May 16, 2013 @ La Roue du Roy

We spent the afternoon shooting sporting clays at the La Roue du Roy, Hemmingford Quebec.

The club, under new ownership has been gutted (bulldozed) and is in the process of being rebuilt.

The club was not a pretty sight on todays visit, but come fall, will be something to see.

Last year the club saw road and parking lot paving, the rebuilding of the skeet fields, and the return of trap after a long absence.

This year the club is undergoing major improvements; rebuilt sporting clays stands, new trailers for machines, major landscaping of the property, and major additions to the club house (front, interior, and rear). That is just what was visible when just looking around, other improvements are also being made.

In regard to sporting clays, only the sporting clays course along the entrance road was usable, along with the FITASC parcour. Two stations, in an area where I have shot sporting in the past, was also available.  Very serious targets on these two stations.  This area of the club, is at some point this summer, will see the sitting of 18 to 20 stations.

The club has dropped the initiation fee to join.  12 month memberships are available.

The club will be hosting a sporting clays shoot in September of this year!

Loaded Gun March

On July 4, Adam Kokesh hopes to lead 1,000 protesters armed with guns into Washington, D.C. to advocate for open carry.

Open carry is illegal in D.C.

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Have no idea who Adam Kokesh is, but I urge all gun owners to NOT participate!

Cabin Fever Open Sporting Clays @ Underhill

Except for 5 minutes of rain during the third rotation, a pleasant day.



If you have been following my past postings, the Underhill Club (Vermont), is a three field skeet club that also offers trap and 5-stand.  With 5-stand only shot on Tuesday (after 3pm) during the warm weather months.

Twice a year the club puts on a 100 target NSCA sporting clays shoot using the three fields and adjacent property.  The club is sectioned off into five parcours (think FITASC) with three or four shooting stations within each.

Targets thrown are for the most part the same as you would see at any sporting clays course, with the exception of long (at a distance) crossing birds.

SHOOT PHOTOS

A nice turnout to include a handful of hunter class (non NSCA) shooters.

The next sporting clays shoot held at the club will be Sept 14, 2013.

Three broken Remington 1100 parts

I broke the LINK at the Rochester shoot, the EXTRACTOR broke in skeet practice this last Thursday, and at the Underhill Sporting Clays shoot Saturday I broke the PISTON ring.

I was not aware of the link breakage, as after a few problems the gun shot flawlessly for the rest of the shoot and not discovered until the gun was broken down for cleaning.

As for the extractor.  I was trying out Kent shells for the first time and my gun was barely extracting the shells.  First hull not clearing the chamber. I was thinking maybe my gun doesn't like Kent shells.  Anyway, finally saw that the extractor was broken and changed out the bolt (with extractor already installed).

At Underhill, I had trouble feeding the second shell into the gun and when I called for targets the gun didn't fire.  Anyway, ended up losing a target, as ended up with three gun malfunctions.  Borrowed a gun and finished the station.  Tore down the gun at the station and saw immediately the ring had a chunk of metal missing.  A quick change and good to go!

The moral of the story, if you shoot an auto make sure you have replacement parts with you, not sitting at home!

In my shoot bag I carry a complete bolt assembly (with extractor and firing pin installed), link, piston ring and O ring.  I also included finger nose pliers for link replacement.  The bag is always on the field, never left in the vehicle.  In the cleaning kit that I keep in the vehicle I have an ACTION bar and a spare TRIGGER.

If your only going to shoot the gun for practice, save yourself a few bucks on spare parts and just purchase parts as needed.  But, if you enjoy attending shoots, either fun shoots or registered, you need to think about what's needed to make repairs at the shoot!   Carry spare parts or a spare gun?

Democrats propose background checks to purchase POWDER

If this bill becomes law you can forget mail order purchases of powder used for reloading.  Purchases from vendors at shoots will be a thing of the past.

Will any club sell powder to members if a background check is required for each sale of an individual can of powder?

I don't think a big impact on sporting clays in regard to clay target shooting, compared to the other clay target sports, as I don't run into many that reload (value packs are popular), but the number of those who reload for skeet and trap shooting is where this bill will see the biggest impact!

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S. 792: Explosive Materials Background Check Act

113^th Congress, 2013–2015. Text as of Apr 23, 2013 (Introduced).

 

Mr. REID (for Mr. LAUTENBERG) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL To strengthen the enforcement of background checks with respect to the use of explosive materials.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Explosive Materials Background Check Act’.

SEC. 2. EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS BACKGROUND CHECKS.

(a) Amendments to Title 18- Chapter 40 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in section 841--

(A) in subsection (d), by inserting ‘smokeless powder and black powder substitutes,’ after ‘black powder,’; and

 

The weekend at the Rochester Brooks Spring Deuce

5 1/2 hour drive to the motel and then 15 minutes to get to the club.

As always, registration was a breeze (pre-registration available) and a friendly group working the desk.

I shot the small gauge event on Friday.  A designated course for 20, 28, and .410 shooters.  Three machines per station, with machine target selection depending on gun being shot.  A nice variety of targets presented.  The pump gang and I think SS shooters shot off the prelim course at designated stations.



Saturday I shot the two parcour FITASC in the AM and the prelim in the PM. The FITASC was most likely the last time for me, as I just don't shoot the game enough and just throwing my money away.  Next year I'll shoot a prelim in the AM and do a re-shoot in the PM.

Welcome!

 

Small Gauge

 

5 Stand (Set up for Make a Break)

The clubs new deck!

All hittable targets for the main event (17 stations).  Wind picking up throughout the day with temps in the 70's.  Very knowledgeable referees.

SHOOT PHOTOS / VIDEO (3) / RESULTS

Broken Remington 1100 Link

If I could have re-shot the first two stations, but that's another story....

I shot 150 targets and gave the 1100 a light cleaning just before the main event.

On the first two stations at the Rochester Brooks Spring Deuce sporting clays shoot I had problems with my Remington 1100.  The first couple of times I'm thinking maybe a bad shell, but the third time the second shell did not fire, as the trigger did not set. The problem(s) did not repeat and I'm thinking when I get home I need to clean the trigger.

The 1100 worked flawlessly for the remaining 15 stations (a 17 station event).

Today, I removed the trigger for cleaning and......

  

A broken Link...

The piece that broke off is no where to be found and it doesn't look as it caused any damage. I'm surprised the gun was able to function through the remaining 15 stations.

I carry a spare in my range bag and also my traveling cleaning kit, so a replacement was on hand and an easy repair.

A few years back a lady at a trap shoot experienced a broken link and her gun ceased to function.  I sold her one of my spares.  As for me, I can't recall the last time I've experienced a broken link.

Remington Shotshell Quality Control

I was shooting trap and a lady on the line was having a problem loading the shells she was using.  She asked if she could borrow a few shells.  Not a problem!

After we were done shooting she handed me one of the shells that she was having a problem with, factory new, out of the box.

She had three or four just like this and a few more, not so bad.

A few weeks later I was shooting skeet and a shooter shows me several Remington STS shells he had set aside.  All with a few bends in them as above, and one had a crimp that was torn up and you could actually see a piece of plastic coming out of the crimp, a two inch hanging plastic thread.

I suggest you save the shells and the box(s) they came in and contact Remington Customer service if you run into this problem.

Camera test: Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

My Panisonic camera had to go in for warrenty work.

It was decided a second camera was needed for "just in case," as not fun having a camera go down when needed.

I purchased a Canon PowerShot SX50 HS with 50x Optical zoom. A point and shoot camera.

A few test photos using continuious shooting and testing the zoom lens.

Building Permits, Change of Use, and Gun Clubs

I've lost count of the many news articles regarding the lack of Gun Club building permits and change of use permission I've come across through the years, but the Kinderhook Sportsmen’s Club in New York is the latest.

About 100 people turned out to a Ghent Zoning Board of Appeals meeting Wednesday, as a public hearing was commenced on the Kinderhook Sportsmen’s Club and its application for expanded uses and structures.

The board’s review has been going on for several months. It was initiated by an Oct. 25, 2012 letter from Code Enforcement Officer Gilbert Raab, informing the club it was in violation of the town code.

“The club needs to apply to the ZBA for a permit for the expansion that has taken place,” Raab stated in the letter. “Also, building and use permits for the various buildings added since 1974 need to be obtained.”

READ ARTICLE

Now, the club has a lawyer and jumping through hoops.

If the local golf course, dirt bike track, or ski slope has to apply for building permits and make sure they have approval for change of use, why not your gun club?

- Adding a sporting clays course or 5-stand.  You may have a change of use conflict.    

- Adding a trap field to existing fields.  At a minimum, building permit.

- Storage garage. At a minimum, building permit.

- Changing operating hours.  Going from three days a week to five days a week.  You may have a change of use conflict. 

- 100 members when founded, now has 1000.  You may have a change of use conflict. Some clubs have had to defend membership growth (increase in traffic, noise).

- Club has a kitchen.  Does it meet state and federal safety standards.  Range hoods and fire suppression is a standard requirement.

-  Pot Luck Functions.  In some states it's against the law to have food prepared at home and brought to a function. New York is one!

- Beer sales.  Beer permit?  Donations to purchase is not going to cut it if a formal complaint. Will your insurance cover the club if an accident and no beer permit?

By the way, your club is not letting lead leave the property?

How's that Gun Control compromise working for you?

If a convicted felon, not eligible to own a firearm, and those with criminal intent, need not read any further, as these laws are not ones you would follow anyway. 

Around the nation:

You may also see this listed as Gun Safety (formally know as Gun Control).

- Mandatory firearm liability insurance policy.  No insurance, no gun!  I gather if your on food stamps you will be able to receive funding assistance from the government to purchase insurance.

- Background checks on each purchase of ammunition, to include that box of .410 shells used by skeet shooters or the box of steel shot used by duck hunters.

- No mail order ammunition purchases.  All purchases must be face to face.
 
- State-issued eligibility certificate needed to purchase any rifle, shotgun or ammunition. To get the certificate, a buyer would need to be fingerprinted, take a firearms training course and undergo a national criminal background check and involuntary commitment or voluntary admission check.

- Ammunition tax. A dollar a bullet seem right to you or how about an additional 25% tax on each purchase?

- Registration of magazines.

- Only seven (7) bullets in a magazine.

- Limit magazine size to ten bullets.

- Additional firearms sales tax. 15% of the purchase price sound reasonable?

- The old standard, if a firearm looks dangerous, outlaw it.

- Additional gun free zones (kill zones).

U.N Arms Treaty (BEWARE) It's not what's in it NOW!

If your not concerned about what's in the Unite Nations Arms Treaty and the portions to be implemented before a vote takes place in the U.S. Senate, and also believe published reports from main stream news organizations that tells guns owners no need to worry, BEWARE!

Article 20

Amendments

1. At any time after the entry into force of this Treaty, a State Party may propose an amendment to this Treaty.

2. Any proposed amendment shall be submitted in writing to the secretariat, which shall then circulate the proposal to all States Parties, not less than 180 days before the next meeting of the Conference of States Parties. The amendment shall be considered at the next Conference of States Parties if a majority of States Parties notify the secretariat that they support further consideration of the proposal, no later than 120 days after its circulation by the secretariat.

3. Any amendment to this Treaty shall be adopted by consensus of those States Parties present at the Conference of States Parties. The depositary shall communicate any adopted amendment to all States Parties.

4. A proposed amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article shall enter into force for all States Parties to the Treaty, upon deposit with the depositary of the instruments of acceptance by a majority of States Parties at the time of the adoption of the amendment. Thereafter, it shall enter into force for any remaining State Party on the date of deposit of its instrument of acceptance.

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BE WARNED!

If this treaty is approved by the U.S. Senate, all further (future) changes to the treaty will not be submitted to the Senate for approval. 

At a future date the world body by simple majority vote can change the rules, even if the U.S. United Nations representative votes No and the senate objects!

Countries like China, Russia, Syria, Mexico, Iran, and Bulgaria and other like minded countries that could care less about the U.S. and the 2nd Amendment, can at some point in time dictate (change) what the rules are once the initial treaty is approved by the U.S. Senate.

Who do gun owners think a divided Supreme Court and one that only needs one additional liberal judge will side with, U.S. Gun Owners or a World Body?

AA Rebate (2013 Winchester)

For a limited time, earn $2.00 for each box of AA Target loads you purchase.

 

Minimum 10 Boxes ($20.00) and Maximum 50 Boxes ($100.00).

Offer is valid on qualifying purchases made between April 1, 2013 and August 31, 2013.

 

Offer expires and all requests must be received by September 15, 2013.

 

Rebate offer valid in the U.S. and Canada.

REBATE DOWNLOAD

Defibrillator, does your club have one?

A shooter goes down, what is the response time for local EMT?



Most states have waived liability claims against those using a defibrillator.

Malls, schools, sports stadiums, and local businesses are just a few locations where they can be found.

Why does your club not have one?

Defibrillator

Elia Draicchio, Bahrain Olympic Team Coach Passed

Canadian Elia Draicchio, passed away suddenly in Bahrain. He was head coach of their Olympic Skeet Team.

 

  Pierre Dubois, with a few pictures from Tony Olivieri, put together a presentation re-telling his passion & dedication to Olympic Skeet.  

 

PDF Presentation