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Greg Culpepper
Guest
We had 20 volunteers today at the first Hawks Ridge Gun Club work day and it was so successful that there isn't a need for a second work day, at least for awhile.
The power and water are on. The plumbing issues are resolved and the toilets and showers good to go.
The target frames are 100% up to snuff with several of the posts replaced as well as all all the plywood backers replaced and skinned with cor-plast.
The rockdust target berms have all been raked out to provide a Myrtle Beach quality environment for our bullets to reveal their variance from intended and anticipated path.
Cow pies in the gravel are a (very) distant memory.
Many of the cleaning tables have been re-covered with new plywood.
There was an absolute sunami of pressure washing although no reports of anything to do with tee shirts have reached your scribe.
Most of the trees around 700 yd that compromised line of sight to the lower sight in bank have been topped with only a few remaining to cut this coming Saturday.
In other words, we are now running very short of maintenance or repair tasks that need to be done on next Saturday, Work Day Number Two.
So, by Executive Directive and with consent of all parties expressing an opinion, yours truly is declaring March 10 to be an Official Hawks Ridge Gun Club 1000 Yd Benchrest Saturday Fun Shoot. This means that a few folks will meet to top the remaining trees, a few more folks will find a task to perform that remains to be discovered, even more will display recently acquired or modified rifles, spin yarns, cast tall tales, swap old lies and get down to the very serious business of "being riflemen" (and rifle women, and rifle prodigies).
Saturday, when the range is clear of arborists, we'll shoot for fun or practice or initiation or 1000 yd zeros or whatever we choose and after a while we'll probably decide to have a practice/fun match where, like T-Ball, everybody goes home a winner. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN (probably)! So if you have to win to be happy, this match is especially for you.
Jamie says a new policy is that when the club president misses a work day he has to shoot on Bench One. As reasonable as this appears at first view I must remind him that relay and bench assignments will be by random drawing only. I'm very sorry I missed our first work day but I'm writing from the motel with three 12 hour shifts behind me and with another one tomorrow and could not do otherwise. Obviously, the club requires no micro-managing from me to "Getter Done".
One piece of club business. Charles Wooten has volunteered to serve as Acting Range Master and will serve in that capacity until we can vote for Range Master, a position he held previously.
Congratulations and thanks to everybody that came out today (and yesterday) to put our Grand Old Girl back in shape. She really cleans up good.
Hope we get good weather and a really big crowd next Saturday.
Don't forget, EVERYONE is invited.
See you this Saturday, March 10th for Play Day and for the first of our ten regularly scheduled club matches three weeks later on March 31.
Greg
president@hawksridgegunclub.com
The power and water are on. The plumbing issues are resolved and the toilets and showers good to go.
The target frames are 100% up to snuff with several of the posts replaced as well as all all the plywood backers replaced and skinned with cor-plast.
The rockdust target berms have all been raked out to provide a Myrtle Beach quality environment for our bullets to reveal their variance from intended and anticipated path.
Cow pies in the gravel are a (very) distant memory.
Many of the cleaning tables have been re-covered with new plywood.
There was an absolute sunami of pressure washing although no reports of anything to do with tee shirts have reached your scribe.
Most of the trees around 700 yd that compromised line of sight to the lower sight in bank have been topped with only a few remaining to cut this coming Saturday.
In other words, we are now running very short of maintenance or repair tasks that need to be done on next Saturday, Work Day Number Two.
So, by Executive Directive and with consent of all parties expressing an opinion, yours truly is declaring March 10 to be an Official Hawks Ridge Gun Club 1000 Yd Benchrest Saturday Fun Shoot. This means that a few folks will meet to top the remaining trees, a few more folks will find a task to perform that remains to be discovered, even more will display recently acquired or modified rifles, spin yarns, cast tall tales, swap old lies and get down to the very serious business of "being riflemen" (and rifle women, and rifle prodigies).
Saturday, when the range is clear of arborists, we'll shoot for fun or practice or initiation or 1000 yd zeros or whatever we choose and after a while we'll probably decide to have a practice/fun match where, like T-Ball, everybody goes home a winner. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN (probably)! So if you have to win to be happy, this match is especially for you.
Jamie says a new policy is that when the club president misses a work day he has to shoot on Bench One. As reasonable as this appears at first view I must remind him that relay and bench assignments will be by random drawing only. I'm very sorry I missed our first work day but I'm writing from the motel with three 12 hour shifts behind me and with another one tomorrow and could not do otherwise. Obviously, the club requires no micro-managing from me to "Getter Done".
One piece of club business. Charles Wooten has volunteered to serve as Acting Range Master and will serve in that capacity until we can vote for Range Master, a position he held previously.
Congratulations and thanks to everybody that came out today (and yesterday) to put our Grand Old Girl back in shape. She really cleans up good.
Hope we get good weather and a really big crowd next Saturday.
Don't forget, EVERYONE is invited.
See you this Saturday, March 10th for Play Day and for the first of our ten regularly scheduled club matches three weeks later on March 31.
Greg
president@hawksridgegunclub.com
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