GFSC NOVEMBER 2008 NEWSLETTER
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GOPHER FLATS SPORTSMEN’S
CLUB
OFFICERS FOR 2008
President
- Matt Kellerman Corresponding Secretary-Jose Garza
Vice President
- Dave Marcinkus Warden
– Frank Romagnino
Treasurer -
Dennis Robinson Membership Chairman – Phil
Prokop
Recording Secretary
- Frank Weiss Rangemaster - Paul Stewart & Jack
Salerno
Nominations for Gopher Flats
Sportsmen’s Club
Officers for 2009
President – Dave Larson - Vice President
; Dave Marcinkus
Treasurer – Dennis Robinson ; Recording Secretary – George Gaskill ; Newsletter – Jose Garza ; Warden – No nomination yet ; Membership Chairman – Phil Prokup ; Rangemaster – No nomination yet ;– No nomination.
If
you have someone in mind please show up at the meeting and submit his name.
At
the October 28, 2008 GFSC meeting nominations were accepted for most offices as
previously noted. Be aware that some
appointments are made by the President and you might get appointed without
being there. Please attend the November meeting as voting for club Officers
will take place.
GOPHER FLATS ANNOUNCEMENTS
MEMBERSHIP: We need to bring in new members. Please invite friends you would consider
sponsoring to Gopher meetings. Michael Farrow had his third reading and was voted
in as a member. Congratulations!! He
also provided members with the following information. He offers courses through
his company SOUTHWEST FIREARMS TRAINING as follows:
NRA
Pistol Instructor
December
6-7
It
is a 17 hour, 2 day course
Regular
$150. 20% discount for Gophers= $120
NRA
Range Safety Officer
December
13
New
info
a
9 hour, 1 day course
Regular
$100. 20% discount for Gophers= $80
NRA
Home Firearm Safety Instructor
December
14
a
1 day course
Regular
$100. 20% discount for Gophers= $80
Take both the RSO and Home Firearm Safety classes for $150
Contact
Michael Farrow 818 317-7616 or
Mike@SouthwestFirearmsTraining.com
http://SouthwestFirearmsTraining.com
PISTOL MATCHES
November 22 & 23, 2008 -
GOPHER WEEKEND
.22 Steel
Target Shoot – Saturday @ 9:00 am -
Located @ P3 next to cowboy town - Adults $5.00-Children $2.00 - For further information contact Dave Larson
or J. Garza. Many thanks to Paul Stewart for the 22 ammo he donated to the 22
steel shooting event.
High Power and 22 Pistol Steel Shoot is back. If
you need further
information,
please contact Don McDougall at donmcdougall@gmail.com.
USPSA
is scheduled for November 23, 2008. Dave Marcinkus is in charge of this event
and is requesting assistance in tearing down the structures.
TRAP
& SKEET: GFSC Members are
reminded that Trap and Skeet shooting is available on the 1st and 3rd
Thursday of each month and on GFSC Saturdays.
Evening Trap started September 27th and continues. We started at 6:45 pm on October 23rd
and Bobby Ellis, Tina, Mike Stern, John Paro, Matthew and Richard Garza shot
trap. Everyone had a good time.
Additional club match dates are available at GFSC website.
TRAP NEWS FOR
SEPTEMBER 2008
JOHN
MANNING’s Round Robin report for November 2008:
On
Sunday, November 23, 2008, we are going to have a fund raiser pistol
match. We do this a few times a year and it a good financial boost for
the club. We need HELP!!! Don McDougall has volunteered to cook
lunch. He could use some assistance with cooking and serving. We
can also use help tearing down the match. Although there is no official
ending time for the match, if you come to the range at about 2:30, it will be
greatly appreciated. Not only can you help support the club, but this is
a good opportunity to get your work hours for GFSC membership discount!!
We
are seven shooters short of full teams.
We need 22 shooters every Round Robin that is held the 1st
Sunday of the 1st week every March, June, September and
December. If we do not have 22 shooters
that pledge to be at each Round Robin match next year then we will go to one
team. On December 14, 2008 I need 22 shooters so please e-mail me or call me at
818-383-4409 & leave message
Challenge
Shoot with Panorama Club was on their weekend October 18, 2008. We had 10 shooters and Panorama had
15. Panorama was out to get even because
we won the Shoot in April when we scored with the top 5 shooters. WE WON!
The
Presidents’ Shoot is November 22, 2008, our range day. It is a 50 target event so please plan on
coming out and spending a few hours with us.
Please
contact John @ (818) 383-4400 if you want to be a part of Gopher’s trap team.
We always need shooters for this event.
Cooks and member kitchen
helpers need to know there is a locked refrigerator in the green house with
supplies for meals. Please see Range
Master for keys and information. Additionally, new and old members need to know
that the Range Gates must be closed when you leave at the end of the day.
Gopher Flats
High Power Rifle Match Report, September 27, 2008
M1/Springfield Match
November 22, 2008
“Black November”
After a dismal October we are slowly getting the High Power program back on
track in November. Coming up on Saturday, November 22th we will conduct our
13th monthly High Power Match at Lopez Canyon. The pit area is still unstable
and dangerous; but thanks to other clubs’ members, and a few Gopher members,
the target carriers behind the 200 yard butts ARE operational. For safety
reasons we will still conduct our match as a walk-down match but we will hoist
our targets in the air, a luxury forlorn to the rapid fire dust clouds
experienced last month!
This month the course of fire will be the 50 round National Match course. Cost
will be $10 for Gopher Club members and $15 for non-members with and extra $5
for a Gopher’s lunch. A reminder, NO steel jacketed or steel cored ammo allowed
as we are still in HIGH fire danger season; even though much of the fuel may
have been dissipated we still need to be extra careful.
Please be sure to email or phone in to confirm your participation; directions
to the Lopez Range will be directly conveyed to you. You may confirm with
either Tom Temple, Match Director, tmtemple@pacbell.net 323-664-5287 or with
Mike Stern, Asst. Director, mike@myclassictruck.com 213-798-9414.
Sign-in will be at 7:00 AM.
First round down range will be around 8:00 AM.
This is not an NRA sanctioned match
We have 6 targets operational accommodating up to 24 competitors in four relays
There will be a safety brief before the match begins
If necessary, we will conduct a pit service briefing to help new shooters
A Hot lunch will be served at the club house directly after the match
Facilities at the range include running water and bathrooms with flush toilets
$$$ MONEY MATTERS $$$
By Dennis L. Robinson
WORK
PARTY -
Saturday November 29, 2008
Make
sure you check in when you arrive for the work parties, and other projects at
the range.
There
is a 3 ring binder in the trap storage container for signing in, and you need
to check in with the range master.
MEMBERSHIP
DUES REMINDER
Included
in the October newsletter were a range release form for 2009 and a list of the
membership fees for 2009. A stamped, self-addressed envelope to return the
release form and pay your discounted membership dues.
GATE
CARDS
At
the CRC meeting on November 4, 2008, I asked Mark La Compte when the club would
be getting gate cards for the new members? He told me that the fire had burned
the power lines to the building that the computer is in, and that it would be
early December before the repairs would be completed.
GAS
CO LAND PURCHASE
Mark
La Compte talked to the person at the Gas Co. shortly after the fire, and he
said that he was very busy at this time, and to call back in a few weeks.
NOVEMBER 2008
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DECEMBER 2008
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GOPHER FLATS MEETING
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,
2008
7:30 PM
PO Box 7712
Mission Hills,
CA 91346