SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2008. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

The time is near for our annual Picnic at High Hill Ranch — Sunday August 10, at High Hill Ranch in Camino. Please start arriving around noon, we eat at 1pm and the fun goes to 4pm. The price for the lunch is just $8.00 for adults, 4.00 for children, collected at the picnic.

We have two main prizes for this year’s picnic. An Escort 12ga. Semi-auto shotgun and auto GPS. You need not be present to win the main raffle prize. Tickets for the raffle are available from all officers and directors of the club. Also from Letty at the Mountain Democrat, Monday – Wednesday – Friday between 10am and 3pm, you can reach her at 530-409-3006, and from Larry Ward at Ward’s Automotive in Diamond Springs.

All main 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.

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 picnic is one of two main fund raisers for the club, the other being our Annual Banquet Awards Dinner. I can’t stress enough how important it 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 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.

Hope to see you August 10, at High Hill Ranch for an enjoyable time. For more information go to our web site @ www.eldoradorodandgun.com.

Reminder:

We have a general club meeting on Monday June 2, 2008. Please plan on attending. General Meetings are held at 7pm, El Dorado County Senior Center, 937 Spring St., Placerville. We will have a guest speaker, Carol Selwood who will speak to us about the Adopt-A-Soldier program.

El Dorado Rod & Gun Club Gun of the Year!          Only a limited number of tickets will be sold for this outstanding shotgun.           The 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.                   Click Here for more information

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

     Stay Strong, Stay Vigilant, God Bless America

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.   Who Stole the Plink Crews Trash? Richard Maynard led, Doug Becker, Jake Erlich, David Hawkins, and Doug Ricciarelli to clean out the remains of a burned up trailer near Brown Rock where they also found two full six packs of beer near a snow bank, various truck tires, and a front end. David Hawkins tarried a while extra to help four damsels in distress but their husbands eventually showed up. Terry Bush, Tony Zepczyk, Si Russell, Michael Eribes de Flores, Ed Dunn, Donn Nibblett, Stan Cartwright, and Marian Garric flyspecked two shooting areas, and put out an abandoned bon fire. Phil Weidman brought our lunches and announced that he had found a place that we were going to clean up but it had just been raked clean according to a sign he found by “an ex PLINK member Tim G”. Stan and Marian later found another cleaned up place where someone had left a pile of trash bags that they had fi lled. This has happened before. PLINK shows some folks where they can go and they then take care of it on their own. Which is exactly what we have been trying to stimulate? Next PLINK adventure, Sunday June 22, 2008, just phone/email Steve at (530) 620-3946 if you are interested in joining. Replying will be appreciated as it will help to know how much stuff to bring. Steve Morgan (530) 620-3946 NRAPLINK@COMCAST.NET The Please Leave It NRA Klean shooting areas clean up tour, starts at 9am from the Pollock Pines Hwy. 50 exit 60, Safeway parking lot. All are welcome to help keep these PLINK areas clean and open. Just bring your NRA attitude, guns and ammo. PLINK and the U.S. Forest Service will supply tools, gloves, trash bags, cold drinks, and lunches. We are usually done by 1pm, two trucks will be loaded for the dump, most can stay to shoot Targets, NOT trees.

TAX REBATE CHECKS

The Federal Government is sending us tax rebate checks to help jump start our sagging economy. To make sure that this project is successful you must keep the following in mind:

1. If we spend the money at WAL-MART, the money will go to China.

2. If we spend it on gasoline, it will go to the Arabs.

3. If we purchase fruits and vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.

4. If we purchase a GOOD car, it will go to Japan.

5. If we purchase useless crap, it will go to Taiwan.

None of the above options will help the American economy.

The only way to keep that money here at home is to buy Guns and Ammo, since these are the only products still produced in the United States.

2008 Membership. 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.

 

Comanche Hills membership, 2 lifetimes left. $1300 Call Ray 295-3957

 

eMail VS USPS Snail Mail:

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.

 

Membership Available On Our web Site

Club Range Phone  Numbers:

All memberships are now due, 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

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Public Welcome — Range fees discounted through club membership. Call     (530) 672-3330, or any event chairman for shoot and/or membership information. See our web site for more info.

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	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.

 

ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944
Operation Overlord took place on the beaches of Normandy in the early morning hours as the Allied forces invaded Europe to defeat Germany, leading to the end of World War II.

SUMMER
Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on June 20 at 7pm, EDT. The first day of summer marks the longest day of  the year, meaning that in the area between the equator and the Arctic Circle, the sun rises and sets farthest north on the horizon for the year.  Daylight hours last from 12 hours, eight minutes at the equator to 24 hours at the Arctic Circle. The summer season lasts until 1:37 a.m. on Sept. 22.

FLAG DAY - JUNE 14
Honor the flag and the country this Flag Day by participating in the Pause for the Pledge. This annual event takes place at 7 pm (Eastern Daylight Saving Time). Many public and private organizations, businesses, and individuals across the country take part by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at that time. Official ceremonies are held at the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Md. The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House  in Baltimore, the historic home once owned by Mary Pickersgill, who sewed the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem, first  proposed this practice in 1980 as a way for Americans to share a patriotic moment. In 1985, Congress recognized the Pause for the Pledge of Allegiance as part of National Flag Day activities.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY - JUNE 15
Father’s Day is observed annually on the third Sunday in June. This year June 15 is the day for fathers. The idea for the celebration dates back to the early 1900s, when Louise Smart Dodd of Spokane, Wash., set out to find some way to pay tribute to her dad. William Smart raised Dodd and her six  siblings single-handedly after their mother died in childbirth. The first documented “Father’s Day” was celebrated in Spokane on June 19, 1910, on  Dodd’s father’s birthday. The idea soon spread across the country and into Canada. Vancouver set aside a special day for fathers in 1912. Four years  later, President Woodrow Wilson officially recognized the holiday in the U.S., but it wasn’t until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a  residential proclamation which established a permanent national observance.

 

Pacific International Trapshooting Association Registered Shoot July 12 & 13, 2008 Held at the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club

 

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