In This Issue

Click Here for the November Calendar.

The 2009 Trap Range Schedule is now avaiable. Click Here to see the schedule

Businesses that support our club. Please support those businesses that help provide service and support to the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club. Click Here for the sponsors page.

President’s Report:

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”
~Thomas Sowell  (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)

Don’t forget to vote for President Tuesday November 4. No more rants, just vote but please keep in mind how the candidates view the second amendment. The next president will likely appoint two Supreme Court Justices and our firearm rights are only as good as the interpretation of the 2nd amendment by the Supreme Court.

We have a lot if club activities and shoots coming up the next three months, here’s the rundown for some of them.

Our annual meeting and club elections will be December 1, 2008.
Would you like to be an officer or director of the El Dorado Rod & Gun Club? Nominations are now open for the upcoming election in December.

Please plan on attending this important meeting. The Meeting will be held at 7pm, El Dorado County Senior Center, 937 Spring St., Placerville.

Our annual banquet will be held on January 20, 2009. More information and tickets will be available by our next newsletter. Make sure to hold that day available and we look forward to seeing you there.

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@directcon.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.

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.

On Sunday, November 2 (the first Sunday in November) at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States. This is the second year that Daylight Saving Time is four weeks longer due to the passage of the Energy Policy Act in 2005. The Act, which extends Daylight Saving Time by four weeks from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November, is expected to save 10,000 barrels of oil each day through reduced use of power by businesses during daylight hours.

Quote:
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”
~ Ayn Rand (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)

Stay Strong, Stay Vigilant, God Bless America

Rob Charny, President
El Dorado Rod & Gun Club

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2009 Memberships Are Due...

All memberships will be due soon, why not renew now via our web page using your credit card.

Membership Fees are:

One Year: $45.00
One Year (age 65+): $25.00
Five Year: $200.00
Life Membership: $400.00

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 with a check 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!"

El Dorado Rod & Gun Club Gun of the Year!
Only a limited number of tickets will be sold for this outstanding shotgun

Click Here for more information

Only $10.00
Per Ticket!

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.

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Peter Henschel breaks WWTA world record at El Dorado Rod & Gun Club trap range!

October 18, 2008

El Dorado Rod & Gun Club member Peter Henschel recorded the first ever 100x100 in ¾ Wimp’s Wobble Trap Association registered match.  As easy as it seems to shoot targets at the ¾ wobble game it is anything but easy to shoot a perfect score. WWTA ¾ Wobble is shot at 35 feet from the front of the trap house and Full Wobble is shot at the standard ATA / PITA 16 yard line.
 
“This is a record that shooters at our club have been attempting to break since we started shooting registered wobbles in 2004. Believe me when I tell you that this is quite an accomplishment, we have had some of the best trapshooters in the county attempt to break this record to no avail up to now.  Pete is to be commended on his accomplishment. “
` Rob Charny, President El Dorado Rod & Gun Club.

Most of our shotgun games have all been of foreign origin.  Wimpy's Wobble Trap Association was born in America in 1998 and is the first and only federally registered wobble trap game.  The game was invented by Floyd "Wimpy" Lampman and received a registered trademark in 2001.  The game is a new twist on old trap and is designed for fun and competition.  It is tailored for small clubs but easily fits State and National shooting levels as well.  We are hoping that more clubs will join El Dorado Rod & Gun Club in throwing WWTA targets in 2009.

El Dorado Rod & Gun Club will be holding 6 registered WWTA shoots in 2009. Here are the dates but always check the club calendar on our web site (http://www.eldoradorodandgun.com) for updates or changes.

April 18 & 19, 2009
July 12, 2009
August 2, 2009
October 10 & 11, 2009 California State Shoot.

From PLINK Leader Steve Morgan:

Our Please Leave It NRA Klean crew swapped some tall tales with the short stacks at C & T's Cafe. Then the USFS Archaeologist Karin Klemic showed us some interesting photos of early day logging and explained why the steam boiler from Snow's Mill must be preserved. Phil Weidman (without the cold drinks I had for them) guided John Rapp with his one ton lift gate, Dan Viveros, Tony Zepczyk, Chris Scheuble, and Mike Russell to pick up a GM straight six engine with transmission attached near Pilliken, a small illegal dump off of MET, then a big V-8 engine, (really stupid as metal is free to dump at our WC transfer station on Hwy. 49) tires, etc. off of Snow's Mill Road. They were again praised by an adjacent landowner.

Meanwhile Doug Becker and Jake Erlich got loaded above their gunwales by Tony Zepczyk, Bill Zaepfel, Michael Eribes de Flores, Si Russell, David Hawkins, Terry Bush, Ray Engler, Al Morrow, Gary Heitmeyer, with filth from Blue Gouge and Bonetti. Gary Stone found us with our Subway Sandwiches, then we got to watch and hear a .____ Casull in action. District Ranger Duane Nelson and his black Lab Angus got as dirty as the rest of your PLINK Crew and explained some of the things that the Forest Service is trying to do.

We asked two groups of shooters to have a time out why we raked the areas. One of them a Lieutenant from CA. Corrections Gang Unit asked to be notified of our future expeditions.

Steve - phone 530-620-3946 or email nraplink@comcast.net

A Grassroots Committee needs your help.

They are Opposing the Eldorado NF implementation of the parking rule/regulation as stated,  “parking a vehicle so that all parts of the vehicle are within one vehicle length from the edge of the road surface when it is safe to do so and without causing damage to NFS resources or facilities (FSM 7716.1 (1) Proposed.”

The Grassroots Committee has a petition, “Opposition To The One Vehicle Length Rule For Our Forests.”  Signatures are being gathered.  Senators Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, the Congressional Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Land Use, are being asked by way of submission of the petition, for their intervention.   
 
The planned implementation date for the parking rule is, January 2009, although it appears to already be happening.  The committee will continue gathering signatures but will begin submitting what is available by November 15, 2008.   

Public use of public lands for hunting, fishing, disperse camping, horseback riding, bicycle and ATV riding, day use for picnics, practically any use, as it has been for decades, will be altered indefinitely. 

Call the Eldorado NF, Forest Supervisor, (530) 622-5061, or write a one paragraph letter, stating opposition.  Send to: Forest Supervisor, 100 Forni Rd, Placerville, CA  95667.

Call Senator Barbara Boxer at her Washington, D.C # (202) 224-3553, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, (202) 224-3841.  Let them know you are opposed and upset.  

This will not just become a Eldorado NF parking rule.  When the Eldorado NF released its Draft EIS, a lot of folks did not understand that the Wheeled Motor Vehicle Management Plan would ever be so strict.   

The Tahoe NF has released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Motorized Travel Management and it too includes the parking of one vehicle length.  Even if one does not use the Tahoe, one needs to be aware and speak up.  This is a critical public access issue for all users, and soon to be on all Forests. 

Comments to the Tahoe plan must be postmarked by November 26, 2008.

The wording in the proposed regulation is ambiguous.  It is unsafe, unrealistic and unreasonable.

MELBA J. RAY-LEAL ~
Chairperson – Grassroots Committee Opposing One Vehicle Length Rule For Our Forests
(530) 622-5205, apachejam@worldnet.att.net

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Join the NRA here and help the club.

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.

Notice to all Range Safety Officers:

• We have had some dirt-bags attempt to break into our connex units at both the rifle / pistol range and the trap range. To keep this from happening again we had Doug Becker weld lock covers to our connex units and the Sheriff’s connex units. If you should see any vandalism and or attempts to break in to our property please notify me as soon as possible. A BIG THANK YOU to Doug Becker!   
• Please remember to carry membership applications with you. We are now getting near renewal time so this would be a good opportunity for you to get renewals and new members. Remember if you get a new member to allow them to shoot at no-fee for the day.
• Please print out the current month’s calendar and post at the pistol / rifle ranges. This is very helpful to shooters to have a calendar available at the range. Also remember that the calendar and newsletter are always available on our web site: www.eldoradorodandgun.com

Just in time for Thanksgiving…
Ever wonder where the wishbone-breaking contest came from? It’s a tradition dating back to Etruscans in 322 B.C. And it started with a hen, not a turkey.

Back then, when someone wanted an egg he waited for the hen to announce the coming of her product. This led to the belief that the hen could tell the future. If a man wanted to receive an answer to a question, he would draw a circle on the ground and divide it into the 24 letters of the alphabet. Grains of corn were placed in each section, and the cock or hen was led into the circle and then set free. It was believed that the fowl would spell out words or symbols by picking up kernels of corn from the different sections.

After writing the message, the fowl was sacrificed to a special deity and its collarbone was hung out to dry. Then, you’d get to make a wish on the bone. Once dry, two other people got a chance to make a wish by snapping the dried bone with each one pulling on an end. The person with the larger end of the bone got the wish—and it became known as a ‘lucky break.’

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

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