 
The count down has started for our annual Club Picnic at High Hill Ranch - Sunday August 5, 2007 Please start arriving around noon, we eat at 1pm and the fun goes to 3pm. The price for the lunch is just $7.00 for adults, $3.00 for children, collected at the picnic.
We have three main prizes for this year's picnic. A Savage Arms 116FSS Weather Warrior Series with AccuTrigger™ rifle in your choice of caliber, a Tom Tom Go auto GPS and a Henry Repeating Arms Survival Rifle in 22LR. You need not be present to win the two main raffle prizes. Tickets for the Savage Arms Rifle and Tom Tom GO GPS are available from all officers and directors of the club. Also from Letty at the Mountain Democrat, Monday - Wednesday - Friday between 10am and 3pm and you can reach her at 530-344-5049 and from Larry Ward at Wards Automotive in Diamond Springs. Tickets for the Henry 22LR will only be available at the picnic. All prize Tickets are $5.00 each, so buy as many as you can to help support the club. Tickets will be available to purchase at the picnic.
We have many other great prizes that we will be raffling off at the picnic so be sure to attend.
Remember to bring your picnic items such as comfortable chairs, utensils and other picnic
items. Although we do provide plastic knives and forks, I'm sure you would rather cut your
food with your own utensils. Cold drinks and beer will be available at the picnic too. Please
remember to bring a salad or dessert. If you are planning on attending the picnic we are asking people with last names beginning with A through P to please bring a Salad. People with last names beginning with Q through Z please bring a Dessert.
The annual Club picnic is one of two main fund raiser for the club, the other being our Annual Banquet Awards Dinner. I can't stress enough how important it is to have your support at these events. We have many great plans for our range and without these fund raisers we can't move forward and make the improvements that we all would like to see at the range. So please support our club by buying tickets for the main prize and by attending the picnic and enjoying the company of others who support the cause that you find important, the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club. Click here for more information and map to the picnic.
Summer is in full swing and the club range is in full swing too. If you haven’t been up to the trap range recently you might want to take a look, we have two brand new shooting stations and they look great. Shooting stations are paths radiating out from the trap house with distances from the house marked from 16 to 27 yards. A round of trap is 25 birds, 5 birds being shot from each station in rotation. We have plans for a third one and it should be done before winter. The trap range will be holding a “Wobbles” trap shoot this August 12, 2007. If you haven’t shot Wobbles you really should come out and try them.
 
The rifle and pistol range have a number of activities with 22ARA Benchrest now holding their shoots on the first Saturday of the month. If you haven’t seen these benchrest shooters shoot you’re in for a real treat. Cowboys have their practice shoot every Monday except one Monday a month, please check the calendar. They hold their matches on the fourth Sunday of each month. Defensive pistol is hot, hot, hot! This is our fastest growing event at the lower range. If you like to shoot pistols this sport is for you, held every fourth Saturday of the month. Check out the calendar for more information.
Make sure you look over the club calendar for a current listing of club activities, date and times of events and contact information.
In the world of gun regulation:
We have an item worth mentioning, Labor Department Announces It Will Revise Overreaching OSHA Explosives Rule:
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it will significantly revise a recent proposal for new “explosives safety” regulations that caused serious concern among gun owners. OSHA had originally set out to update workplace safety regulations, but the proposed rules included restrictions that very few gun shops, sporting goods stores, shippers, or ammunition dealers could comply with.
Gun owners had filed a blizzard of negative comments urged by the NRA, and just a week ago, OSHA had already issued one extension for its public comment period at the request of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. After continued publicity through NRA alerts and the outdoor media, and after dozens of Members of Congress expressed concern about its impact, OSHA has wisely decided to go back to the drawing board.
The OSHA proposal would have defined “explosives” to include “black powder, … small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant,” and treated these items the same as the most volatile high explosives.
The public comment website for the proposed rule is no longer accessible. The Labor Department will publish a notice in the July 17 Federal Register announcing that a new rule proposal will soon be drafted for public comment. Needless to say, the NRA monitors proposed federal regulations to head off this kind of overreach, and will be alert for OSHA’s next draft.
If you look on our web site you will find a link to “legislation” and from here you can see a listing of California Firearm related legislation where you can click on the links and learn more about the pending issues. We also have a new section with information provided by State Senator Dave Cox, a long time friend of the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club. Make sure to check that out too.
Where were you?
We missed you at our last general meeting. Why don't you plan on joining us on September 10, 7pm for our next general meeting? Our general membership meeting is held at 7pm, at the Senior Center (937 Spring St.), in Placerville.
Contribute to your newsletter:
We are in need of articles from our members to fill our newsletter with news that we can all enjoy or relate to. If you have any suggestions or comments on our newsletter we would love to hear from you. Articles can be submitted by eMail to president@eldoradorodandgun.com or lettyb@megapathdsl.net or by mailing to the club at P.O. Box 99, Placerville,CA. 95667.
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Have you visited our club web site? you can see everything printed in the newsletter plus more information at the club web site 7 to 10 days before you receive it in the mail.
One of our sponsors Direct Connect has provided the club with wireless internet access. So we now have a Wi-Fi hotspot available at the trap range. So if you need to get out of the house and want to bring your laptop to do some work you can come out to the trap range and enjoy high speed internet access.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- Calvin Coolidge
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Stay Strong, Stay Vigilant, God Bless America.
Rob Charny, President |
If you have been receiving the club eNews for some time you might notice that this newsletter looks a little different. We have made a number of enhancements. We redesigned the look of the eNews and changed the way we handle our mailing roster and send out our newsletter. We have gone with a hosting solution called Email Brain (yeah I know, funny name) that allows us to track delivery of our newsletters, better handle bounced email, allow online newsletter subscribe, unsubscribe, foward and profile update. This also allows us to have an online subscriber link. I hope you enjoy the new look and again thank you for your support of the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club. |
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The Trap range has an upcoming event that we hope you can attend. We are hosting the Wobbles Trap Association Shoot on August 12, 2007. Signups start at 8am, we start shooting at 9am. Don’t forget to check out the other activities planed for the rife and pistol ranges by looking at the calendar. |
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We have the ability for you to pay for your membership with a credit card via our web site. Click here for details.
When you send in your dues please remember to send in your membership application too. This helps us to keep all contact information current. You can find applications on our web site and at the range. Please fill out the membership application (in full) and return to us ASAP so you won’t miss out on all the exciting information you get from "The Powder Keg!” |
Rifle/Pistol Range:
(530) 651-3012
Trap Range:
(530) 651-3017
Club Message Number:
(530) 672-3330 |
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General Meeting Dates:
• September 10, 2007
• November 5, 2007
• December 3, 2007
Board of Directors Meeting
Our monthly board meetings are held on the third Monday of each month, club house at the trap range 6pm.
To be placed on the agenda for either of these meetings, or for further information, call (530) 672-3330 or Email: president@eldoradorodandgun.com
Do you know a speaker that would like to speak at our next general meeting? Let us know at least a month before the next meeting. |
It’s that time of year again; In order to keep the roads in good condition we need to enforce the speed limit of 10mph throughout the entire range facility. Not only do we need to keep our speed down to maintain the road in good condition we need to keep the dust down as well. |
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A cooperative project of the El Dorado NRA ILA Members Council, the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club, the National Rifle Association, and the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
Following the directions of USFS Range Specialist (Cattle not Guns) Cindy Podsiadlo, Phil Weidman found a filthy illegal dump that had nothing to do with shooters. It does now, because that is who cleaned it up. Doug Becker with Jake Erlich assisting on the cutting torch wasted a two ton truck frame, big V-8 engine, and a big chest type freezer while the FS Fire Engine gaped at the sparks. Gary Stone, Terry Bush, Tony Zepczyk, Si Russell, Ed Dunn, David Hawkins,and Richard Maynard, assisted by some of the Firefighters loaded Cindy's Stakeside truck above the cab.
I got out of some of this filth because no one else wanted to go get our Subway sandwiches. After lunch in the shade and listening to the ATV haulers coming out of Goldnote Ridge saying it was too dusty, Phil, Richard, David, and I came out via Sopiago-Goldnote-Five Corners-Pi Pi, Capps Crossing, Van Horn Pit, and down MET where Stan Cartwright, Marian Garrio, and Paul Lockyer had picked up 15 bags of shotgun shells with there hands (because I had all the rakes, etc.) at Blue Gouge Mill site. We loaded up the three barrels, TV sets etc. that would not fit in Stan and Paul's SUV's
Doug, and Jake helped Cindy unload at the dump before the brakes locked up and she had to call for a tow truck. It is very refreshing to see government employees not afraid to work.
Steve Morgan.
To find out about our next Please Leave It NRA Klean adventure contact Steve Morgan at (530) 620-3946, or email NRAPLINK@COMCAST.NET |
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In order to keep our costs down many of you are getting the newsletter via eMail. I encourage you to use this way of receiving the newsletter and calendar to help make sure that we keep the cost of running the club as low as possible. If you change your eMail address please let us know so that there won’t be any disruption in receiving the eNews. Please feel free to send this eNews to friends and family, just click on the link forward at the bottom of the page. |
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Now that many of us have green garbage carts bigger than we can usually fill, how about occasionally grabbing one of the black plastic bags full of trash from our range and taking it home with you? | |
