The Official Journal of the Gopher Flats Sportsmen’s Club

                         www.gopherflats.org

 

                             NOVEMBER 2008

 
   

 

GFSC NOVEMBER 2008 NEWSLETTER

IS ON OUR WEBSITE

 

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

 

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Weds

Thurs

Friday

Saturday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

2

3

4

5

 

 

6

Trap & Skeet

9 AM

7

8

9

10

11

12

 

 

 

13

 

Evening Trap

7 PM

14

 

 

 

 

15

16

 

 

 

17

18

 

 

 

19

 

20

 

Trap & Skeet

9 AM

21

22

Trap/Skeet

9 AM

î

2 Pistol  Matches

9:00 AM

P2 & P3

ö

High Power Rifle Match  7:30 AM

23

 

USPSA

 

24

25

 

Gopher’s Meeting 7:30 PM

 

26

27

Go to fullsize image

Happy

Thanksgiving

 

(No Evening Trap)

29

29

Work Party

8AM-12PM

30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DECEMBER 2008

 

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Weds

Thurs

Friday

Saturday

 

 

 

 

1

2

3

4

 

Trap & Skeet

9 AM

5

 

 

6

7

8

9

10

11

 

Evening Trap

7 PM

12

 

 

 

13

14

 

 

 

 

15

16

 

 

 

17

18

 

 

Trap & Skeet

9 AM

 

 

19

 

20

 

21

 

 

USPSA

22

 

23

 

Gopher’s Meeting 7:30 PM

 

24

25

 

Merry

christmas

26

27

Trap/Skeet

9 AM

î

2 Pistol  Matches

9:00 AM

P2 & P3

ö

High Power Rifle Match  7:30 AM

28

 

 

 

29

30

31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GOPHER FLATS MEETING

 

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008

 

7:30 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         PO Box 7712

Mission Hills, CA 91346