June Notes From
The President
June 12, 2006
Dear RPS Members, Honored Visitors and Guests,
I’ll
start out with what is usually the last sentence—And
a fine time was had by all. 28 shooters, or about that many
participated in 4 challenging stages. I won’t go into
the details here, but they were a great combination of exercises
and imagination. The Steel Plate Rack
of Doom was there again.
Twelve plates, twelve bullets—maybe in your dreams,
but not for too many folks on this past Sunday. Check the
times on stage four and all will be revealed. You can’t
hide from the timer, on the Plate Rack of Doom.
I don’t know what the official name of stage two should
be, but perhaps we’ll call it “caught with your
pants down”. Lawn mower man made his regular appearance
here.
We have Ken Dexter to thank for “Going Postal” a
very challenging stage with much movement, plenty of bullets,
and quite a few different ways to solve the problem.
No wonder
so many folks appreciate the work that we put into the creation
and setup of our monthly matches.
Jim Valli’s friends shot with us again and they’re
great shooters. Both men spent the day at setup with us and
then kicked it on Sunday. Jim spent some time on Saturday
giving Debbie some instruction and we hope she’ll shoot
the next match with us.
We had two canopies up, the clubs
20 footer and Ken Dexter’s
10 by 10 and we used them both. It great to be able to get
out of the strong sun that’s there on the site.
I’m headed to a meeting with Tess Albin-Smith on Tuesday,
today, the 13th to speak with her about a use permit for
the club’s continued use of the site on road 450. This
past weekend we actually shared the site with a ccw class.
The class took a location further down the road, and we were
able to use our regular area. We cannot continue to do this
with a casual agreement with CDF. We will need a use permit
from CDF from this point on. I’ll know more after I
meet with Tess, and report to the club at our Next
Match on the Second Sunday of July, the 9th. Setup, of course on
the 8th.
Again, a big thanks to all who make the matches happen.
That’s the safety officers, club directors-Peter, Darrell,
Ed, Dave and Ken, our scoremeister-Pam Tidd, and our Range
Master Darrell Godwin. That’s also Dick Whetstone,
the person who gets the scores out to all email folks, and
who tracks the membership data base and the trophy points
for awards to the best of the best at our end of the year
banquet. A thank you again, to Chuck Hathaway for his great
work on the web site. That’s www.redwoodpracticalshooters.org
We have three matches left, July, August and September.
We end the season with the Classifier in October.
Front Sight---Press Peter Matlin, President
matlin@mcn.org
My phone
number is 937-3310 any evening after 6pm |
