April 2018 Look Ahead: 4 Executive Board Meeting 7-8 VBA Meeting & Banquet (LOCK) 8 First Club 3D Shoot (Sunday Shoot) Potomac Watershed Clean Up (Fort 8 Belvoir Environmental) (LOCK) 11 Club Meeting 13-15 IBO Spring Nationals (LOCK) 14-15 VBA State Spring Classic 3D (LOCK) 28 BBH Wild Game Dinner - Park West Lions Club, Manassas IN THIS ISSUE: Beware of The Sleepy Guide Outdoor Archery Executive Board News Farewell to Range Warden Wild Game Dinner Upcoming Events Christina Tremblay carries a target and Smiley while setting up for the April 3D shoot!
From the President: President@belvoirbowhunters.com (757)469-8700 BBH Members and Friends: The WILD GAME DINNER is coming up on Saturday, 28 April, and if you ve been to it before, you know it s a hoot, and if you haven t been, C MON OUT! and see why it s a good event. It s a great social event, our opportunity to recognize our own folks, and is pretty much our main fundraiser that allows us to operate the Club for the rest of the year. The EB folks and the Awards Committee, and others, (notably Charlie Shupenius and Morgan Fink) have been working to get the event together: lining up the raffle prizes, figuring out the food, advertising, selling tickets, doing invitations, and all the other stuff required to make it work. So if you see any of them, say THANKS! I hope you will come out! Ok, a quick hunting story: So there I was one early morning in Montana (Stermitz Ranch; the outfitter is called Wilderness Connection) freezing my ass off sitting on the edge of a little meadow with my guide Eli, who s about 20 feet away. I had shot a nice elk a day earlier so I was already real happy and hey, if a nice mule deer came out, that would be the icing on the cake! Well, hell, in a couple hours, here comes this mule deer! This outfitter has a gentlemen s agreement with hunters that they only shoot a 4x4 or bigger or it s a $500 fee back to the outfitter and it ain t like I brought extra money on the trip, so I wanna be sure this thing is big enough to shoot! So I look over at Eli to see if he gives the thumbs up or down and he is sleeping like a baby! Ok, what now? I eased the rifle over a bit and got a good look at the mule deer and counted twice to make sure then BOOM! and he ran a little bit and fell over. WHOOOO hell yeah giddy up!! I look over at Eli, and he is STILL ASLEEP!!!! What the hell, you can t make this stuff up!! Gotta say, I didn t think anybody could sleep through that, but he did. A little bit later when he woke up, he said he didn t hear a thing! It was a great hunt! See you at the Wild Game Dinner! COME ON OUT TO THE WILD GAME DINNER IT S OUR PREMIER EVENT OF THE YEAR! From the Vice President: Vicepresident@belvoirbowhunters.com Indoor archery season is over, time to have some fun Outdoors. Before I talk about the bliss of shooting any type of Outdoor archery tournaments, I would like to recognize those Belvoir members who shot in our VBA State Indoor championship and the NFAA National Indoor tournament in Cincinnati, OH. First I would like to thank everyone who came out to Belvoir for the VBA State shoot whether you shot or not, everyone participated and made this year s shoot one of the best we have hosted, with a record number of shooters, amazing food, seamless teamwork from all the volunteers Page 2 of 14
and support from all those there to cheer each shooter on. Thank you, Thank you, and Thank you. The Belvoir shooters who won State championships are: PeeWee Male Barebow Cub Female Barebow Cub Male Bowhunter Freestyle Fingers Cub Male Traditional Youth Female BareBow Adult Female Traditional Adult Male Freestyle Fingers Adult Male Traditional Senior Female Bowhunter Freestyle/R Senior Female Traditional Silver Senior Male Bowhunter Freestyle/R Raylan Dishman Anastasia Dale Phoenix Dishman Keshi Ruiz Abbegael Allen Paula Schasberger Nitin Sharma Robert Jennings Doreen Rizopoulos Robin Vogel Pat Hamp We also had 9 more BBH members who placed 1 st, 2 nd, or 3 rd in their respective class and shooting styles. Congratulations to all who participated, win or not, it is all about the fun and fellowship of shooting. We also had 11 BBH members who traveled to Cincinnati, OH to shoot in the NFAA Nationals, all who went did well. Some standouts were Raylan Dishman finishing 3 rd in CMBB against 12 year olds, Jenifer Stoner finishing 2 nd in SFTRAD. Our other shooters were Jedd Greyshock, Kevin Brown, Logan Weller, Troy Stoner, Sawyer Dishman, Phoenix Dishman, Paul Vogel, Nitin Sharma, and Robin Vogel who all represented BBH and Virginia well. Again, I can t say this enough, Fun and Fellowship was the best part of the weekend. Hurray Outdoor season is here and with it many opportunities to experience Archery in many ways. Outdoor shoots include, Field/Hunter rounds, 28 regular paper targets, ranging from 10 to 80 yards, that are shot on a walk through course like our Outdoor range, 4 arrows each target, scoring from center, 5,4,3. Animal Rounds again are shot on a walking Outdoor course, Animal picture targets. 3D Archery, again shot on a walking course, 1 arrow, unmarked distances, at life size foam targets. All these types of shoots are offered in the area at local clubs, just look them up on your VBA shoot schedule card you received with your BBH membership, so come on out and have some fun outdoors. From the Activities Director: Activitiesdirector@belvoirbowhunters.com (703) 946-1063 The Next Big Event, is the opening day of the Spring Gobbler Season! I hope you have a chance to go out. Our next big Club event is our Wild Game Dinner and Awards Banquet Get your Tickets now!!!!!!!! Women and Children get a prize automatically. A special raffle prize for the Teenagers. 2-for-1 Raffle Tickets available until April 15 th Page 3 of 14
We are currently accepting donations/prizes for the Awards Banquet in April. We need items for kids and women prizes too. Please signup to be on one of the committees for the event. April Presentation Rick Atchison will present highlights from the Southeastern Deer Study Group (SEDSG). Check them out at http://sedsg.com/ Come out and hear about the research and issue having to do with Deer Management. Send me a text or e-mail on suggestions for presentations for our meetings. From the Tourny Chair: Tournamentchair@belvoirbowhunters.com (915) 588-4667 Cub Run and NORVA are proposing a new twist to our 3D shoots this summer called the Local Club Challenge! Each club picks two of their tournaments and designates them as a Local Club Challenge Shoot. Each club designates two to three archers as representatives at each tournament to have their score recorded and tracked. At the end of the six shoots, whichever club is hosting the final shoot of the season will declare a club winner for the season. Bragging rights for a full year, and potentially a trophy, will be awarded to the winning club. There are some draft rules, and the proposed dates are: CUB RUN: 3/25 and 9/16, BELVOIR: 6/30 and 7/21, NORVA: 4/7 and 6/9. If you want to know more or be one of our representatives, please contact me. From the Range Warden: Rangewarden@belvoirbowhunters.com (256) 506-2482 This will be my last entry as Range Warden and I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to be part of a great organization. The passion that each and every one of you have for Archery is evident and I am glad that I got to experience that with you. I could not have done this job without the assistance of many people, to many to list but you all know who you are. It is those that without hesitation made yourself available for every work party, every tournament, and every time any type of maintenance needed to be completed. I want to mention someone who has been an advisor, confidant and wealth of knowledge anytime I needed to pick someone s brain about the best way to approach a situation. Steve Richards has a wealth of knowledge about the BBH Club, ODR ranges, the process to get projects complete and the connections to make it happen. There has never been a time that I called him for advice or assistance that he did not immediately make himself available or meet to discuss a situation. Steve, thanks for all of your assistance and solutions to help make this a best Archery organization available. Special thanks to both the former and current Presidents Bakari Dale and Larry Readal for the vote of confidence and support with any recommendation that I had. The leadership of this club has been tremendous during my tenure and I have appreciated the continued support. Thanks again to you all for making Archery such a great sport. James R. Blake Range Warden Page 4 of 14
From the Publicity Director: Publicitydirector@ belvoirbowhunters.com Bowhunters continue to post your pictures and events to the Facebook page! From the Sgt-At-Arms: Sargeantatarms@ belvoirbowhunters.com (773) 383-3601 WE NEED MEAT!!! Please donate your wild game in support of the Wild Game Dinner/ or bring a side dish. Please let me know what you are brining so we can balance out the side dishes. Thanks!! From the Secretary/Treasurer: Secretarytreasurer@belvoirbowhunters.com (585) 217-6066 Treasurer's Report (for previous month's activity) Account Balance as of 21 Feb 2018: $ 7,437.34 Income Dividends $ 1.00 Dues $ 811.92 Misc. Income $.20 Food Income Meetings $ 81.00 Indoor Shoot Income $ 261.00 Shirt & Cap Income $ 62.08 State Indoor Income $ 863.10 WGD Income $ 1,142.35 Total Income: $ 3,222.65 Expenses Admin $ (69.99) Food Expenses- Meetings $ (32.72) H4H Benefit Expense $ (200.00) Indoor Shoot Range Fees $ (400.00) Range Maintenance $ (1,120.67) Ranger Repair $ (110.76) State Indoor Food $ (425.07) State Indoor Range Fees to ODR $ (400.00) State Indoor VBA Fees $ (620.00) VBA Banquet Exp $ (7.20) VBA Dues $ (641.00) VBA Meeting Exp $ (122.41) WGD Exp: Raffle Prizes $ (335.00) Total Expenses: $ (4,484.82) Account Balance as of 20 Mar 2018: $ 6,150.17 2018 YEAR AT A GLANCE MARCH APRIL 1 VBA Game Awards due to VBA 4 Executive Board Meeting 4 Winter League Shoot 7-8 VBA Meeting & Banquet (LOCK) 7 Executive Committee Meeting 8 First Club 3D Shoot (Sunday Shoot) 9-11 IBO Winter Nationals (LOCK) 8 Potomac Watershed Clean Up (Fort Belvoir Environmental) (LOCK) 10 Bull Run RMEF Banquet 11 Club Meeting 10-11 Working Party - Outdoor Practice Range 13-15 IBO Spring Nationals (LOCK) 10-11 NFAA Indoor Nationals (LOCK) 14-15 VBA State Spring Classic 3D (LOCK) 11 Winter League Shoot 28 BBH Wild Game Dinner Park West Lions Club, Manassas 14 Club Meeting Page 5 of 14
MAY JUNE 2 Executive Committee Meeting 6 Executive Committee Meeting 9 Club Meeting 9-10 VBA Quarterly Meeting (LOCK) 12 Club 3D Shoot - IBO QUALIFIER (Saturday Shoot) 13 Club Meeting 18-20 1st Leg IBO Triple Crown (LOCK) 16 BBH Bowfishing Tournament (May change based on tides) 26-27 VBA State Open Tournament (LOCK) 15-17 2nd Leg IBO Triple Crown (LOCK) 30 Club Pig Roast and 3D Shoot (Saturday Shoot) JULY AUGUST 4 Executive Committee Meeting 1 Executive Committee Meeting 11 Club Meeting 8 Club Meeting 13-15 3rd Leg IBO Triple Crown (LOCK) 9-12 IBO World Championship (LOCK) 14 Level I Certification Course 18-19 VBA Fall Classic 3D (LOCK) 20-22 IBO Traditional World Championship 25 BBH Hunters for the Hungry 3D Benefit Shoot, NORVA 21 Club Picnic and 3D Shoot 21 Hunters for the Hungry Banquet - Park West Lion's Club 13-15 3rd Leg IBO Triple Crown (LOCK) 25-29 NFAA National Outdoor Championship (LOCK) SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1-2 VBA State Closed (LOCK) 3 Executive Committee Meeting 5 Executive Committee Meeting 10 Club Meeting 12 Club Meeting 21 Club Vegas / USA Archery Pin Shoot (Sunday Shoot) 15-16 VBA Scheduling Meeting (LOCK) 23 Club Vegas / USA Archery Pin Shoot (Sunday Shoot) NOVEMBER DECEMBER 7 Executive Committee Meeting 5 Executive Committee Meeting 14 Club Meeting 9 Club Vegas /USA Archery Pin Shoot (Sunday Shoot) 18 Club Vegas / USA Archery Pin Shoot (Sunday Shoot) 12 Club Meeting Page 6 of 14
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MARCH 14 th MEETING MINUTES President Larry Readal opened the meeting at 6:00 PM and asked if there were any new guests/ new members present. There was a good number of new folks that were early and wanted to attend the Turkey Hunting Seminar. There was a round of applause as we welcomed new archers to the club. Secretary Treasurer Mirza Strujo announced the club had about 119 members and about $6,110 in the account. He also mentioned to see him to renew your membership at the meeting or online. You can also always call, text or email. Tournament Captain Ira Joseph provided the State Shoot results and we presented awards to the archers. Steve Richards Robin Hood Award Sawyer Dishman State Champion Phoenix Dishman State Champion Raylan Dishman -State Champion Keishi Ruiz State Champion Paula Schasberger -State Champion Robin Vogel State Champion Abbegael Allen State Champion Upcoming Club Shoots: * 17 MAR INDOOR PIN SHOOT. This will also be last league shoot (FLYER AND CALENDAR SAY 18 MAR sorry, this is incorrect) * 8 APR FIRST CLUB 3D SHOOT * 12 MAY IBO QUALIFIER Publicity Director Ron Bailey announced that we are behind on newsletter but are catching up, so don t be surprised if you get the Feb and Mar newsletters at about the same time. If you have any comments on newsletter content, format, whatever, let Ron know. Ron will be departing in July so we need a replacement for this position by June to do turnover. PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR CLUB AND VOLUNTEER FOR THIS POSITION. Activities Director Jerry Michonski announced that the VBA BANQUET is Saturday 7 April. VBA will recognize the Hunting & Tournament Awardees: * Hunting Awards (Bill Bennett, biggest buck, etc) * Tournament Awards (Double and Triple Crown Winners) Banquet will be at SOUTHERN KITCHEN, in NEW MARKET. The cost is $20 for Adults; Children 12 and under $12. If we have enough interest, we can rent a van to go down. Our WILD GAME DINNER is SATURDAY, 28 APR out at Park West Lions Club in Manassas. TWO FOR ONE RAFFLE TICKETS ARE ON SALE UNTIL 15 APRIL! Jerry is always taking prize donations, ESPECIALLY ladies and kids prizes. We always need a lot of volunteer help PLEASE SIGN UP ON THE COMMITTEE SHEETS GOING AROUND, THANK YOU. Sgt at Arms Valerie Clay Thanked the folks that donated food for the State Shoot. Valerie is looking for folks to DONATE MEAT NOW for the Wild Game Dinner!!! Please let her know what you can bring on the sign up on the sheet going around. Range Warden James Blake thanked the folks that came out to the Working Party 24 & 25 February and last weekend 10-11 March. James will be deploying this summer and we need to get a relief in place. PAUL VOGEL has volunteered can we get a motion to vote him in? Motion confirmed and second. James went over the Wild Game Dinner Animal Awards and Displays. We award animals in the ten below categories, but all can bring anything to display it makes the dinner a lot nicer event if we have a lot of animals! So please bring all your stuff to display! Animal Awards and Categories: LEE ULMER AWARD: Recognizes a Belvoir Bowhunter (must be a Club member at time of harvest) who has harvested a buck and doe on Fort Belvoir and the combined antler score, weight of the buck and weight of the doe must equal or exceed 300 points * Best whitetail 6 points or less taken on Ft Belvoir with a bow * Best whitetail over 6 points taken on Ft Belvoir with a bow * Best whitetail taken off Belvoir with a bow * Best whitetail taken off Belvoir with a gun * Best big game animal taken with a bow * Best big game animal taken with a gun * Best small game animal taken with a bow * Best harvest taken with a bow by a youth age 16 years or younger. * Most creative Display Page 12 of 14
Vice President Robin Vogel thanked everyone that helped out for the State Shoot. A special thank you to Jill Delligatti for helping and learning how to do registration. Robin reminded everyone about the upcoming Wild Game Dinner. This is a Fun event for our club so please come out! I want to remind everyone about our six Individual Awards that we give at the Wild Game Dinner (See Below). The way it works is members nominate folks for these awards to the Awards Committee, which is GREG THOMPSON (Chairman), STEVE RICHARDS, and WALT SPAULDING. So please call or email one of these folks and nominate the folks you know are doing a great job for the Club! Description of Individual Awards: ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: To recognize a Club member for a single, specific achievement that benefits not only the Belvoir Bowhunters, but also the archery community as a whole. Prerequisite: Must be a Club member in good standing. STRAIGHT ARROW AWARD: In appreciation for being a straight arrow in support of the Belvoir Bowhunters, recognizing outstanding service to the Belvoir Bowhunters. Prerequisite: Must be a Club member in good standing. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Recognizes a Club member for continuous dedication and service to the Club over a long period of time. Prerequisite: Straight Arrow Award ARROWHEAD AWARD: For long standing friendship and support to the members of the Belvoir Bowhunters and the sport of archery. Prerequisite: Must be a non-member. VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD: Recognizes a member of the Belvoir Bowhunters who has spent the most time performing work that enhances the overall operational capability of the club and improves the sport of archery. Prerequisite: Must be a Club member in good standings. INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR: The Instructor/Coach of the year can be nominated for any of the below five categories. AS PROPOSED, THERE IS NO PREREQUISITE TO BE A CLUB MEMBER LEE UMLOR AWARD: Recognizes a Belvoir Bowhunter (must be a Club member at time of harvest) who has harvested a buck and doe on Fort Belvoir and the combined antler score, weight of the buck and weight of the doe must equal or exceed 300 points. President Larry Readal took time to congratulate everyone on a successful State Shoot. A very big thank you goes out to the EB for all the work they did pulling it all together. Thank you to all the folks that came out for the working party, everyone came out for Friday registration and setup. Thank you to the folks that did registration Sat & Sun, everyone who donated food and, thanks to all who came out and shot! Larry reminded everyone about the upcoming VBA Banquet: SATURDAY, 7 APRIL. Larry is planning on attending and I he heard that it is a pretty good banquet and raffle. We will have 13 folks getting Game Awards. As Jerry said, if we get enough folks, we can rent a van. (BB means Bill Bennett award) James Blake BB 2nd Award Ellena Parks BB First Award Bakari Dale BB 3 More Awards Rodney Roberts BB 2nd Award Rich Danyliw BB First Award Randy Stoeckmann BB First Award + five more Ira Joseph BB First Award Larry Readal BB 2nd Award Jeff Nutter BB First + 2 more TDK BB First Award Greg Thompson BB 3RD Award And For Biggest Buck in VA: Jerry Michonski Biggest Buck And BB 2nd Award Steve Richards Biggest Buck And BB First Award Also, APRIL is Military Child Appreciation month and ODR is offering Beginner Lessons for FREE for military children! Wild Game Dinner: 28 APRIL! This is our MAIN EVENT for the year for our Club, and frankly, our main fund raiser for the year. Please come on out it s a good time! Win a bow! Nominate folks for awards, and bring your animals. Hey, it is the cheapest buffet anywhere and free beer too. There was no Old Business to discuss. Larry went over the New Business items from the VBA meeting to be voted on the April meeting. All three items listed below were voted on and passed by the club: 1. Section 15.1.10, Registration fees, pg. 12: Add Sect. E: A 80% refund will be sent to preregistered shooters upon a written request submitted within 2 weeks of tournament. The host club may keep 20% of fee and send refund within 14 Page 13 of 14
days to shooter. Effective: immediately. Justification: Change wording in By-Laws as there is no section for refunds. Change pg. 11 to 12 to fit in new By-law printing. 2. Require the posting of all agenda items with submitting clubs name to the Flight issue, directly following the VBA quarterly meeting. Posting of voting results of agenda items to include the roll call votes for each item in the Flight magazine, following the votes. Effective immediately. Justification: Many members do not attend club meetings and deserve to know what changes are being proposed by clubs and the results of such. Also, this might spark interest in the VBA and encourage more members to attend club meetings to be able to discuss the changes and have their vote counted. 3. Bowhunters of Rockingham would like the VBA to donate a 48 X48 block target to the Town of Shenandoah for their new range. Effective Immediately. Justification: We believe this will help grow the sport of archery and promote the VBA. This may also help increase membership for BOR and Massanutten Archery Clubs. Hearing no more items for the Good of the Order, the meeting was adjourned at 7:30 PM. The Turkey hunting presentation from Kevin Walter began at 7:40. FIND US ON FACEBOOK: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ BELVOIRBOWHUNTERS AND ON THE WEB: WWW.BELVOIRBOWHUNTERS.COM Page 14 of 14