June 2016 Contents 1 New Members Welcome New Members Welcome New Members 2 TRA Repair Action 3 General Info 4 Range Officer Duty & Shooting Alternative 5 Spring Skeet League 6 GPGC National & State team members 7 Recognition 8 Bullseye Match 5/19 9 900 Bullseye Match 5/21 10 Silhouette Match 5/28 11 Club Officer info & Ad s Travis Jung Travis Jung Valeria Bozek Valeria Bozek Rick and Jo Ellen Collin Rick and Jo Ellen Collin Page 1
TRA Repair Update The TRA sewer line project work continues. Crews have been installing bypass lines in order to pump the flow around the damaged pipe. They are now ready to start replacing the main pipe sections. To minimize the time that the pumps need to run, they will have two crews working non-stop during the week. They expect to average six sections per day and have about 21 sections to replace. All ranges will be closed all day during the week. The pipe sections are b e i n g brought in from behind the rifle and pistol ranges. The pumps are also located there and must be frequently monitored/refueled. Vehicles and equipment will be moving around in front of the shotgun range all day. The current plan is that they will continue not working on weekends, so all ranges should be open then as usual. However, they will still need to check the pumps every couple of hours. This will cause some temporary cease fires on all ranges, so please cooperate when these occur. Page 2
July 9 & November 12 Grand Prairie Education Committee 972-641-9940 (leave message) Public Days 2016 July 16 June 18 September 17 August 20 November 19 October 16 December 17 Sunday June 12 Sunday July 10 Sunday August 7 Mike Dennis mdennis@yahoo.com Work Days 2016 Saturday July 16 None Scheduled Jason Foshea fosheajason@hotmail.com July 7 August 4 September 1 October 6 November 3 December 1 300 Bullseye matches each Thursday 6:00 pm until May 31 6:30 pm June July August 6:00 pm Sep thru end of daylight savings 900 Bullseye matches 3 rd Saturday at 9:00.22 Silhouette matches 4th Saturday at 9:00 Match Directors Dan Brown brzpq35mx@att.net Jim Wilson jkw948@yahoo.com Bill Schweitzer try8@verizon.net Page 3
Day Date Range Welcome Officer New Duty Members & Special Events Range Officer 8:30 1:00 Sat June 4 Don Ambrose Steve Hambrick Sun June 5 Andrew Wyer Wed June 8 Tamme Cervenka Sat June 11 Gene Wills Brad Ambrose Special Event Sun June 12 Jason Foshea Club Shoot Wed June 15 Jack Martin Sat June 18 Ed Kilgore Mike Dennis Public Day Sun June 19 Kent Megarity Wed June 22 Tony Murr Sat June 25 Brad Fitzgerald Will Chisum Sun June 26 John Nix Wed June 29 Ted Preston Sat July 02 Donny Penwell Richard Simbala Fishing instead of shooting GPGC members Jim Wilson, Don Ambrose and Steve Buyers report the following Great morning in Lafitte Louisiana. Limited out in Red Drum by noon rest of the day drinking with friends. Excellent!! Nice fish. Page 4
GPGC Spring Skeet League The Spring Skeet League came to a end on May 24 th, was a lot of fun for all and as normal very competitive. Team 5, 3 on 8, won with 23 points, followed by team 8, the 580 s, with 20 points. The Claybusters, team 1, was a distant third with 16.50 points. HOA belonged to Gary Edwards with a 436, followed by Donnie Penwell and Mike Gerschick with 434. Kerry Williams was fourth with 433. Most Straights was captured by Mike Gerschick with 9. Everyone owes a big thanks to Glenn Hughes for tabulating scores and Ken Flippin for cooking and organizing. First Place 3 on 8 Mike Dennis Gary Edwards Mike Gerschick Donnie Penwell Will Chisum Second Place The 580 s Ken English, Bobby Sherrill, Debra Altenbaumer, Joe Bettacchi, not pictured is Richard Simbala HOA Gary Edwards Most Straights Mike Gerschick Page 5
GPGC Members on National and Texas Skeet Teams Several of our members are on the National and the Texas Teams, see below, congratulations and good shooting to all Paul Giambrone - Open 1st Team Robert Paxton - Open 1st Team Jo Ellen Collin - Ladies 1st Team Gary Edwards - Senior 2nd Team Paul Giambrone - Triple Sub 1st Team Michael Dennis - Triple Sub Senior Honorable Mention Team Robert Paxton - Senior 1st Team Mike Dennis - Military Veteran 1st Team Robert Paxton - Open 1st Team Jo Ellen Collin - Ladies Team Michael Dennis - Triple Sub Senior Team Gary Edwards - Senior Team Mike Gerschick - Sub Senior Team Mike Dennis - Sub Senior Team Michael and Mike Dennis with their All American Awards, congratulations!! Page 6
More Recognition and Awards The Coppell High School School Shooting Team presented an plaque to the club in recognition of our support. Pictured here are Mark Junker, GPGC member and Coppell shooting coach, Randy Walhood and Gene Wills receiving the plaque, and Brent Beasley acting head coach. Mike Gerschick continues to earn awards in the skeet community, below is the money clip he won at the Briley for winning one of the Prelim Events, congratulations Mike!! Page 7
GPGC Bullseye match 5/19/2016 We had 7 shooters participating in the match. Mike Horton, Floyd Jester, Jim Wilson, Hoa Nguyen, Jim Grabbe, Ed Dotson and Dan Brown not pictured The match winners were Hoa Nguyen, second, scoring 270/300 with 4 "X"'s, who shot his Walthers GSP 32 S&W,and Ed Dotson, winner, scoring 275/300, with 5 "X"'s, who shot his M 1911.45 ACP. Ed shot a 92-2-"X" SLOW FIRE with a M 1911 45!!! and Hoa shot a 97-2-"X" Timed Fire!! Wow! It certainly shows that one do well with a gun bigger than a.22 LR. Congratulations, guys! The score sheet is given below For the GPGC Pistol Committee, Dan Brown Page 8
GPGC 900 Bullseye match 5/21/2016 We had four shooters today, I ran the match, the shooters were Gary Ledbetter, Jim Wilson, Ed Dotson, and Hoa Nguyen. The high scorers were Jim Wilson, second, scoring 758/900 with a Ruger Mk II 22, and Winner, Ed Dotson. scoring 808/900 with his FineWerkgebau 22 Both had red dot optical sights and they shot one handed. Congratulations, Ed and Jim The match consisted of 2- slow fire sessions 10 shots in 10 minutes. ( 20 shots) The 2nd part was a "National Match course" consisting of a standard Bullseye match, ie, slow fire, 10 shots in 10 minutes, timed fire, 2 strings of 5 shots each in 20 seconds, and rapid fire, 2 strings of 5 shots each in 10 seconds. ( 30 shots) The 3rd part of the match was 2 sets of timed fire strings. (20 shots) The 4th part of the match was 2 sets of rapid fire strings. (20 shots) 900 shots total The scoring is shown at right Gary Jim Hoa Ed Dotson Ledbetter Wilson Nguyen Ruger Mk II Ruger Mk I Finewerk.22 Walthers GSP.32 SF 1 86-1 68 84 85-2 SF 2 88-3 70 76 72 NM SF 90 76-1 82 72-1 NM TF 83 88 86-2 69-1 NM RF 59 80-1 90 65-1 TF-1 86-2 94-1 97-2 82 TF-2 77-2 94-2 97-2 93-1 RF-1 65-1 94-1 94-2 85 RF-2 63-2 88-2 92-1 91-1 Total 697-11 x 758-8 x 808-9 x 714-7 x For the Pistol Committee Dan Brown Page 9
GPGC Bullseye match 5/26/2016 We had 6 shooters participate this afternoon. It was pleasant to be out there, with little wind and no mosquitos. And the rain didn't come. The participants are below. Gary Ledbetter, Hoa Nguyen, David Jones, Jim Wilson, Jim Grabbe, and Dan Brown (not pictured) The high scorers were: Hoa Nguyen. second, scoring 258/300 with 6 "X"'s, shooting a Walthers.32 S&W GSP automatic. Winner, Jim Grabbe,scoring 262-2 "X", shooting a Walthers.22 cal GSP. Both used red dot sights and shot ONE HANDED. Congratulations, guys! In re-scoring the targets, which I do every match, I found that neither Jim Wilson nor I could add The resultant score sheet below had the advantage of my old TI calculator For the GPGC Pistol Committee, Dan Brown Page 10
GPGC Silhouette Match 5/28/2016 We had 5 participants shoot this morning. We thought we'd have some sprinkling, but it thankfully went away. Those participating were : Floyd Jester, Hoa Nguyen, Jim Wilson, Jim Grabbe and Dan Brown not pictured Jim Wilson,was the winner shooting 58/60 with his Ruger Mk II Second was Jim Grabbe, shooting 57/60 with his Walthers GSP 22 Both used red dot optical sights. The results were as follows for the group Dan Brown 41/60 shooting a Ruger Ml II Jim Wilson 58/60 shooting a Ruger Ml II Hoa Nguyen 53/60 shooting a Walthers GSP 22 Floyd Jester 55/60 shooting a S&W M 617 2 revolver Jim Grabbe 57/60 shooting a Walthers GSP 22 All used an optical red dot type of sight. For the GPGC Pistol Committee, Dan Brown Page 11
GPGC Board of Directors Richard Kummer President 214-435-7395 skeetpilot@yahoo.com Don Ambrose Vice President 940-765-2284 donaldambrose@swbell.net Jeff Zwiebel Secretary 972-480-8438 jeff.zwiebel@mindspring.com Jason Davidson Treasurer 972-977-8499 burnorange98@hotmail.com Mark Belser 972-951-3354 mark.belser@sbcglobal.net Dan Brown 972-264-7054 drdanbrown@att.net Jason Foshea 817-410-1564 fosheajason@hotmail.com Mike Pallet 972-310-3852 mwpallet@yahoo.com Bill Schweitzer 817-329-8828 try8@verizon.net James K. Wilson 214-532-7226 jkw948@yahoo.com David Jones 972-343-2721 Frank Horak Membership Share Questions? Contact: David Todd GPSDC Secretary 604 Alder Court Coppell, TX 75019 214-334-7717 d_r_todd@yahoo.com GPGC Bullet-Tin John Nix - Editor 214-384-7857 johntnix@verizon.net Be Courteous Reload the houses Pick up your hulls Clean up the area Use the trash cans Page 12