western Heritage/Cowboy Action: Monthly second Sunday 3:45 PM Cowboy Action stage/set May 10 through October 12, 2015 Muzzleloader: Monthly fourth Sunday 5 PM on the 200 yard shelter May 24 through September 30, 2015. Matches: August 29, 2015 Shotgun trap and skeet fields all day. Questions may be directed to Ray

Bartholomew at (620) 669 8266 extension 1237 (days) or 620) 663 3312 evenings or e mail ray.bartholomew@ks.usda.gov. 3 Gun Program: CKGC hosts 3 gun matches the 3 rd Sunday of the month all year round but weather permitting only for the winter months of November through February. For winter months we shoot only those days that the weather is forecast to get above 40 degrees. For winter matches, Match Director Manuel MC Camacho will be posting a couple of days in advance if the match is on at his website www.mcsportingarms.com and also at www.ksccw.com. Set up starts at 8:30 AM, registration at 9 AM, and firing starts at 10 AM. The matches generally end around 3 PM. All shooters are expected to help during the match, pasting targets, resetting steel, policing brass and tear down after the match. Your early appearance to help with set up will be appreciated. Match fees will be $15 per shooter. Call Manuel M C Camacho for more information at (316) 284 1357 or manuel@mcsportingarms.com. Manuel has work available for new members needing hours. Action Pistol Program: September 13,2015 1) Falling Plate Event, 2) Practical Event, 3) Barricade Event, 4) Moving Target Event(Modified). For information contact Greg Dick at (620) 669 8735 or (620)662 8481. Shotgun Program: Shooting on the first, third and fifth Sunday from 1 pm until done and Tuesday and Thursday from

4 pm till done. High Power Rifle Program: August 16. 100 yd. M1903/BASR* 100 yd..22 cal. Any/Any to follow. (* indicates match not approved by NRA or CMP.) Richard Reed will run the match. The Cromwell Cup Memorial Matches Sept. 12. 200-300-600 yd. Harold Mauck will run the match. This is the annual Cromwell Cup Match, to be held at CKGC this year. Guy Cromwell was well known to Oklahoma and Kansas high power rifle shooters and passed away in 2008. Beginning in 2009 with the first match in Hutchinson, this memorial match and the Cromwell Cup Trophy alternates between Hutchinson and Guy's home range at the Oklahoma City Gun Club at Arcadia, OK., north of Oklahoma City. Proceeds are donated to youth marksmanship programs, with which Guy was heavily involved. It is not a bad way to be remembered, when you think about it. Congratulations to Harold Mauck. Harold Mauck (right) is presented the 3 rd Annual James Broadhead M1 Garand Traveling Trophy by High Power Chairman Regan Tabor. Harold fired the winning score at the Sunday, August 9 match. Note the arrow.

Registrations start at 7:30 and are accepted until 8:15 on match day, and firing starts at 8:30 sharp. For information contact Regan Tabor at (316)200 4627 or frogx2@cox.net. Tactical Rifle: August 15. Format pending. Greg Krebaum will run the match. Contact Greg at (620) 662 7515 or krebaum@sbcglobal.net for details. Practice Night Schedule: Practice nights for High Power will continue until October. These will be every third Wednesday for 600 yard practice from 5:30 pm until done, and every first Wednesday for 200 yard practice from 5:30 pm until done. The plinking range will be open during 200 yard practice, the south ranges closed during 600 yard practice. You must call Richard Reed ahead of time to verify the practice will be held, and to tell him you will attend. Practice will not be held if people are not known to be coming. Also, Richard's work schedule may cause cancellation if a substitute is not found. Call Richard to verify at (620) 755 2767 or peelsrick@hotmail.com. New Shooter Notice:

New Shooter Notice: New shooters are encouraged to come out and participate in the high power rifle matches at Central Kansas Gun Club regardless of prior experience. Rudimentary coaching and equipment will be provided and ammunition made available at nominal cost. Observation of matches to see how things work is free. You must notify the match director in advance so that equipment will be on hand. Cowboy Action Schedule: The cowboys are still shooting third Saturday of each month, and they have lots of work for anyone who may need work hours. Contract Richard Colvard at (620) 662 0603. Also the cowboys are still looking for a new chairman. William and Richard have given their all for a long time, but can no longer continue due to their work please contact Richard and let him know if you would like to step up. Let's not let a good program suffer for lack of someone to take the reins. Upcoming Emergency Services Tactical Shoot: Member Jason Hawk is getting together a shoot for emergency services personnel (Police, Fire, Sheriff, EMS, etc). Shoots will be on the north range(s) from 8 AM to 3 PM (approximately) August 20 and October 13, 2015. For Sale Items: Anyone wanting to buy, sell or trade things may send the specifics to Jerry Maxfield at jrmax@cox.net. If you have no computer please send the item(s) to the club's post office box and they will get to the editor. Area Gun Shows: As per usual, phone ahead before making travel plans: (these are the closest ones in the near future)

August 20 30 Topeka Expo Center 19th and Topeka Boulevard (563) 927 8176 NOTE TO CONCEALED CARRY PRACTITIONERS: You will notice all the contact numbers for gun shows above are the same number ; R,K, Shows, out of Manchester, Iowa. Be advised they have a no carry policy. Might save you a trip back to the truck. Sign of the Apocalypse: The Boy Scouts of America have forbidden the use among scouts of squirt guns and water pistols. It's not kind, they say. The scout oath urges them to be kind, they say. Baron Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the scouts, meant for scouts to train themselves to be good citizens and, if necessary, good soldiers. No squirt guns? Really? On the Other Hand: With sincere apologies to the guys at Shooter's Supply and some of our testosterone-driven members, the Board has ruled that the X- Products Hand Cannon will be prohibited on the range. Launching a full 12 Oz. Coke can more than the distance of a football field with little accuracy is deemed a safety issue. Plus it's a sticky damn mess. Parting Shot: One can but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected. When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education make them hunters. Henry Davis Thoreau 1817-1862