MANITOWOC GUN CLUB MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES

The June meeting of the Manitowoc Gun Club was held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, June 5th. UPCOMING EVENTS: SUMMER TRAP LEAGUE:  May 3rd - August 30th. TUESDAY & THURSDAY BIG 50s:  May 8th - July 26th. MGC CLUB SHOOT:  Thursday, June 14th YOUTH SHOOT HELP APPRECIATION PARTY:  Saturday, June 16th MARATHON SHOOT:  Saturday, June 30th. STATE SHOOT:  July 10th - July 15th. STEAK FRY:  Friday, September 7th. VETS SHOOT:  Sunday, September 16th. MGC BANQUET:  Saturday, November 3rd SCTP YOUTH SHOOT:  Huge Thank You to everyone who helped with the youth shoot!  The event went great!  We received many compliments on our grounds, targets, the amount of help, and the overall operations of the event.  We ended up with 370 trap shooters, 138 skeet shooters, and 190 sporting clays shooters.  Similar numbers to last year's event, which had 380 trap, 135 skeet, and 230 sporting clays.  Thank you to all the sponsors as well (listed below) and to Jim Ruffolo and Ron Weisner for arranging use of the AED's. Sponsors: AAA Appliances American Legion Post 88 Burger Boat Carron Net City Limits Central Wisconsin Skeet League Daane Hardware Executive Coaches Francis Creek Sportsman's Club Indepth Agronomy Koenigs Conservation Manitowoc Fish & Game City Unit Mike Stauber Gun Shop Pfeffer Funeral Home Pheasants Forever TA Motor Sports The Husky Vault Valley Mobile Shredding Van Horn Automotive Group Wisconsin Refrigeration MIKE STAUBER GUN SHOP:  Mike Stauber from Plymouth will be here with a trailer of shooting supplies on Thursday, June 21st.   He will be around for a few hours, and will have basic supplies available for sale (Cash or check only)  If there is something in particular you would like, you can call ahead and Mike will bring it along for you.  Mike can be reached at (920)980-5781. MARATHON SHOOT:  We will need a lot of help for the marathon shoot on Saturday, June 30th.  There will be between 40-60 shooters who will be getting the rest of their needed ATA targets in.  Each shooter will shoot anywhere from 100-500 targets.  Help with marking and filling traps will be greatly appreciated.  Shooting starts at 9am, and will continue as long as needed. LEAGUE RULES:  The league rules were gone through at a director's meeting.  Some wording has been modernized.  Here is a copy of the league rules. https://gallery.mailchimp.com/58f344d8ac516ba0de4c029ef/files/c4637325-b0e1-4266-8272-6acf6d1db87f/rules_1_.docx TARGET CALIBRATION:   There was a discussion on teams taking it upon themselves to make adjustments to the trap launchers if they don't like how the birds are flying.  Ron Weisner and Jim Schleis hoop the birds every Tuesday and Thursday night minutes prior to shooting to ensure the launchers are calibrated to that evening's weather conditions.  The rules do state that teams can request a trap reset prior to their round starting if the birds don't look right, which we are happy to verify and adjust if they are off, but that request needs to be made to the trap range officer, not a person on the team going and making adjustments to our launchers. ADDITIONAL THANK YOUS:  Thanks to Dave Soukup and American Legion Post 88 for the donation of the American Flag.  Thanks to Preston Konop for the donation of the American Flag.  Thanks to Hartman's Greenhouse for the donation of the flowers for the skeet house. -There will be no July meeting. The next meeting will be at 7:00pm on Tuesday, August 7th, at the clubhouse. Nick Sieracki Club Vice President