Presidents Report:
Many of us travel to different ranges and gun clubs
throughout the year to shoot different events or
registered shoot. In February The El Dorado Rod &
Gun Club once again made a showing of our shooting
prowess at the
Livermore-Pleasanton Rod & Gun Club PITA
three day registered trap shoot. Larry Carsten, Don
& Jim Firanzi, Peter Henschel, Karen Beckman, (even
me!) Rob Charny all won their respective class
during one of the three days shooting against
hundreds of other shooters. Great job guys!
I forgot to thank Rico
Oller in last month’s eNews for attending our
annual banquet. Rico has always been a big supporter of
our club. Good to see you Rico and thank you again for
all your support.
A big thank you to Von McNew for the great job he
did on the rifle rests he built. They look great and
work even better.
BUDGET REQUESTS FOR 2008 DUE NOW!
R.S.O.
and committee chairman should turn in any requests
for items to be included in next year’s budget to
Bob Conover, Keith Murray or Rob Charny by the Board
of Directors meeting in March. Members with any
special projects should submit them by the same
time. The Budget for 2008 will be finalized at the
board meeting in March.
El Dorado Rod & Gun Club
Gun of the Year! Only a limited number
of tickets will be sold for this outstanding
shotgun.
Browning 425 American Sporter Gold comes with a
Grade IV engraving pattern on a "coin finish"
receiver. The receiver features exquisite images of
pheasant, duck and quail enhanced in gold relief.
Donated by Yubacon, Inc./
Only 500 tickets will be sold and once we sell
all 500 we will draw for the winner. All
Proceeds go to the club for road and trap range
maintenance.
The dark American walnut stock has satin oil
finished that enhances the fine grain of the
high grade wood. The 12 Gauge stock has a
palm swell as well this is a great opportunity
to own a fine American Sporter Over/Under 12Ga
shotgun.
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April 21 –
EARLY NOTICE
Attention all RSO (Range Safety Officers), Club
Directors and Officers.
On Monday April 21, 2008, 5:30 PM, at the club house we
are holding our Board of Directors and RSO meeting and
it is essential that you attend. We will be going over
general club business and range operations. We will also
have a BBQ dinner so that no one goes hungry during this
meeting and gives us some time to socialize. It is very
important that you attend this meeting. Those RSO who do
not attend jeopardize their authorization to continue as
Range Safety Officers. If you cannot attend this meeting
please let me know by sending me an eMail (president@eldoradorodandgun.com),
or phone call (530-621-1509). If you do not show up at
the meeting, call or send an eMail I will assume that
you no longer wish to be an RSO and will be removed from
the list of active Range Safety Officers.
Shoots of note for March:  Registered
wobbles trap shoot March 9, 2008.
Our Second registered wobbles shoot of the year is
scheduled for Sunday
March 9, 2008. If you haven’t shot Wobbles up
at the trap range you are missing out on a lot of
fun and a great opportunity to shoot a registered
trap shoot with no pressure and just a lot of
enjoyment and a little bit of competition with other
shooters. Sign-Ups start at 8:30am and we start
shooting right at 9am so be sure to come to the
range early. Contact: Bob Conover 530-677-8826 or
bconover@cal.net
Two Day Easter Prize Shoot March 22 & 23, 2008:
The “Floyd Hughes” Easter (Trap) Meat-Prize shoot
will be held March 22 & 23. Come on out and join in
the fun, try your luck at some of the games, “Big
Chip, Custer, DoDah, Green Bird, Follow the Leader,”
and others.
Sign up at 8:30am – Shoot at 9am. Larry
Ward 530-626-5588 or Bob Conover 530-677-8826
3 Gun Fun Shoot March 30, 2008: 
March 30 - Fun - 3 Gun / Multi Gun Shoot fun shoot
at the rifle / pistol range that will be using the
proposed IDPA 3-Gun rules as guidelines.
Arrive by 8am we shoot at 9am. Contact John
Lustig for more information:
530-676-1199
Membership Fees are:
One Year: $45.00
One Year
(age 65+): $25.00
Five Year: $200.00
Life
Membership: $400.00 |
Range News:
As most of you know our ranges are run by volunteer
range safety officers. We are fortunate to have a
very dedicated group of members willing to spend
their time running the facility. Next time you’re
out at the range make sure to thank the RSO for
their dedication and hard work.
In 2008 we will see a few changes to the range
calendar. The most visible change will be to the
rifle / pistol range on Mondays. In our continuing
effort to support Law Enforcement we have agreed to
share the lower range with EDSO on two Mondays a
month. This means that Law Enforcement will have
exclusive use of the lower range (rifle/pistol
range) on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month and
the club will have exclusive use of the lower range
on the 2nd, 4th and the few 5th Mondays.
Make sure to check the club calendar before you
travel to the range to make sure that it will be
available for you to use when you arrive there.
 Renew
your 2008 Membership today. Now is the
time to renew your membership or become a
member. Visit the club’s web site for more
information and to join online.
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 One
of our sponsors Sierra Advantage 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.
Your 2008 Officers and Directors are:
President: Rob Charny
Vice
Pres: Howard Holzer
Secretary:
Letty Baumgardner
Treasurer:
Bob Conover
Directors:
2008 - Doug Becker, Larry Ward, Karen Backman
2009 - Marshall Seaborn, Robert Hancock, Simon
Russell
2010 - Bob Pomeroy, John Lustig, Bob Howard
Where were you?
Stan French where were you? You would have won our
drawing had you attended. We missed you at our last
general meeting. We missed you and everyone else that
didn’t attend our general meeting. Why don't you plan on
joining us on April 7, 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
news@edrgc.org or
lettyb@megapathdsl.net or by mailing to the
club at P.O. Box 99, Placerville, CA. 95667.
WWW...
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.
Quote:  May
you live as long as you want, and never want as long as
you live.
~ Irish Blessing -
Saint Patrick’s Day March 17, 2008
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Stay Strong, Stay Vigilant, God Bless America.
Rob Charny, President |
Just a reminder that you are subscribed to the
El Dorado Rod & Gun Club
eNewsletter. We hope that you find this newsletter
informational and are enjoying the enhancements that we
have made. These enhancements allows us to track
delivery of our newsletters, better handle bounced
email, allow online newsletter subscribe, unsubscribe,
forward and profile update. This also allows us to have
an
online subscriber link.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to friends
and family. Again thank you for your support of the
El Dorado Rod & Gun Club. |
Friends of the NRA Banquet March 11, 2008
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Range Calendar |
Save the date:
The El Dorado Friends of NRA plans to hold a
banquet on Tuesday, March 11th at the Marshall
Room, El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 100
Placerville Drive, Placerville, CA at 6:00pm.
Tickets may be purchased by contacting Bob
Conover at (530) 677-8826 or Bob Hancock (530)
295-9385 and via email at
bconover@cal.net.
Friends of NRA is a key event that supports
thousands of community service related to
firearm education, hunter safety, wildlife
conservation, range improvements, youth
marksmanship and law enforcement, among others.
Working with NRA field representatives, the
members and volunteers organize banquets in
their communities, complete with auctions,
special drawings and fellowship. Much of the
merchandise at the banquets is donated or
provided at reduced cost by hundreds of
participating vendors. | |
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Memberships Available On Our WEB Site! |
Club Phone Numbers: |  All
memberships are due in January, why not renew
now via our web page using your credit card.
We have the ability for you to pay for your
membership with a credit card via our web site
using PayPal.
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 |
2008 Meeting dates, Next Meeting April 7, 2008
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Join The NRA
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General Meeting Dates:
 Next
General Meeting
April 7, 2008
7PM Senior
Center
April 7, 2008
June 2,
2008
August 4, 2008
October 6, 2008
December 1, 2008 - Club Election
General Meetings are held at 7pm, El Dorado
County Senior Center, 937 Spring St.,
Placerville.
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:
news@edrgc.org
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. |
Are you an NRA member? Would you like to join or
renew and help the club at the same time?
Click here
and go to the NRA online signup site. Every time
you join or renew the club gets a small donation
from the NRA and every little bit helps the
club. You also help support the organization
that supports our firearm rights, the NRA. |
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P.L.I.N.K report: | |
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.
Twelve Hardcore
Volunteers came out on a very miserable day. Tony
Zepczyk. Donn Nibblett, and Doug Riccarelli (sp ?)
dug out the ditch from the Pistol Range to the
Chronograph table. We will be back with a Jack
Hammer to finish that. Si Russell, Michael Eribes de
Flores, Richard Maynard, Jake Erlich, Phil Weidman,
and Gary Stone, chopped Becker's new furring strip
target holders into the mud on the left side of the
fifty yard line. If you say that works good we need
to get a deal on a mess of 4 by 4 inch angle iron.
Doug Becker cut and hauled some of the Digger Pine
reproduction threatening our power lines. Ed
________ forgot his lunch box. It was empty so I
boiled some sausage dogs. We burned some lumber
scraps to stop our teeth from chattering. To comment
or get involved in keeping our ranges in shape
please yell at; Steve Morgan (530) 620-3946, or
email
nraplink@comcast.net
We had so much fun
in the rain this week that we are going to try again
to finish cleaning out the drainage ditches along
the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club road, and some other
distasteful chores from 9 am until 1 pm this coming
Friday Feb. 29. Bring your wheelbarrow, shovel, rock
rake, sun screen, and something to test free targets
with after our Please Leave It NRA Klean PLINK
financed primitive lunches. Please let me know if
you will help so I know how many to cook for or if
you are on light duty you can boil my wieners and
put me to work. Steve
Pictures provided by
Steve Morgan |
Political Correctness / In memory of WWII |
Subject: Political Correctness
The following is the 2007 winning entry from an annual
contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most
appropriate definition of a contemporary term.
This year’s term: .....Political
Correctness;.....Political Correctness is a doctrine,
fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority
and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by the clean end!
This eMail was sent by a Pearl Harbor Vet and I believe
it’s important to pass this along to as many people as
possible.
In Memory of WWII
It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of
the Allied Forces, General Dwight
Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he
ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for
the German people from surrounding villages to be
ushered through the camps and even made to bury the
dead. He did this because he said in words to this
effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get
the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of
history some bastard will get up and say that this never
happened' All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.'
Edmund Burke
In Memorial
This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school
curriculum because it 'offended' the Muslim population
which claims it never occurred. This is a frightening
portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how
easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War
in Europe ended. This email (message) is being sent as a
memorial chain, in memory of the Six million Jews, 20
million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900
Catholic priests, who were murdered, massacred, raped,
burned, starved and humiliated while the German and
Russian peoples looked the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming
the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make
sure the world never forgets.
This e-mail (message) is intended to reach 40 million
people worldwide!
Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this
around the world. How many years will it be before the
attack on the World Trade Center 'never happened'
because it offends some Muslim in the U.S.?
Don Black
USN Pearl Harbor Vet 1941
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eMail vs. USPS mail: |
Help Clean Up the Range |
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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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Please save those pellet stove plastic bags for
raking up spent cartridges and shot shells at
PLINK areas, and Gun Club shooting ranges.
They fit perfectly in 5 gallon paint buckets,
and are easier to lift than big black trash bags
that usually burst open.
Just
leave them at the range, or email
NRAPLINK@COMCAST.NET FOR PICK UP.
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