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Presidents Report:
Spring is here and we are gearing up for a busy shooting season. I hope you can
take advantage of all of the great activities we have scheduled. Be sure to look
the calendar over to see which events you wish to attend.
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you know that we have RSS Feeds (Really Simple Syndication) on our web
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Individual Right to Bear Arms Wins Favor in Supreme Court Argument:
The Supreme Court on March 18, 2008 considered the landmark Second Amendment
case D.C. v. Heller, Justice Kennedy was quick to lay bare his view on the scope
of the right to bear arms contained in the amendment. The first part, he said,
was meant to reaffirm "the existence and the importance" of the treatment of
state militias contained in the Constitution itself. The second part, he
asserted, means that "in addition" there is a right to bear arms, which he later
declared was a "general right." To read more
click here to go to the New York Law Journal.
April 21, 2008
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.
BUDGET REQUESTS FOR 2008 DUE!
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
April. Members with any special projects should submit them by the same
time. The Budget for 2008 will be finalized at the board meeting in April.
Two New El Dorado Rod & Gun Club LIFE members: Thank you for joining
at LIFE membership level.
Will Riedel and Crispin Mapagay.
Reminder that we have a general club meeting on Monday April 7, 2008.
Please plan on attending. General Meetings are held at 7pm, El Dorado County
Senior Center, 937 Spring St., Placerville.
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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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Shoot of note for April...
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 Registered
wobbles trap shoot April 13, 2008.
Our Third registered wobbles shoot of the year is scheduled for Sunday April 13,
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
Wobbles Results for March 9, 2008
3/4 Wobbles:A-Class
James Hillman / B-Class Pete Henschel / C-Class Karen Huntsman
Full
Wobbles:A-Class Will Riedel / B-Class Karen Beckman / C-Class Rob Charny
High Lady: Laura Filsinger
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Membership Fees are:
One
Year: $45.00
One Year (age 65+): $25.00
Five Year: $200.00
Life
Membership: $400.00 |
 Tractor
Trailer Shipment of Targets Arrive!
The trap range received our annual shipment of targets and a BIG thank you
to all of the volunteers who helped get them into our conex container. Thank
you goes to: Larry Ward, Larry Carsten, Bill Pease, Dave Shull, Doug Becker,
Randy Shelton, John Huntsman and Bob Howard. They loaded 1,512 cases of
targets into the container. So if you're counting that's 204,120 targets!
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.
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 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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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 Beckman
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:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
~ Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and
Moral,' 1655
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Stay Strong, Stay Vigilant, God Bless America.
Rob Charny, President |
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Please feel free to forward this newsletter to friends and family. Again thank
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Opp's, I fell for an Urban Legend!
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Range Calendar |
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The information in last months newsletter about all schools in the UK not
teaching about the holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students turns out to
be an urban legend. Thanks to Jack Tonkin for bringing it to my attention.
However as reported on Snopes.Com there is one history department in a northern
UK city that stopped teaching about the Holocaust because it wished to avoid
confronting anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim
pupils. History revisionists will always be with us.
So even a web savvy person can be taken in if the story seems to fit.
Rob...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp
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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
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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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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 Meetings:
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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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.
The next PLINK adventure will be Sunday April 20, 2008
To comment or get involved in keeping our ranges in shape please yell at; Steve
Morgan (530) 620-3946, or email
nraplink@comcast.net
Pictures provided by Steve Morgan |
National Wild Turkey Federation 2nd Annual Heritage Banquet
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El Dorado County Chapter will be holding their banquet on Saturday April 19,
2008. Elks Lodge #1712 - 3821 Quest Court, Cameron Park
TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO 150 ~ Contact Larry Nelson (916) 933-9446 / Robert Deitz
(530) 621-3779 / Melissa Bonetti (916) 368-6219 ~ Fax (916) 368-7364
Tips for Handling Telemarketers
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Three Little Words That Work !!
(1)The three little words are: ‘Hold On, Please...
Saying this, while
putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately)
would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room
sales would grind to a halt. Then when you eventually hear the phone company's
'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it’s time to go back and hang up your handset,
which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help
eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do
you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records
the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to
determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get
someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one
there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times,
as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it
kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name
in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk
Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility
bill, return these ‘ads’ with your payment. Let the sending companies throw
their own junk mail away. When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail
for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not
throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return
envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 41 cents postage 'IF' and
when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The
postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the
weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it
in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local
chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you
didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application
back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on
anything you send them. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to
just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 41 cents. The banks and credit
card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail,
but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get
lots of junk mail, and best of all they’re paying for it...Twice!
Let's
help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting
into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs
again You get the idea !
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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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