Volume 30 Issue 09 2014 Club Officers and Directors President: Ken Paul Vice President Jeff Raggi Secretary Bill Palermo Treasurer Don Anderson Elected members of the Board of Directors Colin Bartkowiak Marty Beckenbach Mike Centola Dave Colburn Dave Kielon Lee McMullen Tony Massimi Gary Partridge Bob Saetta Doug Trumpowsky Board Chairman Steve Verdi Life Members of the Board of Directors Nancy Anderson Gordon Beh Nancy Buyze Bill Dostman I Rich Haywood Ken Henderson Jim Mater THE NEWSLETTER FOR THE ONTARIO ROD GUN CLUB INC. 2523 Trimble Road, P.O. Box 319, Ontario, N.Y. 14519 (315) 524-7717 Our website is now open - www.ontariorodandgun.com - Come visit the site. INLAND WATERS TRAP LEAGUE Attention all club trap shooting members! Here it is, September, and the start of the 2014-2015 Inland Waters Trap League program. For those of you who don't know about the Inland Waters Trap League it is a league similar to a bowling league but we're doing it with a shotgun and breaking clay targets from the trap house. It is a rotating league where we shoot at different clubs the first weekend of each month. The program is 50 targets. You can record your scores on either Saturday or Sunday, whichever is most convenient for you. In addition to your league scores you can also compete for high gun honors each day, the Bonbright and Stein/Hayes competitions. The schedule for this year's league is as follows: September 6 th 7 th - Lima Gun Club October 4 th 5 th - Mendon Conservation Club October 18 th 19 th - Holfield Gun Club November 1 st 2 nd - Rochester Brooks Gun Club December 6 th 7 th - Newark Rod and Gun Club January 3 rd 4 th - Four Point Rod and Gun Club February 7 th 8 th - Outlet Rod and Gun Club March 7 th 8 th - Walworth Sportsman's Club March 28 th 29 th - Victor Rod and Gun Club May 2 nd 3 rd - Ontario Rod and Gun Club June Date and place to be determined - Awards Banquet We re looking for additional shooters to complement Team: Ontario in the league. You don't have to be a super shooter to participate in this program. The league is designed for you to compete at different clubs and meet new people. It is a fun league! If you need further information contact Bill Palermo who can answer your questions. Bill is at the club every Tuesday for open shooting or you can contact him at (585) 458-5398 or by email at clayshtr@frontiernet.net. TUESDAY STEEL SHOOTS CONTINUE Tuesday steel shooting will continue this month. Steel opens at about 5:00 PM. Come out with your guns and plenty of ammunition to cling and clang the steel targets on the new "Eagles Range". Bring your friends along and come join us. HUNTER EDUCATION COURSE TO BE OFFERED The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is offering a Hunter Education Course at the Ontario Rod and Gun Club on September 17 th, 19 th and 20 th. Registration for the class is now being done a little bit differently in that you must register online. To register for the upcoming education course (GUN) to be held at the Ontario Rod and gun club please follow the instructions listed below: Logon to the DEC website: http://www.registered.com/programs/new York. Under ACTIVE PROGRAMS scroll down to Hunter Education Course and click on the Viewing Upcoming Events box located in the upper right-hand corner. Scroll down through all the listed courses (called events) until you find the course starting September 17 at the Ontario Rod and Gun Club, Ontario, NY. Click on the View Event box in the upper right-hand corner and confirm this is the course you want and then click on the Register Box in the upper righthand corner. If there are still seats available for the course the Register Box will be green. Fill in the electronic registration form completely and register for the course. After you have registered for the course, you can pick up your Hunter Education Manual at the Ontario Town Hall Office. Read the manual as there will be a written test. Please note; potential students will not be able to actually register for the course until August 29 (that fact will be identified with the course description). The time difference between listing the course and opening registration gives DEC time to verify that the course is listed correctly. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING SCHEDULED Board of Directors meeting has been scheduled for September 4 th at the Trimble Road clubhouse at 7:30 PM. All members of the Board of Directors are requested to attend this meeting. Please note new date.
Page 2 ADVERTISE IN THE CLUB NEWSLETTER Do you have a business or a product that you would like to advertise to our membership? Now is your opportunity to place your business card size advertisement in the newsletter and on the web site. See Steve Verdi or Bill Palermo for further information and to place your ad. To our membership; You see these folks that advertise in the newsletter, please patronizing our advertisers them for any work that you may need to have done. SHOTGUN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Sunday, September 14th, is the date for the Ontario Rod and Gun Club's championship trap shoot. Come out and compete with your friends to see who is top gun in the club. The program for this event will be 50-16 yard singles targets, 50 - handicap targets (from 23 yards) and 25 pair of doubles targets. This is an all-day event so bring plenty of ammunition. This event is open to all, but trophies will only go to club members. So, bring family and friends to watch the competition. Breakfast and lunch will be served at the going rates. ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? Election day, November 4th, is coming near. Are you registered to vote? Governor Cuomo needs to be booted out of office along with his cronies so that our freedoms can be restored in New York State. If you are registered to vote, please make every effort to make it to the polls to cast your vote. Do you have a neighbor who doesn t have a way to get to the polls? Offer to take him/ her to the polls so they can cast their votes. It is vitally important that we send a message to Albany that we have had enough of their malarkey. It is time that these senators and congressmen really do represent the people and not their special interests. It is also time for term limits. Make your voice be heard. Get out and VOTE. Not yet registered to vote? We have voter registration forms at the club house. Come pick one up and get registered. Every vote is important for this November s election. Let s take back our New York. RIFLE MATCH SCHEDULED A rifle match has been scheduled for Saturday, September 13th on the Eagles range. This will be a Practical Rifle with transition to pistol competition. The event starts at 9:00AM. Come join us. PRACTICAL PISTOL MATCH SET AT THE CLUB A practical pistol match has been scheduled for Sunday, September 28th on the Eagle s Range. This will be a 3 STAGE practical match. Stage 1: Steel Targets, Stage 2: Practical Pistol, and Stage 3: Defensive Pistol. If you have not participated in our pistol matches this year, this is your last chance of the season to participate in this fun activity at the club. The program starts at 10:00 AM; come join the fun. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS RESUME General membership meetings resume with this month's meeting on September 18th at 7:30 PM in the Trimble Road clubhouse. All club members are welcome to attend and contribute to the discussions at this meeting. If you have any questions please contact Bill Palermo (585) 458-5398. WORK DAY A workday is scheduled for September 6th. Fall cleanup will be the concentrated effort for our workdays. Club workdays are an excellent time to be able to put in your 8 hours of volunteer activity for the club and receive your work certificate. As they say, many hands make light work, the more members we have working on projects will make the jobs finish more quickly. Consider coming out to our workdays that start at about 9 AM and will run until about 3 PM (or later). This is your club! Don't you think it's about time that you put in a little bit of sweat for the betterment of the club? RANGE ORIENTATION All new club members in order to use the rifle and pistol ranges you must have attended and passed the RANGE ORIENTATION. Please note all of you that want to take the range orientation this month there has been a change in the time in which the orientation will be run. The orientation for September 20th will be from 3:30 6:30 P.M. This due to the Hunter Education Class that is scheduled for early Saturday morning. To register for the next Orientation class to be conducted on September 20th, 2014 you will need to contact range coordinator Gary Partridge (585) 872-4029 or Bill Palermo (585) 458-5398.
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Page 5 The ONTARIO ROD AND GUN CLUB Inc. 2523 Trimble Road, P.O. Box 319 Ontario, NY 14519 (315) 524 7717 Our website is now available at www.ontariorodandgun.com Sun Mon 1 Tue 2 Wed 3 7 8 15 22 PISTOL MATCH * 10AM-1PM 23 MDTS PRACTICAL PISTOL 2 10AM-1PM 28 16 CLUB SHOTGUN CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT 9AM - til 21 4 Fri 5 BOARD OF DIRECTOR S MEETING 7:30 10 11 29 30 Sat 6 INLAND WATERS @ LIMA 9AM-3PM WORK DAY 9AM - til 12 INLAND WATERS @ LIMA 9AM-3PM 14 9 Thu 13 RIFLE MATCH 10AM-3PM 17 HUNTER EDUCATION CLASS 6PM - 10PM Jim Kronenwetter 24 18 GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 7:30 25 19 HUNTER EDUCATION CLASS 6PM - 10PM Jim Kronenwetter 26 20 HUNTER EDUCATION CLASS 9am - 3pm RANGE ORIENTATION 3:30-6:30 27 NY FIREARMS SHINDIG ALL DAY BREAKFAST LUNCH STEAK DINNER 8:00AM-6:30PM
The ONTARIO ROD GUN CLUB Inc. 2523 TRIMBLE ROAD P.O. BOX 319 ONTARIO, N.Y. 14519 PLACE STAMP HERE PASS ON THE LEGACY OF SPORT IN GOD WE TRUST CUOMO HAS GOT TO GO REGISTER TO VOTE IN NOV. HONOR THE US CONSTITUTION GOD BLESS AMERICA! GUNS BOUGHT SOLD TRADED SPECIAL ORDERS - MAIL ORDER - INTERNET ORDERS AMMUNITION GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 IN THE TRIMBLE ROAD CLUB HOUSE CASE LOTS OR BY THE BOX PROFESSIONAL GUNSMITHING MODERN ANTIQUES RIFLES - SHOTGUNS - HAND GUNS - AIR GUNS KIELON GUNSMITHS 57 KITTELBERGER PARK, WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (585) 872-2256 www.kielongunsmiths.com Tue - Fri 10AM - 6PM Sat. 10AM - 4PM GENERAL MEMBERSHIP meetings are held the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM at the Trimble Road clubhouse. All members are welcome to attend and bring forth their ideas and suggestions. is available every Tuesday night from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Members and their guests and the general public are welcome to come in shoot. THE RIFLE AND PISTOL RANGES are available to members who have completed the orientation course. Range hours are from 9:00 AM to dusk daily. Please adhere to these times in consideration of our neighbors.